The MOTU game is trying to make new figures out of pre-existing parts with the least amount of new body parts:
For example: Aska
New head(s)
Ninja April Torso, Arms, Crotch, shins below the boot cut
Normal April feet
New thighs and shins above the boot cut
Sewer Samurai kunai
Something like that but with maybe less new pieces. If they have pre-existing bare thighs, they could use those for Aska.
Street Vigilante Turtles:
Essentially a Beat-em'up wave of Turtles.
Leonardo
Heads:
Rocker Leo closed Eyes
Vanilla Leo
Arms:
Wandering Leo
Torso: New
Bare "chest" with pants. Think Punker Don but without the punk look and jacket.
Legs:
Rappin Mike
Feet:
Sewer Samurai
Accessories:
Katana
Kunai
Pizza slice
Broken Casey Bat
Leo is going for a Martial Artist Vigilante vibe
Donatello
Heads:
Vanilla Don
Slam Dunk Don
Arms:
Space Cadet Raph
Legs:
Space Cadet Raph
Torso: Metalhead
Accessories:
Metalhead Backpack
Metalhead Radar Dish
New plug in Backpack Blaster
New Laser Bo
UC Raph Night Vision Goggles
Space Cadet Raph Visor
Pizza slice
Donnie is going for a more High Tech Superhero type Vigilante
Raphael
Heads:
Vanilla Raph
New head with Casey Styled Mask.
Arms:
Wandering Leo
Legs:
Rappin Mike
Torso:
Slam Dunk Don
Accessories:
Casey weapons
New golf bag with Sai loops
Sai
Pizza slice
Coffee cup from Splinter
Raphael is taking the Casey Approach for his Vigilante look
Michelangelo
Head:
Rappin Mike Hat head
Arms:
Slam Dunk Don
Legs:
New untorn jeans with the Rappin Mike sneakers
Torso: Rocker Leo
Accessories:
Nunchucks
Pizza box
New sushi tray
New Stop sign shield
Mikey is going for the more Videogame Beat-em'up/fighting game look.
Let's see what else can I do:
Random Variants:
Pit Fighter Slash
Heads:
Slash
Arms: Slash with new Rahzar Pads
Torso Slash with new Belt and Torso overlay (Rahzar's torn shirt with Grille "armor" with Loincloth belt)
Legs: Slash
Accessories:
New Spinal whip (a whip made out of a spine with a cranium reminiscent of Rahzar's Vintage club)
New Barbarian Helmet that fits both Slash Heads.
New Mutton club
New Fantasy styled Keg
Slash sword
New Seashell Scimitar (inspired by Mutatin' Tokka.
Yes, this Slash is poking fun at Tokka and Rahzar. Not to mention bringing some toy inspired stuff for them in a backdoorsy way.
Jungle Warfare Rocksteady:
Heads:
Normal Rocksteady
New Helmetless head
New Bandana Head
Body:
Rocksteady Body with new Bandolier. Recolored in Rambo First Blood Part 2 colors
New hands:
Trigger hands
Dramatic hands
Pushknife hands
Archery hands
Accessories:
New Pushknives×2 inspired by Coleco Rambo
New Bow and arrows inspired by Rambo
Knife
Machinegun
Soft goods Jungle "ghillie suit" poncho made by jungle green and brown fake fur.
This is basically a more premium Rocksteady And setting up a Deluxe release cartoon repaint.
Vandal Bebop:
Heads:
Normal Bebop head with cartoon inspired glasses.
New screaming head with semi articulated tongue. (About 180° movement)
Body:
Bebop Body with new Vest inspired by the Toon Bebop Human form vest. Basically a bigger collar for the vest and new Turtle shell epaulets. These would be painted in olive yellow and olive green. His pants would be in dark navy blue and his shoes would be painted like Chuck Taylor Converse.
Hands:
Standard (c-grips, punch)
New Dramatic
New spray can holding hands
Accessories:
Triceraton gun
Spray can (with interchangeable tops: No spray, spraying)
Turtle flaying Morningstar with real chain
Turtle flaying Morningstar with twirling effect
Flying double sided sickle
This figure is an homage to both toon and wacky action Bebop.
Any of the never made Punk Frogs:
I won't go into too much detail as these are Genghis repaints with a new Necklace, crotchpiece, and Accessories. If feeling generous a new alternate head would be added.
Elite Foot Soldier:
I've discussed this one already: New head, New accessories, Shredder soft goods cape.
Shredder:
This would be am Archie inspired Shredder.
Heads:
Normal Shredder in silver helmet but blue facemask.
New Cyber Samurai Shredder head (aka SOTO head) in silver helmet and blue facemask.
Body:
Shredder Body in blue with Silver spikes and grey foot wraps.
New soft goods Purple Torso overlay with soft goods belt
Shredder soft goods cape.
New hands:
Vintage inspired 3-finger grip
Accessories:
Same old Katana
New spiked Mace (Think smaller, slightly wimpier Super Shredder mace)
The idea is to have a "transitional Shredder to Super Shredder" while staying within the realm of actual variants from the 80s-90s.
Freelancer April:
Heads:
All three April v1 Heads
Body:
New Torso with bomber jacket and teal blouse and new jacket Arms. (arms can be swapped) and jacket is removable.
April v1 crotch
Ninja April Thighs
April v1 lower legs and feet.
Accessories:
Ninja April Camera
April v1 gun
Microphone
Alternate bare arms made from both Ninja April and V1
An inferior alternative is a soft goods jacket which reduces the amount of new parts by 5.
It's VERY LOOSELY inspired by Redsky April... not to mention we get some variation.
Japan Branch Foot Ninja:
These would be the Human Foot Clan.
Heads:
New Bandana Head
Plain head
Body
New Torso
New shoulders if Casey's aren't usable.
New vambraces to use on Shredder arms.
Foot Soldier crotch and legs
Accessories:
Rack weapons
Katana
Bo staff with new Halberd tip
New Sansetsukon.
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Unlike MOTU whose homogenous body part system allows for easier parts swapping TMNT is too diverse to do so as easily. NECA has Rocksteady, Bebop, AND Leatherhead on the same body with a few different parts/overlays.
But even some "Easy characters" like TOKKA require way too many new parts to be an effective reused parts character:
New Head(s): 1-2
Slash Torso
New shoulders 2
New biceps 2
New elbow pads 2
New wristbands 2
New hands 8
New buckle 1
That's 19 new parts before reaching his Accessories.
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