Remember my previous TMNT rant. The one with a cameo from Current Scott Neitlich...
Well, Playmates, NECA, hell, even Mattel, know that TMNT variants are important...
So let's try some variants inspired by the Vintage toyline, but not Vintage redos.
Disguised Turtles:
Bushido Leonardo:
Essentially Leonardo wearing an unarmored Samurai outfit in Blue gi and black hakama. Almost reminiscent of Usagi, but with the Kame Kanji on the back of the gi. He'd be wearing geta sandals like wandering Leonardo.
Heads:
Meditating, straw hat, neutral head.
Standard hands, flute playing hands.
For accessories katana, wakizashi, flute.
Yes, it's a Ghost of Tsushima inspired Leo.
Body can be reused for a Turtles in time Feudal Japan wave.
Mad Scientist Don:
Donatello dressed as a Mad Scientist:
Wearing a button up Shirt, slacks. Outfit should look like Professor Perry from Secret of the Ooze.
Heads:
Neutral mad scientist laugh blacked cartoony explosion effect face.
Hands standard
Accessories
Various chemical flasks
2 Perry wigs: Normal and explosion
Telescoping Bo staff
Brawler Raphael:
Essentially a Vigilante style Raphael
Hands wrapped in bandages, wearing a tight fitting red shirt with blue jeans, sneakers.
Heads:
Snarling, beat up, cocky
New bandaged hands in standard poses and pointing.
Accesories:
Pair of jitte, baseball bat, pizza on box, wad of cash. Pizza slice with hole to slide it down jitte
It's a reference to beat em up games and the 87 toon intro.
Cillaxing Michaelangelo/Cortรฉs the Frog:
Michelangelo wearing an open Hawaiian shirt cargo shorts and flip flops. The Hawaiian shirt is pink with pizza slices print. The cargo shorts are Khaki and orange flip-flops.
Heads:
Sleeping, happy determined
Standard hands
Accessories:
Necklaces
80s style frog Mask (hard plastic vacuum formed masks.)
Coconut Drink (drink served in coconut)
Sansetsukon
Essentially is Mikey badly disguised as a Punk Frog and a vacationing turtle.
Adventurer Casey Jones:
Casey wearing a 16th century styled tunic over tights, leather greaves and bracers, knight closed helmet with visor based on Casey's mask.
Heads:
Unmasked, helmet, bearded head
Standard gloved hands
Accessories:
Club
Short sword
Bent Spear
It's basically a Caseyfication of TMNT3'S Witt.
Tubular Rasputin the Mad Frog/Turtle Botticelli:
A redeco of Genghis new arms with double joints, heads crotch and legs with double joints. His colors would be based on the toon.
Heads:
No tongue slightly crazy face, tongue scratching head, tongue with a loop that can hold arrows or a dagger
Hands:
Standard hands, archery hands
Accessories:
New Bow
Arrows
Ancient Russian styled dagger
80s styled Turtle mask with fuchsia headband
Turtle shell backpack
Necklaces
Quiver
Basically a counterpart to Mikey and delivering 2 things: a silly variant and a new character if you remove the silly accessories.
Action Star Splinter:
Splinter wearing an outfit which is a cross of Elvis, Evel Knievel, and RotTMNT Hamato Yoshi.
Heads:
Head with articulated jaw
Normal head
Bruce Lee styled o face
Snarling head
Hands:
Standard hands (reused from vanilla Splinter)
Accessories:
Katana
Naginata
Jitte
Sansetsukon
Soft goods flashy cape
Soft goods feather boa
Wig
2 pairs of glasses
Basically a More flamboyant Lou Jitsu.
Now for the Villains:
Barbaric Rocksteady:
Rocksteady wearing a furry loincloth like Groundchuck furry boots chest plate armor similar to Thunderpunch He-Man but in brown and metallic grey. The Emblem would be the Foot Clan's foot. The armor would have Dragon head pauldrons.
Heads:
Normal
Screaming
Standard hands, sword aloft hands
Accessories:
Sci-fi Blaster Rifle
Magic Sword
Dagger
Time scepter
Removable red cape
Blond wig
It's a nod to He-Man and Cam Clarke voice of Rocksteady and He-Man.
Bebop the Couch Surfing Pig:
Bboop in his underwear and bunny flip flops ready to Chillax.
Heads:
Normal
Resting (moisturizing cream on face and cucumbers on eyes. Hair on curlers)
Sexy Bebop (curly Mohawk and doing Zoolander's Blue Steel face
Hands:
Standard hands, snacking hands (with popcorn sculpted on them) remote control hands
Accessories:
Soft goods bathrobe
Remote control Blaster
Moisturizer bottle
Mere Cat... (just a normal cat curled up that can sleep on Bebop's stomach or flat surface)
Bowl of popcorn
Big tumbler of Soda (think 7-eleven Big Gulp)
Basically Bebop on his day off. And totally not a VERY subtle nod to Timon and Pumba.
Slash the Mobster:
Slash dressed like a mobster.No torn cloths. The outfit is perfectly tailored for him. Bright fuchsia.
Heads:
With hat and Cigar
Without hat
Hands:
Standard hands
Accessories:
Barbed Garrote
Revolver
Thompson Machine gun
Molotov cocktail
Knife
I'm cutting the list short due to
recent news, but I was thinking of the following:
Battle Arnor Rat King (basically Rat King in a medieval outfit made of trash.)
Noir detective Mutagen Man (basicslly a re-release of Mutagen man with a soft goods trenchcoat and hat. (More hands though)
A Batman Knightfall inspired Wingnut... think Azrael Batman.
A new Modular Foot Soldier to use some of the TMNT toon/game disguises
Karai as Shredder.
Tournament Fighters:
Essentially an Ultimates sub-line based on the Tournament Fighters games.
