Making Vulvana: a TMNT custom rant

 Pizzaface Jr has gotten me thinking that I can customize. Sewing soft goods resculpting 40% of a head amputating figures and giving them action features. 

I got thinking what character could I make that I know it won't get made by Mattel, or anyone else tackling TMNT? The only 2 answers I could come up with were Hitler and Vulvana. By the title alone, you already guessed who I am making. I can just borrow a Super7 figure to make Hitler.

Vulvana is a challenge. Technically I'd need a 1/6 red female body. To be closer to canonical height... but they don't make those... and with $18 bucks in my pocket... and feeling lazy as fuck, I went to my usual body parts supplier.

Figures Toy Company... i may be taking a gamble here because some of their older stuff doesn't have the better quality that the new work product has... but $18 for this:

In order to make this:

All I'll need is to either locate 2 horns or sculpt them, get some thin gold or yellow ribbon and Bob's your uncle.

It's MEGO sized, which puts her slightly taller than ultimates but  lose to proper scale for the Origins scale for Mattel.

The real question is: should I sculpt nipples and Vulva for Vulvana?

When does a Funko POP! Stop being a Funko POP!?

 Asking for a friend...

Remember that Tom Cruise threatened legal action agains Funko for likeness issues.

To the left, we have Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Fortnite.

Apparently, Funko made a Funko POP! of Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

You'd expect putting Doctor Doofenshmirtz through the FunkoPop!inator would make him look like a Funko POP!

Well, Behold the Doctor Heonz Doofenshmirtz Funko POP!!

It doesn't look like a Funko POP! at all! It looks like a generic chibi styled Doofenshmirtz.. Not a Funko Pop! It bugs me...

Mini Playsets: a rant:

 In a way, this is directed at Mattel, but it can also apply to other companies... Hasbro, Playmates, Jakks, Jazwares, even ridiculously expensive Super7.

I saw these online... probably buying them online, because buying them from Walmart in Puerto Rico is ludicrously expensive. The Ice cream shop is at $33-ish at Walmart. With taxes it's almost $37. Online, plus shipping and taxes ends up like $26-ish... but I digress, the point is that even at the higher Puerto Rican price, it's a mini playset.

Big companies could take a page out of this and take advantage of "small dioramas with play elements". Of course, I'd expect these hypothetical small playsets dioramas to be a bit more expensive, due to scale. Both Miniverse and its competitor Minibrands tend to be all over the place here. But the principle is similar:

Small modular playsets that can be made larger. I know I mentioned somethingnlike this exclusively for TMNT, but now I'm talking in general. Like Backstage for WWE, alleyways for Superheroes... DC could deliver a Crime Alley Playset like this... a $120 4pack with Diorama:

The Waynes and Joe Chill. In addition to the diorama. The Turtles could get alleyways, Technodrome interiors, He-Man could get Grayskull, Snake Mountain, and Eternos interiors... that's sticking to Mattel.

Hasbro can make Danger Room Dioramas with this modular idea. Arcade Murderworlds, Star Wars could benefit from this. GI Joe Classified could benefit from this.

Playmates can do various settings throughout Angel Grove... Or... the best part ever: Zord battle dioramas. 

If they want to go cheaper (please don't) cardboard to the rescue.

Smaller companies can enter the game too and make small generic playsets/dioramas. 

I'm gonna try and get one... guess which one it will be: