Theoretical Mumm-Ra's Tomb Fortress: a rant

 Something I noticed about the Rankin Bass Hero Trio is that they aren't as toyetic as say, Masters of the Universe. Sure, you could make the basic figures, but playsets and vehicles are a much harder thing. I had trouble trying to figure out a Cat's Lair and ended up straight up copying LJN's with an added back piece.

Mumm-Ra's Tomb Fortress is the second Playset and it shows the non-toyetic nature of Thundercats. 

The only time we get to something close to a toyetic Black Pyramid is on Lion-O's annointment trials. Other than that, the Black Pyramid is just Mumm-Ra's sarcophagus, viewing pool and the Ancient Spirits of Evil statues that sometimes move.

There is also Castle Plundarr, but aside the cool exterior, nothing really happened there to warrant a playset. Which brings us to the LJN playset.

In the Cartoon, Mumm-Ra's Tomb Fortress looks like this. The Playset, well, not so much.

 

 As you can see the playset is very underwhelming. It's bordering in mini diorama territory. Well, my idea is to take the toy as a base, but make it closer to toon accurate. 4 pillars for all 4 ASoE with articulated statues... no, I'm not asking for Ultimates level of articulation. They should have ReAction level of Articulation.

In a way it's kind of emulates the old action feature, in addition to being cartoon accurate. The viewing pool is the most important piece here. The "water" should be translucent plastic so if one were to put a smartphone under the viewing pool, one could see the images displayed on the phone on the viewing pool. The Sarcophagus cpuld work like the vintage one where you could "Transform your Mumm-Ra".   if super7 wanted to be cute they could add the infamous Snarf-Ra shown above as a figure exclusive to the Playset... or if they wanted to be dicks about it, add NORMAL Snarf in order to force you to get the tomb.

The reason I'm sticking to the diorama is that the Black Pyramid is not very toyetic:

And even if I stuck to the LJN Tomb Fortress of only 2 ASoE, the tomb would eat up Half of the Pyramid's play space. Not to mention that the shape doesn't help playability in any way... 

At least their playsets are doable unlike...