TMGDVITMNT: A rant

 Before you ask it stands for Too Many God-Damned Variants In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A fact that can't be denied. The reason I'm bringing this up is Wave 7 of Super7's TMNTU and the fact that we won't reach a "complete Vintage Line" in the same vein we did with MOTUC back with Mattel...

First reason being price: with figures being $55 a piece and this price MIGHT go up again (Ultimatesstarted at $35), it's highly unlikely that Super7 can keep up interest in the line...

Will you be interested in paying $55 for troll Turtles, or for a fat Raphael and Mikey with no Fat Leo and Don?

The other huge factor is Figure Selection.

Some Variants are pointless without their action feature. Before anyone points out: "Mattel did Thunderpunch He-Man without blast caps and you didn't complain" let me finish: 

I'm talking about variants like: Ninja Action Turtles (the ones that do backflips) which look like the vanilla TMNT, or the Head Dropping Turtles, who again look like the Vanilla TMNT, or the Storage Shell Turtles, whose action feature would interfere with the engineering for the modern articulation. Don't get me started on the Mutations figures... I've argued that the non-turtle figures should get a Mutations version of thwor alternate form ie:

Hamato Yoshi, Oroku Saki, human forms of Bebop and Rocksteady, etc. But I'm talking about the Turtles, Tokka and Rahzar here.

Going to TMNT Museum and using Find in page, there are 77 mentions of Raph, 81 mentions of Leo, 78 of Don, and 38 mentions of Mike, 41 of "Mich" which covers both Michelangelo and the misspelled Michaelangelo. Sire that may be counting the mini mutants and the Giant Turtles and role playing items, BUT even if we discard half of those mentions to those non-standard figures it still leaves over 30 varoants for EACH Turtle...  so that makes $6,600 in Turtle variants ASSUMING THEY REMAIN AT $55.

I'M NOT SAYING VARIANTS ARE BAD, MMKAY?

I'm saying that TOO MANY VARIANTS OF THE TURTLES IS A BAD THING... I've mentioned this before. I've also made some crazy variant lists... but those are more of a mental exercise and try to get into the strangest things... like Zardoz Rocksteady and Leeloo Bebop... 

I'm trying to say that Super7 should keep the Zany variants to a minimum and instead to make "Legacy worthy" variants... for example:

2k3 or Mirage versions of certain characters. But even with these variants, they should be kept to a minimum in order to not oversaturate the line. 

I mean would you rather have "New characters that didn't make it to the line" like Karai and Armaggon, or would you prefer variants like Troll Leo or Farmer Mike?