Looking for the positives in the Playmates v. Super7 rumor

 Recently, I commented on the rumor about Playmates Toys being angry with Super7's TMNTU, because it made them look bad. (With Playmates releasing those dreadful TMNT toys because they 1/16th ass everything and put as little effort as possible in their toys.) 

I mentioned that missing on certain characters,  because they're Toy-Only is a big negative.

Cowabunga Collection reminded me something:

TMNT 3: Radical Rescue on the Gameboy is a loophole for Scaletail. I kinda touched the whole "other media" can be a loophole thing. Theoretically speaking, both Super7 and NECA could use similar sources, due to the toys being on different scales. The only place where there could be some issues is in the Good live Action Movies. But they both COULD use them if Super7 uses the "Classicizer approach". By not making realistic screen accurate versions, but making Modern reinterpretations of the figures if they had been done in the late 80s-early 90s.

What do I mean by that? Let's make a "Classicized Movie Casey Jones"

Take Ultimates Casey as a reference:

Replace his head with a new head with longer hair. (Add extra unmasked head) replace the toy torso with a new "movie torso" and new shoulders. The rest of the arms would be from the toy version. Same accessories as the toy Casey.

A "Classicized Movie April" would take a lot of design cues from April the Ravishing Reporter...

She shouldn't be a straight up copy, but she should be stylistically similar. Personally, I would prefer a 100% new sculpt, but that's not necessarily the 80s way. The Ultra Lazy approach (not what I want, but what I'd expect as a worst case scenario) would be reusing the Vanilla April torso and arms. To "hide the cleavage" she'd get a painted purple blouse, while the toy top is painted brown. Her biceps would match her blouse. Cloth brown skirt on pantyhose colored legs would finish the figure.

Same accessories as Toy April, but with different heads. One Vaguely inspired by Judith Hoag and one by Paige Turco in pure 80s toy inaccuracy. 

Again, I'd prefer a New Torso and Biceps with a sculpted new blouse and removable vest over reusing April's torso.

I mentioned already that toy characters who had a Toon Appearance might be heavily influenced by the toon. Let's say Mona Lisa. While her silhouette might match the toon character, she should get some Lizard Details in her body, whether they're sculpted or painted is up to Super7. 

I already mentioned Pizzaface being an 80s-ized version of his 2012 figure. Which brings forth an idea, that I have mentioned a few times: Looking at other media for sources.

2003, 2012, The Next Mutation, IDW, mirage, Archie, hell even Rise of the TMNT could be used as sources. The only problem would be Super7's team being hung up on the 80s and 90s. With MOTUC, they strictly stuck to 80s stuff when there was a ton of post 90s stuff to exploit.

We'll just have to wait and see what's going on with TMNTU once Wave 7 ships, which will bring forward Wave 10. 

After this post, the double stuffed Advent Calendar shall begin...