The Playmates Style blockade has put a huge stop to Vintage Toyline items for TMNT Ultimates... waves now have a redeco figure, which is rereleasing an older character with a different deco and maybe a new item.
For example: The 4 Turtles are the easiest.
We can call them Mirage inspired redecos:
New belt buckle being their new element.
Personally, I'd have all turtles sharing the same green skin to be truly Mirage, but I'm opting for the preexisting toy colors for compatibility.
The main difference would be on the head with the vintage toy head being with the Mirage Red headband. The colored headband would be an alternate head:
Leonardo: Tongueless slam dunk Donatello head.
Michelangelo: Tongue head from Sewer Surfer Mike.
Donatello: normal sewer surfing mike head.
Raphael: Classic Rocker Leo closed eyes head.
Rocksteady and Bebop getting Toon inspired repaints would be the easiest option. Adding a new Helmetless head for Rocksteady and maybe a new expression for Bebop would spice things up.
For Foot Soldier slight redeco with "new" weapons (or reusing the weapons from the turtles or Shredder) maybe a new alternate head of Foot Ninja with bandana... or
Who else could get a redeco?
April with arms and lower legs could become Mirage April... swapping her accessories with Mousers and the Mouser controller, because tooling costs.
Utrom Council:
"It's a redeco and new characters at the same time". The 2 Krangs we have in a slightly paler color, with no bubble walker. Instead we get multiple tripods.
The "normal expression" Krang repaint with blue eyes would be Mortu, the more "excited" Krang repaint with white eyes would be Perry.
The "new" characters would be the other 2 newly sculpted Utroms: Ch'Rell, and Ma'Riell, both sharing a slightly more reddish color and tendrils. With Ma'Riell having a "mohawk"? Of small tentacles flowing from the top of her head to her back. Ch'Rell would have the 3 "horns" resembling Shredder's helmet.
So we have: 4 "heads", 4 Tripods.
Each Utrom gets 2 tentacles and 2 extra tentacles.
Meaning that there would be 8 extra tentacles:
4 to use on Mortu and Perry and 4 to use on Ch'Rell and Ma'Riell.
4 of those tentacles would be the preexisting Krang tentacles. The other 4 would be new poses for the tentacles. (The 4 new poses should be made to preemptively fit in an Android Body.) An additional 4 tentacles in Krang Colors.
It's a bit of a glorified accessory pack, but much better than just a repainted Krang.
The idea of Mortu and Perry being flat out kinda toon repaints for Krang is to act as toon repaints for Krang. The exciting bonus is the other two, who theoretically, their sculpts should start from the Digital sculpt for Krang and modded to become the new characters.
Mortu and Ch'Rell are references to 2003 toon, Ma'Riell is a referece to IDW and Perry is a refference to Professor Perry from Secret of the Ooze.
Scratch would be modern prison outfit variant in Mutagen Man outfit Orange. The cake should be a chocolate cake with pink frosting. The coins from the bag should be silver.
Ace Duck could be a white duck with black jacket and grey pants... it's kind of a nod to Nickelodeon's 2012 Ace Duck cameo...
Triceraton is an obvious choice for a repaint... perhaps he should get an extra head with all 3 horns intact for Army building potential.
Genghis Frog being repainted and adding a few extra accessories could make for an Attila or Rasputin.
Guerilla Gorilla with olive drab pants and desert camo vest. With a lighter colored fur coat. The new accessory would be a third head with a banana yellow bandana...
Wingnut and Screwloose: Do I even NEED to explain this repaint? Make the blues black on Wingnut. Paint his metal wings in glossy black.
Paint Screwloose's outfit completely black except the trim lines of his tank top that should be blue... for no reason Whatsoever...
Holy crap, I managed to pull out about 15-ish redecos and possibly make new characters out of the redecos.
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