Thinking of Foot/Krang heirarchies and rosters

 Translation: another rant about Rock Soldiers, Foot Clan, and other stuff... how could they be made and how they would work in the Neftyverse.

Let's get cracking with the Rock Soldiers:

I still stand that having 2 Base bucks is the perfect starting point since Redecos and repacking them with different accessories can sell the army aspect.

About the 2 Base bucks, I'm thinking MOTUC sized bodies whose main differences lie in head and torso.

Basically one standard "MOTUC body" but made out of stone and the second having a new hunched over torso (think Slash) reusing the same arms and legs from the other body. 

Make like 3 heads for each body and generic rock soldier weaponry and call it a day. With one set of each with just 1 color, we have 6 different combinations. If we add 3 different set of rock colors (Traag Orange, Granitor Grey,  and Sandstone faded yellow) we could get up to 18 different Rock Soldier combinations based on the amount of heads and redecos. At a minimum, a small squad of 6. (With 1 figure of each body and color variation)

Now Granitor never had a Vintage figure. How could Super7 tackle him?

In order to answer that, we'd have to know how will they tackle Traag. Will he be Playmates inspired? Will he be Shredder's Revenge inspired? Will he be something else entirely?

So, here's where I'm at. Assuming full Playmates styled Traag can't be made, here's my Compromise:

The base would be Shredder's Revenge Traag.

Give him a second Playmates inspired head with a lighter orange, not quite sandstone yellow. Then have the rest of his body painted in Playmates colors. Add the Foot Soldier weapons minus the Shuriken, resized and slightly modified proportions to fit the General's larger hands. (Vintage Traag used large and modified weapons similar to the Foot Soldier's.)

Now with THAT vision for Traag, let's retrofit a Granitor. Logic dictates to reuse of Traag as much as possible. We could do that with a new torso with a thicker neck to avoid potential fatalities like the NECA figure and its pencil neck. We could gove it a reverse Traag coloring to make him look vintage. Adding some new weapons like the Flamethrower from the Arcade game. Maybe toss in a couple of Spy Flies to boost up his accessory count and have slight army building elements.

But if for some reason we get Traag as a full Playmates design (minus creepy crawlies) then, Granitor would need to be tweaked into something different. So, I would like to suggest:

New head, torso, upper arms, and crotch to have a Granitor. I would reuse Traag's lower arms and hands. For the legs, Rocksteady seems like a decent candidate. The reason for this is how different Genghis and Napoleon were in the vintage line, I wanted to echo that with Traag and Granitor.

This beefs up Krang's side of the Dimension X forces with Rock soldiers at the bottom, followed by Granitor, then Traag.

If Super7 finds a way to add Roadkill Rodneys, then Krang's robotic forces would have a slight boost. Just as Shredder has the Foot Soldiers and Mousersatthe lowest rungs, Krang deserves to have his own forces...

But let's talk foot:

Tatsu: Yeah, he MIGHT be Possible in more ways than we think. Apparently, a company has been in contact with Obata's people and there may be a Tatsu figure coming. Also, I already mentioned the SEGA Genesis game as a way for making a NON-MOVIE Tatsu for Super7 to tackle.

MIRAGE Foot Clan elements:

We could have Human Foot Ninja, aka the Japanese branch of the Foot, who could be made using Shredder and Foot Soldier parts

With new head(s), shoulders, torso, and forearm guards. The torso could be reused on the Shredder Elite, and some Shredder variants... (Mirage, Toon, Shredder clones)

The figure could be sold as Shredder Elite and have normal Foot Ninja heads as extras.

I wouldn't be opposed to a Foot Soldier 2.0 that included a Shredder Elite styled head for the robotic Foot Soldiers 

As for the Shredder clones and variants, with the Human Foot Ninja, we'd have the parts for the Vanilla clone/Mirage Shredder and most of the body for Claw Shredder.

Mirage Shredder:

Repaint of Shredder (red clothes, brown wraps, and silver blades/helmet) using the new clothed torso of the Shredder elite, new crotchpiece with the "loincloth". Use the same accessories as normal Shredder and add an Oroku Saki head and a thermite grenade.

Shredder clone:

Repaint of Shredder (purple clothes, brown wraps, and gold blades/helmet) using the new clothed torso of the Shredder elite, new crotchpiece with the "loincloth". Use the same accessories as normal Shredder and add a second head inspired by Secret of the Ooze Shredder's helmet.

Claw Shredder:

This clone would require new lower legs, new "organic" shoulder spikes, new arms. The Shredder's outfit should be orange with the spikes being bone white-ish color. The crab skin should be reddish. The Helmet being copper in color. For accessories, he'd get the Mini Shredder clone, who should be more articulated than a standard mini buddy but not as articulated as a full figure. (Head on a balljoint, waist twist, arm rotation at shoulder.) Figure's arms and waist should pop off for alternate legs and arms. The arms would be somewhat straight and alternate bent at the elbows.

For the legs, standing and crouching.

Colorwise, mini Shredder should have a Gunmetal grey helmet/spikes, white wraps, and yellow suit.

Four Arm Shredder would require most new stuff... but if Super7 plays it smart, 4AShredder could share SOME parts with Super Shredder.

Colorwise, black helmet/spikes, blue clothes, and grey bandages. For accessories,  the extra hands would be an obvious suggestion.

Yes, I'm aware that I chose different coloring than the mirage versions. (As seen on the upcoming NECA Releases) The color coding is rather obvious (Turtles + April) just as Playmates changed the colors of the turtles to make them different enough, I did so too. The reason I made Mini Shredder a Buddy with swappable parts was to avoid a mini Shredder $55 figure that would've felt a rip-off bigger than Snarf. Especially since there is very little to add to him. 

Now how would the Foot Clan Heirarchy work?

Obviously, Shredder is at the top, since he became the Grandmaster after rising through the ranks once Hamato Yoshi was banished for killing Oroku Nagi. 

Tatsu is Loyal to the Oroku family and was put in charge of Japan's Foot Clan as Saki got involved with the extermination of Hamato Yoshi and everything that followed in America.

Then we have Karai, who has the potential of replacing Shredder as Grandmaster of the Foot.

In order to lead the Japanese side of the Foot, Tatsu sent her to America to receive Shredder's approval.

Once in America, Karai proves her worth to the Foot, but is disgusted by the way Shredder has lost his way in his alliance with Krang. 

I've mentioned that in the NEFTYVERSE, Super Shredder is in a coma while Krang tries to find a way to make him more controllable. This allows the Shredder Clones AND CHROME DOME  to enter the play. The clones would act as Shredder's substitute and eventually become a new micro faction as Shredder's bodyguards.

Chromedome would be Krang's attempt at digitizing Shredder's brainwave patterns and creating a Shredder AI. It becomes self aware and creates the Chromedome body. I can see CD comandeering Krang's robotic Foot Soldiers, forcing Shredder to using Human Foot Ninja again...

Or that's how I'd set it up if we had These figures... wish i had the time and resources to learn how to do 3d sculpting and was able to 3d print stuff.