I finished writing another rant a little while ago. There I mention something that made me think of potential variants that are valid but not completely "Playmates infringing". So being in a "variant friendly mood" let's see what I can come up with:
Aquatic Warfare Rocksteady:
This one is LOOSELY INSPIRED by TMNT3 Manhattan Project.
Take the basic Rocksteady figure and have him in blue "water camo" pants and a navy blue tanktop... think
Guile's outfit from the Live action adaptation of Street Fighter. His helmet would be blue, for obvious reasons. The belt would be blue and the turtle shells would be brown. Unlike the original Rocksteady, this one should have interchangeable heads. His second head should be without his helmet and slightly opened mouth where a removable rebreather can be fitted on.
He gets A couple of extra hands that also work on the OG Rocksteady:
-gun hands with proper trigger finger
-expressive hands
-pointing fingers
For the rest of his accessories:
-Knife.
-sewer shield.
-Harpoon gun with removable harpoon.
-Rebreather.
-Evil communicator
Punk chained Bebop:
This one is LOOSELY INSPIRED by TMNT3 Manhattan Project:
Like Rocksteady, he reuses most of the OG body. This time Bebop's sneakers are black. His vest is black as well with his chained belt and leg brace in gold his wrist chain and bracer would be in gold as well. The turtle shell epaulets would be golden shell and silver bones. He gets 2 new bald heads with the punk chain piercing atop his skull. Head 1 has the pubk chain and mace with a "real chain" (chain is made in silver plastic as well as the mace) head 2 has a spinning sculpted chain and mace. The glasses on Bebop are gold rims and silver lenses.
Like Rocksteady, he should get extra hands that also work on the OG figure:
-proper gun hands with trigger finger.
-expressive hands
-pointing fingers.
I wanted to add flipping the bird, but Nickelodeon would say no to this.
For accessories, recycling his knife, trashcan, and the Triceraton gun that looks like the gun Bebop uses on the Arcade game. I'd also add an Evil communicator.
Undercover Reporter April
This one is Loosely based on Red Sky Seasons April. In order to get a true Red Sky April, you'd need the toon head from the first release April.
She'd need a new torso, new lower legs, reuse the arms from ninja April and the forearms from first April. Also, first April's upper legs and crotch...
She gets a new soft goods dark brown jacket, a new soft goods trenchcoat.
She gets 3 heads:
Ponytailed head with hair tied tightly to wear hats (baseball cap and fedora) and sunglasses.
Loose ponytailed head reminiscent of 2012 April
2003 inspired April hairstyle.
New hands with Lockpicking tools sculpted on them (since they're too small to be independent accessories)
New taser
New camcorder
Reuse the turtle communicators
Reuse her old handgun
Bayou Poacher Leatherhead:
LOOSELY INSPIRED by the Hyperstone Heist Leatherhead repaint gets a new vest that looks like a sleeveless bomber jacket in brown and beige. He gets forest green jeans and a blue hat and boots. His skin should be close to Leonardo's in color and brown eyebrows.
His teeth should be more yellowish.
This time his belt accessories should be blue.
-He gets all the accessories from vanilla Leatherhead in addition to a soft goods "weighted belt" large enough to trap a turtle.
-He also gets 3 throwing knives (reuse the foot soldier knife).
-a new KNOIFE... (crocodile Dundee reference)
Hypercharged Metalhead:
Basically this would be Metalhead 2.0 with lots of modifications:
-re-engineered torso to allow vac metal, retain articulation AND a new feature.
-fixed lower legs so the leg cut is below the wire connection.
- new re-engineered arms so they pop at mid forearm. This is to have the Rocket punch from Turtles in time.
-New lightpiping head with sculpted energy effect to show he's hypercharged.
-Metalhead 1.0 accessories work with this figure.
-new left hand with tendril accessory.
-pluggable torso blaster from Turtles in Time. Pectoral panels on the plastron should be hinged so they can open up and "reveal the blaster"
Goongala Casey Jones
This casey gets a new torso without the shoulderpad. He gets a removable vest, removable Football shoulderpads.
The idea is to have a VERY LOOSELY INSPIRED by the 1990 look for Casey bit with the classoc Casey head.
He has 2 alternate heads (the broken mask from wave 10, and a new unmasked head)
He gets all the standard Casey accessories and a black golf bag.
He also gets a new football, tennis racket, and cricket bat.
Grandmaster Shredder
This is an "original creation" that will have parts that can lead to other Shredder variants:
New shredder torso with sculpted shirt. New crotchpiece. New Forearm and leg spikes based on Mirage or cartoon. New hands with spiked gauntlets. Helmet inspired by Secret of the Ooze. He would be in OG Shredder colors. Black pants, black sleeves, purple shirt, blue spikes blue and purple helmet, add a black cape. He gets a totally new arsenal:
-Shuriken inspired by wacky action Shredder.
-serrated Katana
-New serrated Kama
-New poleax
-new normal Shredder head but with the eye of Sarnath in the helmet.
Grandmaster Splinter
This is an "original creation" with parts that could lead to other variants.
Virually is Splinter but with a more cartoon accurate head and tail. He would have the wave 9 sleeved soft goods kimono, a black overlay with the shoulderpads of the cgi 2007 movie and similar to the shogun Splinter white overlay.
For accessories:
-Longer cane sword (like Zatoichi's)
-Longer walking staff woth the eye of Sarnath embedded in it.
-Quiver with arrows
-Longbow
-new ninja handsign hands
-alternate screaming head.
Grandmaster Karai
Basically an excuse to have a Karai as Shredder figure, but fitting it to a theme that I'll explain after Karai.
Basically a new body for the figure taking cues from both Karai and OG Shredder in order to have a female Shredder.
For accessories she gets:
-alt Karai head
-all of Karai's accessories minus bow and arrows.
-removable medallion with Eye of Sarnath.
-kunai from samurai Leo
The idea of the Grandmaster figures is a pseudo wave of the 3 people with a stake on leading the Foot Clan and using the Mystical Eye of Sarnath to rewrite reality and head the Foot in a new direction.
Wingfall Wingnut
Basically a capeless Wingnut with new small wings based on his Tournament Fighters appearance with a Screwloose wearing an 80s Nightwing inspired outfit. I'm also adding a new buddy, Boltnutz: a squirrel that has electric powers. Think Static but as a flying squirrel and can shoot electrically charged nuts from his mouth...
There's a rumor going on that now variants might follow the Ninja April route where they won't be Playmates based... and wave 12 might be 2003 themed...
