Sep 10, 2024

Vintage Inspired TMNT variants I'd love to see as Ultimates: part 3

Where was I? Strippers and birthday parties... let me return to the right path with part 3.

As stated before, not all of these will be purely remakes of vintage because Playmates, but will try to stay in the same lane and make something similar, but not a carbon copy.

Movie Stars:
Here I won't copy straight up NECA or Playmates, but try to Playmates-ize the characters to make something similar to what Playmates would've done...

Turtles:
We start with the vanilla shell torso.
New movie styled Belts, new brown pads, new movie styled heads but with smooth texture because S7 cost cutting. They'd get their signature weapons

Leonardo:
Normal head
Meditating head
TV with April on screen and alternate April image.
Skateboard

Donatello:
Normal head 
Head with ranch hat and piece of straw on mouth
Bag of pork rinds
Pizza box with pizza slices

Raphael:
Angry head
Screaming head
Fedora
Soft goods cloak 
Backpack

Michelangelo:
Special finger twirling nunchuck hand
Finger twirling nunchuck
Cold cut nunchuck
Ooze filled donuts with box

Splinter:
Here we can reuse the flocked body but new robe and heads.
Neutral head
Meditating head
Broken Ooze canister 
Bow and arrow
Head pizza
Ninja rap newspaper
Time scepter

Casey Jones:
Remember how in list 2 I premade parts for a "Movie Casey"? Well, combining the gloved arms of vanilla Casey with the "Mutatin" Casey on the latter's body with the stag party Casey slicked back hair head, we get a "movie casey" give him an alternate head with the mask, and Casey's bag of sports weapons and call it a day.

April:
She would be based on the Ravishing April figure had she been made by Playmates with Normal April arms. I'm going to go put a step further.
New buttoned shirt top slip on plastic vest, reusing the April 1.0 arms, new soft goods skirt and finally heels. (We reuse the part 2 Hen Do April crotch and legs painted to look like pantyhose) then the torso is painted in Movie 1 April colors.
New Judith Hoag inspired head.

Shredder:
We start with a Movie Star Foot Soldier inspired body (no straps or shuriken) in movie 1 Shredder colors. New Shredder helmet and cape. New shoulder blades. The forearm and shin blades would be reused from vanilla Shredder. New belt would have a sheath for a Dagger on the back

Movie Star April II:
Essentially April in a navy blue Pantsuit and Blazer with red blouse. Here Super7 can cheat a bit:
Reusing Vanilla April's torso with new arms and a soft goods blazer and new legs with sculpted pantsuit. 
New Paige Turco inspired head from Secret of the Ooze and new Movie 3 head

Tatsu:
Reusing the Movie Star Foot Soldier Body with new Tatsu heads and soft goods hakama and torso overlay. New belt holds the soft goods items.

Foot Soldier:
Reusing the Shredder/Tatsu body with new foot Soldier head new belt with bandolier to hold sword on back and shuriken on front 

Gnarly Brawlers: (Loosely inspired by Bash'em and Kung fu waves)
This would be kind if a "Street Fighterized" set, but not being based on the famous game series.
This wave might trigger some folks for the beaten up loser Alt. Heads.

Karate Leo:
Leonardo in a Blue Karate Gi with a a design of Rat doing a Kick on his back.
Heads: 
New expression Normal Leonardo 
Beat up Leonardo

Accessories:
Kendo stick
Bokken
Car Wax pads
Japanese hand sanders
Bucket of paint and paintbrush.
Specialized hands:
Karate chop hands

Aikido Donatello:
Donatello sporting the same body as Leonardo but the outfit in purple and a soft goods grey Hakama. Main difference is in the forearms as Leonardo is wearing loose sleeves, Don has them rolled over.
Heads:
New expressionNormal Donatello
Beat up Donatello

Accessories:
Jo staff
Bokken

Muay Thai Raph:
Raphael sporting a Muay Thai outfit with white wraps on his hands, red shorts and armbands.

Heads:
New Normal expression Raph
Beat up Raph

Accessories:
Removable Muay Thai headband
Pair of tonfa

Capoeira Mikey:
Here we get a ton of parts reuse:
Torso from slam Dunk Don upper legs from rapping Mike new lower legs for loose pant legs and Normal Mike feet. Rest of the body is just vanilla Mikey.

Heads:
New Normal expression Mike
Beat up Mike

Accessories: 
Nunchaku with real string Instead of chain
Boombox from Rappin Mike.
Specialized hands:
Flat palm with splayed fingers for handstands

Heavyweight Casey:
Note: Mirage Casey is about 195lbs. Which puts him as a Heavyweight.
Essentially Casey Jones Dressed down as a Boxer. Both hands need to be wrapped. His pants would be Grey with orange accents and green boxing boots.

Heads:
White Boxing Helmet
Beat up with busted helmet

Accessories:
Sandbag with stand.
Boxing Pear that can swap with sandbag
Soft goods blue and orange robe
Specialized hands:
Boxing gloves

Bar Brawl Bebop:
Bebop wearing a mildly torn black leather Jacket, faded black jeans, black sneakers a red shirt with slashes reminiscent of the  tron glowing areas of 2012 Bebop. 

Heads: 
New More "Toon-like Bebop head (matches the original skintone and glasses)
Beat up Bebop head.

Accessories:
Broken cuestick
Broken Whisky Bottle
Wrapped towel with cueball inside
Specialized hands:
Brass Knuckles Fists

Alley Ambush Rocksteady:
Rocksteady wearing an open Military Jacket (woodland camo, his black tanktop, Faded Blue Jeans and Military boots.
Heads: 
New Head without helmet
Beat up Rocksteady

Accessories:
Knife
Bent up steel pipe
Dumpster with flame effect
Broken booze bottle
Specialized hands:
Hand with chain wrapped up as a makeshift knuckle duster.

Kunoichi Karai:
Basically Karai in a Fighting game inspired Sexy Ninja outfit.
I'm reusing the Ninja April Arms new fishnet protection from the neck down up to her chest, which is covered by a black leotard and a sleeveless Gi. (Think premaking Aska parts.) The crotchpiece should be inspired by Final Fight's Maki. Long enough to cover the crotch, but short enough to not impede articulation. (Can be made longer if soft goods are involved.)
Bare legs until the knees, where she gets a Shinguard with wraps and reuse the Karai feet.

Heads:
New Karai Normal head, reusing the Ninja mask head
Beat up head and beat up masked head

Accessories:
Kunai
Shuriken
War fans
Specialized hands:
Ninja 2 finger pose
Rumic pose (similar to the Webshooting hand from Spider-Man. Used as a surprised gesture)

Mall Tae Kwon Do Irma:
It's Irma in a Tae Kwon Do outfit. Light Blue top with purple and yellow accents, purple pants, yellow foot protectors.
Heads:
No glasses angry head with Bandana
Beat up head no Bandana and no glasses

Accessories:
Escrima Sticks
Gymbag bazooka
Shopping bags of Doom

Rec Center Self-Defense April:
April already knows martial arts and she's just doing a story as an excuse to get a Tournament Fighters INSPIRED April figure.
Basically April in a Sports Bra, bike shorts, biker gloves and sneakers. 

Heads:
New Ninja April Head without windswept hair
Beat up Head

Accessories:
Soft goods towel
Reusable water bottle
Breakable boards
Gym bag
Gun

Underground Pit Fighting Rat King:
Essentially a TF Inspired Rat King: Reusing most of the previous Rat King with new lower legs, feet, hands, heads:
The new lower legs are to add boots. In full Varner style one of them is broken. The new hands have rope tied around them (like Kickboxer) 

Heads: "realistic" Cartoon accurate head (or Pretty boy face with vintage hair)
Beaten up head

Accessories:
The rats from the canceled wave 10 version
Specialized hands:
Fists with shards of glass embedded on them

Rasslin' Gladiator Slash:
Picture Slash in Gladiator clothes. With removable helmet, spikeless hands, wearing a loincloth and removable gladiator arm armor.
Skulls instead of his spikes on the elbow and knee pads.

Heads:
New Normal head with plug for spitting "poison mist"
Beat up head

Accessories:
"Poison mist" effect.
Steel chair
Breakaway table/shield
Kendo stick

Potpourri wave 1:
You know how we got random variants in some waves that weren't themed? I'm going for that now.

Masquerade April:
Essentially April in a Fancy Masquerade ballroom outfit:
Think something fancy with soft goods skirt in April colors.

Heads:
April with Princess Mallory Hairstyle
Toon accurate April head

Accessories:
Masquerade mask on stick
Broken glass slipper
Tiara

She doesn't have many accessories due to the fancy dress

Arnold Jones: Fixer Upper.
Picture Casey in Overalls, his croptop jacket (without Hockeypads) and a Welding mask. 

Heads:
Unmasked Casey
Casey with a flip welding mask

Accessories:
Toolbox with various tools  
portable welding machine
Steel pipe shaped like a hockey stick
Soft goods welding apron

Genghis P.I.: 
In essence a Genghis repaint in the style of an 80s Detective from Hawaii. His skin should be a bit more "tanned" also a workaround for a Rasputin.

 heads:
Normal Genghis
Open mouth without tongue
Disguised head (baseball cap, fake mustache and wig that make him look like a blond Selleck)

Accessories:
Chicken blaster with rubber chicken
Long neck soda bottles 
Longbow
Arrows
Specialized hands:
Archery hands

Bebop: Live!:
A subtle nod to Shredder's revenge with Bebop dressed as a talk show host. Button shirt about to burst with an ill-fitting tie. Blazer partially torn on the back, with his turtle shell epaulets. Pants about to burst and his sneakers.

Heads: 
Normal Bebop
Bebop with his Mohawk parted to look more Talkshow host-esque. 

Accessories:
Microphone whip
Clipboard shield
Camera drill inspired by the Playmates mutatin toy.

Potpourri wave 2:

Surf's up Rocksteady:
Rocksteady wearing an open Aloha yellow shirt with red Foot prints and Bermuda shorts with camo print. Sporting surf shoes and removable leis.

Heads:
Determined
Relaxed

Specialized hands:
Hang ten hands
Dramatic hands

Accessories 
Removable leis
Soft goods towel
Hawaiian longboard
Fancy coconut drink
Machete
Speargun
Crab

Bayou Terror Leatherhead:
An excuse to have a Toon Inspired Leatherhead.
Leatherhead body with new legs sporting thigh high waders in almost black dark blue.

Heads: 
Toon accurate head with vintage hat
Vintage accurate head

Accessories:
New belt items to replace the tobacco leaves, turtle, and lobster.
Bolt action rifle
Hunting knoife
Weighted net
Fake fur ghillie suit and ghillie cover for rifle. 
Multiple bear traps from w5 Leatherhead.

Foot Endoskeleton:
Again, this is one of my go-tos. Nod to the vintage games and we got some parts from Super7 already.
Heads:
Full endo
Masked foot Soldier
Terminator style half foot soldier half endo face

Accessories:
Slip over mask neckpiece
Battle damage effect pieces
Small blaster
Mace
Grabber

Hose'em Down Hot Spot:
Essentially a "More Deluxe" Hot Spot. 
We start with the basic Hotspot figure but with a few extras:
Heads:
New expression no hat
Close to Vintage expression with no bone no hat

Accessories: 
Broken Bone (Can be placed on vintage mouth to complete the look
Long hose (plugs to Hydrant and water effect)
Hydrant removable cap for hose or water effects
Water effects for hose and hydrant
Axe from Hose em down Don
Halligan Pryong Tool
Firefighter hat
Vinyl Firefighter coat
1993 Fireman Calendar with Hose'em Down Don on the cover

Potpourri wave 3:

Hail to the King Splinter:
Essentially Splinter in a Lou Jitsu Elvis Jumpsuit.
Heads:
Without Lou Jitsu wig
With Lou Jitsu wig

Accessories:
Removable glasses
Acoustic Guitar
Microphone with stand (removable to act as a walking stick or a Freddie Mercury mic.)
PB, Banana and Bacon sandwich 
Carton of milk

Sparring Sensei Shredder:
This one is a subtle jab at Playmates and how their Shredders tend to have thick rounded much smaller blades than the 80s figure. 
This Shredder is wearing Full Protective gear.
New smaller Spikes, being very foam looking and rounded, Torso padding, shin and forearm padding. New Bare feet.

Heads:
New Sparring helmet head
Normal Shredder head with Helmet being Sparring  equipment red.

Accessories:
Rack weapons with thicker foam blades rounded at the end.
Shuriken have a protective circle and are now in essence frisbees.

Championship Halfcourt:
We start with the basic Halfcourt figure. He's missing the deflated ball stuck on his foot.
Instead of 34 he has a 93. His white shirt and jersey are a soft goods single piece, but underneath he has a sculpted Jersey.
Basket hoop on hos neck is not only removable, but in proper colors, and the netting is soft goods. 
Pants match Jersey.
Has white breakaway pants with velcro.
Heads:
Head with tongue sticking out but not stuck to the head like the vintage toy
Head with no tongue sticking out. Similar to Vintage toy minus tongue.

Specialized hands.
Hands with championship rings

Accessories:
Reuse the Basket from Slam Dunk Don
Flamingo buddy
Deflated ball pseudo stand
Trophy grenade
New pump gun inspired but not Playmates accurate
Basketball from SD Don
Wasp nest ball
Cartoons bomb ball painted like basketball
The Aforementioned soft goods items.

Gakusei Leonardo: 
Leonardo sporting a Japanese School Uniform. 
Heads:
 Determined head
Late for School woth pizza toast on mouth

Specialized hands:
Chopsticks hand
Accessories:
Pair of Bokken
School bag
Books
Bento

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