Oct 29, 2024

Syndicate Collectibles Double Dragon Preprders are go!

 I tried... they don't ship to my address, DESPITE their options allowing to ship to Puerto Rico.

Well, then, guess these $50 figures aren't for me...
They look Decent...

Willy, the Final Boss looks OK, but I don't give a shit about Willy. Show me Abobo, Dammit!

Is this Bimmy? Aka Billy dressed as Jimmy.

I guess this is Jilly. 

While these are arcade accurate, they are not pop culture accurate. Shame that they're not available outside of Syndicate Collectibles website... if they were available on BBTS, I'd pre-order the twins and once they were in hand, I'd swap the heads to have Pop Culture Accurate Lee twins.


Super7... Syndicate may have beat you to the games... 
but y'all can do the TV show... of the Double Dragon!

Update:

They ARE Available through BBTS. So that means
Preorder, Preorder the Dragon!
Swap the head, the head of the Dragon!
Add the mark, the Mark of the Dragon!
Customize, Customize the Dragon!

Oct 28, 2024

April O'Neil Variants: The Rant.

 Hey! It's time for another Super7 Ultimates Variants wishlist rant... Apparently we're doing April O'Neil... not that way and I'm not talking about the pornstar that occasionally cosplays as her Namesake. Not gonna lie, I'd like an Ultimates of that OTHER April. No, I'm not looking for a naked figure. I mean Pornstar whose Nom de Plume is April O'Neil, dressed as April O'Neil (the one from TMNT)

I mean the lady in the picture wearing that same outfit and turtle shell backpack. 

Now with that out of the way, I'm not talking about THAT April. I'm talking about THIS April:

So let's make some April Variants:
First let's tackle the existing S7 variants for the TMNT Characters
Disguised
Sports
Music
Undercover
Martial Arts Movies
GITD
Mirage 

So let's begin with Disguised:
Magical Princess Reporter April:
Think Cutie Honey's outfit in April colors minus boob window, but with a She-Ra styled translucent skirt

Heads:
Normal April Head
Tiara April Head (April with a valkyrie inspired winged tiara) and a golden domino mask

Accesories:
-Green soft goods scarf
-Sword with mirrored sixes on the hilt and the pommel looks like a microphone.
-camera blaster

Sports April:
Beach Volleyball April:
April wearing a yellow with white accents Beach Volleyball bikini. A red 6 is emblazoned on the front and back of the sports bra-esque bikini.
Heads:
Hat and glasses Head
Normal April with facepaint on cheeks
April with hair tied into a ponytail

Special hands:
Bump hands

Accessories:
Soft goods torn team shirt
Soft goods short shorts
Exploding volleyball
Water bottle
Volleyball net with dual bo staff stands

Music April:
80s Pop April:
Basically Her look should be somewhere between Paula Abdul and Madonna circa 1989.

Heads:
Singing head
Winking head

Accessories:
Microphone dagger
Mic stand

Undercover April:
This one is a toughie since I could go in two directions:
Yellow Carmen Sandiego... BTW what is Carmen wearing under that Trenchcoat in the 90s cartoon? I know that in other continuities she has a cat burglar suit. But the 90s toon, she shows too much leg and too much forearm for her to be wearing a catsuit underneath.

The other direction is have her disguised as a Foot Soldier. She has to get the scoop afterall.

OK New Torso, crotch, feet. Reusing Ninja April Arms and legs. Add removable slip on bracers and the body is done.

Heads:
Fedora head
Foot Ninja head from Karai
New April vanilla head

Accessories:
Silenced gun
Pair of kunai
Attache case and flashlight
Katana
Small drone with camera
Controller

Martial Arts Movie:
You know which outfit we're going for here... The Bruce Lee outfit from Game of Death... or The Bride's from Kill Bill.
Revengeance April: 
Heads:
Neutral 
Angry
Battle damaged

Accessories:
Katana
Meteor hammer
Party Wagon Keychain with key.

GITD:

Remember this Prototype April?
Well, here's how it will go: her head, arms and feet would be molded in flesh colored plastic and the hair and feet would be painted in appropriate colors. Now for the GITD colorway.
GITD Green Plastic like the one used on the Turtles and Neon GReen accents as seen in Ninja News van April.
For accessories GITD Green April v1 Accessories. (Minus the rack)

Mirage:
April V1 with new Mirage heads and instead of her usual Accessories 3 Mousers 2 mint one battle damaged and a w6 Mouser remote controller.

Huh, I might try other characters for this Variants thing... but not today... 

So, I'm watching the new Ranma

 And my boy Ryoga finally appeared and the OG LatAm dub VA is back as Ryoga. This brings me some peace, as I'm getting some nostalgic feeling hearing the classic dubs. I still can't get over how they did the Ranma Saotome VAs dirty. (Male Ranma got blacklisted for criticizing lowball payments by studios.) 

So far this new Ranma is proving itself to be better than the classic anime... I still stand by the classic's fanservice and slightly more "natural looking" movement in the fight scenes. But the new Ranma is slowly winning me over...

Unlike Tomb Raider, which lost me by the second episode.


Getting Castle in the Sky flashbacks. Damn your Netflix, you survived cancelation a bit longer. All I need to see is the Amazon arc... wonder if SH Figuarts will do more Ranma figures now.

Oct 27, 2024

Most of my modern gaming is retro compilations... a list of wanted collections:

I still haven't bought the MVC collection, waiting for Gex and Suikoden 1 and 2... but I'm going to drop some Collections I'd like to see:

SPIDER-MAN: THE PS1 COLLECTION:
Essentially the Amazing Neversoft Spider-Man game and the mid sequel, Enter Electro. As a bonus add both X-Men Mutant Academy games and mayhaps THPS2 because of Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: The Sam Raimi Trilogy:
Both PS2 Spider-Man games based on the Raimi movies, the awful ps2 version of Spider-Man 3 and the decent PS3 version.

Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions/Edge of Time duology and Web of Shadows to round up the last main Activision games.

Batman Cinematic Collection:
This one might be more complicated since Batman 89 was made by Sunsoft, Batman Returns, was made by Konami, Batman Forever  and Batman and Robin were made by Akklaim.

JoJo's Bizarre Collection:
Essentially Capcom's JoJo games.

Mortal Kombat Kollection Volume 1:
MK 1-4 Arcade and home versions, MK Mythologies Subzero, and MK Special Forces

Mortal Kombat Kollection Volume 2:
Deadly Alliance, Deception, and Armageddon, and MK Shaolin Monks.

GTA stories:
A duology of LC stories and VC stories as a bonus Rockstar could throw in GTA 1 and 2.

Final Fight Collection:
Final Fight, Final Fight 2, Final Fight 3, Final Fight Revenge, and Final Fight:Streetwise. 

Yu-Gi-Oh! Older game collection:
I'm thinking those Early GBC/GBA games, especially those that were Japan only... wait, Konami IS DOING THAT FOR REAL!? Fuckdammit! Now I need to find another Compilation idea.

WWE Smackdown! Collection:
Essentially from WWF Smackdown all the way to Smackdown vs Raw 06. Add a disclaimer about a certain Canadian and any other controversial superstars in the games and maybe some attitudes/mentalities of 20+ years ago don't match current era values and make the game Rated M to reduce little Timmies playing games with "inappropriate content" (bra and panties matches) I just want the good Snackdown games before 2Kgames fucked up the brand.

Oct 26, 2024

Making a case for Additions to "vintage" TMNT, a Super7 Ultimates rant

 We know about Playmates crying to Nickelodeon like a little bitch about Super7 Ultimates. This has made S7 branch out in odd directions... like adding a 2003 line to dilute the amount of vintage. Making NEW VARIANTS, but the real answer lies in making "NEW VINTAGE" characters. By that I mean, adding characters from the 1980-1990s to the line. Personally, I prefer the MOTUC Approach of adding everything under a "vintage inspired style."

But for the sake of this rant I'll stick to Vintage TMNT. Meaning Mirage, Fred Wolf toon, Associated videogames, comics, manga, OVA with the cutoff point being The Next Mutation.

In other words doing a Reverse NECA. Since they've been adding Toy characters to the cartoon line and filtering them through a "Fredwolfizicer machine" (suddenly I felt a bit Neitlichian... Logistics, that style's retired, buy the sub, Fuck you Nefty!) 

Taking Comic, Toon, Videogame characters and giving them a Varnerized vintage Playmates look. For example:
Punk Frogs:
Taking both The Ultimates Genghis and the theoretical Ultimates Napoleon, with new heads and accessories, we could get a Rasputin and an Attila.

I've mentioned Burne's girlfriend Tiffany since a "Playmatesized" version of her could have started life as a repainted Ravishing April with a new head. A Playmatesized Null would be an interesting character to have. The Firefreaks from the first NES game would be a cool addition to have. Plus, Super7 could release a Blue Flame GITD Firefreak Variant.

Hell, a lot of these characters were so underdetailed that Super7 could get away with making up stuff.

For example, Sprazzo the Chainsaw Maniac:
We could have Sprazzo in Prison Orange pants with white laceless shoes shirtless with a heavily scarred torso (Think Victor Zsasz) bare arms reuse Casey's with new forearms and hands.
Adding a few heads:
-Hannibal Lecter inspired mask
-Blond Casey repaint
- full head Iron Mask
-Jason X inspired mask fused to his flesh
Accessories:
Shackles and chains that attach to his body.
Think J.Eisenberg Luthor by Mattel. But with real chains and plastic shackles.
-chainsaw
-a smaller TMNT enemy as a little buddy.

I plussed up a shirtless dude with a questionable head/mask

Characters with multiple media appearances can be used to sidestep Playmates' whining. Hothead has appeared in comics and on the NES Tournament Fighters, so that could be exploited to bring him into the fold if Playmates acts like a little bitch. Chu Hsi the Warrior Dragon is essentially a yellow Hothead. So, taking the Chu Hsi design, adding some Toy flourishes to the armor and using gradients of orange and yellow to create a hybrid between Chu Hsi and NES TF Box Art Hothead. 

For accessories:
Elongated neck as a nod to the toy
Dao sword
Chinese bow with flaming Arrows
Flame effect for the flame spitting head.

While that approach may not work on everyone, there are a few that could be exploited. Here's hoping for Japanese Bimbo Irma. 

We have tons of options to get Pizzaface... Just release him already, Kyle!

Multiple Turtle variants is not the answer. 
(I know the irony, since I do a ton of variant lists... like stripper Irma...) but I'd be invested more in New characters than variants...
We still Need Don the Undercover Turtle, dammit! Does Super Shredder count as a variant? Or Krang's Android Body?



Oct 25, 2024

Top 3 Most wanted Street Fighter figures... The Rant strikes back

We have many Street Fighter games. Let's pick three characters from each game... I'll avoid variants, ie sf6 Ryu, SFA Ken. This list is for Jada Toys...

Note: I want more characters than these, BUT I chose the top 3 without getting variants. That's why there's no agent Shadow, "bum Ken" no guest characters like Hungry Woof or Bouncy Titties from Fatal Fury.

Street Fighter:
The original game that started it all.
Geki
Eagle
Lee

Street Fighter Alpha:
Adon
Rose
Charlie

Street Fighter Alpha 2:
Sakura
Dan
Gen

Street Fighter Alpha 3
Karin
Rainbow Mika
Dolls

Street Fighter III:
Elena
Gill
Ibuki

Street Fighter III Second Impact:
Urien
Necro
Oro

Street Fighter III Third Strike:
Q
Makoto
Twelve

Street Fighter 4:
C. Viper
Seth
Gouken

Super Street Fighter 4:
Juri
Cody
Guy
 
Ultra Street Fighter 4:
Poison
Decapre
Abel

Street Fighter V:
Rashid
Laura
F.A.N.G.

SFV DLC Seasons: (1 per season)
Alex
Abigail
G
Lucia
Akira

Street Fighter 6:
Luke 
JP
Manon

Oct 24, 2024

Late October super7 ultimates wishlist

 Not for existing lines though... These will be for those rare one-offs or less than 4 waves figure lines. Sadly Rambo: The Force of Freedom has a cast way too large for this list.

 Tony Hawk:
I just want a normal Tony Hawk figure.
Heads:
Early 00s TH
Current era TH
Accessories:
Skateboard

Jackie Chan:
We can get a few figures here:
-Jackie Chan Adventures Jackie
-Who am I? Jackie
-Drunken Master Jackie
-City Hunter Jackie as Chun Li

Revenge of the Ninja:
All we need is Sho Kosugi's character and the silver Demon masked Ninja.
For heads, masked and unmaskefor accessories weapons used in the movie.

Small Wonder:
All we need are Two Vickys: First Season and Final Season.

Chaos in the Windy City Michael Jordan:
Based on the SNES game... and mainly to have a 1v1 M. Jordan vs D. Hamato.

Mr. T: 
Based on the animated series. That's roughly 10 figures: 
Mr.T
Ms. Bisby
The Kids in their Gymnastics uniforms and soft goods pants and jackets
Spike with Dozer

Mike Tyson Mysteries:
A 3 Figure one-off wave... OK I just want a Mike Tyson Figure.

DiC Zelda:
Well excuuuuuuuuse me, Princess!
Link, Zelda, Ganon boom a 1 off wave and if it proves successful, it could lead to Captain N the Game Master.

Rick Astley:
You know why I want him. It's not like I'm asking for Mariah Carey...

Chuck Norris:
Walker, Karate Kommandos, Sidekicks, Missing in Action... there are plenty of Chucks to choose from

But with my Luck Super7 would make only ReActions... Willy Wonka, Xena, Twisted Sister, DEVO all would've been amazing Ultimates, but they're stuck in  ReAction form. I'd give my left nut for an Ultimates Wonka.

Oct 21, 2024

Spider-Man 2 will have no DLC

 A while back Insomniac suffered from leaks and among those were rumors of a Spider-Man 2 DLC. Pre-production work on a Venom game was leaked and some gameplay footage from Wolverine as well.

Well, the DLC were canceled, Venom is supposedly coming in 2025. And here we are. This is disappointing since the game felt incomplete and rushed. Guess Spider-Man 3 on PS6 will tie the loose ends then... need an excuse to turn on my PS5... and I don't want to rebuild FF7R Just to play the Yuffie side mission.


Oct 20, 2024

Fuck Eddie Lampert

 Two years and 5 days ago, The last Kmart in Puerto Rico closed. I was there when the store closed. To this day, it still stings. Now the final US Store is closing tonight.Now after years of incompetent management by one Eddie Lampert only 12 Sears stores remain 1 in Puerto Rico and the other 11 in mainland US... or shitty  Vulture practices... I'll let you decide. In any case, Fuck Eddie Lampert. His plans for saving the company was essentially cripple the stores to the point of uselessness. 

I feel bad for the employees working the final shift at tonight's closure. Godspeed, may you be able to bounce back from this Bullshit.

Yes, I know both Kmart and Sears weren't doing great before Lampert. The issue is that, Lampert gave the finishing blow AND screwed over thousands of employees... now he has 10% stake on AutoZone...

 BUT on a more positive note, Back on the last fays of the Kmart I worked at, they gave me control of the store's playlist...

I ripped this video and shuffled this on the mix for the Old School fans

Farewell, Kmart... one of your parking lots may have been the spot of my conception. Thanks for the MOTU, the TMNT, the Marvel Legends, the 25th Anniversary Joes, the Funko Batcave that I still have to review... half of my appliances, and other key life moments... some good, some bad. 

But Fuck Eddie Lampert. Now I can't ship my pants anymore...



Oct 19, 2024

Creating new TMNT characters: yet another rant part 1?

 I know that Hypothetical TMNT Lists are my current go to. But it's easier to do TMNT than MOTU since the death of MOTUC has caused a lack of "MOTU mindframe" on me.

Creating TMNT new characters for the most part is easy:

  • Humanoid animal (Humanoid Turtle)
  • Pun based character (bull called groundchuck)
  • Art based name (Warthog named after a musical genre, or Iguana named after painting)
  •  parody/homage of characters or stereotypes (with Casey being a parody of Vigilantes like Punisher)
Other characters lack any of those 4 templates, but it's doable. Personally when I do these lists, I have to enter in two mindsets:
What would 80s Playmates do
How to translate them into Super7 Ultimates

Some days I can churn 5-12 ideas in one sitting, other times, it takes longer. But in any case let's do this!

Wait! I normally like to expand the universe with sub factions like we have the Clan Hamato, the Foot Clan, Krang's Army, the Mutanimals, Channel 6 crew, the Neutrinos, independent heroes, independent villains.

I COULD potentially add some new factions, but the real issue is Super7's prices being cost prohibitive. Here's the funny thing. There are preexisting characters in various media that if they were made in action figure form under a cohesive style, we could have entire teams. For example:
Zach, Caitlin, Walt, Carter, Buffy, Danny, and Keno could be a team of teens who aid the Turtles in ways that April or Casey can't. This "Turtle Scout Brigade" could be a thing if these characters were made into figures.

Another area where we have no representation is NYPD. Think about it, who has to deal with the Turtles' aftermath. IIRC, the comics had some NYPD characters. Something about some cops being bought by the Foot. That's a Faction I'd love to Explore and expand.

The Foot Clan itself is another area that I would like to expand, particularly Human Ninja, bith in favor and against Shredder's partnership with Krang. The Addition of Karai and my Custom Tatsu allowed me to have the seed planted. If we got human Foot Ninja, I could expand these new factions, which are a Nefty-made branching of Mirage's Foot Clan Japan vs Foot Clan Manhattan.

Krang's Army is easily expanded by making more Rock men.

I think I ranted way too much before the list... let's make some new characters.

Neutrinos:
I'm going to start with the Neutrinos because they're easy.

Zlader:
Picture a Neon green pompadour hairstyle with a shark fin on top. Now for the suit Zlader is sporting something reminiscent of a closed Varsity Jacket crossed with the Thriller and Beat it Jackets. Pink and Neon green accents on the vest part of the jacket with Orange sleeves with neon green accents. On his wrists he sports Neon blue vambraces with pink accents.
A large Utility Belt separates the jacket from his orange Elvis pants with Neon Blue and pink accents. His shoes are Neon green with Orange accents. Since he's wearing a "varsity jacket" he should look slightly beefier than Zak.
His skintone is similar to Mario Lopez... no, the comparison is coincidental, even if the name makes my argument harder to defend.
Heads:
Normal head
Fencing helmet

Special hands:
Stoneboxing Gauntlets

Accessories:
Hoverboard
Shotgun/crossbow styled blaster
Energy fencing saber that plugs to power pack on the back

The idea was to have a "Neutrino Jock" hence the varsity jacket and the Boxing and fencing gimmicks. He's a bit of a snob, since he's born of a noble house.

Tryone:
Purple haired Neutrino with a Hairstyle reminiscent of the letter W when seen from above. When seen from the front it looks like he has a 2 headed bird for a hairdo. He is pale skinned and wears a Gambit like head attachment in Neon pink with pearlescent white and metallic teal accents. He sports pink rimmed legless glasses with teal lenses.
He sports an open teal leather jacket with pearlescent white shirt with pink and teal accents. The jacket sports purple accents.
His purple pants have white accents and his pink and white shoes complete the look.

Heads:
Glasses on
Glasses off

Accessories:
Andalusian Navaja styled switchblade.
Bike chain whip
Jet skates
Toolbox backpack with tools 

It's a Space greaser. He's basically the mechanic who'd theoretically would get along with Donatello. Yes, it's a white Tyrone with a purposely made typo. 

Duwn:
Picture a female neutrino with a bunch of "hair columns. (Think Muhammad Avdol from JoJo) in the shape of an afro in Cheez whiz orange. Obviously her skintone is on the more melatonin side of the spectrum. 

For her outfit we'll go with a red dress with Cheez whiz orange accents. The torso part of the dress looks a bit like segmented armor with a Rita Repulsa styled breastplate. (Cone boobs ftw!) The rest of the torso is similar to Kala.
Unlike Kala, there are no poofy elements on the shoulders and biceps. The poofy elements are on the wrists with Bracelets to give her a poodle-like silhouette. The arms are orange with red accents while the bracelets are red.
She has a wide belt that reaches deep into her crotch creating a sort of Cheez Whiz orange Chastity Belt made for her orange tights. On her thighs, a three Croissant shaped protrusion create a skirt silhouette. The first and last are red, while the middle one is cobalt blue. Her boots have a round poodle ankle piece in red while the lower part of the boots are blue.
Heads:
Stoic
Excited (Rollercoaster kind of excitement)

Accessories:
Dual blasters that are both blasters and bladed weapons
Hoverboard 
Jetpack

I wanted a female Neutrino and added a token black Neutrino because diversity. Her name is a play on Dask... which sounds as a misspelled Dusk. Duwn is a misspelled Dawn. Her colors are also a nod to dawn/Dusk

Reqot:

Female Neutrino with Ruby red hair. Her hair has a "cannon shape" at the frontal top part of her head. Think Ruby Rhod. On the back part of the top of her head, she sports 2 long pigtails that look like 2 candles. 
Her dress would be light blue with white body armor from the breastplate all the way to her waist. Her arms would have bulky blue armor at the shoulders with red "tights" and white vambraces.

Like Duwn, she has some protrusions on her mid thighs in the shape of a triple u with the top one being blue and the lower one white. This is in order to create a Skirt Silhouette. The tights are white with red accents and trim below the pseudoskirt and her shoes are blue. 

Heads:
Neutral expression
Winking duckface
Crazy high speed face (cheeks pushing to tbe back of her face, open mouth, tongue sticking out the side, squinting

Special hands:
Victory sign

Accessories:
Jetpack
Rideable red stylized missile (fits two normal figures and looks like the love child of a rocket and a 60s convertible.
Clear rocket stand
Dual blasters that plug to missile

She's cute, she's crazy, she'll play chicken with the enemy. The idea was to make a Roxy Rocket inspired character, hence the surfable Rideable missile.

That's  all for the Neutrinos. Now let's try some evil Mutants without any affiliation:

Hidya:
If she was made In the Playmates era she'd be a Mutatin' figure. Transforming from armored baddie to Giant Clam. Visually, she wouldn't look very human as most of her torso would be the flipped clam shell covered by the clam meat in the weird shape of a human body, but still looking very clamlike. She'd have pearl boobs because clam
 She wouldn't have a pleasing Humanoid face. Also, for the sake of stability, she's 4 legged.

Special hands:
Freaky inhuman hands with long tentacle fingers.
Accessories: 
shucking sword
Hot sauce gun

Basically a pearl farmer cut herself and threw a clam that fell on one random Ooze canister and the clam mutated into a Humanoid freak that likes to wait in ambush before attacking.
That's why her name is Hidya. As in Hid ya.

Buzzkill:
This guy would've reused Baxter's fly arms and legs even if svientifically inaccurate. Basically a Parcel Delivery Service employee who had a bad day and Mutated into a Yellowjacket. Visually he'd be a Humanoid Yellowjacket with an insectoid face and torso, sporting the remains of a red polo and a Yellow Jacket torn for his yellow and grey wings with extra yellow arms. His pants would be brown

His mandible would be articulated. Back in the day his butt would fire a spring loaded oversized stinger.
In Ultimates he loses the soring loaded aspect but the stinger is removable.

Accessories:
3× package bombs
Parcel Delivery bag
Gone Postal Machinegun
Small stinger
Long swordlike stinger
Ooze canister

Basically as stated above, delivery guy had a bad day, got stung by a Yellowjacket and accidentally injected himself with Ooze to prevent anaphylaxis. This drove him Mad and now he seeks to ruin everyone's day with mayhem and chaos.

Naughty Nutty:
A squirrel who had stolen some Ooze filled nuts and it caused a terrible mutation. The squirrel grew in size and gained a more violent demeanor. The toy, if it had been made in the 90s, would be similar to Leatherhead in order to implement an articulated jaw feature using its ridiculously rodent teeth.  With Super7, we get some artistic liberties and be able to give NN an additional head holding nuts in its mouth. So let's crack this nut...
Oversized Squirrel with way too big teeth it also sports a picnic cloth as a loincloth and an oversized mutated acorn cap as beret. 

Heads:
Bite head
Nut head

Accessories
Mutated Acorn shell shield
Bag of nuts.
A Nutcracker bat (a bat with a Nutcracker head)

A squirrel that mutated after eating ooze filled nuts and now hungers for more nuts due to its size it steals both nuts and Ooze in order to feed. For some reason it thinks the Turtles are sentient nuts and it wants to feed on them.

Ma'Dillon:
An overweight female Human/Armadillo Hybrid. Her head looks like an armadillo costume with her human face inside the Armadillo mouth. Her body looks human but with Armadillo limbs and tail and caparace.
The body is 100% new. Had she been made for the original line, her gimmick would've been similar to Mattel's Stonedar and Rokkon. It wouldn't be a "Mutatin figure" per se, since her gimmick is curling up into an "impregnable rolling fortress" 

accessories:
Additional clip-on/plug-in plates to achieve ball shape. (As Mattel's MOTUC comet warriors)
Plug in blasters for ball mode/arms 
Roadkill shovel.
Little Dillon, her son, an extremely mutated child and sports two slices of bread at the sides of his head. We can't be sure where the inbreeding ends and the Ooze mutation begins.
Banjo

An Alabama Home School Lunchlady who ate ooze-tainted Armadillo meat that her toddler found. Shredder upgraded her and told her that the Turtles were the Ultimate roadkill dicacy and set her on the warpath.

I went a bit dark there with the last Mutant, but it's TMNT. I am trying to keep the body horror and mocking look at society... let me try some Good guys now.


The Imitators: These are two Factions of "Turtles" who have banded up some are good, some are evil.

Brigand Adult Mutated Turtles:
Basically a group of Mutated Turtles who began copying Clan Hamato to ride on their popularity and make some quick cash. They're sort of Soldiers of Fortune. Think the love child of the TMNT and The A-Team.
These Turtles would share the Turtle buck but with a few differences:
Bandanas have square tips, like the Movie Turtles. The pads and wristbands are dark grey.
The belts and bandoliers are more "military" styled.

Tiziano;
The Group Leader. Calculating, a bit unorthodox in his methodology. Usually a no nonsense guy, but has a soft spot for the helpless. He sports a bluish grey bandana. His skintone is Michelangelo green

Sporting a harness with vertical straps and the Buckle has a T. Has a right hip holster for a Desert Eagle and. Left hip loop for a Marine Saber.

Heads:
Neutral
Angry
Smoking cigar

Accessories:
Combat knife
Desert Eagle
Marine Saber
C-Ration tin can

Botticelli:
The infiltrator. Not fond of guns, preferring the stealthy approach of silent blades. While often butting heads with Tiziano's over the top plans, he often ends up following them to the letter. He sports the Brown Bandana. His skin tone is Leonardo Olive Green

Like Tiziano, his belt sports vertical straps that can hold 6 throwing knives and two tactical tomahawk axes on the back. His left hip has a holster for his gun the back has loops for his combat knives. His Belt Buckle sports a B.

Heads: 
neutral
Capable of holding throwing knife on teeth (Think roronoa zoro)

Accessories:
2 combat knives
6 throwing knives 
2 tactical tomahawk
Water pistol.
C-Ration tin

Cellini:
The Wild Card. Most people think he's a few cards short of a full deck with sociopathic tendencies, but he's the demolition expert and knows his way around vehicles and artillery. He wears the Mustard yellow Bandana and his skin tone is Donatello Olive brown

He sports a similar harness as his brothers in arms, but the vertical straps hold his 4 grenades

Heads:
Creepy (like Creepy Anya face)
Batshit crazy 
Bloodsport face (when JCVD gets blinded)

Accessories:
Garrote
4 Grenades
3 pipe bombs
1 C4 Bomb
2 Molotovs
HK Mk 23 with laser sight and silencer.
Combat knife
C-Ration tin 

Giotto:
The Team's Muscle and Sharpshooter. He follows Botticelli no questions asked. Also, he's the only one who can rein in Cellini. He wears the teal bandana. His skin tone is Raph green

Heads:
Neutral
Chugging chocolate milk (head faces upward and some chocolate milk is dribbling down the sides of his mouth.)

Special hands:
Brass Knuckles Fists
For Holding chocolate milk gallon

Accessories:
Combat knife
Sniper rifle
M4 machinegun
Dual Desert Eagles
Combat knife 
C-Ration tin
Gallon of chocolate milk

This team were accidentally mutated when they were captured and left for dead in a South American jungle after a failed CIA operation. Unbeknownst to everyone, the soldiers were doused in Ooze and exposed to Turtle DNA, by a Rogue scientist. With a second chance at life, they decided to turn their lives around and use their skills to help others.


Shredder's second false Ninja Turtle Gang:
Essentially it's a group of fake Turtles made by Shredder. Combining Criminal minds and his own Ninjitsu knowledge,  these Turtles are a force to be reckoned with.

These Turtles would use the Ninja nomad Leo pads and wristbands in brown. The belt buckles would have the Foot Insignia. The headbands would be maroon and their belts would be brown. 

Lemaitre:
The "Anti-Leo" and leader of the squad. Cold, calculating, willing to sacrifice friendlies for victory.
Heads:
-Leo head with maroon bandana 
-Terminator styled half face, half robotic endoskeleton
-full robotic endoskeletal head

Special hands:
Battle damaged hands exposing cybernetics

Weapons:
Katanas
Hookswords
rack weapons

Dali:
The "anti-Don" and mmechanic. His behavior is machine-like. 
Heads:
Maroon bandana Don head
Head with only a robotic eye exposed.
Full robotic head

Special hands:

Weapons:
Naginata with detachable blade (see Hothead as reference)
Rack weapons
 
Rembrandt 
The "Anti-Raph". The Brawler. Violent, but efficient.
Heads:
Maroon bandana Raph head
Head with random bits of flesh peeled off exposing the endoskeleton in various places.

Special hands:
Battle damaged hands
Robocop "data spike" hands

Weapons:
Pair of jitte
Rack weapons

Monet
The "Anti-Mike". Cruel and sadistic  
Heads:
Mike head maroon bandana 
Exposed endoskeleton on beak/mouth area

Special hands:
Battle damaged hands

Weapons:
Sansetsukon 
Kamanunchuck
Rack weapons

That's it for fake turtles... let's try some heroes without half-shells.

Synthwave:
A Mutated Pomeranian sporting the Flock of Seagulls hairdo and wearing new wave styled clothes. He has a Cybernetic left arm and right leg. The cyber leg has speakers that Synthwave can use to amplify his supersonic bark.

Heads:
Neutral
Goofy

Accessories:
Microphone that plugs to leg
Vinyl record shuriken 
Water bowl Buckler
Keytar

The idea is an indie New Wave artist gets hit by Ooze while holding his synthesizer and his Pomeranian. The amalgamation gave birth to Synthwave: an easily distracted singer who wants to get revenge on the Foot.

Kung Pao:
A Mutated Rooster/Martial Artist.
Wearing a long sleeved Chinese robe (soft goods) over Martial Arts Pants and King Fu Shoe. Left arm is feathery and his right leg is birdlike with the talons bursting out his Kung Fu shoe. His back is feathered while the front still looks human. He has scars that are reminiscent of the cuts Bruce Lee got in Enter the Dragon.

Heads: (both have hinged beak)
Neutral
Angry

Weapons:
Long climbing claws
Chained claws that slip on wrist
Pair of Dao swords

Not gonna lie, Mousse from Ranma was a HUGE inspiration for Kung Pao... also, Kung Fu Chicken called King Pao. Originally a Kung Fu practitioner who was an assassination target for Shredder. Instead he Oozed his Kung Pao Chicken and here we are.

Karl:
Karl is a Killer Automaton Reconnaissance Legionnaire. In other words a robot Disguised as a human. 

Picture Christopher Walken pretending to be Mr. Miyagi. And visually, Christopher Walken with a Pat Morita facial hair and hairdo, wearing an outfit very similar to Edward Scissorhands but in dark blue.
Heads:
Normal head
Glowing red eyes head (angry)
Fedora head with glasses

Special hands:
Blaster
Blade
Pruning shears
Bludgeon
Lightning rod

Accessories:
Bonsai
Carl's mini trees soft goods apron
Soft goods trenchcoat 
2 bonsai

Originally designed by Shredder to act as a spy and saboteur on Channel 6, but a lightning bolt struck Karl and fried his wiring and became self aware. Now he runs a Bonsai shop and helps New York's heroes against The Foot. Yes this is a jab at Terminator Dork Fate... and a tribute to Mr. Miyagi.

Handy Dan: Handy Man
Imagine a dude who has arms on his torso, but not 2 arms like most people. Other than his head his entire body is made out of arms. His neck is an arm holding the head from the back. His torso is a series of arms trying to keep his organs inside him. His legs are bigger arms and he has a tail that it's another arm. And you might be wondering... it's a baby's arm, but wit won't be sculpted on the toy.
Heads:
Neutral head
Head with little arms to hold the Sunglasses.
Special hands:
Enough extra hands to use on his six non "leg" arms. 

Accessories:
Sunglasses
Soft goods hooded poncho with rope
Toolbox
Assorted tools

He's a handyman who suffered sn Ooze accident and got a bit handsy... and became a bit of a fixer-upper. Now he wants to put Shredder behind bars.


There you go 4 non Turtle, non-Neutrino heroes. I'll leave it here for now. Part two maybe in November?

Oct 17, 2024

How McFarlane lost me

 A while back, McFarlane released a Seven Inch Adam West Batman that sold out in seconds. Today he did the same  bullshit.

First it was the 1989 Batmobile, then Adam West, now.

A Christopher Reeve Superman.
I had him in my fucking cart, but it was sold put by the time I reached the Payment confirmation. 

Seriously, what's the point of Collecting McFarlane toys if one can't get them? 

Seriously, an Adam West Batman, Lynda Carter Wonder Woman, a John Wesley Shipp Flash, and a Burt Ward Robin would've been something I'd love to have in Action Figure form... but Todd hares money and loves the 3 second Mattycollector sell outs.

BBTs showed a new Thundercats exclusive

 It's Blackface Mumm-Ra.


Well, it's celebrating the 25th anniversary of big bad toy store. But at the same time it's kinda lame.

I feel that a black with red Accents Mon*Star with the toy depowered head included would've been a better exclusive.

A Mumm-Ra Red and black Fake Lion-O using the Deluxe Lion-O body could've been better.

Ayo, Nefty where are the TMNT Repaints?

Really, you had to ask? You sure you want to go down that rabbit hole? In the words of Super Mario, "Let's a Go!"

BBTS Genghis Frog:
Same old Genghis but his clothes are red and black, same thing with his weapons.

BBTS Foot Ninja:
Foot Soldiers with Shredder's rack weaponry, but decked in BBTS red black and white:
(Black masks red Foot white eyes red shirts, pants with black wraps and white belt and armguards.)

BBTS Shredder:
A W10 Shredder repaint with silver blades, red torso and pants, black belt and wraps. Black capes. "Vintage" head has red mouth mask with silver helmet. The second head is all silver.

BBTS Wingnut and Screwloose:
Wingnut and screwloose in black and red. Red cowl and black clothes for Wingnut black shirt red pants for Screwloose. Black accessories.

Those are unique colorway exclusives.
BBTS could've easily gone with specific character variant/fix:

Tygra 2.0:
Basically a Visible repaint of invisible Tygra.

Spitting image Panthro:
Ultimates Panthro in a slightly more brownish grey, since it's the burnt Hammerhand Disguised as Panthro.

Yes this also could apply to other lines as well... yes, you know I'm gonna do TMNT.

Toon Inspired Rocksteady:
Same w3 Rocksteady but with yellow tanktop and olive pants and brown boots.

"Noir" Donatello:
A Not Quite Don the Undercover Turtle:
Don body, UC Raph heads in Don colors
Foot Soldier knife
UC Raph luggage, Gun in black
Don Bo staff in black
Grey trenchcoat

Intergalactic Donatello:
Donatello should have been the turtle wearing the astronaut suit and not Raphael. So we fix that with a Space Cadet Raph repaint minus sai.
The outfit would be mainly red with black accents as a nod to BBTS, but with the purple Donatello pads and bandana.Bandana.

BBTS Red and Black Slam Dunkin Don:
It's so fucking obvious that it slapped me in the face.

But we don't know the limitations of the deal...

Oct 15, 2024

Theoretical Mirage Ultimates I'd like Super7 to do:

 As expected the Mirage celebration was a ReAction Repaint series. Disappointing, but predictable.

We kinda got a Mirage Casey. Also a weird 2k3/Mirage Hybrid Karai. So they won't be mentioned here:

Buuuut I'll try to make a decent Ultimates list:
Obviously the turtles are needed, but I won't mention them. 

Splinter:
New head, tan sleeved kimono.
For accessories:
Walking stick (w1 toon version)
Wakizashi
Empty Ooze canister
Art book

Shredder:
The only reusable bits here are the arms and legs...
New heads, new torso with sculpted tunic (reusable with foot ninja), new crotch new shoulder, wrist, and shin blades. New hands with dual blades on them.

For accessories:
Alternate Oroku Saki head
Katana
Thermite grenade
Toy Rack weapons

Foot Ninja:
Reusing the Shredder body with New shoulders, new forearmguards, the Foot soldier boots and new heads. New human Foot Ninja and with Bandana.

Accessories:
Shredder Rack weapons
Naginata
Pair of kunai

TMNT#2 April:
New heads (one Mirage Accurate hairdo the other being a better Toon head), New Torso and crotch, similar to w3 April, but slightly elongated to give April the waist she lost with her W3 figure and make her as tall as Ninja April. 

Accessories:
Hands 
2 Mirage Repaint Mousers 

Mousers:
A 10-pack of Mousers repainted in Mirage colors.

TMNT#11 April:
April based on the cover of TMNT#11
She'd be all new except the hands.
Neck peg should be compatible with TMNT#2 April (this is for the Deluxe repaints)

Accessories: 
Unmasked Casey head for Ultimates w10 Casey
Casey mask
Missing Casey hands

The Deluxe April figures EXPLAINED:
Since TMNT#11 April is Dark skinned and TMNT#2 April is light skinned, the Deluxe figures switch the skin tones. You prefer dark skin April get Ultimates TMNT#11 April and Delixe TMNT#2 April. If the opposite is true, then get Ultimates TMNT#2 April and Delixe TMNT#11.

Baxter:
I've done plenty of Mirage Baxter recipes. I still stand that his legs could be reused on Vernon.

Accessories:
2 Mousers
Mouser controller
Rextab building model.

Skonk:
The first non-variant on this list
He's mostly new parts but some could have potential reuse with Spuds

Accessories:
Rifle
Knife

Spuds:
Reusing Skonk's lower body, a new torso, head and arms.

For accessories:
Uzi
Sliced Uzi

I got to be honest here, the CRAP members are better suited for Deluxe figures than actual Ultimates even if they being "all new" betray the idea of Deluxe figures. BUT it's easier to sell obscure characters at a lower price than the Ultimates prices... not to mention that a $20 Upgrade pack would give me a chance to sneakily "upgrade the deluxe" to an "ultimate".

Renet:
She needs to have big boobs, this is Renet, afterall. Now she would require some Engineering tricks, because I want Renet to have her outfit glow in the dark, but I want her flesh parts being flesh colored.
The Prototype  April apparently was designed to have her skin be molded and attached to the molded yellow torso. So hear me out:
Using GITD Blue Plastic, as seem with Foot Soldier and Normal Plastic for her arms, legs, hooded head faceplate, and unhooded head

Hooded head, torso, crotch, plastic cape, hands slip on gloves, "crown", Time Scepter should be in blue GITD plastic. The boots, shoulder pauldrons, and knife should be in white GIYD plastic.
The clocks and details on her "crown" should be painted in GITD White (green glow) and gold paints. In order to have daylight color contrast and in the dark as well.
The faceplate for the hooded head, the unhooded head,  torso overlayarms, and legs should be in normal color plastic.

Savanti Romero:
He'd be Bebop Sized.
Two heads: one with an evil grin, the other screaming.
Obviously he's 100%new tooling. 
Colorwise, It's "Mirage inspired, but not Mirage Accurate. His pink flesh should be a grayish pink. The horns should be a mustardish color. His furry legs should be Toy April Brown hair colored. The hooves would be shiny dark blue.
His clothes, dark orange red with Glossy yellow for the accents.

Accessories:
Corrupted GITD Time Scepter in GITD Green
Renet's Time scepter in GITD Green
GITD blue and green Energy blasts that plug to Specialized hands
Energy swirls for the time scepter.

Rat King:
Repaint with a piece if wood as accessory is a bit lame, but accurate.

Bonus:
Naked April from The Birds The Bees and the Turtles:
I'll let you figure this one out.

GITD Scratch incoming:

 I had called him as a candidate for the GITD Treatment, but after seeing the actual figure...

Meh... honestly  I'm not feeling the gold. They could've made the gold copper. Pennies are copper and copper is a metallic orange/brownish color, so it works for all the accents.

Someone will like this glowy pussy, but it ain't me!

Gonna call it right now: Glow in the Dark Rat King as a nod to Tournament Fighters.


Update

I was wrong. It was Wingnut.
These are supposedly Walmart exclusives... fuck.


Vintage inspired TMNT variants I'd like to see part 5 or is it 6?

 Milking the potential variant ideas because of boredom. Last time I did some crossovers, I'm going back to a Potpourri of ideas and random themes... Crossovers included.

Potpourri wave something 1:

Justace Duck:
Ace Duck dressed as a masked Vigilante something like Mexican Wrestling Legend and Super Hero: El Santo. Sporting a shirtless body with red wrestling tights, kneepads and boots. Sporting a removable soft goods red and blue cape and a tearaway (held with velcro) blue tanktop. Red and blue armbands complete his look.

Heads:
Red and blue Luchador Mask
Unmasked Ace

Accessories:
Removable Utility Belt
Grappling gun
Kendo stick
Oversized wrestling bell shield

Backslash:
A Malformed Slash clone made out of the worm colony. It has spikes on his Plantronics as well as his back. Instead of the shoulder armor he has spikes like the Playmates Tokka or Mutated Hun from 2k3. He shares a belt with Slash but instead if a reversed S on his buckle, he has a sideways B. He has new feet with a third finger at the heel.

Heads:
Both heads are based on Slash, but the beak is more visibly Snapping turtle-like

Specialized hands:
Pointing hands

Accessories:
Gnarly Hook swords
Spiked tonfa
Shuriken
Grenades
Flail
Nasty spear

Spring Break Mike:
Using the Slam Dunk Don torso and new swim trunks legs, a soft goods ink and yellow Aloha shirt, new feet with flip flops, Rappin Mike arms, hands, cap and glasses.

Heads:
Slam Dunk Don's in Mike colors

Accessories:
Aforementioned hat, glasses, soft goods shirt
Fancy pineapple drink from beachcomber Mike.
Lots of chains (Mr. T Levels of bling)
Gold plated nunchucks with golden chain.

Agent Bishop (Vintageized)
A Vintage Stuled Bishop wouldn't be the 2k3 MIB styled Bishop, bit something out of GI Joe or S.H.I.E.L.D. (see Dirk Savage)

Picture a youmg James Caan looking guy in an Outfit Similar to Commando Snake Eyes.
Now give him Liefeld levels of straps, pouches, and holsters. Chest holster, hip holsters, ankle holster, even a holster on his back for a rifle.

Heads:
Neutral
Creepy grin

Accessories:
Glasses
Alien C-shaped blaster (chest holster)
Futuristic rifle (back)
Desert Eagle shaped Blaster (hip)
Walther P-38 (ankle)
Soft goods black trenchcoat

The idea behind the "Commando outfit" is for future reuse on generic EPF Agent figure.

Turtles in Time:
Not the game, but inspired by the game's time travel:

Swashbuckling Leo:
Leonardo with no Bandana wearing a white Swashbuckler shirt, dark blue pants and thigh high black boots.on his waisr he's sporting a Leo blue sash with a brown belt with loops for his dual sabers and a flintlock pistol. He also sports a blue tricone hat

Heads:
Unmasked
Masked with Bandana covering the top of his head (like ROTTMNT Raph)

Accessories:
Flintlock
Sual sabers with shell pattern handguard
Tricone hat
Blue soft goods cape (no wires) for cape fighting.

(Yes it's a nod to Skull and Crossbones from T.I.T)

Turtlesaurus Raph:
A Reuse of the Slash Body in Raphael colors.
New Raphael head with hinged jaw and more Tokka-like in appearance, new furry dark brown wraps for his pads and bands and a furry red bandana (don't ask what he used to dye it.) A primitive belt completes the look.

Head:
Articulated jaw

Specialized hands:
Sai holding hands

Accessories:
Obsidian Sai
Bonemerang
Taken for Granite Mace

Neon Night Ridin' Mike
Picture Mike in a Tron-Like outfit in dark green with orange "lights" (his skin should be lighter than the outfit)

Heads:
With 80s Tron-Like helmet
With Tron Legacy Styled Helmet

Accessories:
Glowchucks
Twirling Glowchucks
Turtles in time Hovershell with flightstand
Lightcycle inspired trail effect.

(Obviously Inspired by the game level)

Howdy Pardner Don:
This one is not inspired by the game, but it involves a Cowboy Donatello
Picture Donatello dressed up iiln an outfit reminiscent of Revolver Ocelot in MGS1
Soft goods trenchcoat, white shirt with purple vest,  cowboy belt with dual holsters  and a bandolier with ammo, black pants and cowboy boots with spurs. Purple Cowboy hat.

Heads: 
Chewing a piece of straw
Neutral

Specialized hands:
Bandaged right hand

Accessories:
Walking staff
Aforementioned hat and coat
Soft goods arm sling
Dual revolvers
Rifle inspired by Doc Brown's

Samurai Shredder:
Shredder in Samurai armor. Self explanatory.
We start with a more ornate blue helmet with the three prongs and Oni mouthguard
Then Shredder in black clothes and  blue armor with purple accents. 
The shoulderpads, thigh armor, wrist armor and shinguards should all have small blades

Heads:
With helmet and facemask
With helmet and cloth covering his mouth.

Accessories:
Katana 
Cat claws
Naginata
Japanese Longbow with Arrows

Captain Steadyrock:
Rocksteady dressed as a Pirate (not like the game) 
Sporting a feathered Tricone bar a soft goods long brown coat, a black vest with a Grey shirt, brown pants with knee high boots. Right knee has a non removable peg leg tied to the knee (sculpted)

Heads:
Rocksteady head without hat
Rocksteady head with hat and hinged eyepatch.

Specialized hand:
Left hand holding a hook between his fingers
Right hand compass holding hand
Accessories:
Broken board that plugs to peg leg to make a pseudo stand.
Saber
Arquebus. 
Pirate telescope
Compass
Treasure chest

Gash:
A bigger Sabretooth version of Scratch only wearing a white wolf pelt. Jailbird is a scientifically accurate small raptor.

Heads:
Looking straight forward
Side glance

Accessories:
Gnarly branch
Aforementioned Jailbird or in this case Jailsaur
Removable vine shackle with boulder

B3Bop!:
Take Bebop and put him in a red and black Tron Legacy outfit with a douche collar. The color pattwrn should imitate his classic look. Purple light patterns would make up the edges of the vest, pants, and other attire pieces. On the Tron Legacy helmeted head the light patterns simulate his nose, glasses and Mohawk.

Heads:
Warthog shaped Tron Legacy Styled Helmet.
Classic Tron style head...

Accessories:
Hoverboard (a cross between Mike's s
Hovershell and Griff Tannen's Pitbull hoverboard) with clear ring stand
Drill blaster with light drill blast effect

Potpourri wave something something 2:

Foot Soldier: (3.0)
Basic Foot Soldier Body main difference between past FS and this one would be the Foot Insignia being yellow and the Eyes in Orange.

Heads:
Normal
Battle damaged

Accessories:
Boomerang
Spear
Krang rifle
Sledgehammer
Double headed Axe
Pair of tuning forks from Punker Don
3×shuriken

Attila the Frog:
Using a repainted Genghis body (orange Aloha shirt with yellow designs, Blue and teal swim trunks) with a new necklace.
Heads:
Same as Genghis.

Accessories:
Glasses
Bucket hat
Slash Mace
Flail
Stop sign buckler

Mousers 2.0:
A second accessory pack featuring Mousers:

6× Mousers:
• 2× Pristine Mousers
• 1× W.5 Battle Damaged Mouser
• 2× Brand New Blunt Damage Mousers head partially caved in by a bo or nunchuck
• 1× Ran over Mouser from P. Wagon

Accessories:
Twirling Bo staff effect for Don
2× Twirling Nunchuck effects for Mike
3× Rats from canceled w.10 Rat King
2× sword Slash effects for the many katana wielders.

Badshell Raph:
Raph sporting a durag styled Bandana that doubles as his mask. Sporting a full sleeved leather jacket with a red shirt in addition to Bluejeans and black boots. He still sports the red knee pads and 2 red handkerchiefs tied on his arms. A gold chain with the letter R adorns his chest.

Heads:
Serious
Gritting teeth

Specialized hands:
Brass. Knuckle hands
Karate chop hands

Accessories:
Pair of tonfa
Sunglasses
Pair of broken bottles
Breakaway stack of bricks

AMNT: 15 years later:
The idea is putting the Turtles in their 30s and to "age up" some of the cast (for shits and giggles.) April is 28, so that puts her in the 42-43 range. Casey would be about 48, etc. Both Splinter and Shredder are dead, the turtles have disbanded, they've reached a state of normalcy, but as always, someone crashes the party.

The Turtles will share the same torso, but this one is full 7 inches tall and with "MOTUC BUFF" arms and legs. 

Leonardo:
The most straightforward look of the bunch.
The main difference from Adult Leo and Teen Leo is that he has bandaged arms and lower legs.

Heads:
Stoic look
Gritting teeth

Accessories:
Katana
Wakizashi
Soft goods trenchcoat
Turtle Comm (open and closed)
Sake gourd

The idea is that Leo hasn't gotten over Splinter's death and has become engrossed with vigilantism and is tirelessly going out every night and by daylight he drinks himself to sleep.

Donatello:
He's gone full gadget/tech. His bandoliers and belt are Liefeldian full of gadgets and pouches.
He also sports high tech vambraces with one being a Turtle Comm and the other a Power glove Inspired Drone controller. On his back he has a platform for the "shelldrone" he uses on reconnaissance. He also wears Nightwatcher's boots.
Heads:
Normal
With VR goggles to pilot the Drone

Accessories:
Collapsible Bo staff 
Shelldrone
Flashbang grenades
Blaster
Eyeglasses

After Splinter's death, Donatello helped Raphael during his Nightwatcher stage by making him gadgets. When Raphael stopped, Donatello kept on making gadgets and putting then to the test, whenever he went on a Vigilante outing.

Raphael:
Raphael is, like Leonardo, very close to a Vanilla version. He sports a durag style Bandana, glasses, various gold chains, arms and legs wrapped in bandages, but he sports sneakers, as he's now a bouncer/vigilante. His belt has no sai storage, but has loops to hold his tonfa.

Heads:
Meditating
Gritting teeth 

Accessories:
2× Tonfa
Manriki chain
2× sai
Turtle Comm (open and closed)
Prayer bead necklace

After Splinter's death, Raph hit rock bottom and lashed against crime as Nightwatcher. Eventually, he gave up and found his peace in working as a bouncer and showing self-restraint. Channeling his anger out through meditation and Tai Chi. He can still kick shell, but he's no longer fueled by rage.

Michelangelo:
Very close to vanilla but he sports fancy pads on his elbows and knees (Think skateboarding Mike) puka shell bracelets, Orange Sneakers. His belt has nunchuck holsters

Heads:
No Bandana happy
No Bandana gritting teeth

Specialized hands:
Autograph signing hand with sculpted marker.

Accessories:
Picture of Mikey with Eastman and Laird
Picture of Mikey with Stan Sakai
TMNT sketch by Mikey
2×Nunchaku
2× Twirling Nunchuck
Soft goods orange bathrobe 
Laptop
Sunglasses
Turtle comm (open and closed)

The idea is that After Splinter died, Mikey became an indie comic book writer and artist who has collaborated with other indie darlings (such as Eastman, Laird, Sakai) he's the one with the least Vigilante activity after Splinter died.

April:
April has been promoted to Anchorwoman and now wears a mustard yellow pantsuit with grey shoes. 

Heads:
Breast length hair loose
Beehive hairdo

Accessories:
Microphone
Camera with hidden Handgun
Turtle comm (open/closed)

The idea is that around the time Shredder died, she got a promotion and married Casey. Now with her biggest source of trouble gone, she began living a close to normal life and drifted away from the Turtles... until now.

Vernon:
Basically Vernon wearing a Grey Blazer, pink shirt and Grey slacks. He now sports a Geraldo styled Mustache and grey temples.

Heads: 
Neutral
Scared

Specialized hands:
Cue card holding hand

Accessories:
Cell phone
Revolver
Microphone
Mirror

With Burne retiring, Vernon was promoted to Editor and his talk show became a success after officially interviewing the Turtles before April, thus creating a rift between April and the Turtles.

Irma:
Basically, an excuse to get a Mutant Turtles Gaiden inspired version of Irma:
I mean the Barbarian Underwear version of her.
Heads:
Normal Irma head
"Anime hair" Barbarian head.

Specialized hands:
Autograph signing hand

Accessories:
Soft goods purple skirt
Soft goods blue blouse
Soft goods Barbarian leg warmers
Slip on Barbarian vambraces
Removable Barbarian belt
Muramasa Blade
Removable glasses
Show poster

Irma hit the lottery and got some work done before becoming a C-list celebrity and appearing on a low budget Fantasy show where she plays a Barbarian woman in Ancient Japan. She returned to New York for an interview with her former co-worker, Vernon.

Karai:
Essentially Karai wearing a Foot Grandmaster outfit (similar to Shredder's but without blades)

Heads:
Normal Karai with a Grey streak on her left side.
Karai with her hair tied up and wearing a facemask.

Accessories:
Naginata
Ninjato
Kusarigama
Blow gun
3× kunai 
Empty Shredder helmet.

After Shredder's fall, Karai and the Turtles reached an agreement, ending the feud between the families. The Foot abandoned America and began righting the wrongs of Shredder.

Rocksteady:
A Fat Rocksteady as seen in Shredder's Revenge.
Heads:
No helmet, Neutral
No helmet confused

Accessories:
Same as normal Rocksteady.
Beer keg

After Shredder's fall, Rocksteady returned to New York and he moved to a scrapyard where he blows stuff up, gets drunk, and pigs out. A familiar face brought him out of retirement.

Bebop:
Basically a "Toon Bebop" out of the Vanilla Bebop with new heads:

Heads:
Toon Styled head
Disheveled head with long "Jesus hair" with only the tips dyed and spotty beard.
Clean shaven head but fully dyed "Jesus hair"

Accessories:
Same as Bebop
Dye bottle
Soft goods towel to wrap around neck
Soft goods cult robe

Bebop tried to get back at the gang life after Shredder's fall, but his infamy followed him everywhere. He ended up in a cult, but once a familiar face showed up, he ditched the cult and Joined Rocksteady for a last hurrah.

Casey Jones:
Picture A clean shaven slightly pudgier Casey with slicked back hair with a prosthetic right arm and leg. He's sporting a light blue Second Time Around polo shirt and Grey slacks and green sneakers. 

Heads:
Slicked back with some grey in the temples
Crazy hair with grey on temples
Wearing the hockey mask, grey temples

Accessories:
New golf club
Aluminum bat
Cash register
Antique lamp

Casey gave an arm and a leg to save April's life. Now as her husband, he's had issues with letting go of the past. After his Mother's death, he had to deal with raising his estranged daughter. Now he works on the O'Neil's Antique store to give his daughter a sense of normalcy, despite hin secretly training his successor.

Casey Jones II: (Zach)
Essentially an Adult Zach following the steps of Casey Jones picture Zach with long greasy hair and wearing a white version of the Image Casey mask. He's also wearing a long sleeved faded yellow shirt with a blue sleeveless vest. On the back of the vest there's a patch with a green shell and a red V.
He sports Olive Green cargo pants and Combat boots.

Heads:
Masked Zach
Unmasked Zack with hair slicked back and scruffy face

Accessories:
Baseball bat
Hockey stick
Steel pipe 
News camera
Turtle comm (open/closed)

After Splinter's death and the turtles disbanded, Zach spiraled into vigilantism. In one of his earlier escapades, he got beat up, but the shopkeeper at Second Time Around helped him. After seeing Zach's determination, Casey agreed to teach him, as he was no longer capable of being a Vigilante himself. Moonlighting as a camera man at Channel 6, Zach is keeping an eye on his lifelong friend Caitlin to protect her like Casey did for April.

Caitlin: New Ace Reporter:
Caitlin, aka Zach's friend who is a girl. Pink repaint of April with blue accents and new Caitlin heads.
Heads:
Loose hair Head
Ponytail Head

Specialized hands 
Stun glove hands
Pepper spray hands 

Accessories:
Microphone
Laptop
Turtle comm (open/closed)
Pepper spray bottle
Portable video camera

Following the footsteps of her role model, Caitlin became a reporter for Channel 6. With the Turtles being disbanded, Caitlin kept in touch with Donatello, who assisted her with some gadgets for personal defense as an investigative reporter. Reunited with her childhood friend, Zach, she feels emboldened to get involved in dangerous situations. Especially now that a face from the past has returned.

Rat Emperor:
It's obviously Rat King, but with some alterations. Soft goods ratty cape. New heads, 

Heads:
Pretty Boy Rat King, but with a full beard
Vintage styled Rat King with a spotty beard

Accessories:
Rat scepter
5× Rats
Crown made out of Splinter's skull.
Royal Crossbow
Royal flute

After the death and burial of Splinter, Rat King robbed the grave and made himself a golden plated crown out if Splinter's skull it somehow enhances his control of rodents and now with no Shredder and no Turtles, the world is ripe for the taking.

Shredder Loyalists: (Tatsu)
Picture a Foot Ninja wearing Shredder's spiked armor and helmet. (Essentially a Shredder repaint with a new torso that could be reused for toon Shredder) the colors should match the Foot Soldier.

Heads:
Tatsu head with white facial hair 
Helmet similar to the "Dark Ninja" from 2012.

Accessories:
Naginata
Katana
Ooze vial
Kusarigama 

Baxter Stockman
Picture a Disheveled fly Baxter with long hair and no longer looking human wearing a torn straitjacket.

Accessories: Shackles for his 4 arms (see MOTUC Lodar as reference) and legs.
Handgun 
Evil communicator
Desktop computer

After the fall of Shredder, Baxter was put in an insane asylum where he lost what little sanity had and it returned with zero morals. Recruiting Shredder's former allies, Baxter pulled one last desperate move for revenge.

Unholy Shredder:
Picture a decomposing Oroku Saki with Cybernetics from a Foot Soldier and Krang's remains acting as his "shirt".

Visually, we have a decomposing Oroku Saki slackjawed head with long gray hair emulating the lower part if his helmet. A three bladed metal dome covering his brain completes the Shredder look. On his torso we have a dead Krang acting as a conduit to reanimate Saki's corpse. On the back you can see the mechanical bits of a Foot Soldier exoskeleton with Saki's flesh stapled to it. Mouser claws protruding out his body recreate his spikes on his shoulders, arms and legs. The limbs are Foot endo skeleton parts barely covered with the flesh of Shredder and Krang. Shredder's left hand is a literal Mouser head. Shredder's right foot is a series of Mouser feet welded together

Heads:
Normal head
Head with light piping brain (see metalhead)

Accessories:
Electricity effects that can be put on the torso and limbs.
Tattered soft goods cape
Broken sword

Due to a lack of worm colony worms Shredder and krang were fused together in order to ensure their survival. Grafted to a Foot Soldier made into a life support device, the Shredder walks again. Nurtured by Ooze but fueled by Rage, Shredder and Krang will destroy the turtles before their short borrowed time on the realm of the living ends

Potpourri wave something something 3:
Mad Scientist Donatello:
Donatello dressed up like a mad scientist.shirt with Purple Tie, a lab coat over it wearong big rubber gloves, pants hiked up a bit over the waist and shiny nerdy shoes.

Heads:
 Grinning
Surprised Christopher Lloyd expression.

Accessories:
Erlenmeyer Flask 
Round bottom flask
Beaker
Safety goggles
3× Petri dishes
High tech Bo staff

Round-em up Groundchuck:
This would've been a "Wacky Action" Groundchuck. Think Rock & Roll Mike but with a lasso.
 Sculptwise, he'd be very close to the vintage figure. The torso clothing would be slightly different as his scaled "armor" would be a normal shirt with chainmail on top of it.  Adding a few more buckles and details to the belts to "make it different" from Playmates.

Painting, painting the details Playmates forgot would be a start. The blue shirt would be a blue grey, the Metal parts would be gunmetal and the nose ring would be gunmetal as well

Heads:
Normal head
Angry head with removable cyber horn. Cyber eye would be red this time.

Specialized hands:
Horns hands

Accessories:
Horn missile firing effect that plugs to head 2.
Wrist mounted dart gun
Cattle prod
Lasso

Hardball Casey Jones:
Casey wearing Hockey pads with a T-shirt underneath them and Tracksuit pants in traditional Vintage Casey colors. 

Heads:
Football Helmet Casey
Normal Casey masked head

Specialized hands: 
Ball grabbing hands (see Slam Dunk Don as reference)
Small ball grabbing hands (baseball, tennis, pool)
Accessories:
Balls:
Football 
Basketball
Volleyball
Bowling
Baseball
Tennis
Pool cue

Duffelbag with presculpted balls inside
Cricket bat
Lacrosse Stick

Drill Sgt. Bananas:
(Take Sgt. Bananas and make him more Sgt. Slaughter-esque)
We start with the body:
New torso with sculpted tanktop. Arms and below the waist from Guerilla Gorilla. New feet, new head. Soft goods BDU Top.

Heads:
Vintage inspired
New angry Slaughter inspired head 

Accessories:
Helmet
Drill Sgt. Hat
Riding crop
Glasses
Silenced Iguana Gun
GG Banana Bandolier
GG Knife
Larry the Lemur

TMNT × CAPCOM
Unlike other crossovers, this one will go Full Vintage with it being TMNT Characters Disguised as Capcom characters and not TMNT WITHIN that Universe.

Leonardo as Ryu:
Basically Leonardo wearing a SF6 Ryu styled outfit. White pants, blue cloth and Bandana.

Heads:
With Ryu wig and fake beard
Normal Leonardo:

Specialized hands: 
Hadoken hands

Accessories:
Duffelbag
Wrapped Katana holsters
Hadoken with stand

Donatello as Phoenix Wright:
Donatello wearing a Phoenox Wrogt outfit in a blue purple

Heads:
Screaming with PW wig
Confused with PW Wig 

Specialized hands:
Pointing fingers 

accessories:
Bo staff with stand.
Hold it!, Objection!, Take that! Expressions that can plug to the top of the Bo and act as shields for Don.
PW cell phone.

Raph as Zero:
Raphael wearing a Zero Outfit.

Heads:
 Zero Helmet with ponytail
Normal Raph

Accessories:
Z-Saber woth different blade plug ins
  • Normal Z-Saber 
  • Fire Z-Saber
  • Ice Z-Saber 
  • Electric Z-Saber 
Space Cadet Raph Sai with green energy blades.

Michelangelo as Leon S. Kennedy: (RE4)
Michelangelo dressed as Leon without Jacket.
Heads:
With Leon Wig neutral
With Leon Wig (plaga infected)
Accessories:
Attache case (repaint suitcase from UC Raph)
Knife for chest holster
Revolver from UC Raph
Tommy gun from Ace Duck
Herb canister (repainted Ooze canister)
Photo of April dressed as Ashley Graham

Mona Lisa as B.B.Hood:
Mona Lisa wearing a Little Red Riding Hood outfit with soft goods skirt and Hood

Heads:
 Normal Mona Lisa 
BBHood wig head

Accessories:
Basket
Knives
Uzi
Landmine
Grenades
Dog

Slash as SF5 Akuma:
Slash wearing Akuma's pants with his gi folded over his belt and wearing the huge prayer beads

Heads:
SF5 Akuma styled Head
Classic Akuma styled Head

Specialized hands:
 Gou Hado hands

Accessories:
Gou Hado 
Zankuu Hadoken
Dual Butterfly swords

Casey Jones as X:
Casey wearing the Standard MMX armor 
Heads:
Normal X helmet head
White armor head

Specialized  hands:
Buster hands

Accessories:
Slip on White Armor torso
White Armor Gauntlets
Firing X-hockey pucks effect for Buster hand

Rocksteady as Andore:
Essentially Rocksteady dressed as one of the Andore Mad Gear Members.
Heads:
Rocksteady without Helmet
Rocksteady with Andore Wig

Accessories:
Drumcan shield
Machete
Machine gun

Bebop as Birdie SFA:
Bebop dressed as Birdie from SFA series with exaggerated Mohawk, long chains, and all the Birdie Accoutrements:

Heads:
Blond Birdie head
Purple Birdie head

Accessories:
Drill gun
Switchblade

Foot Soldier as L.Rapter:
Foot Soldoer dressed as L. Rapter.
His ribs are robotic, because Foot Soldier.
Heads:
"Human" L.Rapter
Zombie L.Rapter

Accessories:
Extended rib attack
Electric guitar
Extended elbow blade

Splinter as Carlos Miyamoto:
Splinter dressed up as Final Fight's Carlos.
Heads:
Carlos wig
No wig

Accessories:
Katana with sheath
Sushi
Steel pipe (doubles as a cane)
Breakable drum

April as Ashley Graham (OG RE4)
April dressed as OG RE4 Ashley

Heads:
Ashley wig
Normal April 

Accessories:
Potted Herbs
First Aid Spray

Shredder as Jedah Dohma:
Shredder wearing a Shredderized Jedah outfit.
Heads:
Maskless Shredder with "Jedah helmet"
Masked Shredder with "Jedah Helmet"

Specialized hands:
Long Clawed hands
Accessories:
Removable wings 
Scythe
Krang as the Fetus of god

Karai as Franziska von Karma:
Karai dressed as Miss von Karma:

Heads:
Von Karma wig
No wig

Accessories:
Whip
Autopsy folder
Coffee mug
Whipped Donatello head with PW wig.

Scratch as Saddler (RE4):
Scratch wearing Saddler's robes.
Heads:
Scratch wearing a Saddler wig

Specialized hands:
Plaga tentacle

Accessories:
Plaga staff
Rocket launcher
Jailbird Disguised as Ramon Salazar

Potpourri wave something something 4:

Foot Soldier: (4.0)
Reusing the Battle Damaged Body with the subtle paint differences from 3.0

Heads:
Normal 2.0 head
New Terminator styled half endo half masked head.

Accessories:
Katana
3×kunai
Sansetsukon
Kusarigama
Bow and arrow
Deadly discus from Turtles in Time
3× Dynamite sticks

Coal Dust Dirtbag:
If made back in the day, he'd be a Wacky Action figure. The feature tail wagging. The idea being that Dirtbag would wag his tail and create dust clouds out of convenient piles of cornstarch or talcum powder to blind the turtles. 
Sculpt would be very similar to Normal Dirtbag. Coloring would be the main difference here.
First the coal dust would be more noticeable on his body with his overalls looking far dirtier than the vintage figure. His rat pack would be dirty as well and the gap on his back should be the cleanest spot on him. His boot and fur should be dirtier (black paint wash).

Heads:
Dirty with coal dust on his face
Less dirty as if he had wiped off his face.

Accessories:
Dual pickaxes
Jackhammer gun with firing tip effect.
Rat pack that holds his shovel and pickaxes
Chisel Knife
Canary cage:
Cage works like MOTU Man-E-Faces. It's sculpted to look like it's partially covered by a cloth. You can only see the Canary from a specific side. On one side the Canary is OK, on the other it fainted.

Turtle Foot Clone:
Vanilla Turtle body in greenish teal with tan plastron. Grey pads and bandanas. The belt has a Foot Clan buckle revealing the Turtle's allegiance. 

Heads:
All 4 Storage Shell Turtles in TFC colors. With red eyes and yellowed teeth.

Accessories:
2× plungerchucks (with real rope) from headdropin Mike
2× scorpion Sai from headdroppin Raph 
1× spear from talking Mike
2× Leo Sewer Force Sword from the role playing toy of the same name

The idea is to have a single Ultimates! Of the TFC with the Crazy heads and weapons.Then release 4 more "vanilla" Deluxe figures. (Using the vanilla TMNT weapons. 2 katana for Leo, Bo staff for Don, etc.) Personally the Deluxe figures would be under the 'Tournament Fighters" subline. (And releasing a New April based on the Megadrive game is among the plans.)

Night Warrior Leonardo: 
Leonardo wearing a more Stylish "traditional Ninja" outfit. 
Starting with a blue cowl and Blue scarf sporting a sleeveless Gi with fishnet shirt underneath it. Wearing blue armguards and blue pants that reach the knee. His feet are wrapped in Grey bandages to simulate a Ninja tabi.

Heads:
Normal Leo head with cowl
Head with cowl with blue and green Oni Mask

Specialized hands:
Caltrops tossing hands

Accessories:
2× Ninjato
Turtle Grappling hook
3× Kunai
2× climbing claws
3× Exploding smoke bomb effects