Jan 1, 2025

It came from the Toy Chest: My Flipshot Rat Kong Dreams have been dashed.

 

Curse the new Freakishly Large Peg holes and oversized noggin. Well, I got my two Rat Kings: Vintage looking and Bishie Rat King. 

Rat King is a crazed hobo who's obsessed with rats. One of his many origins have him as a mental patient who escaped custody and lived in a swamp until he was driven off. He got killed by the Turtles in an awkward blurred lines between who's right and who's not.

The cartoon origin has him as a misanthrope who wants to take over the world in the name of rats.

In some versions he's got a mystic origin.

My plan was to have 3 Rat Kings:

-The Mystic Rat Avatar
-The Misanthrope 
-The son of the Avatar
Hobo: You're Tearing me apart, Lisa!
Bishie: Really, The Room?


Articulation:
Rat King doesn't have that much articulation. This is because Ultimates have less articulation than most figures in that scale. Surprisingly, the rats do not block any of it. 
4.5
Chinese sweatshop worker, why u no paint stitches?


Paint and sculpt:
They did Sexy Boy Dirty. I mean his face is painted to look dirty. Deranged Hobo is looking fine though.  Parton me is considering restarting the Rat King Tres Plan by modifying the vanilla Hobo head with greenstuff or any modeling epoxy  to fill the tooth gap and plug some new hair and make the "Toon inspired Rat King" slight repaint of the eyes and boom.
My main gripe would be the unpainted stitches. It was a pain, but I painted them.
4.5
I ended up making my own Crossbow. Will repaint Rat later.


Accessories:
Cat sash.
Hobo: Why does this Flute smell like fish?
Irma VO: My bad! I used your flolute to scratch my lady bits!


Flute
Has Scepter but cannot hold it in hands.
Even the Masturbating Kojima/Flute playing hands can't hold the scepter.


Scepter
Knife
Crappy Rat Grappling hook 
Why u no string, Rat tail?
2 heads and be careful switching them. Sexy Boy pulls out neck barbells. 
6 extra hands
By amount it gets a 5.0 but doesn't deserve it.

Overall 
Rat King gets a 4.67 as his final score. Don't get me wrong. He's a great figure, but he could have been a bit better... I understand that they were trying to be different from playmates with the accessories., but this Rat King is lacking RATS! SUPER7 should consider making a Rat King themed Accessory pack full of rats and maybe a few extras like 2 fedora heads (Hobo amd Bishie) and a trenchcoat for his red sky look.
Maybe make a new toon inspired Bandolier 
Something like this but more Hobo looking.



I can't believe I miss the vintage belt now...


Honestly, I still think there may be a chance for RK Mk3.

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