TMNT Ultimates wave 13 is here.

The preorder ends on March 28th. As announced a while back, they're Shredder, Foot Ninja, Casey, and Splinter.

The Buy the whole wave superdickery bag has Ch'rell, a Foot Gauntlet, GITD sword, and windswept Casey head.

Casey comes with the expected stuff and and added unmasked head. Hands have the bare minimum. But to be honest, I pre-ordered My Casey via BBTS to make a Nick 2.0 so, Hopefully, the Mo-Larr head fits this body.

Pre-ordered a single Foot Ninja alongside Casey... To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed with the Foot Ninja as it is VERY Bare bones. I will not use the weird Unmasked head though. Will try to get a second one so Karai can have 2 Ninjas. If I were to give it a grade, it gets an 80. It needs a bit more to reach 90.

Splinter is the waves dud. Sure, he's super important, but I'm talking as a toy.

His robe is plastic. Some of the poses he is rendered in are IMPOSSIBLE to do with a plastic robe. Also, his accessories are underwhelming for the most part. Tons of hands, flashback rat and turtles... his stick is the only "accessory".

But the best figure of the wave is Shredder. But Super7 is doing a bit of skullduggery with the renders. That Kick is impossible to do if his armored tasset is not segmented.

He finally has an Oroku Saki head. Also comes with a Neutral Ch'rell. Guess the second Shredder figure they maks will have a Hollow stomach for Ch'rell. Other than that, he's a bit bare bones. 

If the shipping issues to Puerto Rico are fixed, Super7 will get my money for Shredder and a Foot Ninja. Fuck Splinter with his Plastic robe.

Update:

Shipping Issues to Puerto Rico are apparently fixed, as I was able to preorder my Shredder and Foot Ninja.

Häagen-Dazs marketing team deserves a medal

 I nearly choked on my Pepsi zero... just discovered that they lowered the caffeine content from its past iteration aka Pepsi Max.

 

It's  a Fast and Furious themed ad with Toretto taking things slow. Last time I saw an ad this awesome...

Was the insanity of Japanese Arnold Schwarzenegger ads. Speaking of Schwarzenegger, when is Fubar season 2 coming?

Who let Haley Joel Osment watch the French Connection?

 Because now Gene Hackman is dead. Yes, Gene Hackman was in his 90s. So it was obvious that the bucket would've been kicked anyways. The weird part is that his 63 year old wife, Betsy Arakawa and their dog were found dead as well... according to the report, Police don't suspect foul play. 

I suspect poisoning. Not saying that they were in a suicidal pact. Gas leak, robbing them of oxygen or CO² poisoning. Hopefully more info will be revealed later and we can get a clear answer.

I'm not gonna pretend I'm a mega Gene Hackman fan. I mean, I saw The French Connection in college. 

I remember him as Lex Luthor in the Superman movies. I remember him in Toung Frankenstein, I remember him in The Quick and the Dead, where he was the villain. I think he did a movie with Ray Romano... from Hannah Montana.

He was also in a movie with the Narnian Scientologist who always runs from his gay thoughts. The couch jumper. The guy who loved playing with the boys. Dustin Hoffman's brother in Rain Man... BTW, Hackman DID a movie with Hoffman, Runaway Jury. That one I watched with Mom. Knowledge of pointless trivia a fan does not make...

In any case, as always, my condolences to friends and family. Farewell Mr. Hackman, Mrs. Arakawa, and the inmerntioned race or gender of the dog.

Who let Haley Joel Osment watch The Adventures of Pete and Pete

 None of the Petes were the focus of his Necrosight. His target was Nona Mecklenberg... the little kid with the cast on her arm and the candy necklace. Played by the late Michelle Trachtenberg. Yes, I know everyone will mention her stint as Dawn in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or her stint on Gossip Girl... but to me, she will always be Nona... or Harriet the Spy...

No, Spike, we don't talk about Eurotrip out of respect for the recently seen by Haley Joel Osment.

Apparently she had undergone a transplant surgery on her liver shortly before her untimely passing. This royally sucks... for her parents, I mean. Parents aren't supposed to bury their children. My condolences to friends and family.

Woth the TMNT 2K3 Wave 2 coming: let's think 2k3 wave 3

 I will do a few possible waves. The main issue with 2k3 is that it's Human heavy. Also, Hun is heavy. I will be using the Super7 3 figure wave recent format:

April, Baxter, Mouser pack 

April, Hun, Bishop

Utrom android body, Baxter, Hun

Bishop, Baxter, Rat King 

Karai, Foot Mystic, Triceraton

Karai, Chaplin, Nobody

Battling Bernice, Chrysalis, Silver Sentry

Turtle Titan, Triceraton, April

Mouser pack, Utrom Android body, Triceraton

Hun, Nobody, Turtle Titan

In any case we need to focus on the next wave, which is "vintage inspired".

Hideo Kojima is confused by the MCU

 Hideo three inches of doom Kojima is confused by the MCU.

Hideo fucking Kojima as in the creator of the Metal Gear Saga, and Temu Metal Gear QWOP Amazon Prime Simulator is fucking confused about the MCU.

Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit!

Kojima, Mr. Can't tell a straightforward story without having you to stop playing in order to read hours of supplemental material so you can have a SLIGHT idea of what's going on, got lost because he's refused to watch supplemental material that gives you an idea of what's going on? 

Holy asscrackers, I never thought I would ever reference. Alanis Morissette. 

Watch the supplemental shows you Dingus!!

Super7 Ultimates 2k3 TMNT Wave 2 coming soon

 Hopefully they fixed the shipping issues to Puerto Rico and have USPS available as a reasonable option so I can get Shredder and a Foot Soldier from them and Casey and a Foot Soldier from BBTS. I'M going to be blunt:

I'm not Gonna collect the 2K3 line. I got my Michelangelo because he's my favorite turtle and I want to steal his Nunchucks for the vintage styled Michelangelo. 

 I'm getting Shredder but I don't know if he will have the Utrom inside. Depending on the figure once it's officially revealed. That's how I will add him to my continuity.

If it's not with the Utrom, then he'll be Shredder in an augmented suit after reverting the Super Shredder Mutation. Think Anakin to Darth Vader kind of thing.

The Foot Ninja will be Karai's and Casey will be the template for Nick 2.0

I WILL get April, Hun, human and robot Baxter, Bishop and SOME of the other non-vintage characters. Rat King being an exception to that rule.

If they haven't fixed the issue, Shredder and a Foot Soldier will be priority and eventually a Casey for Nick 2.0.

Fuck me, Hasbro's SDCC 2025 GI Joe Exclusive

 Is Cold Slither...

I hope I'm able to get it because it's Cold Slither.

Of course, I expect Super7 to follow through with a $430 GI Joe Ultimates Cold Slither wave for 2032. (Adjusted for inflation)

I'm surprised that this is made a reality... I suggested it would be both awesome and a dick move back in 2021.

Mattel dropped a sneak peek at He-Man

 After the fiasco of Arrested Adam, Mattel dropped this Pic.

They really need to ditch the planet Earth angle. I know it's too late for this movie to do so, but, NO ONE WANTS EARTH SCENES! WE WANT CONAN WITH LASERS! STAR WARS WITH FURRY UNDERWEAR!  Seriously, it's like they didn't learn anything from the 1987 movie!?

Give me well-oiled muscle-bound Men fighting to enter a skull faced castle. No Earth Bullshit. I'm willing to bet that the executives at Mattel were: "Barbie was successful. Now make a boy version of it!" Missing the whole appeal of He-Man. 

.In any case, it's not a complete train wreck.

Dolph Lundgren trying on wigs...

 Ivan Drago's actor posted this on Facebook:

He is trying unwigs for a secret role in a movie. What role would require Dolpb Lundgren to wear a wig?

Could it be that Dolph Lundgren will be playing King Grayskull in the new movie? That would mean things are coming full circle, as King Grayskull was heavily inspired by Dolph Lundgren's He-Man. 

Finally something positive about the new movie, and it's just a rumor.

Preorders for Storm Collectibles Alpha Ryu are a go!

 Supposedly coming out in July.

He includes Hadoken with stand and FIGURE stand. You can Shoryuken with this Ryu. Looks like I may need to paint his hair in a reddish brown.

Not quite feeling the face, but that can change once I have him in-hand.

Honestly, with Ryu and Ken, I already.know what to expect with Dan. But right now, other than Killer Bee and Chun Li, I don't think I'll revisit SSFIIT folks.

Give me my waifu and her rich rival!! Give me the JoJo reference! 

Hasbro is doing some Insomniac Spidey Legends

 While, there have been past figures based on the games. This time we get dedicated wave, and a few exclusives.

There's Black Cat, Advanced suit Miles, Miles 2099, Symbiote Spidey, Anti Venom Spidey, Spirit Spidey might be exclusive to Walmart.

But the 3 figures that caught my eye:

Black Suit Kingpin. Seems like a Repainted Kingpin, but there's never enough Fisk. Amazon exclusive bothers me a bit.

This big ass Venom seems cool but not Sire how expensive he and Kingpin will be.

As a Puerto Rican, I am obligated to buy this Miles Morales, even if it's to mock the living shit out of it. 

I noticed that Mary Jane is nowhere on the list...

New Director for the SF 2026 movie.

 The dude is kinda Japanese, but he's directed some American stuff. 

Apparently, he directed Wake the Fuck Up... and the Eric Andre show... not feeling hopeful... 

Kitao Sakurai has a huge responsibility at his feet. Please don't fuck it up.

Storm Collectibles teasing the next 5 Street Fighter Alpha figures

 Maybe I should say four says we know who's coming straight after Ken. Aside Ryu, the next figure coming is

Spike! It's SAGAT, NOT SAGET!

Kinda underwhelming... Sagat, right after retailers began taking Jada Toys Sagat preorders. Then again, Storm might be releasing thaf Sagat by the time Jada finishes USFIIT and move on to other SF characters from other SF games. Part of me wants SF 1... but we know that game is obscure for a reason. 

First 6 releases and ½ is shotos. Not to mention ⅚ are SFII characters. Before anyone mentions that Dan first appeared as a playable character in Street Fighter alpha, His true first appearance was on STREET FIGHTER II promotional art. It bums me that ¾ of the roster are variants.

Here is where we should've gotten instead of Sagat and Dan: Rolento, Gen, Guy, Cody, Birdie, Karin, Rainbow Mika, you know NON VARIANT CHARACTERS! I know Dan is a new character, but he's a pink Ryu with his torso painted black and a new head.

But here's what I expect to see with these figures:

Saget:

-Alt. Laugh head

-Tiger shot effect with special dual height stand.

-Fists

-scar touching open hands.

-Dan head grabbing hand

Ryu:

-Alt. Angry head

-Fists

-Hadoken hands

-Hadoken with stand

-Alt. Crossed arms

Dan:

-Alt crying head

-Fists

-Gadouken hands

-Thumbs up and flat hands for Super taunt 

-Gadouken with stand.

Chun Li:

-Alt Victory head

-Fists

-chopping hands

-Hyakuretsu kyaku effect with stand

-Gun hands with gun (vs. Bison)

-Victory pose hand.

Charlie:

-Alt. Grin head

-sonic boom effect with stand

-judo chop hands

-glasses holding hand with glasses

-handkerchief holding hand with handkerchief.

Witcher animated movie: The Little Mermaid and Geralt.

 That is the best way to describe the Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. Anya Chalupa reprise her role as Yennefer. Joey Batey returned as the bestest bard ever... but Geralt of Rivia wasn't Cavill. Oh no sir. They got some rando to play him.

Yes, Geralt is being played by Doug Cockle, the Game version of Geralt. Just by that, this movie is glorious. I think the Witcher works better in animation than live action. 

I feel bad for Miley's ex.

Odds and ends Feb 18, 2025:

 What the actual fuck, Yuna!? Why are you dancing to Mexican Music?

This is the best heartbroken woman diss track ever. Here's the literal translation:

Filthy rat

Creeping animal

Scum of life

Shoddy monstrosity.

 

Subhuman

Spectre of Hell

Damn vermin

How much damage you've done to me.

 

Vermin

Poisonous serpent

Waste of life

I hate you and despise you.

 

Two-legged rat

I'm talking to you

because a creeping creature,

even being the most cursed,

compared to you

is very small.

Damn leech
damn cockraoch
you who infects with bites,
who hurts and who kills.

Vermin
Poisonous serpent
Waste of life
I hate you and despise you.

Two-legged rat
I'm talking to you
because a creeping creature,
even being the most cursed,

compared to you

is very small.

I remember this song from roughly back in my college days. One of the few songs in Spanish that I've sung drunk.

Fun fact: Puerto Rican Governor, Jennifer Gonzalez looks like a young Paquita, so Netflix, if you're doing a movie, give her a call.

There is a rumor that MOTU Origins is getting a Fright Zone. I never saw Snake Mountain and the two Grayskulls I saw were overpriced. Guess we need to keep our ears on the ground, because I don't know if it will be a Mattel Shop item or if it's hitting retail. 

The Naughty or Nice crowd funding campaign ended on Valentine's and as of the writing of this rant, no official comment has been made. Everything but the kids made it. I've yet to receive a preorder cancelation notice from BBTS. Guess we'll find out tomorrow or something.

Cobra Kai is now over...

 What a ride. It's amazing how seeing Johnny Lawrence sucking at life and deciding to turn things around by helping a geeky kid become a karateka, becames a crazy show with CGI Miyagi, School mega brawls and basically turning the Valley into Final Fight even fucking Ninjas. 

CGI Miyagi is scary.

To say that the show lost the plot is an understatement, especially with the whole Sekai Taikai bullshit. Somehow the final third managed to redirect itself and give us a glorious ending to the tale of Johnny Lawrence the True Karate Kid.

Fuck Hilary Swank for refusing to appear...

But back to Cobra Kai. The resolution to the Sekai Taikai was a bit of a stretch, but it gave us the closure we needed for Cobra Kai. Now I need to see the Chan Crossover.

First NEW MOTU Movie pic...

 And it's well, you be the judge.

Yeah... I'm not saying it's gonna suck, but... Where is the MOTU?

Pretty much EVERY MOTU fan has asked for a movie ON ETERNIA AND TO KEEP EARTH OUT!! What do the jeniuses working on the movie do? THEY DOUBLE DOWN ON EARTH!?

NO, YOU MORONS! THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT WE DON'T WANT!! How hard is take Star Wars and Conan to make sweet love and produce a beautiful child of sci-fi and fantasy?

At least the Power Sword looks nice.

Happy Valentine's day and why does Mattel hate me so much?

Marvel Legends: Maximum series: a Rant

 Hasbro is going to release a few heavy hitters in this style... $50.⁰⁰ figures with a bunch of accessories. Right now the price tag is a bit too high. I feel like $40.⁰⁰ would've been a better price... or add more web effects that hey already have.

The web effects I would have added are the face webbing and shoulder webbing effects to trap opponents. The web splats from Japanese Spider-Man would be another option. There are two missing heads: Half Peter Half Spidey Spider-sense head and Pizza Spidey's uncovered mouth head. All of these are pre-existing stuff. If they had added these extras, the $50.⁰⁰ price tag wouldn't feel that much of a rip-off.

Let's see if we can Make some "Maximum figures".

Hulk:

The problem with Hulk is that there is not much to do with him. Most of it would be alternate heads, hands and smashable things. Maybe a gamma clap effect. The problem will be that since Holt is already big, they will claim. They can't add much to him due to the $50.⁰⁰ price tag.

Personally, I would go for the smart Hulk Heads that were used in Marvel versus series as an incentive for people to rebuy another Hulk.

Later on, we toss in a Grey Hulk Variant. Even a Red Ross Hulk could be made as well.

Wolverine:

Angry Stabby Canadian would require a LOT to reach "Maximum" status". 

Most of it would be between heads and hands... and claws.

Thin metal claws

Knife metal claws

Bone claws

Claw slashing effects that plug to the hand without the claws on. 

Cowl hanging on neck

Probably the Muramasa blade.

For Heads we have:

Cowl

Unmasked

Battle damaged

I would like to go beyond that and do stuff that Hasbro/Marvel would say no to despite these $50.⁰⁰ figures aimed at adult collectors:

Cigar hands

Cigar head cowl

Cigar head unmasked

Half torn cowl with bloodied Logan half

Come on hands (as in the Wolverine comic cover)

Of course a Brown suit Variant would be released later on. But to me it feels kinda hard to reach that $50.⁰⁰ value.

Captain America:

It's hard to top the 80th Anniversary Cap. Aside giving him butterfly shoulders, tossing the accessories of ML's 20th Cap, the broken shield from Secret wars, plus a stand and various shield toss effects: 

-straight line vertical orientation 

-straight line horizontal orientation 

-ricochet vertical orientation

-ricochet horizontal orientation

Like Wolverine, it's kinda hard to make him worthy of the $50.⁰⁰ tag.

Switching torso and alternate head could make for a US Ahent repaint.

Iron Man:

Retro Iron Man with Proton Cannon  but with a Metallic paintjob but adding more effects like the repulsor blasts for the hands, and maybe the Jetpack from the MVC Iron Man Intro with a "jet thrust" stand (Think MODOK)

We can replace the Jetpack with the War Destroyer for the MVC War Machine repaint.

Venom:

He might need a new buck but we have a few heads running about. 

Web effects should be added in both white webbing and black symbiote, but what we really need is:

The ability to recreate: Venom's madness.

Honestly, I'm running out of folks to "Maximize". Ghost Riders get the short end of the stick because bikes and NO ONE WANTS A BIKELESS GHOST RIDER!

NT: Next Mutation Ultimates:

 The black sheep of TMNT outside of Coming out of their shells. Is it worth it to be made in Ultimates? Let's find out. 

The first thing we need to figure out is whether making them Show Accurate or making them "Classicized".  Personally I vote "Classicized" but hear me out. By Classicized I don't mean: 

Taking the vanilla Turtles and giving them new heads, arms and legs.

Notice that the TNM is bigger than the normal Mike. That is on purpose.

They require Added height as they're supposed to be Adult versions of the TMNT. With the new taller size (about Casey height) then you add the other stuff. OR they could use the 2K3 bodies with new forearms, shins, and feet with new belts and head for the larger bodies. (Mike's and Don's thigh belts can be slip-on belts and not new leg sculpts.) I won't redraw over a 2k3 Mike, but that body works better than vintage. 

That way Super7 could do BOTH: 

A "show accurate" turtle with the new TNM shell and Plastron over the 2k3 body and release a "vintageized" Deluxe with Vintage OG Line colors (Leo in olive, Raph in Kermit green, Don in olive brown, and Mike in forest green) or viceversa.

The elephant in the room is Venus as she wil always require new tooling.Tooling. 

I'll try to make 12 figures or 4 waves, but first I'll make a detailed idea of what the characters should come with...

Leonardo:

Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.

Hands:

Vertical and horizontal c-grips

Fists

Dramatic

2 of his weird double bladed Ninjato

2k3 swords

Pizza slice

Donatello:

Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.

Hands:

Vertical and horizontal c-grips

Fists

Dramatic

Bo staff

Slip on Eye in the sky controller

Pizza slice

Raphael:

Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.

Hands:

Vertical and horizontal c-grips

Fists

Dramatic

Pair of Sai

Sai staff

Pizza slice

Mikey:

Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM mask/cowl.

Hands:

Vertical and horizontal c-grips

Fists

Dramatic

Pair of tonfa

Pair of nunchucks (reuse 2k3)

Twirling chucks (reuse 2k3)

Pizza slice

Venus:

She'd obviously be purely new Tooling. They shouldn't reuse April and Ninja April arms.

Second Vintage styled Head but with the TNM braids

Hands:

Vertical and horizontal c-grips

Fists

Dramatic

Hadoken

Tessen holding

Pair of tessen open and closed. 

Splinter:

Vanilla Splinter body with new heads and forearms.

Second head looking more like Vintage Splinter in grey

Splinter hands

Long walking stick with hidden blade

New TNM soft goods Robe and belt.

Sushi platter.

That would do for the good guys:

Deluxe versions:

Leo: (OG line coloring)

Vintage styled Head with right hand vertical c-grip and left horizontal c-grip.

Both double ninjatos.

Don: (OG Line coloring)

Vintage styled head and C-grips

Bo 

Raph's Sai staff

Raph: (OG Line coloring)

Vintage styled Head with C-grips

Pair of Sai

Mike:(OG Line coloring)

Vintage styled Head with C-grips

Pair of tonfa

Venus: (a shade of green between raph and mike)Vintage styled Head with a dramatic hand and a tessen holding hand

Tessen open and closed.

Splinter: (OG Line coloring)

Vintage styled Head with C-grips

Soft goods Robe in Vintage fuchsia with burgundy accents and black belt.

Walking stick/sword

Now for the other characters: The Bad Guys:

Dragonlord:

New sculpt using the MOTUC body as a base.

Soft goods robe/cloak

1 Playmates toys inspired head, 1 show accurate head

Standard hands

Dragon sword, Dragon Axe

Shredder:

Maybe they can use a modified OG Shredder body with new torso with slip on shoulderpads and slip on forearm blades. 

Heads:

TNM Shredder head and Wild Haired Hobo Oroku Saki.

The Usual hands 

Soft goods robes and hakama

Sword.

Now, I'm not that well versed in TNM as I saw like 6 episodes tops. But two more of those slots can be filled with the army Builders for the Dragonlord and Shredder. That makes 4. The last two slots could be other villains from the show. I do remember an episode with a vampire chick. She could prove useful as a roster filler. Add another show villain and boom. 12 figures done and after checking tmntmuseum, there were only 13 characters made by Playmates for TNM.

To be honest though I only want the Turtles and maybe Shredder for the Plays with Squirrels Saki.

Captain Falcon vs Senile General Ross: a rant

 I'm NOT going to watch it on theaters because I don't feel like it. No, it has nothing to do with Anthony Mackie being black. I simply don't think I should spend $20+ on a movie I'm not that interested in watching. Same thing applies to the Thunderbolts. 

Both of those movies are screaming: "Watch it on Disney+." Fantastic Four, I MAY see at theaters after I watch Superman, but I might end up watching it on D+. 

I'm not a fan on how they're introducing Adamatium, as it means that Weapon X is not a project attempting to Remake Captain America.

Hell, I'm not a fan of Red Hulk. Even if the movie was starring Chris Evans as Captain America, the movie itself doesn't excite me as much as say: First Avenger, Winter Soldier, or Civil War.

But to be fair, it's not just Marvel. It's moviegoing in general. 

Haley Joel Osment saw Street Fighter (1994)

 And has taken another World Warrior from us. Peter Navy Tuiasosopo has been targeted by Osment's Necrosight. 

Apparently, heart problems were the cause of his demise.

I'm not going to pretend that I knew about his football past or about his many acting roles. 

I literally knew him as Edmond Honda. That's it. But as always my condolences to friends and family. Mahalo, Pete.

We have a Fisto and a Sorceress

 Fisto seems to be a big guy from Game of Thrones and Teela-Na is Deadpool's wife. 

These have been the least WTF casting choices for this movie. Guess the cringe will be real. And the worst part is that I'll be at theaters to watch this train wreck in the making. I want to believe that this will be good, but I've little faith.

So we'll have a Poing Super Combat! If they have a fisting joke; I'm gonna be so happy and so disappointed at the same time. Will they dress sorceress as the chicken lady? Did they cast Ram Man? Oh no Fisto and Ram Man... I can see the gay jokes cumming. 

The movie will never top this video

BBTS is no longer partnered up with sezzle:

 There goes the pay in 4 option they had. This change is effective on Feb 17. This is a bummer for customers outside the continental 48 as it eased the blow on preorders and pile of loot. We don't get the $4 flat shipping. Sure, the rates weren't as rapey as Entertainment Earth's but they add up.

This becomes an issue when companies have wonky delays in shipping stuff. Not naming companies but they rhyme with Becca and Duper Heaven, especially Duper Heaven. This will severely impact advent calendars after 2025. Hopefully they'll partner up with another service that does the same... Uh, Klarna?

Oh well...

Stormco's Alpha 3 most wanted:

 I don't trust Storm Collectibles to do the entire Street Fighter Alpha 3 roster.

Posted the Arcade Roster, since it's the basic version and has less characters than the home console versions. Using This roster, I'll pick my top 11 wants that aren't Ryu and Ken.

11: Gen:

I want the Master Assassin so he can face off against SFIIT Akuma.

10: Sodom:

Childhood me used to get beaten by him. Now, I like making him my bitch. Also, I need all the Final Fight guys.

9: Rolento:

The Elusive Final Fight Boss, who wasn't on the SNES version... but I can still kick his ass in other ports!

8: Guy:

I need to get all the Final Fight in 1:12 scale as possible.

7: Cody:

From hero to criminal, soon to become Mayor, my favorite hero from the OG Final Fight.

6: Charlie: 

Guile needs to avenge him.

5: Rainbow Mika:

Zangief needs his apprentice/beard.

4: Rose:

I hope Storm considers soft goods here as plastic clothes will make the a statue.

3: Karin:

The Ken To Sakura's Ryu...

2: Sakura:

You know that it wouldn't be a Street Fighter list without my favorite Girl...

1: DAN!!!

The Man, The Myth, The Legend... The Master of the Strongest Style is my most wanted figure.

Why no Chun Li or Cammy?

Because storm collectibles is gonna make those two. By making Cammy they can pad the line up with the Dolls. What I'm gonna say is blasphemous, but Juni and Juri don't deserve individual releases. One release with both heads shall suffice. Sure. We'll have to double dip but, Getting both characters in a single release saves us from "wasted slots". They are exaclty the same from the neck down with no color variation. So, both dolls under one figure leaves Storm woth room for another release.

Here comes a New Challenger!!

 I am talking about Storm Collectibles "More affordable 1:12 figures".

BBTS, The only official Stormco Distributor I'm the US has Ken for Preorder.

Preorder is at $26.⁹⁹ which is $2.⁰⁰ Over the Jada Figures. Let's see what he has:

• 2 heads (neutral, cocky)
• 6 hands (hadoken, fists, Victory hand, and come on hand)
• Flaming Shoryuken effect
• Clear stand

My only worry is that the figures suffer the curse of the MK Ninjas.

I stand corrected. There are two worries. The second one is Stormco's inability to produce a full roster, because they're soooooooooo fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkiiiiiiiìiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg ssssssssssssssssssssssssssslllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww with releases. 

So they'll do Ken, Ryu, Dan, repaints, Cammy, Juni, Juri, Repaints, Chun Li, Charlie, Repaints announce Karin, Rainbow Mika and Rose! line's dead now they're doing Capcom vs SNK where they show Maki, Eagle, Ryo Sakazaki, Yuri Sakazaki, Benimaru, line's dead before the first release.

Guess I'll rant later about.my top wants here...

Naughty or Nice update:

 Things are looking a bit grim for me here. With less than. 5 days to go and here are the results so far:

Zombie Pirate Santa: Success!

Santa's Sleigh: Success!

Centaurs: Very Close to Success 

I'd say about less than 100 preorders to reach the minimum goal. In the end, they made it.

Kids: In extreme Danger:

It looks like they need somewhere between 1000-1100 units to reach the minimum. 

If you haven't pre-ordered and you wanted something, DO EET NAO!! ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE INTO KIDS... NOT IN THAT WAY... I mean for Christmas displays... with Santa... or Krampus Especially Krampus who needs kids to beat up and kidnap!

Mattel, I fucking love you!!

 Sadly, it's not He-Man related. 

Yes, judging by the song you could say this is about Vin Diesel's lost brother.

Mattel is making a fully invisible John.Cena. Unlike the Previous release This figure is an elite figure and is fully invisible.

Here you can see the basic version which has colored clothing... The new elite figure is purely in clear plastic,making us unable to see John Cena. I want this figure so fucking bad! 

I would also like a Classic Triple H Elite figure with an alternate water fountain head. 

I would also like more vehicles like kurt angle's milk truck, austin's beer truck, a limo and a garbage truck. 

Another TMNT ULTIMATES Accessory pack/character "upgrade" rant

 With the high chance of Ultimates lines downsizing, Accessory packs might be the way to spice up TMNT Ultimates! 

Undercover Pack:

I've done variations of this before. But instead of individual packs this will be a 4 turtle pack, making it the most expensive pack:

-4 fedora heads: one for each turtle (from UC Raph)

-4 Trenchcoats (from UC Raph)

-4 Masks (inspired by the 1987 VAs)

1. Cam Clarke for Leo
2. Barry Gordon for Don
3. Rob Paulsen for Raph
4. Townsend Coleman for Mike

Of course 4 trenchoats and masks an accessory pack does not make. We need to add MORE!! Let's do some undercover espionage gadgets

-UC Raph Thermal Goggles

-New Gas Mask (can fit vanilla Turtles too)

-Binoculars

-riot shield Briefcase. 

Now we add Ninja Weapons because TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 

-Pair of Wakizashi (easier to conceal than 2 katana)

-Collapsible Bo staff with stun gun attachment

-pair of jitte(easier to conceal than full on sais)

-rope Nunchucks (more silent than chained)

Now the Undercover Turtles need something more and uncharacteristic of TMNT: GUNS.

-UC Raph revolver Repainted

-New Walther P38 No stock nor sight

-New FAMAS rifle

-Pair of knives inspired by UC Don

If TMNT get Deluxe releases, this set could help move the releases.

Breaking News pack:

This set is for April 1.0 

Soft goods coat

4 heads:

-April II Inspired head

-Judith Hoag inspired head

-Paige Turco inspired head

-More Toon Accurate head (as seen with Ninja April heads.)

Ninja April Camera in blacks and grays to match the 1.0 camera. 

Utility belt (APRIL II Homage item.)

Mic that can hang on Utility belt

Mini camera that can hang on utility belt

Laptop computer.

New extra hands:

(Pointing, counting, OK, etc.)

Of course part of this set would be obsolete if April 2.0 is made.

Oroku Saki Upgrade pack: 

As the name suggests, this is a Shredder upgrade pack:

Heads:

-inspired by Wacky Action in Blue

-inspired by wacky action in silver

-inspired by Cyber Samurai in Blue

-inspired by Cyber Samurai in Silver

-Oroku Saki head

Extra hands:

-Vintage inspired 3 finger dramatic hands

-2 finger Ninja hands

-fists with Blades silver

-bladed fists blue

Weapons:

-Naginata

-Evil Communicator

-serrated sword

Soft goods tunic grey (for sulver)

Soft goods tunic burgundy (for blue)

Basically this set pimps up both Shredders.

Foot Arsenal:

This set is intended as Weapons for the Foot Soldiers in Foot Soldoer colors.

-2 Katana

-2 Naginata

-6× Kunai

-3× dynamite sticks

-manhole cover

-3× boomerang

-Bow and arrows

 Extra hands

-2× Archery hands

-2× battle damaged hands

2×Severely battle damaged head attached to a partial torso with mangled arm (this is more of a diorama piece like the ran over Mousers from the party wagon. Though I want to explore severe battle damaged foot soldiers as figures and diorama pieces. Love the idea of half foot bodies trying to cling to the turtles to slow then down.  Terminator 1 style stuff.)

Punk pack:

This is a reference to Bebop and Rocksteady being called "Punk" on the Board game where Mike and Don have different colors. This pack has no heads as not all figures have swappable heads.

Extra hands:

-Dramatic hands R

-Dramatic hands B

-pointing R

-pointing B

-trigger hands R

-Trigger hands B

Weapons and stuff

New properly scaled Machinegun R

New Bandolier with plug for wood sword R

New Wood sword R

New Speargun R

Triceraton Gun B

2× New Traag Gun  RB sized

2× New Traag Rifle RB sized

2× Large sized Evil Communicator.

Muck Pack:

As you may have guessed Muckman is the main star here.

New Joe Eyeball in a hanging from trashcan rim pose.

Alt. Head coverings.

Slip on slime effects for his holes. (Mouth, torso.)

Various Extra hands be creative, aside expressions, having  muck weapons (Think more putty patroller, less carnage)

Muck puddles

I want to add muck traps, think Marvel Legends Spider-Man web traps. 1 for Turtle/Human sized and the other larger for Rocsteady, Slash, etc.

These but looking like Muck instead of webbing.

Mutagen Man Dramatic hands

Random thingies to drop inside him.

Hamato Yoshi/Splinter Pack:

While we haven't gotten a Hamato Yoshi figure, this pack would free Space for the figure. 

-4× Turtles from Mutagen Man.

-Bird Cage

-Martial Arts Brown Rat to put in cage.

-Empty amd broken Ooze canister

-Ooze puddle (to put the 4 Turtles before they grow to the turtles from the Mouser pack.

-Art History book opened on The Renaissance chapter.

-sushi tray with removable rolls

-Japanese tea set

-soft goods belt (shredder)

-tanto with sheathe

Hamelin pack:

This is a reference to the pied piper, Rat King:

Heads:

-canceled w10 pretty boy heads

-pretty boy head with fedora

-vintage with fedora

-soft goods tattered grey trenchcoat

8× Rats (the 3 from the canceled w10) Plus 5 new rats (reuse martial arts rat from Splinter pack)

Soda can bandolier with removable cans

Staff made out of Footski flagpole

Cheese wheel

Cheese slice

Plate or Ratatouille (reference to the cardback, not the Disney movie)

These are just a few samples. 

These would be easier to make if we had MORE characters. These packs would also be a nice way to introduce Roadkill Rodneys.

Playing the MOTU game with Super7 Ultimates:

 The MOTU game is trying to make new figures out of pre-existing parts with the least amount of new body parts:

For example: Aska

New head(s)

Ninja April Torso, Arms, Crotch, shins below the boot cut

Normal April feet

New thighs and shins above the boot cut

Sewer Samurai kunai

Something like that but with maybe less new pieces. If they have pre-existing bare thighs, they could use those for Aska.

Street Vigilante Turtles:

Essentially a Beat-em'up wave of Turtles.

Leonardo

Heads:

Rocker Leo closed Eyes

Vanilla Leo

Arms:

Wandering Leo

Torso: New

Bare "chest" with pants. Think Punker Don but without the punk look and jacket.

Legs: 

Rappin Mike 

Feet:

Sewer Samurai

Accessories:

Katana

Kunai

Pizza slice

Broken Casey Bat

Leo is going for a Martial Artist Vigilante vibe 

Donatello 

Heads:

Vanilla Don

Slam Dunk Don

Arms:

Space Cadet Raph

Legs: 

Space Cadet Raph

Torso: Metalhead

Accessories:

Metalhead Backpack

Metalhead Radar Dish

New plug in Backpack Blaster

New Laser Bo

UC Raph Night Vision Goggles

Space Cadet Raph Visor

Pizza slice

Donnie is going for a more High Tech Superhero type Vigilante

Raphael

Heads:

Vanilla Raph

New head with Casey Styled Mask.

Arms:

Wandering Leo

Legs:

Rappin Mike

Torso:

Slam Dunk Don

Accessories:

Casey weapons

New golf bag with Sai loops

Sai

Pizza slice

Coffee cup from Splinter 

Raphael is taking the Casey Approach for his Vigilante look

Michelangelo 

Head:

Rappin Mike Hat head

Arms:

Slam Dunk Don 

Legs:

New untorn jeans with the Rappin Mike sneakers

Torso: Rocker Leo

Accessories:

Nunchucks

Pizza box

New sushi tray

New Stop sign shield

Mikey is going for the more Videogame Beat-em'up/fighting game look.

Let's see what else can I do:

Random Variants:

Pit Fighter Slash

Heads:

Slash

Arms: Slash with new Rahzar Pads

Torso Slash with new Belt and Torso overlay (Rahzar's torn shirt with Grille "armor" with Loincloth belt)

Legs: Slash

Accessories:

New Spinal whip (a whip made out of a spine with a cranium reminiscent of Rahzar's Vintage club)

New Barbarian Helmet that fits both Slash Heads.

New Mutton club

New Fantasy styled Keg

Slash sword 

New Seashell Scimitar (inspired by Mutatin' Tokka.

Yes, this Slash is poking fun at Tokka and Rahzar. Not to mention bringing some toy inspired stuff for them in a backdoorsy way.

Jungle Warfare Rocksteady:

Heads:

Normal Rocksteady

New Helmetless head

New Bandana Head

Body:

Rocksteady Body with new Bandolier. Recolored in Rambo First Blood Part 2 colors

New hands:

Trigger hands

Dramatic hands

Pushknife hands

Archery hands

Accessories:

New Pushknives×2 inspired by Coleco Rambo

New Bow and arrows inspired by Rambo

Knife

Machinegun

Soft goods Jungle "ghillie suit" poncho made by jungle green and brown fake fur.

This is basically a more premium Rocksteady And setting up a Deluxe release cartoon repaint.

Vandal Bebop: 

Heads:

Normal Bebop head with cartoon inspired glasses.

New screaming head with semi articulated tongue. (About 180° movement)

Body:

Bebop Body with new Vest inspired by the Toon Bebop Human form vest. Basically a bigger collar for the vest and new Turtle shell epaulets. These would be painted in olive yellow and olive green. His pants would be in dark navy blue and his shoes would be painted like Chuck Taylor Converse.

Hands:

Standard (c-grips, punch)

New Dramatic

New spray can holding hands

Accessories:

Triceraton gun

Spray can (with interchangeable tops: No spray, spraying) 

Turtle flaying Morningstar with real chain

Turtle flaying Morningstar with twirling effect

Flying double sided sickle

This figure is an homage to both toon and wacky action Bebop.

Any of the never made Punk Frogs:

I won't go into too much detail as these are Genghis repaints with a new Necklace, crotchpiece, and Accessories. If feeling generous a new alternate head would be added.

Elite Foot Soldier:

I've discussed this one already: New head, New accessories, Shredder soft goods cape.

Shredder:

This would be am Archie inspired Shredder.

Heads:

Normal Shredder in silver helmet but blue facemask.

New Cyber Samurai Shredder head (aka SOTO head) in silver helmet and blue facemask.

Body:

Shredder Body in blue with Silver spikes and grey foot wraps.

New soft goods Purple Torso overlay with soft goods belt

Shredder soft goods cape. 

New hands:

Vintage inspired 3-finger grip

Accessories:

Same old Katana

New spiked Mace (Think smaller, slightly wimpier Super Shredder mace)

The idea is to have a "transitional Shredder to Super Shredder" while staying within the realm of actual variants from the 80s-90s.

Freelancer April: 

Heads:

All three April v1 Heads

Body:

New Torso with bomber jacket and teal blouse and new jacket Arms. (arms can be swapped) and jacket is removable. 

April v1 crotch

Ninja April Thighs

April v1 lower legs and feet.

Accessories:

Ninja April Camera

April v1 gun

Microphone 

Alternate bare arms made from both Ninja April and V1

An inferior alternative is a soft goods jacket which reduces the amount of new parts by 5.

It's VERY LOOSELY inspired by Redsky April... not to mention we get some variation.

Japan Branch Foot Ninja:

These would be the Human Foot Clan.

Heads: 

New Bandana Head

Plain head

Body

New Torso

New shoulders if Casey's aren't usable.

New vambraces to use on Shredder arms.

Foot Soldier crotch and legs

Accessories:

Rack weapons

Katana

Bo staff with new Halberd tip

New Sansetsukon.

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Unlike MOTU whose homogenous body part system allows for easier parts swapping TMNT is too diverse to do so as easily. NECA has Rocksteady, Bebop, AND Leatherhead on the same body with a few different parts/overlays. 

But even some "Easy characters" like TOKKA require way too many new parts to be an effective reused parts character:

New Head(s): 1-2

Slash Torso

New shoulders 2

New biceps 2

New elbow pads 2

New wristbands 2

New hands 8

New buckle 1

That's 19 new parts before reaching his Accessories.

Super7 and the 3 figure wave rumor.

 IF TRUE and if they reestablish USPS as a shipping option for pre-orders, then it would be a godsend and I'd be able to split waves between S7 and BBTS. In some cases, I could theoretically get the whole wave from Super7.

Now the question is how will this affect THAT line.

My Guess is:

-New Variant/Non Vintage character

-vintage Variant/Repaint/MOTU styled maximum parts reuse figure

-Vintage characters

Let's make a few non-2k3 waves as examples 

Example 1:

New Variant, Redeco, Vintage character:

Martial Arts Mikey: inspired by Game of Death Bruce Lee.

Mirage Shredder: 

Wave 10 Shredder with black wraps red pants and Torso and silver blades. (See ReAction Mirage Shredder as reference)

Tokka:

Close to the Playmates Tokka (reusing Slash parts, but with new feet based on Turtles in Time in order to differentiate itself from both NECA and Playmates.

Example 2:

Non-Vintage character, Vintage Variant, Vintage character:

Mutated Carter: 

Carter in his mutant form MOTUC body highly recommended. Weapons would be "Super Shredder styled" Rack weapons, because Carter learned under Splinter.

Don the Undercover Turtle:

For some reason, I see Super7 making this with soft goods to appease Playmates and taking some liberties.

Like my custom, but with some Vintage figure accessories and some new ones.

General Traag:

Here Kyle will pull a Rat King with Traag amd pseudo vintageize a Shredder's Revenge Traag.

Wave example 3:

Non-Vintage Character, Low New Tool character, vintage character:

Granitor:

Gets some Traag parts pre-made. Also it gives Kyle the excuse to make Traag similar to Granitpr if he can't go full Playmates on him.

Rasputin the Mad Frog:

Refuses the whole.Genghis body, Repainted.

Refuses Splinter's Bow and Arrows

New pieces: Quiver, Archery hands

Napoleon Bonafrog:

For the Most Part he'd be Playmates-like but with a few changes to appease the Master License golder.

Example 4:

New Variant, Vintage Variant, Vintage Character:

"Punk" Rocksteady:

This is based on the 1987 Pizza Power boardgame where both Rocksteady and Bebop were called "Punk" Essentially it's Toon Rocksteady in Vintage toy colors... but that would be lazy... I'm looking at the European version of the game, where he is called Kerato.

It would only require a new torso/heads, but premakes the toon redeco.

I mean, the American is a nice excuse to get a Toon Rocksteady Body, but check Kerato out!

Shut up and take my money! Personally i'm not too sold on his color palate but the design is killer! It's like Rocksteady made love to mad max..

Heavy Metal Raph:

We want the 80s Glam rock, hair metal Raph, Kyle!! None of that black metal, death metal, goth metal bullshit!

Dask:

The sculpt would be mimicking Playmates but with the proper Cartoon application. Translation: Cheez Whiz Yellow pants.

At the end of the day, all this does is delay releases to a drip in a line like TMNT. 

B-Flynn is slowly becoming Neitlich 2.0 with the corporate double speak, "alternative facts",  and skullduggery. But Playmates is throwing wrenches to screw over S7 instead of looking for ways to collaborate. Like say, softening up their grip on the toy designs in exchange for Playmates getting access to the new variants/ Characters to be fully vintageized... like say 5" scale wandering Leo, Karai,  and Guerrilla Gorilla. For example. Last but not least, Vintage Purists. Yeah, Playmates is being a little bit h about things, wanting the line to fail because Traag won't have the stupid Creepy crawlies from Playmates is dumb.