Mar 3, 2025

Another TMNT-STYLE Character creation ideas.

 I wasn't planning on making on of these, but someone sent me this:

I lost it. A baby pygmy hippo. That made me think, there are plenty of animals that can be turned into Mutants.

Piphat
A mutated Muay Thai fighter known as the cobra who had lost a battle against Oroku Saki. He was turned into a Thai Cobra who fights in underground Mutant fighting tournaments for Shredder. Unlike Rocksteady and Bebop, Piphat is biding his time until he can turn on Shredder and be free from Saki. His name is based on  Thai classical music arrangement

Visually, I want him Shredder sized, as Scaletail would be too big. Here I will be applying some MOTUC styling as only his head, torso, shoulders, hands and feet will be scaly. This purposely made decision is to sell the Human/snake hybrid look for him. In fact, his pra jiad (Muay Thai armbands) should be made of his recently shedded human skin. Woth the hands and feet being scaly while the thighs and upper shins are scaleless. He would reuse Shredder's forearms and shins due to the wrapping.
Heads:
Hoodless head with articulated jaw
Hooded head with open jaw and hole for plug in venom skittle
Hoodless head dizzy with snake tongue sticking out.
Hands:
C-grips
Fists
Dramatic
Thumbs up left hand (for neck slitting motion)
Pointing right hand
Accessories:
Thai sword
Thai staff
Venom spitting effect
One eyed Tiger pelt that can be worn on hoodless heads. (Yes, one eyed Tiger is a nod to SAGAT)


Terrence Wolfe:
College student and pledge at a fraternity (ΣAB) who was doused with Ooze and thrown in a wolf enclosure at the zoo. After being turned into an anthropomorphic wolf, Terrence became a Party Animal and his fraternity mascot. Since he no longer can compete in human sports, he occasionally helps the Turtles for the sake of kicking Robot and Mutant butt.

Picture a Humanoid wolf about Rat King size wearing a removable torn blue sleeve red Letterman jacket with his Fraternity letters on the back. Sporting blue Martial arts pants with a removable bandolier think Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos. With bare feet.
Heads:
Snarling
Upwards howling head
Chillaxed head
Snarling head with Frat Trucker Cap
Hands:
Standard hands
Hang ten left hand
Come on Right hand
Victory sign left hand
Rock on right hand
Accessories:
Mutton roast
Oversized cricket paddle
Rappin Mike Boombox/Turntable
Sunglasses
Barbell with removable weights (to use as a staff and discus weapons)

The idea came from watching Teen Wolf and tossing some Terry Bogard references (The name Terrence, the hat, and the Mutton Roast, because Hungry Wolf) everything else was basically a more Animal looking Teen Wolf reference.

Ooze Teen:
Teenage boy + Vat of Ooze = Trouble. After falling into a vat of flawed Retromutagen Ooze, Oscar Knight was not OK. Turned into a sentient glob of Ooze, Ozzie Knight decided to become a Superhero. Using the name Ooze Teen, Oscar curbstomps the Foot one Foot Soldier a Day before bedtime.

Essentially a Teenager body (about D&D Ultimates Hank sized) but in featureless full body "tights" made out of GITD white Plastic.
The figure requires interchangeable arms with  longer extra oozed arms. Long arms only have articulation at the shoulder and bicep swivel. The length is more than the figure itself as they also function as a "flight stand"
He also needs interchangeable feet
Heads:
Normal Oscar (painted in Normal human colors, dark skinned.)
Normal Oscar in GITD plastic with painted neon green eyes.
Ooze Teen "masked head" think featureless face like Spider-Man but with big Green bulgy eyes.
Hands:
Standard hands in GITD plastic
Horizontal c-grips in flesh tone.

Accessories:
GITD Ooze puddle with "flat Ooze Teen face".
GITD Oozed arm grabber/dramatic hands
GITD Oozed arm punching hands
GITD Oozed arms hover "hands"
GITD Splat feet
Normal feet. Normal colors
Normal feet GITD 
Soft goods tracksuit pants
Soft goods tracksuit hoodie
Backpack

The idea was to have a Spider-Man type character. (Kid with powers trying to be normal, but bound to use his new powers to help. Combined With elements of the Invisible man (hence the hooded tracksuit and swappable hands and feet.)
The reason for the soft goods clothing is that it can be piled up on the floor and the "shoe feet" whole having Ozzie in his "Alex Mack puddle".

(A thermochromic Variant could be released later on)

Kenta Nuki:
A thief whose reputation as Master of disguise piqued the interest of Karai. Tasked with stealing Ooze from Shredder, he accidentally got exposed to it and Mutated into a Tanuki. Now he's Under Karai's employ to sabotage both Shredder and the Mutanimals.

He's meant to share parts with Tattoo. Mainly the upper Torso, arms and legs. Feet and hands would be new and the crotch in order to have a soft goods mawashi with a tailhole. You can wrap his Bolos and hide them under the mawashi as a nod to his cultural big balls.
Heads:
Neutral
Grinning
Wearing a japanese "thief disguise"
Hands:
Standard hands
Bolo twirling right hand
Accessories:
-Oversized straw hat with string. Can be worn on head or let hang on his back creating the halo effect from some Tanuki statues
-Buddhist monk staff
-Oversized Bolos with real string
-Oversized Bolos in twirling effect
-sake jug
-soft goods blue sash (Think sf6 Ryu)
-kasa-obake little buddy (umbrella yokai)

The idea is to have a Tanuki character and try to add his big balls in a "family friendly" way. Hence the Argentinian Bolos.

Bodybags:
A morgue worker who got hit by an Ooze booby trap when doing the autopsy of a Shredder worm clone. When he woke up, he discovered he could use other corpses to reconfigure himself for combat thanks to the mutated worm colony. Now believing he's an undead Oroku Saki, he wants to destroy the Turtles once and for all.

Essentially this is a Modulok knockoff. 
The main body is a Biohazard suit with tears at the joints where the worm colony can be seen.

Heads:
-Corpse
--Eyeball
-Biohazard suit 
-unknown partial animal head
-worm colony head

5 neck connectors 

Various Y connectors, similar to Modulok

-Biohazard torso
-worm torso

-Two legged Biohazard crotch
-Three legged worm crotch
-Four legged worm crotch

6 arms:
Biohazard
Worm colony
Corpse

6 legs:
Biohazard 
Worm colony
Corpse

Hands:
Biohazard: C grips, dramatic
Worm: fists, dramatic 
Corpse: c grips, fists

Accessories:
2 vinyl bodybags to put in all the spare parts.

The reason the figure doesn't have any weapons is because he already has too many body parts that you can combine in different configurations... Also, this figure could potentially work as an army builder. Since you can buy multiples and create even bigger abominations. And yes, the 3 legged crotch on combination with the eyeball is a shirime reference.

Bachata:
A Palmchat mutated by improperly disposed Ooze. She now protects East Harlem. Normally she sticks to helping ladies cross the street, help the sick with their groceries, mostly peaceful stuff. But if the Foot comes a knocking, Bachata will protect her flock.

Picture an anthropomorphic female Palmchat sporting a T-shirt (shirt sporting the Dominican Republic flag) with an open zip-up hoodie and sweatpants. Her hoodie should be swappable like Ace Duck for the optional wings.

Heads:
Neutral
Chirping

Hands:
Usual hands 
Pepper spray using hands 

Accessories:
Dual stun guns
Dual pepper spray cans with spraying effect
Dual collapsing batons
Walkman with headphones
Starfruit

I'm simply adding some representation Chinatown has Hothead, so I thought El Barrio needed a hero. I just didn't want to make a fully fledged fighter. So I went for the community organizer approach.


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Medusinha:
A Brazilian herpetologist who gained the enmity of a criminal organization in her country, who was exporting dangerous snakes for Shredder. Driven insane after her mutation, she withdrew to the Amazon where she hunts down poachers and other criminals. While antisocial, she befriended Leonardo when he went to the Amazon to train.

By the name, the character is supposed to look like Medusa. 
Picture a body similar to the Harryhausen Medusa from Clash of the Titans (the movie that made me.) But sporting a Pelé shirt and a vest with sleeves torn off. Her face should vaguely resemble Xuxa, but with needy glasses and Golden Lance snakes for hair. Her skin coloring should resemble the Golden lance snakes.

Heads:
Relaxed head with relaxed Snakes resembling flowing hair 
Angry head with snakes moving to the sides of the head hissing

Usual hands
Archery hands

Accessories:
Splinter's Bow and arrows
Snake arrows
Jungle knife
Satchel with refrigerated anti venom case

I wanted a Medusa, but didn't want to go with the Greek Gorgons,  so I had to Improvise, adapt, overcome. YouTube dropped a TMNT movie related video explaining Nightwatcher, so I thought of Jungle Ghost Leonardo. There I thought of Ilha da Quemaida Grande and everything began to take shape. Decided to make her a good gal to subverting the Snake = Evil. Which is funny because I have ophidiophobia. 

Mr.Weenie:
A Hot Dog Vendor from Hell's Kitchen, Joseph Weiner, accidentally used Ooze instead of Hot Dog water for his cart. Becoming a Man/Weiner/Hot Dog Cart abomination, he now slings Glizzies for the Foot. 

Picture a filthy Hot Dog shaped man, sporting a green sleeveless shirt, a yellowed Hot Dog Vendor hat who sits on the water reservoir of his hotdog cart. You can remove him from the cart and see two tiny peg legs that can be connected to fake legs (unarticulated) hos arms are longer than his body length without the fake legs. Meaning he walks with his hands when not riding the cart.

Heads: 
Derp face
Angry face

Hands:
C-grips
Dramatic
Fists
Gun trigger
"Feet" hands
Hot Dog tossing hand 

Accessories:
Hot Dog Cart lower body. The hot dog cart should have bog wheels that Mr. Weenie can roll his cart like a wheel chair.
Fake crotch with legs. These connect to the cart when not in use. (As they're meant to be an extension of the cart.)
Condiment gun
Weiner whip.
Teeny Weenie (small cocktail sausage body who can plug into the hot dog water or the fake legs)
3× Nasty dogs

Yes, he's meant to be a rival/partner to Pizzaface.  He takes the Dirty Water Dogs to a whole new level.

Slicerdicer:
A Mutated Sawfish who was trained to fight Merdude and Ray Fillet. He serves Shredder for the sake of wreaking havoc.

He would reuse Ray Fillet's legs and lower arms. Getting a new torso, crotch, upper arms, and a ray/shark pseudo cape like Ray Fillet. His head would have Cyber implants to look "chainsaw-esque" his torso would be a sleeveless diving suit with a design inspired by the Archie Man-Ray but in "evil colors"
 His skin tone would be a greysh olive green.

Heads: 
Grinning with the nose saw "turned off"
Screaming with the nose saw "turned on"

Hands:
Ray Fillet hands
Dramatic hands

Accessories:
Aquatic chainsaw
Serrated spear
Harold the Goblin Shark (a Small anthropomorphic Goblin Shark buddy in a pose reminiscent of Green Goblin flying on the glider.)

Burikimusha:
A descendant of Sasaki Kojiro, Sasaki Kenta was raised in the way of the warrior. He became an Interpol agent as the way of the wandering Samurai was outdated. After the Foot eliminated his family, Kenta quit Interpol to hunt down Shredder.

Picture a guy in a Military commando uniform with Military styled armed reminiscent of Shredder.

Heads:
Unmasked Kenta
Samurai Helmet (with Old school Samurai mask and helmet, reminiscent of Shredder's but far more ornate. SHOGUN Shredder helmet)
Eating umasked head
Commando head (balaclava and goggles)
Hands:
Reuse Foot Soldier hands

Accessories 
Katana
Wakizashi
Handgun
6×Takoyaki
Removable Samurai styled belt with fauld

The idea was to make a modern era Samurai WITHOUT making an actual samurai. So a "faker Shredder" became part of my visual idea.  His role is more like a Tuxedo Mask/Protoman. He shows up, distracts the enemy long enough for the actual heroes to do their job. 


Freezerburn: 
An Arsonist mutated into a leopard seal with ice powers by Shredder. Angry at the world, he will burn everything to the ground with the Power of ice and a little good ol' fashioned arson.

Picture an anthropomorphic Leopard Seal sporting slotted sunglasses sporting an Orange and yellow winter parka, red cargo pants and a Single brown boot. The other foot is bare and partially turned into a flipper.

Heads:
Neutral
Angry
Firing ice eyeglass.

Hands:
Standard hands
Holding lighter left hand

Accessories:
Lighter
2× Molotov cocktails
Ice eye beam effect 
Backpack with freeze ray
Robot Bebop shield


Cat Lady
Julia "Kitt" Merryweather, Veterinarian, found a wounded Scratch and tried to give medical help to the wounded feline. Enraged he attacked  her with his claws. This caused his Mutant blood combine with the Veterinarian's. As she laid dying, the Mutagen in Scratch's blood began changing her. Human by day, Mutant cat by night Kitt became the Cat Lady a Feline Vigilante who harbors feeling for King Lionheart.

If this had been a Vintage figure it would've been a repainted Mutatin' April with new heads.  
But since this would be a theoretical list for Super7, we get to do something Different:
A new Body Based on Mirage April's First Appearance. (TMNT 2) but with a turtleneck
The long sleeves, full legs pants and Turtleneck are needed to reduce the amount of cat parts.

Her crotch would have a peg like Scratch's to plug her tail, but the crotch should have a emovable fanny pack on her back. Which you swap from cat and human modes.

Heads:
Human (Think a fusion of Julie Newmar and Lee Meriwether)
Cat (Think something between Scratch and her human form)

Hands:
Reuse April hands
New Cat hands:
C-grips Fists, dramatic

Accessories:
-Human mode closed Fannypack
-Cat.mode fanny pack with open Zipper for her tail to poke out.
-Catnip grenades
-Cat wand whip
-scratch pad shield



Mar 2, 2025

2k3 Ultimates top most wanted figures

 I need to pad out March in order to have a tail end weekend getaway. So, here's a list of characters I wanna see in the line. Is Turtles Forever available? That way we could get 1987 toon accurate Turtles with 2k3 Articulation.

But this list won't have Turtles or April, since I can request Multiple 2k3 April variants.

So let's get the obvious ones out of the way:

Hun

Obvious choice was obvious. I'm only requesting Human Hun. If Mutated Hun comes later down the line, whatever.

Bishop

He's the leader of a third faction, the EPF. I would most likely get eventual RPF Army. Builders, ESPECIALLY if they're Deluxe figures.

Baxter Stockman

Human form first, please. Let's leave the Robotic Abomination for later.

The Justice Force

Another faction, but these should be released  separately in order to make them accessible.
The Minimum I'd accept for a Team:
  • Silver Sentry
  • Ananda
  • Chrysalis
  • Tsunami
  • Metal Head
  • Nobody
  • Stainless Steel Steve
  • Metal Head
  • Zippy Lad
  • Doc Dome
The last four would be The old age versions to act as Mentors... 

Rat King

I need Rat King, I get Rat King. I literally own 3 Ultimates Rat Kings. So let's make it 4-5 

Shredder clones

This was.
 To be expected, especially since I'm abusing the idea of shredder. Clones already with The vintage Shredders. But I want the crab Shredder, the quadra-armed Shredder, and the mini Shredder... Now that I think of it, they don't make sense. Since 2k3 Shredder is an Utrom in an android body, how does he have "Humanoid clones"?

Fugitoid

I prefer the sleeper Mirage Aesthetic and 2k3 is closer to it than 1987. 

Usagi

If S7 clears the air with Sakai, then a 2k3 Usagi would be perfect for me, as he has the look I prefer.

Triceraton

I want Fugitoid, a 2k3 Triceraton allows me to have different looking Triceratons.

Karai as Shredder

I already have a Vanilla Karai and I think the Shredder Armored look is fine for her. Hopefully the Mirage NECA Shredder Karai will be available at my local Best Buy...

Doctor Chaplin 

I tend to favor supporting characters. 
Especially those who make Sexy killer Karai Bots...

Who the fuck let Cade in? But can't argue with his logic. Also, later on a Battle Gear Chaplin would be nice. 

Karaibots

These should be released in separate waves.

Reality Check versions of the CHARACTERS

That means mayor April, Casey as her assistant, The super turtles and the evil master Silver. No, this isn't an excuse to get April in a blazer and a skirt. 

Renet 

Like I'd forget the boobs beyond time and the girl they're attached to.

Savanti Romero 

If I have Renet, I need goatboi. You can't have a hero without their Nemesis. OK, you can, but, you know what I mean.

But as always the main problem woth the 2k3 line is too many danged humans. Notice, I didn't add characters like April's Sister, Casey Jones's mom, or that little kid.The one that used to be a 
Purple Dragon, Angel.

Oranges Fright Zone revealed

 A perfect complement to the Funko Primal Age Batcave. I still need to tackle that review.


Behold the Patio of Evil... it looks pretty much the same as the original but the floor trap featurw was made more obvious this time. Visit the Battle Ram blog for a more elaborate history of the Fright Zone and pics of the original Patio of Evil.

The vintage playset was kinda lame. It had very little to do and the Beast Monster was a mitten that broke by the third week, unless you took care of it.

Now we get an actual Monster figure... that's an improvement, but still kinda meh... 

That's right, Rainbow Dash. What can mattel do to make this place at more exciting? 
How about giving us an usable backside? That could work...

Wait? Did you just Flip the whole playset inside out? It's stupid genius. It's genius for Mattel because they ¼assed the hell out of it and got results. It's stupid because unlike Grayskull or Snake Mountain, you don't need to disassemble the whole thing to use BOTH the outside and inside of the playsets. 

Here you have to disassemble the floor and cell before flipping the walls inside out and making the other side unusable. A Few floor pieces, breakaway bridges and a placemat could've made both sides useful without breaking the wallet too much.

Mar 1, 2025

Mattel is back with DC

 Seems the McFarlane Experience is over. TO BE FAIR, getting Todd's toys is a bitch of an experience. I missed out on a classic Michael Keaton Batman, the Batmobile, the Batman Forever and Batman and Robin figures. I gave up on trying to build a Justice League because it was a bitch to get figures... Hell, he even stopped making the ammunition packs which I loved. Then there was the lack of a cohesive scale... I forgot to mention that I missed out on the Christopher Reeve Superman on the Fleischer animation Superman.

With that said, Mattel's distribution ain't that good either. Aside a Masterverse Atrás, I haven't seen masterverse figures in retail much less Oranges. (Turtles of Grayskull being an exception.)

I hope they don't get downgraded to Basic WWE styled figures, Because the WWE elite pricing is ludicrous.

Late 2026 is Mattel's time to shine... don't fuck up!

Losing DC might be a good thing for Todd.

 Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn, has some treats coming.

IDW TMNT Page Punchers... that kinda compete with The Loyal Subjects Best AXN line.

Alternate Feet? Curious. But this isn't what I am excited for Todd...

KLASSIC MORTAL KOMBAT FIGURES!!

Of course, Todd starts with the parts reuse right out the gate.
But to make matter worse, Mileena is relegated to a Two Pack with Sub Zero
My only nitpick is that they lack accessories. Subzero with no freeze effect? Liu Kang with no fireball? I swear if Todd makes a Kombat Pack, I'll scream. Also, make these widely available, because most of your figures are underproduced. And sell out worse than Mattycollector's beginnings.


NECA, What the Actual Fuck?

 What If Secret of the Ooze had used Rocksteady and Bebop instead of Tokka and Rahzar?


I fucking LOVE IT!! Hopefully you make these very accessible to get, because I missed out in Keno, Perry, SOTO Shredder. I lucked out getting a Tatsu (Advent Calendar review item)

By the way, where is My Yellow Jumpsuit Judith Hoag April? You promised me one and I'm still waiting. 

If other characters will be made, Arnold Schwarzenegger would be perfect for Rat King. The world is not ready for Schwarzehobbo. They weren't ready for Schwarzefrozen. 

Playmates could deliver the DEFINITIVE TMNT Figures

 I have a Playmates six inch Leonardo and Raphael coming and they will be Advent Calendar material. So this got me thinking:
"If Playmates stopped ⅛assing things, they could have the DEFINITIVE TMNT figures."

Taking the overused 6 inch Classic/Elite TMNT Body but with new heads, Belts, and Accessories to give these turtle boys an oomph! The Belts would be the Playmates OG line styled Belts and the Playmates OG line skintones. The heads would be based on the vintage toys too. I guess you already know where I'm going with this.

Leonardo:
This one is the simplest:
Heads:
-Vintage OG Leonardo
-Talking Leonardo 
-Head Droppin' Leonardo

Accessories:
-His 2 Katanas
-3 Shuriken (SOTO Release)
-mace from wacky action Leonardo
-Foot Bopper from Movie Star Leonardo 

Donatello: 
Now for Donatello:
Heads:
-Vintage OG Donatello
-wacky action Donatello
-Storage Shell Donatello

Accessories:
-Bo staff
-Sewer Swimming floater with spear
-Thermal Goggles from Undercover Raph
-Don's Sewer squirter Role Playing toy made in figure scale.

Raphael: 
Raph gets the following:
Heads:
-Vintage OG Raph
-Talking  Raph
-Ninja Action Raph

Accessories
-Pair of Sai
-Katar blade
-Boomerang from Storage Shell Raph
-pair of tonfa

Michelangelo:
The last Turtle:
Heads:
-OG Mike
-wacky action Mike
- Talking Mike

-Pair of chucks with real chain
-wacky action sansetsukon
-grappling hook with rope
-cold cut chucks from the SOTO Release.

I could add more stuff but I'm trying to keep them on the $20 to $25 range. Hell, I'd be willing to reach the $35 range if we get a fourth Head and interchangeable hands:
The existing articulated finger hands
C-grips
Fists
Chopping hands

The reasoning for the C-grips is for the figures to properly grab the weapons without dropping them, which is a main gripe with these. The proper fists and chopping hands are to cover the actions the articulated hands can't do properly.

Announce a modified Cowabunga Carl Van amd people may be a bit excited. Hell, you could even shrink these to be 5.5 inches so the bad guys are 6 inches and feel in-scale.