Mar 20, 2025

Another I NEEDS Pizzaface rant:

 I am campaigning for Pizzaface more than I did Melaktha in MOTU. (Now I wait as Mattel releases him in Oranges... to piss me off.) But this is a Pizzaface rant, not Melaktha. Fun fact, is Spanish his name was changed to Melakata, because Melaktha sounds to much to Me Lacta. Which translates to Lactates me. And having a dude call another dude "Lactate me" sounds a bit problematic. I'm done with Melakata now. Let's get the focus back on the overweight illegitimate child that is Pizzaface. 

Think about it. He's not directly associated to the foot. Yes, I know the toy description says he's Shredder's chef, but think about it. The head of a JAPANESE NINJA CLAN would hire an ITALIAN CHEF that looks like the only Italian thing in him is the last name he inherited after his great grandparents came from Sicily in 1901. He looks more like the short cook of a greasy diner that the Health Department has revoked their food license thrice. A man with such as refined Japanese taste as Oroku Saki wouldn't be caught dead eating a Trenton Tomato pie.

So, establishing Pizzaface as an independent rogue, helps the character. It makes sense as he even has "his own playset" I'm talking about Oozey. But Oozey will be talked later. Now the focus is Pizzaface AS a character. I would play on the failed Attempt at self Mutating. 

Pizzaface - Shredder's crazed culinary creator - had a plan to become the most powerful pizza chef ever. So he zapped himself in his Retro mutagen oven, hoping the energy would bake him with badness. But the hungry Turtle Teens burst into the parlor and pulled Pizzaface out.

Now this half-baked bozo wants to get even with the Turtles for foiling his formula.

So he's half man, half pizza. This is something we could play with. There is so much potential here. I already mentioned that Pizzaface was feeding people his body parts, based on the post from TMNT Entity. I used the mind control aspect as Pizzaface could control beings with bits of him inside them. That makes the character creepy and terrifying. BUUUUUUUUUT! We CAN DO MORE.

Now we hit the visuals/ accessories:
Before we delve deep: This will be an $80 figure due to size and amount of accessories... in fact, I'd suggest to release him as a non-wave release... or unofficial wave. And to release the preorder on National Pizza Day.

His size would be Slash sized. I WILL BE DEVIATING from the Vintage Playmates toy for the MOC version.
The main body will resemble the vintage toy.
The Apron will be a combo of soft goods and plastic. The part thies around his body will be plastic for the sake of holding accessories. The front of the Apron with the knife sheath will be plastic covered by the soft goods Apron and the dangling part will be solely cloth for the sake of articulation.

Now for the body:
Swappable hands is normal.
Swappable forearms at the elbows are a new thing.
These new forearms would be more pizzafied arms with swappable hands. Think Venom; The Madness. With one of the forearms having a stub where you could attach a second hand.
Now for hands:
C-grips remembering that the left hand is missing a finger. Left hand having the pinky stub sticking out
Fists with left pinky stub sticking out
Dramatic hands
Vintage pizza tossing Right hand
New left hand with regrowing pizza pinky.
New left hand with only the regrown pinky sticking out. 
Pizzafied Dramatic hands
Pizzafied bludgeon "fists"

Legs:
I know what you're thinking: WTF, Nefty?
Hear me out:
Legs should be swappable along the mid thigh.
The idea is to have the stump where you plug in the attachments
A full Human looking leg, mirroring his left, broken boot included.
A Cheezy pizzafied leg kinda like Muckman's garbage left leg with a Pizza tray acting as stand. This Pizzafied leg would be the MOC Leg.

Heads:
The "Playmates head"  would be based on the Prototype head with the siamese head eating Pizzaface.
The other heads would be based on the Lawson art and the other a cheesy pizzafied head. All of them with a siamese head trying to eat Pizzaface.

Accessories:
I'm eliminating the vintage styled pizza shield to appease Playmates.
Plastic chef hat that hides the Siamese twin who doubles as a hat holder.
The Chef's knife from the Apron.
5× Throwable evil pizzas, fully colored.
  • Dead turtle
  • Finger and pineapple grenades
  • Shuriken and garbage
  • Razor blades
  • Pineapple and anchovies
Stump legs that double as weapons:
Oversized cleaver
Oversized pizza cutter with pizza box stand. Box has a hole on bottom for a plug in
Pizza peel

"Shield handle" plug in...

So the figure would be packed with the pizzafied leg and left hand with pizzafied pinky.
The head would be the pizzafied head and hat on. All this is done to appease Playmates, but S7 can toss in plastic trays to hold the cleaver leg and stump in place so you can swap the heads and right leg to display an in box Vintage inspired PF.

Now to Add a Super7 dick move accessories "Super pack" for buying the whole single figure wave:

Pizza the Hut concept head. No siamese twin comes with presculpted hat
2× Sawblade Pizzas
  • Pennies and Batteries
  • Pills and rat carcasses
Oversized Rolling Pin leg.

Base PF comes with lots of stuff, but the Super pack doesn't feel like punishing those who don't preorder from S7.

I tried to keep Pizzaface gross (sorry Kyle) and be able to appease Playmates and fans who want something as close to vintage as possible.
Is it perfect? Hell no, but I tried.

Now for further down the line, a new Oozey without being flat out Oozey 2.0...

Ninja Pizza Carry Out:
It won't be a recreation of Oozey, but it's going to have elements of it.

First it will be an L shaped "playset". Roughly 11 inches tall and 15 inches in length. The Carryout pickup window will be the side very reminiscent of the Original Oozey. That is because the pickup window will be replicating the Oozey dropping sign for the cannon. The sign part would be a two part plastic piece with the front clear and the back painted. This is to allow for a reversible card sign:
Side 1 has new Ninja Pizza art with a generic Ninja and Side 2 would be inspired by the vintage one. The idea is so you can print your own signs and if someone makes the Playmates sign, you could print it and use it. The length is to ensure a roughly 5 inch long carry out window that can hold the 9 inch long sign.

 Side 2 is obviously brand new. Same measurements as the "Oozey" side. Features are different though. There is a functional door and a breakaway window.
And you noticed I haven't mentioned the Ooze cannon. It's there but no longer anchored to the playset. It can no longer fire real Ooze. It should fire green bits of Ooze colored soft plastic to make "Ooze splats". Change made to appease Playmates. I WOULDN'T recommend putting the can of Saki Shreddered Tomatoes loaded with real slime instead of the plastic bi

Also there's a new projectile launcher: Pizzaface' Retromutagen pizza oven.
It launches pizzas (can use Pizzaface pizzas too!)  The idea is when displaying the set, both the cannon and Oven can be put together and it looks like a fancy Pizza Oven. Then when switching to attack mode, you have 2 kinds of weapon launchers.

But wait, there's more... Lots of assembly required. The "default" version of the playset require the user to assemble the walls thus making the whole new Playset. If not fully assembled, the side wall would resemble the vintage Oozey playset. But when fully assembled you have a decent, albeit smaller playset.
I'd guess I would be on the $180 range. Again, this would be an out of wave release preferably with crowd funding options. 


But back to PF:

Or Super7 could do a Bare Bones Release with:
Slash Sized PF. Plastic Apron, bare minimum hands. Using only the Prototype head and a new "Modernized" head, removable Hat for the vintage head
Giving him 3 New Pizzas
The Cutter leg, Cleaver leg, and new Pizza Peel leg just to say they aren't copying Playmates.

Honestly, I'd take this as well. But the current problem is Kyle hates Pizzaface.

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