Action figures, Movies, Games, TV shows, things I like, Things I hate, weird news old or recent... they're fair game for my rants.
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I'm scared that my hype for it might make it suck... I don't want it to suck because it's He-Man. Also that my local cinemas won't have any of the bitching cups and I ain't paying $100 to a scalper for a hard to drink from cup.
I wish Mom had been here to see it though... I'm getting misty eyed whenever I pass near a movie theater and see the Coming Soon poster of He-Man. Finally 16 years and 10 months later... more like 9 and some days... from the birth of this blog, it will Finally be here.
The asterisk stands for: that aren't Deku, Bakugo, All Might, Shoto, Endeavor, All for One, Shigaraki, and Dabi.
20: Toru Hagakure:
A Clear Figure with gloved hands and boots with soft goods uniform. Most of the body can be reused for Toga's post-transformation look.
19: Mineta and Eri:
Before all of the entire MHA fanbase crucify me for pairing Eri with Jeffrey Grapestein, hear me out. It's a size thing.
Mineta is shorter than Eri. That is all.
So 2 figures sthat are about half an all might each makes sense.
18: Tenya Iida:
I like the Brainy Smurf of 1-A... it's totally not because he looks like a MHA version of the game director with 3 inches of doom... All Hail the Turbo Dork!!
17: Recovery Girl and Nezu:
Getting the little folks out the way in 2 SKUs than in 4. Also, not wasting accessories for other characters just to add Nezu.
16: Re-Destro:
No reason at all... I wouldn't waste a slot on a Disney meme.
15: Himiko Toga:
The list isn't going from least to most wanted... she'S my number 4 in the villains.
14: Itsuka Kendo:
She's totally not on this list because she's a ginger and can have a big fist. She's totally not a fisto reference.
13: Anan Kurose:
You see what I did there.
Me want that alternate head so she looks less Amogus.
12: Neito Monoma:
I hate the douche. He dresses like an old-timey villain. He's insufferable, he would be so amazing to be the butt of so many jokes.
11: Momo Yaoyorozu:
I have 2 reasons to add her to the list that aren't left boob, right boob.
She opens the door for accessory packs...
The other reason... displays well with Elsa/Zuko...
10: Froppy:
You know all 6 1A girls will be on the list. So as many Latin American nanas say: Sana Sana Culito de rana.
9: Midnight:
Because Fuck you that's why. I just want the Ara ara Dommy Mommy.
8:Jiro:
Jakks bodies tend to be more customizer friendly and her hero outfit is the most normal. Not to mention that I want the 1A girls... and 1B too to make the Grape's harem...
7: Erasehead:
The Sleep deprived caterpillar man is a necessity.
6: Aoyama:
Phoque you... that's why.
I was wondering if Aoyama was French... more people think he's gay... Now if a full MHA line is made in the Neftyverse Monoma will be the timetravelling son of Aoyama and Mineta.
5: Uravity:
The not so Mrs. Deku... I need her because Toga.
Disappointed that Total Anime never got to make her.
Or that Todd make an ugly one.
4: Twice:
Evil army builder perfect for battle displays.
3: Mina Ashido:
Acid Spitting Pinkie Pie... Nuff said.
2: Muscular:
He's got variant potential for the mega vascular look.
1: Deku's Dad:
Just as Mask of the phantasm toys spoiled the Phantasm, The Inspector Gadget toys revealed Doctor Claw... we should get Deku's Dad with a carton of milk and smokes.
The movie hasn't come out yet and it has a Guinness book record sure, it's about drones and being brightest... but it's a He-Man thing, so I have to talk about it.
Like Holy Shiiiiiiiiiiit! He-Man related Guinness world record.
The only sad thing about this is that Mom isn't here to see it... less than 2 weeks.
I love it and I Hate it. I'm\n Currently, playing it on the enhanced edition. Because it's the one with the new features, but the new features mostly suck ass. I hate the menus. The autosave is a double-edged sword. It's a shame that is the original game minus the best tricks of the original game.
Goodbye duplication, Goodbye, the job point, skip. Hello, endless hours of grinding, just to beat the stupid dorter battle. The enhancements aren't that great, but to play the game on a screen that I don't need to use glasses. It's a great thing. I hate getting old. I need to see how hard that battle will be. I really hate that they use the war of the Lions, English even in the original game.
But I hope this soulless cashgrab makes for the FFTA games to get ported.
Sunday release: about 18 for the figures and vehicles more expensive. They look OK, but are a smidge too expensive for toys that are their own scale, which puts them away from most displays.
Don't get Me wrong The figures look nice, but for $18, I'm not feeling them
If they were 15.Now that will be a different story.
Lara Croft is there... Lara Croft, British Tomb Raider, Lara Croft is there! It's Lara Croft against Natla and Bartoli fighting to save the day!
Damn, it's been 30 years since Tomb Raider...
¹/¹⁸ Lara? I'm not a fan of that scale. Also, I'm not expecting like a full roster of characters. Just maybe normal Lara, diving suit Lara, and maybe one of the tomb raider 3 outfits at the best
I got some Miniverse Harry Potter, because there were no more food items.
I will talk about the sets with Resin. The Marauders Map came with one Set, the Harry Potter themed set.
It comes with a book I suppose it belonged to Snape and glasses that fit movie Don.
A wand that you make out of resin. This resin seems to be a bit more forgiving and not As brittle as the one in The Lord of the Rings sets...
The only real problem is the delivery system. As even in tropical climates, the resin is a little bit of a pain in the ass to get out, my one end up being slightly a bit too short, but it is what it is.
I got 4 balls. This is the Harry ball. The second ball is the nimbus 2000 ball. I have not assembled the other balls because they don't involve resin and one of them is a Mandragora plant that's just using the kinetic stand type stuff , and I don't like messing with that stuff. The other is a book mimic type thing that I just need to assemble the monster parts and the book it uses a lot of glue and stuff so I haven't had time to work with it.
2 Berbils and yet another lion-o... I noticed that the pack is cheaper than 3 figures ($195) But still. Why why not a third Berbil? Are the ropes gonna be sculpted in? Are the ropes gonna be soft goods? That's a good question, but still another fucking Lion-O!? So close and yet so far.
My guess is that's how we're gonna get the tracksuit, silver Hawks, starting with copper kidd and bluegrass.
Even after they lost the license. They hired a lawfirm to cockblock Mattel from using the characters Playmates designed... under contract by Mirage, at the time.
Will this be a repeat of the Don Glut v Mattel thing? Paramount has bigger pockets, Mattel has precedent...
I understand Playmates Role, but this looks bad on them.
Yes a 3 pack based on the 67 toon... that means incomplete weblines Spidey, weird looking Lizard and Electro. On one hand it's very lazy.On the other hand it's quite genius. It'll be Available at San Diego Comic Con and probably online later. There's also an X men 97 Prof. Xavier with a cartoon accurate chair bought.Unfortunately , I don't have pics at the moment
Container and other stuff. I was supposed to post this earlier, but I was miffed that Pizzaface Jr's shirt didn't come... I was wrong. It was tangled in the packing filler cardboard.
The Glow in the Dark dumpster...
How big is it?
It's big enough.
I will probably add some glow in the dark and non glow in the dark paint to make it less translucent.
The jacket is "red"... Now neo Nick looks more like a Dingus.
The drums are Jakks Pacific Molds.
The ones right there on the hall of pain.
No need for Double Dragons now...
PF Jr looks a bit better now.
I'm still missing the recycling bin from FTC, but the dumpster made me realize that an IDW Herman would be gigantic and unfeasable.
Let's be honest here. Mattel is stingy with accessories. So, accessory packs are the solution:
They used to do them with He-Man, WWE, Big Jim, Barbie... you get the idea. Well they still do with Barbie. So...
Accessory packs. We can start with the obvious stuff:
Generic ninja weaponry that can be used by turtles and foot.
Recolors of the Turtle weapons. That's 7 easy items. Add multiple kunai and shuriken. Now we have 15 items for the most basic pack.
We can have a Pizza pack with various pizza slices that form whole pizzas, whole pizzas, half pizzas, various pizza boxes (made of plastic or cardboard) bitten slices. (Obviously for Mikey)
Junk-tech pack:
Basically gimmicky gadgets and weapons made by Donatello. Spare Turtle communicators would be here. The Cheapskate (not the gigantic Playmates abomination, but a normal sized skateboard with a small engine)
4 sets minimum per customer guaranteed purchase just to have cheapskates for the 4 turtles.
Foot Armory:
If they go with the robotic foot soldiers, the earlier generic ninja weapons pack helps, but this gives us extra weapons from Dimension X to use. Generic blasters, high tech ninja weapons to distinguish the foot from the turtles weaponry... evil communicators... etc.
Mousers:
Playmates did it, NECA did it, Super7 did it...
It's obvious... also Roadkill Rodneys are a popular pack idea.
There are plenty of packs that can be made, like a premutation animal pack with said animals and ooze. A sewer marauder pack including stuff for Rat King (namely rats) and other sewer dwellers like Muckman... the point is that Mattwl should look into it.
He'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble, GI Joe is there! GI Joe! A real American hero, GI Joe is there! It's GI Joe against Cobra and Destro, fighting to save the day! He never gives up. He's always there, fighting for freedom over land and air. Wait did I just began singing the GI Joe theme?
Well, it's Super7's Ultimates Duke.
Now you know... And knowing is half the battle.
Articulation:
If you've had older Ultimates, this has the same articulation.
There isn't much to write about other than it's functional, but not $55 functional when classified are so much better. I bought him for customizing fodder. He was like $20...
4.0
Over and out...
Paint and sculpt:
He looks like Sunbow Duke... the cartoon colors are vibrant. I've no complaints here.
5.0
All decked out... toy style plus radio.
Accessories:
Here we have a ton of stuff.
2 extra heads
Watch (careful when swapping the right hand)
6 extra hands
Cartoon rifle
Walkie-talkie
Toy rifle
Toy backpack
Toy binoculars
Toy helmet
The reason I mention toy before some stuff, because the stuff. Comes from the ye olde Hasbro toy.
5.0
Is that Lady Jaye? No... Whew! For a moment there I thought Flint would have my ass... Scarlett (VO): Aren't you forgetting about someone? You are gonna wish you didn't wake up from your coma...
Overall:
It's a shame the line died before Shipwreck... I've had issues mostly with Lady Jaye... but Duke is one of the better figures from the line. So Duke gets a 4.67 as his final score.
He is one of the folks who claims created He-Man. The guy who yelled BONG!! in The toys that made us... He was behind what we now know as Vykron. Though Mark Taylor was the one who did the whole concept of the characters... Sweet pitched the toy and Stan Lee'd his way as "creator of He-Man", while Mark Taylor got the Jack Kirby treatment.
Well, he dead... dementia side effects. My condolences to the family, ESPECIALLY since they had to deal with Dementia. I may not like the guy and his Stan Lee vibe...
Will you believe this?
Trump wants to go to space... the first US President in Space. I know what y'all thinking:
Easy there, Jimmy Kimmel... don't go making jokes like that or the fuck your feelings crowd will get butthurt.
But let's be honest here:
Donald Trump is NOT fit for a mission like that. Donald Trump is NOT the smartest tool in the shed. Otherwise he would know the obvious reasons why a President does not ride space shuttles. But here's a simple explanation:
The Challenger incident... yes the same one mentioned on Punky Brewster.
So yeah... whether you like him or not... Space Prez is a bad idea. But seriously, what the hell? Are we in a simulation and we're playing GTA6 before GTA6?
Pizzaface Jr has gotten me thinking that I can customize. Sewing soft goods resculpting 40% of a head amputating figures and giving them action features.
I got thinking what character could I make that I know it won't get made by Mattel, or anyone else tackling TMNT? The only 2 answers I could come up with were Hitler and Vulvana. By the title alone, you already guessed who I am making. I can just borrow a Super7 figure to make Hitler.
Vulvana is a challenge. Technically I'd need a 1/6 red female body. To be closer to canonical height... but they don't make those... and with $18 bucks in my pocket... and feeling lazy as fuck, I went to my usual body parts supplier.
Figures Toy Company... i may be taking a gamble here because some of their older stuff doesn't have the better quality that the new work product has... but $18 for this:
In order to make this:
All I'll need is to either locate 2 horns or sculpt them, get some thin gold or yellow ribbon and Bob's your uncle.
It's MEGO sized, which puts her slightly taller than ultimates but lose to proper scale for the Origins scale for Mattel.
The real question is: should I sculpt nipples and Vulva for Vulvana?
In a way, this is directed at Mattel, but it can also apply to other companies... Hasbro, Playmates, Jakks, Jazwares, even ridiculously expensive Super7.
I saw these online... probably buying them online, because buying them from Walmart in Puerto Rico is ludicrously expensive. The Ice cream shop is at $33-ish at Walmart. With taxes it's almost $37. Online, plus shipping and taxes ends up like $26-ish... but I digress, the point is that even at the higher Puerto Rican price, it's a mini playset.
Big companies could take a page out of this and take advantage of "small dioramas with play elements". Of course, I'd expect these hypothetical small playsets dioramas to be a bit more expensive, due to scale. Both Miniverse and its competitor Minibrands tend to be all over the place here. But the principle is similar:
Small modular playsets that can be made larger. I know I mentioned somethingnlike this exclusively for TMNT, but now I'm talking in general. Like Backstage for WWE, alleyways for Superheroes... DC could deliver a Crime Alley Playset like this... a $120 4pack with Diorama:
The Waynes and Joe Chill. In addition to the diorama. The Turtles could get alleyways, Technodrome interiors, He-Man could get Grayskull, Snake Mountain, and Eternos interiors... that's sticking to Mattel.
Hasbro can make Danger Room Dioramas with this modular idea. Arcade Murderworlds, Star Wars could benefit from this. GI Joe Classified could benefit from this.
Playmates can do various settings throughout Angel Grove... Or... the best part ever: Zord battle dioramas.
If they want to go cheaper (please don't) cardboard to the rescue.
Smaller companies can enter the game too and make small generic playsets/dioramas.
I'm gonna try and get one... guess which one it will be:
Ecce, fili faciei pizzae. Part 4 of the Pizzaface Jr. Saga. Part 3, part 2, part 1
His legs are Interchangeable. The knife is removable. Miniverse Cafe Series 4. Marshmallow cereal squares... if you're interested.
The body is Figures Toy company fan series Gary figure. Had to make the shirt from scratch since the 3 different shirts I bought didn't work. Also didn't want to disassemble the gary body, since my lack of skills wouldn't be able to put him back again.
I know I'm not skilled enough. I sadly, may suffer from Essential Tremors. Noticed it after I turned 40. This isn't a "pity me" Post. It's me coming to terms that I am no longer 23. Past my prime, over the hill with my body slowing down... I digress... a More talented customizer could take the Gary body, disassemble, modify even frankensteining with the OG Pizzaface to make an inproved version.
I still need to get the shield (on its way, maybe). I still need to get the throwable pizza or 1/12 pizzas... I don't want to sculpt them. Maybe get dollhouse bottles to slip onnthe back.
The only thing I won't be making is the mousetrap with turtle on him...
No, not that one... I mean the one by Ang Lee where Fresh Cuck faces an even Fresher Cuck.
Despite having Will Smith in it, fighting against Will Smith, The movie's actually not bad. Very predictable woth some good action scenes, but some scenes scream
There's even a boss battle where Fresh Cuck faces a Man on Fire. I'm not saying the movie ripped off a lot from metal gear. But there are many coincidences..
I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. It was passible.
Seriously Super7 what the fuck? Why is Melodia grey?
She's supposed to look Caucasian on the paler side but not Marble Statue...
This is bad I mean Look at Melodia:
I did a crappy job with the Cellphone photo adjustment to visualize a closer to normal Melodia skintone
Her grey skintone bothers me so muc, I'm bitching about it before the actual review.
Melodia never had a figure back in the day. This is the very first Melodia figure ever... at an official capacity. The only female member of the mob and the evil counterpart to Bluegrass. Possible inspiration to Lady Gaga.
Let's get cracking.
Articulation:
Skirt limits articulation a little, but her skirt has slits. Learn, Mattel... but the shoulderpads block the articulation and...
Uh... are her arms supposed to pop off? She's not a Silverhawk that requires swappable arms.
3.5
Paint and sculpt:
The paintwork is decent.It's just the wrong colors.
Found tbe pic they used as source for colors. A Pic of her in outer space while she uses her keytar... the red energy is washing out her colors.
3.0
Accessories:
Extra head
8 Interchangeable hands
Keytar
Music Blast effect piece
Music Swoosh effect piece
Amp with wires
Walkie-talkie
She's got stuff... but it's missing something... hell even Hardware lost his Kenner bird of prey.
5.0
Kidd: *whistles* Tuna Melodia: You are welcome, kiddo... Kidd: You'll still go to jail though... *whistle* Melodia: Party pooper.
Overall:
Melodia gets a 3.83 as her final score. I'm gonna be the one who says it. The paint job and the articulation really hurt hurt her.
I will kinda take a page out of TLS and later S7 TMNT Ultimates for these variants:
Some will be plain repaints. Others will have more elements... 3 new pieces tops.
They will not necessarily make sense for the 2k3 toon...
"Retro inspired" Casey Jones:
Basically 2k3 Casey in 1990 movie colors with a soft goods vest. White shirt, grey pants, black gloves and sneakers.
"Retro inspired" April O'Neil 1:
Basically 2k3 April in 1987 toon colors with a soft goods yellow jacket. White shirt, yellow pants, white shoes. Same accessories.
"Retro inspired" April O'Neil 2:
This one needs new heads. African American heads to be precise. This one is to cater to the Black April fans. Red shirt blue pants pink shoes, making the Retro April 1 jacket in brown.
"Retro Inspired" Shredder:
Basically 2k3 Shredder painted like Super Shredder. Replacing his right hands with new bladed right hands. Ch'rell is in bright pink.
"Retro inspired" Foot Ninja:
Mirage recoloring of the Foot Ninja.
"Retro inspired" Splinter:
Splinter in 1990 Movie colors: New TCRI canister.
Now we can move on to some Turtle variants:
The "Retro inspired" Turtles are obvious. The coloring would be Mirage based.
Downtime Turtles:
In essence these are pseudo reissues. But different accessories.
Like say: Leonardo comes with one new head and sword slash effects. Donatello comes with hands holding presculpted tiny tools so he can repair equipment like the shellphones. Raphael comes with foot soldier shuriken and a practice board where his sai and shuriken can be stuck to. Mikey comes with a new open mouth head, a Pizza slice and a Justice Force comic.
If we get Human Baxter, a redeco with new heads makes an easy Chaplin.
Same as it never was Karai:
New heads with grey hair, same old Karai.
I'd be up for a same as it never was April.
Yeah! I love that future, because Jones is dead...
Says the dude made out of a Casey Jones figure with a different head.
But knowing Super7: Gimme $65 for this... No accessories only raph and the towel. Nefty (VO): Can I get an April wearing only a towel?
I used greenstuff to sculpt the pizza and a few icky bits on PFJr. I removed the right leg and sealed it mostly with hot glue to have Interchangeable pieces donated from Pizzaface. Need to get the shield and throwable pizzas to repaint and give to the figure.
Chopping the pinkie tips is not an option due to his hands. I want to keep a PF fist. So I painted them pink as regenerating flesh. I don't feel comfortable to chop tiny fingers and then sculpt the nub on the fist.
Ignore the broken leg piece. It came from the Pizzaface I bought on eBay. I got new donor legs coming. I purposely made sure the right leg was shorter. Not out of laziness, but weird accuracy to the vintage sculpt.
I may have figured out a way to make the hat... sadly won't be removable and I won't be making the tiny PF head from the prototype. It will be permanently affixed to his head. Just need to figure out the logistics of securing a soft goods piece to plastic.
I'm eying some stuff... I saw a miniverse item that has a chef's knife. I just need to figure out a loop for the apron to hold said knife. I want to get some pizzeria implements, a pizza peel, a pizza cutter, hell, I might even get a beige silicone mat to cut into dough circles to toss at enemies.
I'm waiting on a Figures Toy Company sleeveless t-shirt to see if I don't need to make more stuff for him. Hopefully it'll fit and I don't have to MacGyver a shirt.
