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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Obviously, it's WWII Logan, because Hitler, Bub...
Wolverine is fucking Old... so makes sense he was around WWII.
If Hasbro, were to rerelease a world war two captain america, and bucky, this would be the perfect chance; did they ever release a howling commandos set?
Articulation:
Logan has the standard articulation You would expect on a Wolverine figure. The top of his uniform does not hinder articulation that much... he is not loose, so that's a good thing...
4 0
Paint and sculpt:
He looks decent. The only thing that's a bit questionable in person is the helmet. Less head The hairstyle doesn't scream Wolverine to me... The paintwork is decent, not sloppy. But as always, if you're buying at a brick and mortar store, check the figures.
4.5
Accessories:
Logan has an alternate head, a knife, a machine gun, three alternate hands, and a pouch. He does not include a build a figure piece but despite having a reasonable amount of accessories, he feels lacking...
4.5
Canadian Uniforms circa WWII.
Overall :
His final score is 4.33 which it's a decent score but I feel like he's missing something.
Before I begin, this list isn't supposed to be taken Super serious, seeing that I'm one of the groups that white people get offended in my name, despite me mot being offended by the stereotype... ie the Speedy Gonzalez incident.
The iirhabiun:
That's the Arabic word for Terrorist:
Not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslims.
This faction of criminals, are an ersatz of actual terrorist groups.
Iirhabiun slim:
The standard slim male body but with new sandals, a soft goods tunic, and a removable bomb vest.
Heads:
Generic long bearded head with and without turban.
Weapon:
NeW AK-47
Iirhabiun thick:
Fat body with long pants and sandals
Soft goods tunic and removable bomb vest
Generic bearded head and shaved head with a Saddam looking Mustache.
Weapon:
New AK-47
Cartel Frijoles Hervidos:
This Not Mexican group will be the ersatz to the cartels and other paramilitary groups from central and south American:
Grunt:
Generic member. Repaint of the SWAT character in olive green, brown skin and Balaclava head.
Same accessories as SWAT.
Jefe:
The Cartel Boss...
Using the fat body with the proposed button shirt torso, long pants and shoes.
For heads, one that looks like a Pancho Villa/Pablo Escobar hybrid. The other has a sculpted on Beret like Che Guevara.
Accessories:
Soft goods Poncho and a Sombrero.
Yes it's a nod to MexiRaiden... golden weapons, because they loke showoming off.
Mulas:
The Mules these will be "civilians". The main difference between these and normal fans are their accessories.
Just generic body parts/recolors of preexisting characters.
Like making a light skinned redhead repaint of Jade, a Dark skinned blonde Amber. A dark skinned Hunter with dark hair. A dark skinned Stu... etc.
Their special accessories would be ways to smuggle mysterious packages. Ie suitcase with strange package. Steange package disguised as baby. Small balloons, etc.
Neue Bösewichte:
The New Bad Guys... all should have bald heads and be light skinned. They should get a new sculpt on their right sleeve with an arm band. Unpainted, let the customer paint them themselves.
Essentially repaints of Brad and Hunter, bodies, with the new right arm,but with shaved heads.
You could do fat versions, but they would need new right arm, new torso overlays and heads.
Weapons:
Knives, bats, preexosting guns
Creepy Cultists:
You know who these guys represent... soft goods hooded robes over normal bodies. Doesn't matter the attire... the point is white hooded robes. The heads would be new. 1 normal "unmasled head" the other head a "Luchador Mask with skull motif"
Accessories:
Torches, shotguns.
Sceimhlitheoirí:
Remember the Irish Terrorists? Pepperridge Farm remembers:
Well... here we take light skinned people with red and blond hair. Give them the Bomb vests mentioned earlier. Dress them in Green due to St. Patrick's
Accessories:
New shillelagh, existing guns, new pipe bomb.
Loh terrorihtah:
This is an ersatz to the old Puerto Rican terrorist groups. FALM and EPB.
Male bodies, long pants, long sleeves.
Heads:
Normal head, light and dark skinned, head with bandit Bandana sculpted on.
Weapons:
New Machete, pipe bombs mentioned above
Slacktivists:
This one is also a nice way to release more "fans". Using the entrance arena stairs for character references would be a start.
Accessories:
Signs with dry erase marker.
This one doesn't require a weapon.
This covers most "potential criminals" that aren't gangbangers, yakuza, or the mobs.
She-Ra is the final playable character... Hopefully the game gets a Great Rebellion DLC with Bow and Glimmer.
But Limited Run games has a surprise for us...
Marvel and Konami...
giving us X-Men the Arcade game... you know, the beat-em' up game based on the Pryde of the X-Men animated pitch... it's back! Also, Data East's Captain America and the Avengers... nice...
But we are also getting Spider-Man and X-Men Arcade's Revenge. Ugh... that's a shitty game from LJN... LJN!? Please God, if you are good let this collection have it... please!
Jesus Tittyfucking Christ! It DOES HAVE IT!! and it's not alone. The meh sequel is here too.
Silver surfer is in this too...
X-Men the Arcade Game AND Maximum Carnage are reason enough to get it...
Now here comes the part where I'll bitch and moan:
We need a Spider-Man collection... maybe bringing the SEGA Spider-Man games, the old Gameboy games... The Animated series games...
Also, would be nice to get the Activision Spidey games...
The GOAT debate rages on as LeBum James is on his 23rd season. With recent events having Bron fans trying to discredit Michael Jordan.
BuT bRoN dId It In 1,262 LeSs FGA!
1,616 3-point shots made by LeBron in 15 seasons. It took him 16 seasons to surpass Jordan's 15 season career. Jordan only made 581 3-point shots. That's 1,035 more 3-point shots than Jordan. So, that means the real difference is at least 173 more 2-point shot attempts for Bron if he had only shot the same amount of 3s as Jordan. He shaved off a lot by making 2.78 times the amount of 3s Jordan made. But Bron averages 27 points per game. This means that LeBron would have needed at least 13 more games to his total games played. Speaking of...
Jordan only played 1,072 games. LeBron needed 1,190 games to surpass Jordan. If Bron had to play more games and more seasons to "surpass" Jordan, then he didn't surpass Jordan. Had he done it in less games and seasons than Jordan, then he TRULY would have surpassed him.
So, right out of the bat. In my eyes, he didn't surpass Jordan. He only outscored him due to longevity and the usage of 3s.
Kareem played 1,560 games while LeBron surpassed Kareem on his 1,410th game. It took him 2,233 3-point shots versus Kareem's 1 3-point shot. That's 2,332 more threes than Kareem. Bron would have needed 259 more successful 2-point shots... So let's look at the math IF LeBron had surpassed Kareem on Kareem's terms.
Lebron would have needed at least 86 more games to surpass Kareem, had he played on Kareem's terms. It would still put him ahead of Kareem's total in less games. So, giving Caesar his due...
He surpassed Kobe, with less FGA and less seasons played. No meed to argue against him here.
But there is one thing that puts LeBron FAR BELOW KOBE AND KAREEM... in my perspective:
The Decision:
That will be the biggest reason why I cannot see LeBron as a contender for the GOAT Title.
Sorry, Applejack, but I have to use you in a LeBron rant... since your barn is racist.
But as I was saying, LeBron promised over 7 championships for Miami... what happened?
He ran away to Cleveland, like a little bitch. After all that pomp and circumstance, he snuck like a thief in the night only for years later call ring chasing weird. GTFOH with that bullshit!
If LeBum had been humble about his decision in the first place, he would still not be a contender, but he wouldn't be too low on the list of greats.
Losing record is another reason why I cannot see LeBron as a contender for the GOAT Title.
This also disqualifies Wilt, whose 100 point game is the thing of legends.
bUt He WeNt To 10 FiNaLs!
And lost 6.
2007: Cleveland Cavaliers (Lost to Spurs)
Meaning from 2003-2010 He only made it once and lost. Thwn he ran away to Miami.
2011: Miami Heat (Lost to Mavericks)
2012: Miami Heat (Won vs. Thunder)
2013: Miami Heat (Won vs. Spurs)
2014: Miami Heat (Lost to Spurs)
Here he did his best... despite underachieving...
Not one... he should've stopped there.
2015: Cleveland Cavaliers (Lost to Warriors)
2016: Cleveland Cavaliers (Won vs. Warriors)
2017: Cleveland Cavaliers (Lost to Warriors)
2018: Cleveland Cavaliers (Lost to Warriors)
Here was where his Six losses solidified. Outside of 2020 and its controversial ring, he went nowhere.
2020: Los Angeles Lakers (Won vs. Heat)
Aftwrwards... he hasn't done great.
Bill Russell and his stacked Celtics in the actual plumbers era have a better story than LeBron.
John Havlicek was also in the same stacked team as Russell. Sam Jones was on the same stacked Celtics as Russell. Tom Heinsohn was on the same stacked Celtics as Russell. Satch Sanders, same stacked Celtics as Russell. K.C. Jones... same stacked Celtics as Russell. Jim Loscutoff, same stacked team as Russell. Frank Ramsey... again, Plumber's era Celtics stacked team.
Robert Horry... finally one who played in Jordan's era and not for Boston... He won the years Jordan was playing Baseball... then from 2000 to 2002 he won with the Lakers (along Shaq and Kobe)
Finally on 2005 and 2007 for San Antonio... 2007 being the year LeBum made sure San Antonio won.
Why am I bringing them up? Because Bronsexuals LOVE to use them in attempts to discredit Michael Jordan. They unwittingly make their arguments for LeBum worse.
The fact that when things get tough for Bron, a team hop is around the corner. When he hops, he does so to "stacked teams". He got to 10 finals in a span of 13 years and barely won 4.
It's bad not making the finals... but It's worse making it and falling up short. He got a cowardly reputation. A flip flopper narrative. Rings matter, rings don't matter, stats are not important, stats are everything. Hell, he's even begging for axing rules against load Management
Finally the Magikarp flopping. It seems like James ain't playing cleanly or without cheating... that combination of things:
Twam hopping, stat padding, flopping, did I mention getting paying customers ejected?
The saddest part is that LeBron HAD the potential of being amongst the greatest, but his ego ruined his chances... at least for me.
That one... Robert Carradine. Who was half brother to David Carradine... you know Kung Fu, Kung Fu the legend continues, Kill Bill... the one who died via autoerotic asphyxiation.
Shit...how can I even tackle this? I mean... his death was due to complications with Bipolar Disorder leading him to Alt + F4 himself. He's done lots of stuff but I only remember him from Revenge of the Nerds. A mega cancelable movie if made today. My condolences to friends and family.
I keep coming back to FTC as they are the only ones making affordable generic folks on a scale that can be used for ML and Ultimates. Since my Ultimates buying will be reducing drastically, I'll be getting the last of the fans and some of the crew and LEO... figures between now and 2029...
Security guards:
I think I may have mentioned these: the slim buck may only require 2 pieces... Aside heads.
The new pieces would be the upper torso to make a polo shirt with the normal torso and the police officer legs
Black shirt, beige pants, black shoes.
The fat dudes will require more parts:
The new polo top torso, new legs and shoes. That's about 10. But some parts may get reuse in other stuff.
20 new parts if we give him the pants and long sleeve shirt for the higher rank security guards.
Heads:
Cap heads for both bodies. Light and dark skinned.
Hat heads:
New for the fat bodies, can repaint the normal police officer head.
ICE Agents:
I know they're controversial. BUT FTC would only need a new head. Or two... for the slim body.
Basically the standard male body with khaki vest with ICE emblazoned on it blue jeans and a green or black shirt.
The generic head would have a balaclava hiding the face with glasses. We can get a second head without balaclava.
For the Fat body we would need a new bullet proof vest that slips on over the head. It's not closed because he's too fat. Here we get the new fat balaclava heads and normal unmasked heads... whit bald dude comes to mind. Bonus points, if we can get a Dean Cain inspired head.
Federal Agent:
The male is just the standard commentator with a black tie, new head and cop hands for the gun. Perhaps in grey suits.
Fenale agents would need an overhaul from the waist up.
Secret Service Agents:
The Federal Agent with black clothes and new heads with earpiece.
RCMP:
Aboot, maple syrup, hockey, eh?
This would require a lot of new parts, but we can get 4 characters with male and female... no fat RCMP Officers.
But to give an overhaul to the line, we need criminals:
I DID SOME IN THE PAST, let's do some again.
Thugs:
The average run of the mill criminal.
Let me start with the females:
Big Bessie:
We start with the obese male body. New bare upper arms. Reuse the fat Security guard shoes.
Red shirt blue pants, brown shoes.
New head light blonde hair in braids and dark skin.
Weapon: Hunting shotgun (new)
Tequila:
Female body with the referee crotch and amber legs. Only her bra will be painted bright pink. Her crotch would be light blue and red boots.
Head would be new: Green haired half shaven light skin.
Weapon: Knife (new)
Shonda:
Female body, referee feet. New green Torso overlay opened sleeveless hoodie vest with hood down. Orange bra with grey Referee crotch. Normal legs with knee high white socks and red sneakers. Pink haired half shaven head, dark skin.
Weapon: handgun
Mama Sam:
Using the obese body with the upper torso of the high rank security guard and the normal lower torso upper torso shirt painted dark blue while lower torso is in flesh color. Reusing the sleeveless fat arms from Bessie with new bare upper legs with light blue crotch and the normal sandals. New head with shoulder length red hair.
Weapon: splitting maul (new)
Now let's do the guys:
Eddie:
Using the slim male buck with the Brad overlay in Red. Black pants and red shoes. Long sleeve White shirt using the cop arms.
New heads
Light Skin Orange Mohawk with and without glasses.
Weapon: Revolver
Norman:
Using the slim male body, new open sleeveless vest in purple, grey shirt, blue pants black shoes.
New heads:
Dark skin with purple cornrows, same head but with sculpted on respirator mask
Weapon: UZI (new)
Now let's do the big boys!
Tiny:
Using the fat body with the new long pants and sleeveless arms mentioned above
Brown pants black shirt black shoes
New head with Army Green Cap facing forward, dark Skin.
Weapon: Rifle
Schmidt:
Using the fat body with the long pants. Black shirt, grey pants. Black shoes. Hands in black to simulate gloves. New head with the Bully Maguire hairdo... BLOND!!!
Weapon: 2×4 with barbed wire.
Bonus:
Goose: He's a criminal, eh?
Using the dark blue referee body with red plaid shirt, beige pants, black shoes.
Light skinned.
reuse the wrestling crew mma referee head in clayton red hair.
Add second head with painted on domino mask.
Weapon: The splitting maul mentioned way up above.
I wanna add "villains" for the feds, Ice, and Secret Service, but they would end up being racist caricatures like Goose. I know some people are gonna ask why the name goose. Simple Canadian geese are assholes.
Seems that the Starting Lineup failed at Hasbro. They woll blame lack of interest and not the $60 price tag due to nft crap.
Seems like some may be articulated others may be early prototype or statues. It's McFarlane, we can never be sure. That Kendrick Perkins faced dude is supposed to be Lube-ron James.
Temu Hemsworth is supposed to be Luka Dončić. If I see them it'll probably be at Marshall's, TJ Maxx, or Burlington.
The actual Fridge is 1:6 while the items are mostly 1:12... make it make sense. No, I didn't get the fridge, it wasn't available and I ain't hauling ass back to Walmart after the PS5 SSD buying... Marvel Legends are expensive as fuck at Walmart right now. And thwy had like a few caps... as in Steve Rogers... Chris Evans look, not comic book Steve. They have 8 things: 7 items. You can get 4 real brands and 3 generics or viceversa. And a mini fridge magnet.
Secretary: Here's your syrup Mr. President! Trump: Make sure you squirt it all over Captain Toad before you lick him clean. I'm gonna be eating ice-cream because an Ice cream a day makes Liberals gay.
Hershey's strawberry syrup and BR ice cream quart...
Shredder: It actually isn't healthy. Lying in advertisement... I love it!
Igot the SSD expansion for PS5 Walmart only had the one "specifically made for PS5" it even has the PS Logo. I know that there are cheaper alternatives, but that's the only one that Walmart had.And my local best didn't have any two terabytes or higher internal SSD. Supposedly PS5 can use external SSD connected via USB, but I wasn't gonna risk it.
That's how my fat ass found out that I own a PlayStation, 5 slim.
Leaving this here for Future me when I get a 4TB expansion. Instructions on manual weren't clear.
Adding the SSD was easier than expected... only two screws.
I know people find this guy annoying, but here's an abridged version of adding more memory. GTA6 I am ready...
New Castlevania incoming
Huh Konamu remembered something beyond pachinko and remakes. Will keep an eye on this...
Ok, I've been playing Death Stranding 2. It's same old, but better. Kinda like Megaman 4 is the same thing as Mega Man 3 but better.
Thwre are differences between SFII, SFII', SSFII, SSFIIT, and USFIIT. They're literally the same game... but not really.
Repetition can work on shorter games... not so much in longer games. Especially when the creator has a YUUUUUUUUGGGGEEEE Ego.
That's the problem with death stranding 2.
It's trying to be Death Stranding 1 2.0 with a Lot more Metal Gear Solid.
Just as Metal Gear Solid is Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake 2.0 and MGS: Sons of Liberty is Metal Gear Solid 2.0... Phantom Pain is Peace Waller 2.0, so... Death Stranding 2 is trying to remind people that Kojima did Metal Gear Solid.
I'm close to the end and I already guessed the obvious plot twist.
But Solid Snake in Rainbow Six is not in my bingo cards.
Hideo must be pissed by his creation being whored out.
I said in an earlier rant that I would tackle a hypothetical TMNT Line for kids inspired by MOTU Origins.
The figures would be like MOTU origins woth modular parts. They would be a Mirage/Fred Wolf hybrid as we're trying to act as this is a what if Mattel had done TMNT IN THE 80S line.
The Turtles would be similar to the playmates turtles as in each tuetle would have different shades of green and the colored headbands. The pads and belts would be brown. Michelangelo's nunchucks would use real string.
Shredder would have sculpted tunic with soft goods cape. The only real difference from Playmates would be a removable helmet.
Splinter would get a more anthropomorphic headsculpt and cloth robe.
Casey would get a removable mask.
There would be Weapons packs with color coded weapons.
Let's talk Playsets as here is where we're going to differ a lot from Playmates.
The First Playset would be the Technodrome. I don't see how it could be made too different from Playmates.
The second Playset would be the Sewer Playset... Like the MOTU playsets, this one would be a clamshell playset.
The bottom level would be the actual lair and the upper level would be two small buildings. (Point dread styled expansions sold separately.)
The first of the buildings would be cartoon Baxter's workshop. The other building is Second Time Around Antique shop. (Comes with exclusive human Baxter)
The expansions would be April's apartment and Casey's Apartment. (Expansions come with Perm April, and Unmasked Casey)
The Third Playset would be Channel 6 Building. The tallest on ots own playset AND it has an expansion (Burne's office, comes with Tiffany figure)
The lower level is more sewer, the second floor is Reception and the broadcast room. (Falling studio lights feature)Third floor is April and Vernon's offices, newsroom (with lenticular tv screens) and Utility closet. The elevator hits all floors and Roof (or Burne's office when adding the expansion with defenestration feature) comes with exclusive Irma figure
The Fourth Playset is Ninja Pizza and the Rat King's Domain. The lower level, Rat King's domain is mostly a display piece full with sculpted mounds of rats with a throne for the Rat king. Comes with Exclusive Pizzaiolo Pizzaface (green shirt, teal hat)
But Mattel would release a Movie Sub-Line based on both 90s movies:
Sewer Lair:
A Redeco of the toon/toy playset. Making the stockman half April's sequel apartment.(includes Danny Pennington as the figure)
FOOT Warehouse;
New playset with play features like skate ramp and collapsible options (feature Tatsu)
Northampton Farm:
This one would be mostly a display piece but Astral Splinter would be the figure added.
New Subway Lair;
Based on the SOTO and TIT. (Paige Turco styled April would be the figure) Top could be the TGRI lab from the second movie
FOOT Junkyard. This would be Vintage Fright zone styled playset with a crane, sewer hole, tire piles, collapsible cages. Professor Perry would be the figure.
Pier Warehouse:
A redeco of the FOOT Warehouse with some SOTO elements and a breakaway pier for super Shredder
And Blogger ended up telling me it was OK after I deleted it. So here's a 2.0 of that topic:
But before I start: I must place this warning, because some people are idiots. There be nudity ahead and talk about nude statues of fictional characters.
A Shrek Ultimates MIGHT BE tempting.But everyone knows DONKEY!! is where it's at.
There is another S7 line coming
Yes, Super7 is making Law and Order...
All I want is Stabler, Benson, Munch, Fin, Dr. Huang, ADA Novak, Briscoe, McCoy... i know I'm combining law and order series, but fuck. It the characters I want... in Ultimates... because I'm 99.999999% sure that this will be ReAction
I won't go much about him here, since aside his appearance as himself in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I've not seen ANYTHING with James Van Der Beek outside of Dawson. My condolences to the cast of Dawson's Creek, his friends, and most importantly his family. Especially the kids he left behind.
Isaid that I would tackle a Mattel TMNT line I'm looking at a WWE Scaled line with WWE Articulation for the adult collectors.
For the kids a line similar to Origins in scale and articulation. The sculpt should be what mattel would have done if they had TMNT in the eighties.
The Adult line would be a MOTUC line... not in style unfortunately, but covering all avenues of TMNT, including collaborating with the owners of NT:The Next Mutation.
Let's tackle scale.
Turtles: 5.5"
This is self explanatory. Turtles need to be short for they are teens.
April, Karai, Renet, Irma, and any other adult female: 6"
Adult males would be varied. With 6.5" being the standard. Casey and foot soldiers would be this tall. Mirage styled foot ninjas should be between 5.5" to 6.5" for a reason. The shorter would be foot genin, which would look great with a Tatsu figure. The 6" and the 6.5" can work with Tatsu and Karai or the eventual Mirage variant of Shredder.
Guys like Burne Thompson should be under 6.5" but higher than 6". Vernon and Shredder should be close to 7".
Baxter would be 6" both Mirage and Fred Wolf style.
Teenagers:
IF Mattel pursues Teens:
5.5" for the girls (2012, RotTMNT Aprils.) Like Caitlyn. 6" for Zach and other younger teens (2012 Jones) 6.5" for Carter.
Other characters:
Here it depends:
Ace Duck, Punk frogs can be Turtle sized
Hot spot between 6 and 6.5" sandstorm 6.5"
Muckman, Sargent Bananas 7"
Hothed and halfcourt 8" due to their long necks.
Rocksteady and Bebop close to 7"
Slash close to 6.5"
Pizzaface under 6.5"
Krang: 2" with Bubble walker 4.5"
Android body should be 8".
I can see a few vehicles happening:
Turtle van can get reuse as the Channel 6 van.
Foot and Neutrino cruisers share the same mold for the most part.
Ninja Newscycle and Keno's Pizzacycle.
The Transport Module is unlikely to get a redeco. Nor the Footski.
Some of these vehicles could come with a figure or variant... for example, the Foot Cruiser could come with a Foot Soldier with Greaser themed Gear.
The Pizza Cycle could come with Keno.
Playsets are highly unlikely... I can see those happening for the kids line.
But I'll leave it here for now and make a part 2 for the Origins styled line.
Just give me Pizzaface, Burne, Vernon, and Irma. And I'll take Aprils of both races... as long as they don't look like a puking potato... and for the love of Laird and Eastman keep April an adult!
MOTUC Styled TMNT... give us that... or a WWE Scaled TMNT... I'll post ideas later in the week for a Mattel TMNT Line... need to digest the idea of Mattel TMNT line... also, my pizza arrived.
While these have potential to become Ultimates! Figures. I can see Super7 going the ReAction route, since trying to sell $75 figures (price increase due to the holo stickers) will be an uphill battle. Seems the $65 price tag breaking many people over. Very little hype for the Tigersharks.
What will this be? The Astronaut from the MTV Awards? Figures of Kurt Loder and Carson Daly? This screams ReAction.
Never forget: The Miz started on MTV...
This most likely will be blind bag stuff. There's no way they'll make ultimates of My Little Pony...
Though I wouldn't say no to Megan and her siblings. But I bring Megan up for size comparisons. I don't see overpriced Ultimates! Happening.
Since Super7 is stuck with 2k3 after losing Classic TMNT... I'm gonna go with a Konami Crossover since 2k3 TMNT had Konami ties in the game Department so, each Turtle would be representing a Konami game series:
Metal Gear Leo:
This Leonardo would be dressed up as Raiden... MGS 2 Version:
Heads:
Skullsuit breathing mask
Normal Leo head with removable Raiden Wig.
Hands:
Fists, C-grips, gun grips:
Accessories:
HF Blade
Tranq gun
Coolant spray
Dog tags
Why Raiden?
Sword...
Probotector Don:
Basically a combination of Bill Rizer and M4D-OG from Contra and Probotector.
Heads:
Normal Don with Bill wig
Head with Probotector helmet
Hands:
C-grips, gun grips, fists
Accessories:
Rifle with bo staff barrel and clip on firing effects:
Flame thrower effect
Laser effect
Spread effect
Rapid fire effect
Why Contra?
Because Mystical Ninja Goemon didn't occur to me until way too late in the game.
Duelist Raphael:
It's a Yu-Gi-Oh! Reference.
Heads:
Grinning Raph head
Screaming Raph head
With removable Yusei Fudo and Hiroto Honda wigs. (Nod to Raph's VA doing the English voice for them)
Basically Vanilla Raph with a slip on Duel Disk
Hands:
Standard hands
Pointing, card holding hands
Accessories:
Open Duel Disk with cards
Opening and closing Duel Disk
A full hand of Duel Monsters cards
Pair of sai
Why Yu-Gi-Oh!?
Reference... also, most people don't know Snatcher...
Michelangelo Belmont:
Basically a Castlevania inspired Mikey.
Heads:
Serious Mikey
Screaming Mikey
Simon and Richter wigs
Hands:
C-grips with sword hinge, wide grip, normal C-grips.
Mikey wearing a Castlevania 2 inspired attire with a soft goods sleeveless tunic based on Richter.
Accessories:
Whips:
Real chain whip
Plastic whipping whip
Plastic twirling whip
Holy water bottle with flame effect
Cross Boomerangs
Knife
Why Belmont?
Nunchucks whip... I originally wanted to make Mikey a Duelist, because Mikey's VA is Joey Wheeler... but Raph as a Dueliat made sense, since Raph likes Motorcycles AND his VA was playing Children's Card Games in motorcycles.
Let me do some Villains now:
Duelist Stockman:
One Eyed Baxter Stockman dressed as Pegasus J. Crawford.
Heads:
Normal One Eyed Baxter angry one Eyed Baxter
With slip on Pegasus wig.
Hands:
Standard hands, card holding hands
Accessories:
Open Duel Disk with cards
Opening and closing Duel Disk
A full hand of Duel Monsters cards
Toon Eyes White Mouser.
Why Pegasus?
One-eyed, evil, and without the Yu-Gi-Oh! Stuff he could pass off as a fancy suit Baxter.
Dracula Shredder:
Shredder dressed in a Dracula inspired look... with a soft goods cape. Kinda like a caped version of Human Shredder...
Heads:
A Shredderized take on Dracula's monster forms head
A White haired Oroku Saki head with paler skin.
Hands: Standard hands
Accessories:
Fireball with stand
Void Sword
Why Dracula?
Got a Belmont... Needed Dracula.
Revolver Bishop:
A combination of Bishop and Revolver Ocelot... more Specifically Liquid Ocelot, but with an EPF twist. His outfit would be close to his standard EPF outfit but with some elements reminiscent of Liquid Ocelot
Heads:
Bishop neutral
Bishop screaming
Ocelot wig.
Hands:
Standard left hands
Standard mech suit right hands.
Twirling revolver left hand.
Accessories:
Removable sleeveless plastic coat
Interchangeable arms:
Alternate sleeveless arm has a normal shirt sleeve left arm and a torn sleeve right arm showcasing the mech suit underneath.
2 Laser revolvers
Why Ocelot?
Closest thing we could do for a decent Bishop.
I can't do more since it's hard to deal with 2k3 variants...
Barney the Dimosaur... I have a fucking Barney Action Figure
DaDuq did Mattel do to Barney?
Mattel apparently axed tbe reboot due to poor reception.
I mean this is what we had... Mattel, I'd buy a 1:12-1:10 Super articulated Barney and maybe some kids. My Santa needs children.
Yes... there is a reason why I picked those two pics of Classic Barney. They feature former Disney alumni, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato.
I mean you made this thing with Barney and Netflix baby Guile. I don't care about the kid. This was $2 at Marshall's. So I got it mainly for the pretzel.
To be fair, I can use creepy psycho Barney as a stuffed toy for Karen.
I hate the cocaine Yoshi look this Barney has.
Barney has 6 poa while baby Guile has 4. Both legs are fused on baby Guile and they move together.
I won't be giving them an actual review. Because these are discounted toys for preschoolers and honestly I just got them for the pretzel...
But seriously Mattel a Collectors oriented Barney and friends... maybe add a Backyard Gang Barney with the deeper purple and dark green and toss in alternate heads based on the actors who played Barney... yes... I'm totally asking this for the Tantric sex reference.
But we could also get the human cast... not just the children. I want the adults too. Would like to have a WWE Scaled Sandy Duncan. Mainly for ALF and totally not a reference of her being the OG AppleJack.
Also... Madison Pettis was one of Barney's friends.
No reason at all... No, I'm not going to ask for Corey in the House toys.
I got Death Stranding 2... it looks impressive. Really? Raindrops keep falling on my head? Now I wanna watch Spider-Man 2.
So far it feels more of the same old same old. But Earthquakes are a new thing. But seems the old Kojima long exposition speeches are in play.
Got my first Game Over through a dialog tree. Why keep forcing a dialog tree when the answer is not my choice. Also, my first jump-start was on that dialog tree.
Seems like I'm going to Death Strand Mexico, wey... same old same old. Combat is a smidge better though. Getting a but of buyers remorse. But I wanna see Temu Snake. Should've gotten FF Tactics instead.
Ok now I may be going to 'stralia, mate! So We're trekking across the globe... guess this might kill chances for 3.
I shit you not. Even movies from the Snyderverse have a mention or two...
Snyder himself gets two mentions...
[Name redacted] gets over 1400... There may be more [but name redacted]
James Gunn gets one but it apparently isn't the movie director... just some politician.
Spidey gets 73 mentions
Bill Clinton gets mentioned a lot but less times than [name redacted].
Super Mario gets mentioned too...
Pokémon gets over 20 mentions
Metal Gear Solid gets a mention.
Xbox gets over 100 vs Playstation's 27. Nintendo got 82?
Let's see what Miley/Hannah get?
Miley got 16 Hannah got one and I quote:
Cerabino takes on all things Trump at the ADT Watch kids' impressions of Hannah Montana
Two different articles from a newspaper that makes things look worse in the DoJ summary. I had to underline it to make it look accurate to the newspaper article headlines on the cover.
What I'm getting at is that you shouldn't be surprised seeing all these names pop-up. It doesn't necessarily mean they're all diddlers. I mean, how can a move diddle Someone? So searching random shit on the Epstein files doesn't equate diddlers... Now if your name is over 1,000 times and are a known associate... (both Trump and Clinton have considered Epstein a friend) then your appearance on the files may be more suspect.
Ch'rell, the Utrom Shredder... in Ultimates format...
This figure is special.
Let's explain:
This is an Utrom Android Body whose identity wasbased on Japanese legend, the one of the Original Oroku Saki.
Now in modern day Earth, Ch'rell acts as the leader of the Foot.
This is the human form from the lost season?Will Super7 make this or go for the meh Tengu Shredder from Back to the Sewers?
I'd rather have this one... IF We get a Shredder variant.
Articulation:
The improved articulation is a decent improvement over the Classic styled figures.
Honestly I'm a bit worried about his tasset and shoulder blades. They are so soft that they could tear off
4.5
Paint and sculpt:
The sculpt is pretty decent. Mine has a QC issue:
Thehelmer got bent out of shape while packaged. NEED TO BLOW DRY IT AND COLD SHOCK IT...
What the actual fuck is that horribly stitched sash! Also, why are the colors so flat?
I ended up dry brushing some metallic paints on the weapons and helmet to make him pop.
I kinda get they're going for a toon esthetic, but even silverhawks had metallic paintwork on the "toon styled" toys.
4.0
Accessories:
5 extra hands
Oroku Saki head
Sword of Tengu
Ch'rell
At $55 he should come with more stuff.
Also, metallic paints, people!! Or give it an actual shading to make it look metallic.
A slightly smaller version of this head would be great for classic Shredder.
4.0
Overall:
2k3 Shredder gets a 4.17 as his final score. He's OK... just feels like they're HORRIBLY cutting corners. He may be big, but that doesn't excuse the cut corners... now I need to get flower wire and an old Grey shirt to make a better sash.
