Super7 is doing Multipacks now.

 They haven't since MOTUC.

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.

Seems Playmates is trying to fuck tmnt fans over... again.

 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.

Slime pit update.

 It's out and it's $50. I'm pleasantly surprised about that. It's not exclusive to Mattel creations. I got mine by BigBadToyStore.

It comes with Slime... a bit over 12 inches apparently, so MOTUC can uae it.

It does not come with plastic faux slime for adult collectors. Kinda wish Mattel would give a better heads up for these though.

Sadly, I didn't find any new MOTU movie Toys at Wal-Mart.

Entertainment Earf has a cool Blanka

 That if the shipping was not outrageous, I would totally buy...

Same old Blanka, but GITD

Also, Hasbro is making 2 packs of the Future Foundation f4

These will be Pulse exclusives...

But seriously Jada, show us a surprise after Zangief...

By the way, where the fuck is Daphne?

Hasbro has a lazy but good SDCC exclusive

 Probably 90-ish... though it should be 67...

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

Ah the origins slime pit looks

 OK

Not exactly Vintage 2.0 but looks decent...

Shame this effort wasn't put for Classics or Masterverse. Guessing $80 for it.

Public Apology to Scott Neitlich

 For years I've taken the piss on Spector Creative's and Disgruntled Mattel ex employee, Scott Neitlich.

I have to publicly apologize: 

Top most wanted from most TMNT iterations

 For the Mattel line of course: Fiting the style of the normal Adult collector line. Think the Classcizer.

By iteration I mean:

Mirage

80s toon

80s games

90s movies

Next mutation

2003 toon

2009 CGI movie

2012 toon

Bay movies

Rise of the TMNT

IDW

Shredder's Revenge

Other

Each category will have a maximum of 10 slots.

The actual Turtles are excluded unless it's a variant (ie Nightwatcher, Last Ronin)

Mirage: 

Renet

Savanti Romero

Shadow Jones teen

Shadow Jones alternate timeline

Leatherhead

Metalhead (JF)

Zippy Lad (JF)

Chote

Triceraton

Tang Shen

80s toyline:

Pizzaface 

Groundchuck

Dirtbag

Chrome Dome

Napoleon Bonafrog

Genghis frog

Vernon

Scaletail

Wyrm

Hothead

80s toon:

Carter

Dregg

Rasputin the Mad frog

Attilla the frog

Lotus

Zack

Caitlin

Smash

Burne

Red Sky April

80s games:

Sissypus

Aska

Tora

Granitor

Chainsaw Maniac

Firefreak

TF April

Chrome Dome's girlfriend

Armaggon

Human Baxter in pod

90s movies:

Keno

Perry

April Hoag

April Turco

Tatsu

Tokka

Rahzar

Vanilla Ice

Walker

Mitsu

Next Mutation:

Venus

Dragon Lord

Silver

Bonesteel

Vam Mi

Elite Guard

Rank Soldier

Shredder

2003 toon:

Chaplin

Karaibots 

Usagi

Fugitoid

Bishop

Silver sentry

Doctor dome

Ananda with domeoids

Mutated Hun

Stainless steve steel

2009 CGI movie:

Nightwatcher

Winters 

Vampire Succubor

General Aguila

General Mono

General Gato

General Serpiente

Karai

Bigfoot

Sloth Monster 

2012:

Fishface

Dogpound

Chrome dome (bradford alt head as a nod to dark ninja)

Snakeweed

April

The Pulverizer

Mrs. O'Neil 

Mom-Thing

Karai

Tiger Claw

Bay movies

April

Vernon

Burne

Baxter

Sachs

Mecha Shredder

Casey

Krang

Rocksteady 

Bebop

Rise:

Lou Jitsu

Meat Sweats

Draxum

Cassandra Jones

April

Sunita (slime form)

Big Mama's Assistant (unnamed female turtle)

Repo Mantis

Hypnopotamus

Albearto

IDW:

Jennika human

Jennika turtle

Hob

Herman

Null

Sally

Nobody

Alopex

Lindsey (BW)

Stone (thermochromic plastic for his exposed flesh.)

Shredder's Revenge:

Ninjara

Irma

Traag

Zorax

Tempestra

Halfcourt

Mona Lisa

Antrax

Roadkill Rodneys

Pizza Monster

Other:

Jagwar

Dreadmon

Gaiden Irma

Gaiden April

Mutant Mayhem April

Turbo Cammy

Mutant Turtles: Choujin Densetsu-hen Shredder.

Mutant Turtles: Choujin Densetsu-hen April (can come with Kris Mu. Also April must be flat.)

Coming out of their shells April

April O'Neill, the pornstar cosplaying as April O'Neil 

Arcade cabinet April.

Kept you waiting

 Huh?

He will keep me waiting if he cancels like Ming Na, Cobra Kai, and all the others who have canceled.

Now THIS is the Snake I would LOVE... He-Simba Liquidnardo...

Due to\n My work, I'll be unable to see David Hader, but with my luck, I get the days off and he cancels

She can buy herself flowers

 Write her name in the sand. Pay the $80 thousand to get her own fucking star...

Muley Cyrus is getting her own star in the Hollywood walk of fame before GTA6...

What can I say, congrats to Miley... but I swear if she gets another star as Hannah Montana I'm gonna fucking lose it!

Let's go Hannah!

It came from the Toy Chest FTC Garbage

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.

TMNT Accessory packs: Don't sleep on this Mattel...

 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.

It came from the toy chest: Yo Joe!

 

This is why...

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. 

Roger Sweet has died... BONG!! May 2, odds and ends

 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:

Space Force uncanceled! 

Or...

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?

Making Vulvana: a TMNT custom rant

 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?

When does a Funko POP! Stop being a Funko POP!?

 Asking for a friend...

Remember that Tom Cruise threatened legal action agains Funko for likeness issues.

To the left, we have Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Fortnite.

Apparently, Funko made a Funko POP! of Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

You'd expect putting Doctor Doofenshmirtz through the FunkoPop!inator would make him look like a Funko POP!

Well, Behold the Doctor Heonz Doofenshmirtz Funko POP!!

It doesn't look like a Funko POP! at all! It looks like a generic chibi styled Doofenshmirtz.. Not a Funko Pop! It bugs me...

Mini Playsets: a rant:

 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: