Advent Calendar 12: NECA Irma + Bonus Rant:

 I had managed to get a NECA Irma in late 2024. I just didn't have a way to give her a meaningful review, so I crammed her in the Advent Calendar. 

Irma is Channel 6's Secretary, friend of April, and a young Blamche Deveraux. 

Irma: stupid rigid plastic skirt! I want to get off!!
Nefty VO: you mean get off the horse, right?
Irma: Don't be silly, this horse doesn't have a dick to get off with... but you do!
Nefty VO: Wha?
Irma: I NEED DICK, COCK, SCHLONG, PENIS, JOHNSON, ONE-EYED MONSTER, wait you speak Spanish... PENE, PITO, GARCHA, PORONGA, BICHO, PINGA, GIVE IT TO ME!!
Nefty VO: I need an adult!
Irma: I am an adult!!

Articulation 

Irma has standard NECA articulation but her rigid skirt blocks most of her legs, which are very articulated.

3.0 due to the skirt

Irma: If it wasn't for this rigid skirt, I'd be flicking my bean for you, hunky photo frame demo guy.

Paint and sculpt:

The sculpt captures Irma perfectly... She looks.

 Like she stepped out of the cartoon. While, I'm not a fan of the cel-shaded look, the paint is well done. They even replicated the animation error of her tights being white on places her bare leg would be seen. I know this is intentional for the turning into rat action feature... 

5.0

Irma: I guess Splinter's kinda hot... Then again, I'd nail Remy from Ratatouille right now. Yes, I'm THAT desperate!!

Accessories:

3 human hands

2 rat forearms (swapping them scared the shit out of me.)

Alt rat head with articulated jaw

Portrait of her current love interest.

4.0 due to being shorthanded as part of a 4 pack.

Irma: Oh I'd sit on it if it wasn't for this rigid skirt!
April: That would lethally rearrange your organs!
Verbon: Feh, that's the small one. I have the N-word version, which is THIS Big!
Irma: Is it wrong that I'm both wet for and terrified of Vernon's dildo collection?
Vernon: They're NOT for me. I'm simply a good host that provides dildos for his female guests. What's wrong with that?
April: That's weird.
Irma: Stop bickering and put that G-ddamned dildo IN ME!
April and Vernon: Irma, you need to get laid.
Irma: Duh! I don't see any of you volunteering as tribute!

Overall:

Irma gets a 4.0 as her final score. It's bullshit that Irma was relegated to a 4 pack. She easily could've gotten a single release or a two pack. She deserves a new release with a soft goods skirt (front side in lighter color and backside in darker.) Plus No rat swapping parts. 

BONUS RANT!

Cartoon Accurate scaling on the right.
"Oversized" Mikey on the left with Super7 figures with similar scaling.

I get scaling for Mutant monsters, etc. But for humans, please let's ignore toon scaling and if/when Super7 tackles Irma, let her be adult sized and not child sized... 

Here I'm gonna say that Humans should NOT follow the "toon scale" so closely. I still stand that we need an April taller than a 13 year old girl. April 2.0 should be the same height as Ninja April and Vernon should be slightly taller than Casey Jones. Irma should be as tall as April 1.0 while Burne should be as tall as April 2.0 but wider, because he's fat.

Kala of the Neutrinos should be Alice sized, since Neutrinos are shorter than humans. 

If we were to get Carter he should be slightly shorter than Casey, but taller than April 1.0. If we were to get Zach and Caitlin then, they should be April 1.0 size.  These figures are 1:10 scale.  So, based on this April is barely 5'0". Casey is 5'10". If Irma was Alice height she'd barely be over 4'0". 

April is supposed to be 5'8". Therefore having a slightly taller April and an April 1.0 sized Irma makes sense.

Advent Calendar 11: Turtles of Grayskull

 

A while back I said, that this year's Advent Calendar would have a MOTU surprise... well, MOTU styled TMNT Mikey counts, right?

Yeah I got him... because Mikey. That makes him the Second Mikey on the advent Calendar... since Mikey is my favorite turtle, he's here.

But I need to tackle another figure first: Not April. 

This is Teela who got a Turtle/Zoar inspired upgrade.

Articulation:

This is literally a Teela repaint:

For the sake of fairness I will try to remain as impartial as possible but articulation is one of the things that this figure does pretty good. I may hate the idea, I may hate the way some things are executed, but this figure has a decent range of articulation. I cannot deny that. It has less articulation then I Classics figure but more than a 200X.

Think 200X with elbow, knee, ankle, and wrist hinge articulation. Unlike Classics she does not have less articulation than her male counterparts. I copied and pasted the OG Teela review because it's the same... for the most part.

Then who slip on pieces hinder her articulation a little bit, especially the Vambraces... They pop off if you look at them wrong. The shell shield and her ponytail interfere a little bit with each other, as the shell raises the feathery trim on the back of her neck, which bumps with the ponytail.

3.5

Paint and sculpt:

From the neck down, this is Vanilla Teela with a new paintjob once you remove the weird slip on pieces. My only gripe is that the helmet is not removable... Luckily, Mattel learned from their mistakes and corrected that for Thundercats. Sadly, this is Teela. So undressing her is pointless. She looks nice.But the design feels a little bit too busy and I find the shell shield illogical.

3.5

Accessories:

Teela has:

 oversized sword

Shell shield

Removable crotch armor

Removable chest armor

Shredderized Vambraces

Most of her stuff is armor stuff , but it's pointless to remove the armor since she doesn't have a traditional Teela look.

3.0

Overall :

Teela gets a 3.33 as her final score. I have to be honest.She's a little bit disappointing even for an origins figure. I regret wasting $20 on her.

Now let's tackled the guy that my mascot hates the most. The loser that gets to nail April.

Articulation:

 For the sake of fairness I will try to remain as impartial as possible but articulation is one of the things that this figure does pretty good. I may hate the idea, I may hate the way some things are executed, but this figure has a decent range of articulation. I cannot deny that. It has less articulation then I Classics figure but more than a 200X.

Think 200X with elbow, knee, ankle, and wrist hinge articulation. His elbow pad hinders articulation a little bit.

3.5

Paint and sculpt:

He is Meh from a sculpt perspective as he's an origins basic body with 2 slip on pieces... 3 forgot the MAA right leg add on. But unlike many of the other releases for this line and specifically the three figures I possess; he's the most creative design. While the body is literally a MOTU oranges body. The color scheme and the added parts make an excellent MOTUFIED Casey Jones. Help the unmasked Casey head sculpt is one of the best Casey Sculpts I've ever seen!

5.0

Accessories:

Casey has a lot

Golf bag/shield

Jitsu gauntlet

Hammer

Katana

Spear

Axe that fuses to his battle hockey stick

Torso armor

MAA leg armor

Ram Man Concept mask.

Personally I would have swapped the katana for a man at arm's mazPersonally, I would have swapped the katana for a man at arm's mace or Mekaneck's

5.0

Overall:

Casey gets a 4.5 despite Mr. Cade's complaints.

Give that Loser a minus 9000!

Nick, this is the House of Rants, MY Domain. Unfortunately, Casey fared better than Teela AND Michelangelo.

And now it's Mikey's turn.

Articulation:

 For the sake of fairness I will try to remain as impartial as possible but articulation is one of the things that this figure does pretty good. I may hate the idea, I may hate the way some things are executed, but this figure has a decent range of articulation. I cannot deny that. It has less articulation then I Classics figure but more than a 200X.

Think 200X with elbow, knee, ankle, and wrist hinge articulation.

3.5

Paint and sculpt:

This is a MOTUO body with sculpted on armor... with the mega retarded removable shell. The shell is the backbone and ribs of a turtle. I wish we had gotten an actual turtle shell body for the Turtles. Other than that the design is okay. 

4.0

Accessories:

Shoulder pads

Armor straps

Shell shield

Loincloth cover

2 nunchucks with plastic chain.

Adam wig.

It's cool that the chain is made out of individual plastic links.The problem is that they're flat and they get stuck.Had they been rounded out what a thing perfect. Sadly.

 You cannot strip Mikey out of the masters elements because there is no actual turtle. It's  a MOTUO body with TMNT hands and feet.

4.5

Overall

Mikey gets a 4.0 as his final score. He could have scored a higher if battle had given the turtles an actual turtle torso. 

 If I can get the rest of the turtles at a discount. I'll probably get them but paying full price, nuh-uh! Oh the line is dead... so why bother?