ROCKSTEADY (HUMAN PUNK)
PROJECT #567 CREATED: 2017 "Let me guess... you guys are the Tooth Fairy, right?" "Nah! There ain't four Tooth Faries, stupid! Them's the Seven Dwarves!" When we're first introduced to Rocksteady as he appears in the original TMNT cartoon, he's the leader of a gang of punks who answer to Shredder. Later, Shredder begins to experiment with mutagen and turns two of his punks into powerful mutant animals. (Poor Rocksteady seems confused on this point, since according to "Planet of the Turtleoids" he seems to think he used to be an animal who lived in the zoo. However, Rocksteady is also an idiot.) There was a Mutatin' Rocksteady action figure that could change from human to mutant rhino, but I wanted to build a toy of him that was accurate to his screen appearance. I used the Toon Burne toy as a starting point, replacing the head with the one from the Mutatin' Rocksteady figure. I got rid of all the things that were permanently stuck to him (his sandwich, the toilet paper on his shoe, etc.) and sculpted him a new vest, some boots, and cargo pockets for his pants. The bat is from the 1988 Casey Jones toy. His new paint job is based on his pilot episode animation model, which retained the camouflage pattern on his pants (this was phased out in later episodes). |
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