| BAXTER STOCKMAN
(REPAINT)
PROJECT #217
CLASSIFICATION: REPAINT
BASE FIGURE: BAXTER STOCKMAN
MATERIALS USED: ACRYLIC PAINTS
FIRST APPEARANCE: "ENTER THE FLY"
"Baxter turned into what?"
"That's right, a fly! It must have been in the unit with him.
Instead of vaporizing him, it cross-mutated him with an insect!"
Preamble: At the same time I built
my Baxter Stockman kitbash, I
also did some work on the original 1988 action figure. While the other
project was more extensive, building a new Baxter toy from various sources,
this one was strictly a repaint project. I mostly put it together as
a test, mixing the necessary paint colors for the kitbash project but applying
them to the original figure first, just to see if they looked right. For
this reason, the repainted figure is actually slightly different colors than
the kitbashed one I built, but it's still Baxter Stockman and still a halfway
decent improvement to the original toy, since the color scheme accounted
for about half the things that were wrong with it in the first place.
Construction: It's remarkable how
much difference a new coat of paint can make. The original Baxter figure
didn't particularly resemble his cartoon incarnation; how could he have
human-color hands and yet have a purple face and feet? He was also
designed to look like he was wearing his lab coat, even though Baxter as
depicted in the show wears a grey sweater vest. (I've never been able
to figure out whether it was the cartoon version that came first, or the
action figure. Figures from the Ninja Turtles toy line seem to go either
way. Characters like General Traag and Genghis Frog got action figures
following their appearances in the cartoon, while characters like Metalhead
or Chrome Dome appear to have been introduced only to advertise the existence
of the toys. My point here is that I have no idea whether the disparity
between Baxter's action figure and his animated counterpart exists because
the animation studios got it wrong or Playmates Toys did. In any case,
though, the disparity bothers me.)
Comments: A number of the Toon Turtles
action figures released by Playmates Toys were simply existing toys that
were painted in colors closer to their animated appearances (I'm thinking
mainly here of Toon Shredder and Toon Zak the Neutrino). Since this
project of mine takes a similar approach, I guess you could say that this
is my version of Toon Baxter. To this end, I've written a very silly
biography in the style of the other Toon Turtles figures.
TOON BAXTER™
The Flipped-Out, Full-Color Fly!
VITAL TOONTISTICS:
Toon Tools: Animated Toon Television, Cel Swatter, Alien Computer
Friend, Silly Circuit Board
Favorite Saying: "I'll get the Turtles..after these messages!"
Favorite Cereal: Sugar Flakes (with extra sugar)
Toon Baxter is brilliant,
buzzing and bothersome...and he's flyin' atcha in full Toon color! Baxter
has always been a problem for both Shredder and the Turtles, but now that
he's teamed up with his Alien Computer Friend, it spells double digital
diabolical disaster! Baxter likes to use his Cel Swatter to try to
turn the Turtles into cartoon pancakes, but he's always one animated step
behind the small-screen superheroes. Maybe that's why they left his
bionic buddy on the cutting room floor, and now all that's left of him is
a SillyCircuit Board! This fly-by-night villain may think he's tough,
but at the end of the day, it's the Turtles who are the real stars of the
show!
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