Best body available to convert female FTC figures to?

[sprytel]

Well, that was a fiasco. I couldn’t wait to transfer my Mary Marvel from the FTC body to the Mattel Cheetah body, but I just wasn’t crazy about the result. Although I like the Mattel body better overall, it was just too small for the dress.

I was also having a hard time getting the Jo head off the FTC body, and when trying to heat it up, I fused a bit of the hair. Fortunately, I was able to comb it out and put the figure back together, but not the result I was hoping for.

Aw, that stinks! For Jo, did you heat it up using hot water? Not only does it get the benefit of the heat, but the water also seems to soften it up a bit. Plus, I've never had an issue with water damaging the hair... water can only get so hot before it evaporates...

[Xavion2004]

Aw, that stinks! For Jo, did you heat it up using hot water? Not only does it get the benefit of the heat, but the water also seems to soften it up a bit. Plus, I've never had an issue with water damaging the hair... water can only get so hot before it evaporates...

No I used a hairdryer. I won’t be doing that again.

After I made that faux pas, I did use hot water in a cup with a little of my wife’s conditioner and combed it out. Everything turned out fine. Fortunately, if there’s one things these figures have, it’s plenty of hair!

On another positive note, my first thought after opening Cheetah was “What a nice figure. Kinda seems like a shame to use it for fodder”. So I put her back together, I’ll find a custom box for her, and she can join the rest of the WGSH.

[ToyBob]

That is interesting, I just got a Janine but haven't taken it out yet, but that has got me looking into the Cheetah that shares the same body. I'm still cutting my teeth with restorations but I'll file that away for when I try customs. I sure do have high hopes for this new Mego female body, for all the things I like about the brand I just don't like that original body much Ie. more doll than action.

[darkbros]

If you want to use the Yvonne / Gracie / Type S Female, contact White Elephant Toys and have them send you the smaller feet.
they make the smaller feet now and *chef's kiss* Mego style boots and high heels fit them just nice, no shaving all.

https://www.whiteelephanttoyz.com/pr...s-smaller-feet

In fact, just buy theYvonne/ Gracie straight from them.

If you want the best body with that coke bottle shape, the Mattel RAH Cheetah / Janine/ Wonder Woman is the best bar none,
when it comes to a leotard. Yvonne / Gracie can fill out the front, but the hip silhouette isn't there like the Mattel RAH.

[ToyBob]

If you want to use the Yvonne / Gracie / Type S Female, contact White Elephant Toys and have them send you the smaller feet.
they make the smaller feet now and *chef's kiss* Mego style boots and high heels fit them just nice, no shaving all.

https://www.whiteelephanttoyz.com/pr...s-smaller-feet

In fact, just buy theYvonne/ Gracie straight from them.

That was interesting learning about figure feet how the shoes are thicker and bigger than real life-size shoes are and you get the cumulative result in the final girth. Guess I grew up with molded in figure clothes so I never thought of things like this. Shame the ankle bend isn't very deep in the adapter, though getting OG shoes to fit is still nice. Can see why the boot-leg was devised for the Mego system Ie. just eliminate the whole conflict between the parts.

If you want the best body with that coke bottle shape, the Mattel RAH Cheetah / Janine/ Wonder Woman is the best bar none,
when it comes to a leotard. Yvonne / Gracie can fill out the front, but the hip silhouette isn't there like the Mattel RAH.

Does coke bottle mean like wider hips than hourglass?

Never quite understood how the "fashion doll" standard of measurements came about in the past and stuck around so long? It's like vague rounded pyramid bosoms, an upside down cone for a ribcage, leading to hips narrower than a man, with girthy hip haunches, and a flat butt.

Mego's OG female body is satisfactory enough for the most part but does have that narrow hip/big haunch thing going on. Funny with the male bodies the shoulders can made too wide by default in a lot of brands where I think the Mego male faired well at not being too hyperbolic or having extra abs.

I do like my new style big Poison Ivy, the diaphragm seam can make it easy to change bust size like S-type bodies can, hoping the new 8" Mego female body includes this easy configuration option. Be nice have some hip/thigh piece swaps in the same manner, action figures are always so,so hip narrow.

[KnightDetective]

Yvonne / Gracie can fill out the front, but the hip silhouette isn't there like the Mattel RAH.

At the risk of being inappropriate, I have three words for White Elephant Toys regarding this: Clip-on booty!

[ToyBob]

At the risk of being inappropriate, I have three words for White Elephant Toys regarding this: Clip-on booty!

Can't talk about human like bodies without somebody getting mad. I had similar thought for a belly plate like that, was trying to figure out a body shape for short cartoon character figure but Felix the Cat was slimmer than Bart Simpson or Mego Oz Munchkins.

The Mego body system is based on the of best overall average in proportions, the male figure basically changed from a medium girth original to a mild buff muscle man(Well mild by comic book standards heh.) that could still work for non super hero characters.
Different era I guess but if I had to speculate on what the Mego female figure should have updated to in the 70s would likely be a figure similar to what Susan Storm looked like in that time period, more rounded hips and generally more visually striking silhouette. Like even fashion doll arms & legs have a very fine featured "straight line" appearance that's not very dynamic looking like super hero comics do anatomy.

[KnightDetective]

Different era I guess but if I had to speculate on what the Mego female figure should have updated to in the 70s would likely be a figure similar to what Susan Storm looked like in that time period, more rounded hips and generally more visually striking silhouette. Like even fashion doll arms & legs have a very fine featured "straight line" appearance that's not very dynamic looking like super hero comics do anatomy.

I read once that fashion dollmakers understated some of the female doll proportions (especially the waist) to allow for the scale of fabrics, layers, etc. to build up to the desired form. Seeing some of the stuff done these days with thin, properly scaled fabrics is impressive. Alas, too pricey to be practical for Mego, at least judging by Mezco and NECA prices.

(Not a dig at those companies. Can't imagine how they get that quality in mass market numbers from modern factories.)

[ToyBob]

I read once that fashion dollmakers understated some of the female doll proportions (especially the waist) to allow for the scale of fabrics, layers, etc. to build up to the desired form. Seeing some of the stuff done these days with thin, properly scaled fabrics is impressive. Alas, too pricey to be practical for Mego, at least judging by Mezco and NECA prices.

(Not a dig at those companies. Can't imagine how they get that quality in mass market numbers from modern factories.)

Yeah I could see that in some respects, it's what happened in both male & female for small foot scale with shoe scale material tolerances for thicknesses. But even then the fashion doll standard is much too like a seamstress dummy in overall anatomy aesthetics Ie. not very human looking underneath the clothes.
The waist isn't the worst issue but the hip silhouette has more in common with a Star Wars droid than a human. Also the way the torso is completely amorphous in definition was always strange, not just realistically shaped breasts but collarbone definition, rib diaphragm, a touch of abs, and a bellybutton are missing, again very robotic skin.

There certainly is a much wider range of affordable thinner clothes to use now than compared to the past, like those early vinyl coats on Kenner SW had no give to them, just eternally starched.