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The tendency for toylines of [[Merchandise-Driven]] (and sometimes otherwise) shows to also contain variations of the characters made up out of, er, [[~~Pun~~|whole cloth]]. Most variations fall under [[Stylish Protection Gear]], and virtually every toy line has at least one of these:

The tendency for toylines of [[Merchandise-Driven]] (and sometimes otherwise) shows to also contain variations of the characters made up out of, er, [[A Worldwide Punomenon|whole cloth]]. Most variations fall under [[Stylish Protection Gear]], and virtually every toy line has at least one of these:

* A snow version, with skis and a white winter outfit. Often called "Arctic Action Whatever."

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** Fun fact: [[All There in the Manual|According to the art book,]] the show's [[Take That]] at [[Scary Impractical Armor]] was in part a shot at toymakers' requests for armored variants.

* Semi-averted with ''[[Star Wars]]'', where although there are a ridiculous number of versions of each character, most actually are from one of the movies or [[Expanded Universe]]. But we say "most": there's a Han Solo figure with a back-mounted... ''thing''... called the [http://rebelscum.com/POTF2dlxhan.asp Smuggler Flight Pack]. It resembles Ripley's [[Aliens|Power Loader]] that is [[Awesome but Impractical|too heavy for his weight to support]] and has a hair trigger that will make its limbs deploy at the lightest touch. Also looks dumber than hell.

** While, again, it's true to the universe, ''[[Star Wars]]'' produces a number of figures that use the same basic mold and look very similar to each other, but are in fact different characters and have different specialities. For example, anyone care to tell [[~~Pun~~|This Trooper]] the differences between the regular Clone Trooper and a "Coruscant Landing Platform" Clone Trooper? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? (The answer: unit colors, amounting to a couple of small stripes, and an antenna on the backpack.) See also ''[[Transformers]]'' below.

** While, again, it's true to the universe, ''[[Star Wars]]'' produces a number of figures that use the same basic mold and look very similar to each other, but are in fact different characters and have different specialities. For example, anyone care to tell [[A Worldwide Punomenon|This Trooper]] the differences between the regular Clone Trooper and a "Coruscant Landing Platform" Clone Trooper? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? (The answer: unit colors, amounting to a couple of small stripes, and an antenna on the backpack.) See also ''[[Transformers]]'' below.

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' has more toylines than one would consider to be strictly necessary, so they had to fill them up somehow... The first cartoon's toylines, in particular, absolutely reveled in this sort of thing. Never mind noncanonical armors, the turtles were out there getting every conceivable job, from Green Beret to stage magician to, yes, [[Star Trek|Starfleet officer]]. (Does it scare anyone else that ''Raph'' is the medic?) There were movie monster Turtles, dinosaur Turtles, even ''clown'' Turtles. They're probably the [[Trope Codifier]] for this one. Interestingly, it took toymakers until about 2009 or so to actually make toys based on the 1st comic book incarnation of the Turtles...and they're all overpriced figurines marketed to the enthusiast collector market rather than kids, which makes sense if you consider [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|just how those versions were written]].

* While ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has begun integrating some of the armors from the toyline into the show, some of them are bizarre powerups and vehicles that never appear anywhere—and thankfully don't. (''Skateboards? '''Seriously?''''') Really, if you think [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|some of the armors that were used]] were insane, swing by the toy aisle next time you're at Target.