A while back I received a Little John figure I didn't want in a lot of figures. I wanted to do something with it. I also found an old Beetlejuice figure missing its original head going for obscenely cheap on Ebay. The tacky suit alone made the figure worth buying, and I really wanted to use it for something. Then a lightbulb went off and I decided to use the head from one and the body from the other to create DC Comics' greatest monster, Terry Long!

First I chopped a little off of Little John's mullet, then I started painting up the head to be a ginger. Next, I painstakingly boiled and gradually separated the Beetlejuice body so I could get at the rotating neck piece inside the body. Once out, I sanded the tiny Beetlejuice head down until it was a small peg, on which I could plug Little John's head. I then sanded down the disk underneath the peg, so that it resembled a collared neck. With all that done, I then painted the rotating neck piece a light neon green, to match the color of the shirt. I didn't even bother repainting the suit, because I thought the tacky colors perfectly suited the ever-tacky Terry Long. Besides, purple and green are standard villain colors, and what greater villain could there be than the decades-older lecherous git that hung around the Teen Titans, ever drooling over its nubile young members?

I painted the hands to match the head, and Gorilla Glued the head onto the rotating neck piece. I then reinserted the neck piece in between the two halves of torso and also put the arms and legs back in place, then hot-glued the two halves of the body back together. This was harder this time around, as I normally just put a massive glob of hot glue dead center to hold the body together, but this time I had to actively avoid the center, in order to not impede the action feature, so I had to very carefully squirt glue into the 4 corners of the figure, then rotate the arms and legs as the glue cooled, so that the glue didn't harden in a way locking them in place. As the Beetlejuice body was also made of a thicker plastic (suit bodies tend to be) and had warped slightly in the separating process, one of the shoulders didn't want to seal up neatly, so I put in a little Gorilla Glue and clamped it, that solved the problem just fine. After that, I scraped off excess Gorilla Glue where needed, touched up the paint where it needed it, then sprayed with Dullcote, followed by Acrylic sealant.

Anyway, as always, the finished figure has full posability in the joints, and true to the old Kenner Super Powers figures, this figure has an action feature! Namely, his pervy head-turning, leering-at-young-girls action! Terry Long! Lame-ass old dude that hung around with the Teen Titans! Whiny ginger that no one could stand! The character with genes so potently evil that he impregnated Wonder Girl with a future evil god and dictator. The guy that DC Comics couldn't kill off fast enough! And I've got probably the only Terry Long figure in existence. He's just too awful not to have!