Random question about Jimmy Snuka

People have used the Kevin Von Erich legs to make barefoot Snuka. I guess you could also use the elite Matt Riddle legs now. You would have to repaint them or use shoe polish? I'm not sure on the polish but others claimed it works. I think the gear is sometime from the early 80s.


Edit: I meant early 90s.

I would assume the jacket is the same time as when he wore long tights and boots in 92/93.

The only customizing I've done with the elites is replacing heads. How do you do the legs? I assume similar with hot water but is there any other involvement to remove and reattach various parts of the legs like hip joints or knee joints?

No need to take the crotch apart. Just the whole leg assembly. Snuka takes a little more care cause he has those nubs on the part that connects to the crotch you need to save those because if you put regular ball joint legs on it they will be loose and dangly. I personally use a hair dryer its way more fast than hot water and you need to get it really hot to remove snukas legs. But watch out to not point they haor dryer directly for too long there is the chance of deforming the plastic though its never happened to me.

In my case I tried that and i guess the hole the ball joints are supposed to go into are bigger and caused the legs to be really loose. I reattached the sockets and its good and tight. Maybe it was just mine or maybe i did something wrong i didnt look for any instructions. Honestly I just guessed my way through it and it worked.

Does anyone here have snuka AND elite matt riddle? I want to make sure the sizes match up. Not like rey mysterio legs or something.

Pull the thigh down off again as you did previously.  You should see a seam on the upper leg segment where the two halves get glued together.  Heat the figure, and apply pressure with a box cutter along that seam.  It should go through with little to no resistance - like a knife through cold butter.  That will open up that upper thigh piece, revealing the ratchet joint.  Some people trim the plastic nubs on tip before attaching a ball joint leg, others heat the part and muscle the ball joint into place.  

There should be a couple of youtube tutorials if you want to see a step-by-step before you give it a try.

Thank you for this. Is this something I need to do on both figures or just the older one? The first figure is 2010 jimmy snuka and the second figure is elite matt riddle. I wasnt sure if newly released figures had ratchet joints too or if it was just the older figures. I wanted to keep the matt riddle legs all the way up to the upper thigh piece. If I did this on the riddle figure do I superglue the two halves back together?

I tried to watch YouTube videos and they are hard to watch. I couldn't find the exact video I was looking for. Most were super nerds with annoying voices and were unfocused and rambling. I miss pre youtube video era where there would be handwritten steps and pictures of each step. I just want to see what a ratchet joint and split seam looks like etc. So I don't ruin either figure.

Thanks for helping me out.