He likes to rock out with his tongue out. His G1 figure is this head-bangin' dude with brightly colored long hair and stompin' boots that look like dragons.
His G2 figure is the same mold, now with static arms. With both of his new hands, he is giving the hand gesture known as the "sign of the horns." This hand gesture was popularized by artists such as Gene Simmons (Kiss) and Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath). It has remained a popular gesture of the heavy metal scene to this day.
The TDD website long ago revealed that Sludge had a G3 redesign. Unfortunately, it was never produced as a figure. This design is an obvious homage to Gene Simmons, the lead singer of the band Kiss. This would have been a really cool parody figure, but I am guessing Tech Deck did not want to risk a lawsuit. Pfft. Oh well.
Besides a couple of the dudettes and Sludge here, all of the other images of dudes on the website were actually made into figures. The website featured bios and images up to TDD #114 (Thunder), suggesting that updates ceased at some point in 2005. The website remained visible until 2015, but no bios were ever added for figures #115-164 in that entire 10 year period.
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