I love me some One Piece. I love me some Guardians of the Galaxy keyword. I'd like to do some sculpt swaps. For those of you not familiar here are the main 9 characters (thus far) -

Monkey D. Luffy - Gum Gum Fruit... basically Plastic Man on steroids, but for Heroclix lets mainly just look at his normal form and not Gear 2-4.

Roronoa Zoro - Swordsman; 3-sword style, strong, began as a bounty hunter.

Nami - Navigator, has a climate baton (Weather Wizard, but smarter)

Usopp - Sniper, fix-it gadget man.

Sanji - cook, uses legs to fight... and occasionally knives for Raman

Tony Tony Chopper! - Reindeer man, has different forms. Could be a shifting focus if I used Avengers, but looking to only need one or two sculpts.

Nico Robin - Flower Flower Fruit... produces limbs on limbs on limbs, etc. Super smart Archaeologist.

Franky! - Human cyborg and shipwright. Does not wear pants.

Brook - Musician, Soul-Soul fruit, also swordsman... oh and he's a Skeleton.

There is probably more crew, but due to spoilers and lack of figurines small enough to swap we'll ignore them.

The Guardians are: Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot, Mantis, at times: Adam Warlock, Martyr/Phyla, Moondragon, Nova, Iron Man, Venom, others. Yondu counts for movie (which most of the relevant dials are going to come from).

Initial thoughts

Luffy - Venom, or one particular Drax.
Zoro - The best Gamora or the Drax w/ knives he can throw.
Nami - a Rocket w/ EE. Ideally the $20 Target exclusive, but thats not happening, so maybe GotG 110pt Star-lord.
Usopp - Probably a Rocket or the AI Star-Lord
Sanji - Probably a Gamora as he shouldn't have the damage reducers many Drax give.
Chopper - AI Rocket maybe.
Robin - This is tough as there isn't much Plasticity, so probably the 65pt vol. 2 Gamora
Franky - At first I was thinking a Groot. The GotG Iron Man could represent his more powerful form, but I'm trying to keep it under 700.
Brook - Probably an offensive Mantis that has Mind Control of some kind to represent his music. AI or GotG both have pros and cons, but the newer one shows his sword prowess a bit better.

My first build idea was the following, but I think we can improve it:

125 Venom Space Knight (Luffy)
100 LE Drax (Zoro)
075 Vol. 2 Drax (Sanji)
060 AI Rocket (Chopper)
090 r009 Vol. 1 Groot (Franky)
050 AI Mantis (Brook)

500

075 AI Star-lord (Usopp)
065 Vol. 2 Gamora (Robin)
053 Avengers Yondu (Nami)

693

I think by switching out Venom for 100pt Vol. 1 Gamora it gives enough points to raise Nami to a 75pt Rocket and Franky to one of the 100pt Groot dials (or Iron Man in 800pt games)

Any thoughts? I have another post worth of thoughts and comments and links to pictures in my mind, but I need sleep.

Alternate thoughts:

Franky as Iron Man 055 from GotG - 200 or 150. (Could also be the Thousand Sunny)

Going Merry as ws049 Groot - 152

Zolo as gotgm013 Drax the Destroyer - 94

Luffy as gotgm103 Gamora - 100

Robin as uxm023b Kitty Pryde - 65

Nami as gotgm102 Rocket Raccoon - 75 (I couldn't justify the power 110pt Star-Lord brings)

so, keeping the others:

Luffy, Zolo, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook, Going Merry

Force Build 9097537 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
GOTGM	103	Gamora		100	SELL
GOTGM	013	Drax the Destroyer		94	SELL
GOTGM	102	Rocket Raccoon		75	SELL
AI	021	Star-Lord		75	SELL
GOTG2M	005	Drax		75	SELL
AI	009	Rocket		60	SELL
UXM	023B	Kitty Pryde		65	SELL
GOTG	055E	Iron Man		150	SELL
AI	030	Mantis		50	SELL
WS	049	Groot		152	$19.99
Force Total:				896	$19.99

You can also drop the ship and Iron Man to run a 100pt Groot as Franky

Another take on the original 6 using the Pirate keyword

Force Build 9097715 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
DXF	064	Hulkpool		125	SELL
UXM	044	Nightcrawler		60	SELL
GOTG2M	009	Kraglin		50	SELL
AVAS	019	Cammi		51	SELL
CATWS	004	Batroc		85	SELL
GOTG2M	007	Ravager		20	SELL
Force Total:				391	$0.00

Luffy, Zolo, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper

This one gets a team in under 400 and has some synergy plus Chopper can choose his dial to represent some of his different "points"