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[Zenshiite]

^The Turtles need NYC. I think the problem with the Shredder in the original movies was that they tried to give a more authentic looking samurai construction to the dude's gear and it didn't work. The helmet was too bulky, the bladed gauntlets and shoulder armor looked chintzy, etc. If they did that stuff up more like the comic, where it's solid steel and gave him a sleeker helm, he could be so badass. The movies basically had him never getting his hands dirty until the end, he was a sort of mix between the do-nothing Shredder of the cartoons and the Shredder of the original comics... and even he's basically overblown. There were only 2 major stories with Shredder in it. The first issue, in which he promptly gets blown to smithereens by a grenade, and Return To New York where he is cloned with special worms by the Foot Clan and then there are 3 freakish versions made with the same worms that Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo fight while Leonardo goes to find the normal Shredder clone and put an end to him.

I think your idea is cool, but not the Canadian wilderness. Upstate NY would work, since there is comic precedent for that with the Turtles taking refuge in a farmhouse that belonged to Casey Jones' family. I'll go so far as to say the difference between the Mirage Turtles and the Cartoon Turtles is the attitudes of the Turtles themselves and the violence levels. Both had some tripped out sci-fi ish going on though. It was rarely, if ever, really fully "ninja-y" IMO.

[doug maverick]

make a movie, old school eastman and lairds style and just refresh it. all the turtles wear red bandanas they all carry katanas, in addition to various ninja weapons, you know like a real ninja, and they slaughter foot in a most glorious and bloody fashion.

make shredder evil as hell with REAL samurai armor, and give splinter the look of a rabid rabbid wolf rat, with actual deadly animal skills and have him get in the action too. clawing out eyes and biting off fingers

make it dark, violent, adult language, and in a different setting, im picturing....canadian wilderness, on the move, hunted by the foot, hounded and brutalized, starving and cold, and needing every bit of ninja skill just to survive...

few words, no pizza, no skateboards, and adult humor. mix with japanese film style.

i could bring the tmnt back with a vengeance!

but we know it wont ever get that awesome. im way too awesome for mainstream....

dude dont ruin my childhood with that...this is a movie about four turtles who are ninjas, lets get serious here. can it be made for adults? doesnt matter because adults will go see it anyway, because they grew up on the turtles, as long as its live action and not to campy, like the third film was... and taking the ninja turtles out of nyc for..............CANADA? and not even a major city like toronto which i could take cause i love toronto. no what makes the turtles cool is that they are urban, i would just stick close with the comicbooks thats all. no need for such a dramatic R rating or anything. a nice hard pg 13 film will be good enough.

[Zenshiite]

TMNT was never Ninja Assassin, not even at it's grittiest. The PG TMNT said "****" and actually used their weapons in the first film... against human foot ninjas not the foot bots of the cartoon. That was a shock to my 10 year old mind until I found the Mirage comics.

[Lucas]

well part of that actually comes from a black and white eastman and lairds turtles comic, out in the wilderness in the snow, black and white chopping up foot clan, bloody. a turtle loses a hand even. so really, its a matter of perspective, that is the turtles i remember and liked best from my childhood. this was before the cartoons and movies.

[GeneChing]

Teenage mutant ninja rabbits?
November 5th, 2010 | Energy | Posted by Stephen LoseygravatarcloseAuthor: Stephen Losey


This rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide. It's a killer!

The Tri-City Herald in Washington state this morning reports about a sticky situation emerging at an Energy Department facility. A radioactive rabbit has been caught at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Richland, Wash., and state health workers are now combing nearby grounds for — yes — radioactive rabbit droppings.

The scary thing is, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Hanford had another mutant bunny emergency last year, and flew helicopters above the grounds to locate the radioactive poop, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

And in much less cute news, the Seattle Times reported in 2009 that Hanford was trying to clean up radioactive wasps’ nests. (You couldn’t pay me enough to go toe-to-toe with angry, radioactive wasps.)

Hanford was the site the government used to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project. It is now one of the most contaminated nuclear sites in the country, and Congress set aside about $2 billion from last year’s stimulus bill to help clean up Hanford.

As the video below shows, exercise all caution when approaching deadly killer rabbits. They may seem cute, but looks can be deceiving…

NINJASTAR 2010 closes next Wednesday (11/10/2010). Turtles are welcome to enter.

[Shaolinlueb]

since there is comic precedent for that with the Turtles taking refuge in a farmhouse that belonged to Casey Jones' family. I'll go so far as to say the difference between the Mirage Turtles and the Cartoon Turtles is the attitudes of the Turtles themselves and the violence levels. Both had some tripped out sci-fi ish going on though. It was rarely, if ever, really fully "ninja-y" IMO.

if you read the comic the farmhouse is in the hadley massachusetts area. the creators were from northampton mass and the signs in the original book show them getting off exit 18 of 91 north (northampton). that area is farm country. in one issue casey jones fights crime in the city of springfield ma. oh how they need him right now.

[Zenshiite]

if you read the comic the farmhouse is in the hadley massachusetts area. the creators were from northampton mass and the signs in the original book show them getting off exit 18 of 91 north (northampton). that area is farm country. in one issue casey jones fights crime in the city of springfield ma. oh how they need him right now.

That issue of crime fighting in Mass is called "The Unmentionables" where they do an Elliot Ness thing.

[GeneChing]

Gobbledygook #1 (Mirage Studios, 1984) Condition: VF+. The first time the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ever appeared in print was on the back cover of this rare issue!

Overstreet ranks it as the second most-valuable Copper Age comic, behind only the Miracleman #1 Gold variant. Yet given the dearth of recorded sales, this issue may well be deserving of the #1 spot, and indeed while the Miracleman variant is said to have only 400 copies in print, this tops it scarcity-wise as reportedly just 50 copies of Gobbledygook #1 were made. This is certainly the first copy Heritage has ever offered.

As challenging as it is to find a copy offered for sale, it's also a challenge to authenticate given that all issues were produced on a photocopier. That's why the provenance of this copy is so important -- it was acquired directly from the creators in 1985 by fanzine publisher Paul Wagner, as detailed in our description of the original cover art elsewhere in this catalog.

While CGC does not certify Gobbledygook, our three in-house graders who examined the issue graded it VF, VF+ and VF/NM respectively. The spine stresses visible on the scan are the only notable defect.

This is the first comic published by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Mirage Studios. Later that spring, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 was released, in a meager first printing of 3,000 copies that still dwarfs that of Gobbledygook.

Since even most advanced collectors have probably never seen a copy of this comic, a brief description of the contents is in order: Fugitoid (a man's mind trapped in a robot's body) is the cover character and the star of two stories inside. A Champ story and pinups by Laird round out the content. On the inside front cover Eastman and Laird briefly introduce themselves and note, "Together we have put together some of our newest projects for you to check out."

The Turtles characters born in this independent comic became a major moneymaker, representing by far the biggest success to come out of independent comics and serving as an inspiration to creators and small publishers to this day. As a licensing/ merchandising success the characters had no parallel.

Given all of the above, we have every expectation that the final price will far exceed the stated Overstreet value.

Overstreet 2010 VF 8.0 value = $413; VF/NM 9.0 value = $807.

Here's the back cover, from another site:

[GeneChing]

A: So I can post them here obviously.

[stoic]

http://io9.com/5830741/a-teenage-mut...s-in-wisconsin

[GeneChing]

It had to be posted here, despite being quite OT

Published: Sept. 8, 2011 Updated: Sept. 9, 2011 3:38 p.m.
Plastic surgery creates human Ninja Turtle
By COLIN STEWART

Bad plastic surgery: High-tech liposuction technique leads to bizarre fatty “six-pack abs” for reality TV celebrity.



ANNALS OF BAD PLASTIC SURGERY

Liposuction is one of the most popular forms of cosmetic surgery, because unwanted bulges of fat are among the most unpopular parts of people’s bodies.

A high-tech form of liposuction does more than just suck out a few pockets of fat that resist attempts to remove them through diet and exercise. It’s called liposculpture, because it sculpts the fat to create new body contours.

Mostly it’s used as a sophisticated form of liposuction, but one patient has taken it to an extreme.

Low-level celebrity Darryn Lyons, 46, a cast member of the British reality TV show “Celebrity Big Brother,” used liposculpture to turn his abdominal fat into the approximate appearance of “six-pack abs.”

“Basically it’s the male version of a boob job,” Lyons said.

He proudly displayed the results on a recent episode of the show, but most people who see them are either amused or repulsed. Headline writers called them “ridiculous abs” and “creepy fat.”

After all, his “six pack” is made of fat, not of muscle.

“This is when abdominal etching (specialty liposuction to make the fat look like a six pack of muscle) goes horribly wrong. Who ever saw a man with a potbelly have a six pack? He looks like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle,” commented plastic surgeon and blogger Dr. Tony Youn of Michigan.

“Not everyone should be a candidate for this surgery. As he gets older and his skin sags, I betcha it’ll turn into a twelve pack or party ball,” Youn said.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer of Miami told MakeMeHeal.com, “He probably should have opted for a little liposuction instead. Often after seeing a trimmer body post-liposuction, patients are motivated to hit the gym more and eat better to maintain and improve their new look.”

Not every liposculpture patient looks like Lyons. Most look much better, as the lower photos in this blog post demonstrate. Those photos come from the website of the company that sells Vaser ultrasound-assisted liposuction equipment used in liposculpture.

But in each case, the patient’s appearance in the “after” photo is achieved by sculpting fat — taking away some of it while leaving some behind to stand in for where muscle appears to be.

[GeneChing]

NINJASTAR 2011 is ON. This means I'm reading ninja news feeds for the rest of the month.

Today at 10:35 am
'Broken and fake' Ninja Turtles app fools Apple
by Rob Crossley

Complaints roll in as Vietnamese developer sells 'bogus' $5 app

A game that appears to be in clear breach of several copyright and trademark laws has slipped through Apple’s notoriously strict screening process.

The iPhone manufacturer has allowed a Vietnamese developer, known as Dang Van Phuong, to publish a $5 bootleg Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game (pictured) onto the App Store.

It is not thought Dang Van Phuong owns a Ninja Turtles licence. Customers have complained of being misled into thinking the game was official. One review said “there seems to be no way to actually interact with the game”.

Nickelodeon owns the rights to the TMNT brand and is making a new animation for 2013, said Licensing.biz editor Samantha Loveday.

It is likely a game will be part of that deal, Loveday added.

According to games blog Destructoid, Dang Van Phuong’s app also appears to using assets from existing games such as Contra and Metal Slug.

The game, which was published by Apple more than six weeks ago, brings into dispute the reliability of Apple’s App Review Board.

Apple was not available for comment when contacted by Develop.

The game’s logo is an exact replica of the official Turtles emblem and displayed next to its App Store description.

One customer review read:

“I bought this game for my grandson, he loves the TMNT!! This game has no directions we can't figure out how to play, or even how to restart the game. There aren't any turtles in the game. A total waste of $5”

Another read:

“The character immediately slides off the side of the screen. There seems to be no way to actually interact with the game. And there doesn't seem to be any way to start a new game. The use of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters on the splash screen are almost certainly infringement; the blob that slides off the screen during the actual game isn't identifiable as a turtle. Or much of anything.

“Visiting the developer website and the support site both go to the same spammy, Vietnamese-language website selling iPhone and iPod accessories. There doesn't appear to be any actual support. Deleted and requested refund.”

[GeneChing]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses

NinjaStar 2011

[GeneChing]

TMNT Stop Motion Intro (1987)

[Zenshiite]

TMNT Stop Motion Intro (1987)

NOOOOO! They ruined the Neca figures by doing a repaint...

Still good. Amazing, really.