im still waiting for them to re do some of the old greek mythology stories.
Clash of the Titans with modern CGI…omg can we say bad ass?
[QUOTE=PangQuan;748816]im still waiting for them to re do some of the old greek mythology stories.
Clash of the Titans with modern CGI…omg can we say bad ass?[/QUOTE]
That’s a Sci-Fi Channel mini-series if I ever heard of one…
lol
no fair, i dont have cable!!!:mad:
I personally beleive that the idea of swift moving martialarts turtles is hilarious. THEY’RE TURTLES!!!. example of what i mean: " Hey guys, we gotta save rafael, quick. (running from rooftop to rooftop at about 1mph.) hehehe. If i was a turtle in danger, i’d hide in my shell all day.
My son came home from school today with a flyer/card from one of the local franchise martial art schools.
____ invites you to a special FREE
TMNT Children Beginner’s Martial Arts Workshop
Kids 5-12 are welcome to come as they will
learn cool Ninja Turtle Martial Arts Techniques.
Kids you will even learn to break a real board
and receive a FREE Ninja Turtle Weapon and
learn how to use it!
This FREE community event will be held on Fridays at 6:30 PM
Parents, Call now to reserve your Ninja Turtle’s space at the exciting event
FREE TMNT Movie Tickets to the first 25 callers!"
This is followed by contact info and Raphael is posing all over the card along with the letters TMNT.
I’ve checked this place out before. The instructors came up in a TKD environment, but now get their orders on how to decorate and how to present themselves from the franchise headquarters. So, this franchise feels it’s a good idea to try to hop on the TMNT bandwagon.
i wonder what they had to pay in royalties to be able to rip off the tmnt characters and logo for the promotion of their school.
anyway, i saw the movie the day after it came out and i have to tell you it was awesome. i was very entertained. go see it. but the nintendo wii game tmnt that just came out is pretty weak. i rented it for 5 days and beat it in 4. and i didnt even spend much time playing it. it was like they just slapped something together as quick as they could with the expectation that the game would sell just bc of the movie. and i think they are right. sure am glad i didnt buy it.
I see some people actually admit they used to watch the Kroft stuff. I always thought Sigmunds family were funny as crap. I would even answer the house phone sometime and say “shello”.
Anyone remember Doctor Shrinker, or Electro Woman and Dyna Girl?
THe new TMNT movie rocks!!!
yea, I know, I’m way late.
i don’t get out much.
just saw this at the local brew and view, with pizza (“Funky Chicken”: chicken, bacon and red onions w/ bbq sauce) and beer (“Ninja Porter” [no sh!t]…used to be called the ‘Rook Porter’ but changed the name…i guess it is the year of the ninja) and it was totally awesome…it’s in my top 5 movies of all time now.
anywho…the cap of the night was when I saw the new t-shirts this pizza/brewery/movie joint had printed up for their newly named porter.
On the front: “Ninja Porter”
on the back
wait for it
“Ninja Please”
late joke…
Shaolin Slee Stacks???:eek:
jeez, im surprised no one has done a land of the lost re-make on the big screen yet.
im not sure if i like the idea of gatchaman being re-done, although the turtles looked good in commercials, im sure the company doing the animation will do it top notch but theres just something breathtaking about the tatsunoku anime style
I favor Ratatouille…
…but I’ve only seen that, Shrek 3 and Bee Movie. Shrek was ok. Bee Movie was more of a D- movie.
Two Asian films enter Oscars animation race
Written by Patrick Frater
Friday, 09 November 2007
SANTA MONICA Two Asian-made films have entered the race to win the Oscar for best animated feature.
Japanese crimer “Tekkonkinkreet” and the Hong Kong-made “TMNT” are among 12 movies that have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Pictures . These will be screened and the Academy announce nominations on Jan 22, 2008.
The Academy noted that three of the other pics – " Alvin and the Chipmunks," “Beowulf” and " Persepolis " – have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run. The submitted features must fulfill the general release requirements and meet all of the categorys other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process.
The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008.
Full list of films submitted for 2007 best animated movie Oscar
" Alvin and the Chipmunks"
“Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters”
“Bee Movie”
“Beowulf”
“Meet the Robinsons”
" Persepolis "
“Ratatouille”
“Shrek the Third”
“The Simpsons Movie”
“Surfs Up”
“Tekkonkinkreet”
“TMNT”
beowulf
my pic would be beowulf for the oscars the animation is simply stunning.
Hbd tmnt
A quarter century already? Man, that makes me feel OLD…
April 20, 2009, 3:24 pm
Heroes in a Half Shell Turn the Big 2-5
By Jennifer 8. Lee
Original Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesMirage Studios The original volume of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, released 25 years ago, was a self-published black-and-white comic by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, two struggling artists.
If you invented a martial arts-practicing pizza-loving reptilian crime fighter, where else would they live aside from subterranean New York City?
“We’d always heard the legends of the alligators in the sewer systems in New York City,” said Peter Laird, who dreamed up the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 25 years ago with Kevin Eastman when they were struggling artists living in Dover, N.H. “The sewer system is big enough and vast enough to hide alligators. It could certainly hide turtles.”
And the New York City sewer certainly could be a fertile place for radioactive ooze. (Do you really trust university labs to properly dispose of their waste?).
So it is not unfathomable that four little turtles could be dropped by a little boy into a sewer and get soaked in the mysterious ooze. Perhaps the conceptual jump is that the turtles adopt names of Renaissance artists (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello), speak English, walk upright, eat pizza, adopt surfer attitudes and study martial arts under the tutelage of a giant rat.
But to two aspiring comic book creators in 1984, it seemed reasonable. Mr. Laird, then 33, and Mr. Eastman, then 26, had an admittedly offbeat way of looking at the world. “The whole concept sprang out of the strange sense of humor that I shared with the co-creator,” Mr. Laird said.
He observed that the rest of the world might look at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and react to them as “four really mostly unconnected words” but “for us, it just seemed to flow naturally.”
As Mr. Eastman, who has since sold his share of the property to Mr. Laird, described in an 1988 interview: ”We were sitting around the living room. We’d watched a number of bad TV shows — ‘T. J. Hooker,’ ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Love Connection.’ We got real punchy, and for some reason I did a sketch of a turtle with a mask. Pete did one, and another. Then I said, ‘Wait! Wait!’ and drew four turtles, each with a different weapon. I said, ‘Why not call them Ninja Turtles?’ Pete said: ‘Why not Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?’”
Their ambitions were fairly limited at the time. “We were looking to do comic books successfully enough that we did not have to work at Pizza Hut,” Mr. Laird said. The two had formed a company called Mirage Studios. “The name referred to the fact we didn’t really have a studio,” Mr. Laird said. They were working out of their living room.
Their original comic was a self-published black and white volume that quickly sold out across the country, spurred in part by a United Press International story. An agent heard about the turtles and approached them about licensing the turtles for toys and then sold the idea to Playmates Toys, a large doll manufacturing company, which was looking to get into boys’ action figures. “They had this great line: ‘Fresh from the sewers,’” Mr. Laird said.
The toys really took off after Playmate created a cartoon series to promote the series — a common technique to market toys. Group W Broadcasting commissioned a five-part animated Turtles mini-series, because that as much as the budget allowed. The five episodes were a success in syndication and Group W went on to sign a 65-episode run of new Turtles cartoons, which became a hit.
“It touched a nerve and took off like a shot,” Mr. Laird said. “It’s bit on this wild ride we’ve been on for the last 25 years — nothing I ever anticipated.”
The turtles went on to generate two separate cartoon series runs (the second which is ending this season), three live-action movies, best-selling toys, and video games. Mr. Baird and Mr. Eastman only penned 30 comics themselves, before passing it to other artist in their studios.
This week, the turtles are celebrating their 25th anniversary in New York City with a public “galabunga” (a play on the turtles’ “cowabunga” cry). The Empire State Building is being lit up green Thursday, and this Thursday, the Tribeca Film Festival is featuring the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, which despite mixed reviews went on to be the highest grossing independent film up until then.
That film was also inspired by New York City infrastructure. In order to design the underground sets for the first film, the film staff tried to gain access to a city sewer, but failed. Instead they were given access to a long-abandoned, Brooklyn subway system - originally built for steam trains - whose structural principle was the same as the sewer system. In addition, they were able to explore a water tunnel which had huge water pipes that were used to pump water into the Central Park Reservoir.
After New York, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are going on a national tour. Details are on the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Web site (which has got to be one of the garish official Web sites out there. Yes there is a turtle theme, but still: yellow text on green background?). The company has set up a separate 25th anniversary site.
* Philadelphia (April 30-May 2)
* Detroit (May 4-6)
* Chicago (May 21-25)
* St. Louis (June 4-6)
* Dallas (June 11-13)
* Denver (June 18-20)
* Phoenix (June 25-27)
* Las Vegas (July 9-11)
* Los Angeles (July 16-18)
* San Diego (July 22-25)
Looking back, the cartoons actually had a very different timbre than the original books, Mr. Laird said. The original books were adventure stories with humor. The first cartoons had reverse balance.
But the spiritual home of the turtles is still in New York City. “The setting them in New York City part was a no-brainer,” Mr. Laird said. The superheroes they read growing up lived in New York (or a facsimile of it).
Neither of them had really spent that much time in New York at that point. Mr. Laird had visited only a few times, including once as a child. “The New York that you see in our comics is really an imaginary New York — it’s a perceived New York,” he said. “The turtles were created in a small town in New Hampshire.”
New York City played another indirect role in the creation of the ninja turtles. When he was in college in the mid-1970s, Mr. Laird decided he wanted to be a comic book artist. “I packed up a portfolio and went on a bus and located the Marvel Comics office,” he said. He walked into the Marvel offices and asked to show his portfolio to someone.
“I didn’t realize I had to make an appointment,” Mr. Laird said. “I was completely naïve.”
He was politely turned away. “I was very dejected.”
He had three hours to kill before his bus left. He wandered to Times Square, which was much more seedy back then, and he found a theater playing two martial arts movies.
“I remember, ‘Chinese Hercules’ and ‘The Way of the Dragon,’” he said.
“Chinese Hercules” was mediocre, he remembered. “But, he added, Bruce Lee just blew me away.” The actor’s athleticism and charisma just jumped off the screen.
“I became a huge Bruce Lee fan after that,” he said. “It probably had a lot to do with inspiring the turtles.”
nice dude.
back in the day the owners of the series used to have a comic book museum in northampton (where they are from) and it was cool stuff.
cant believe its their bd already.
look at that. even the ninja turtles were inspired by bruce lee.
with how much hate the guy gets from people its simply amazing how you will constantly find out more and more that he influenced.
i LOVED the ninja turtles growing up. I got into them right off the bat with the old laird and eastman comics.
the first one i got was this black and white non cartoony issue:
The ninja turtles are out in the forest, a foot of snow in all directions.. all have katanas. Shredder in full plate samurai armor is up on a hill watching as they are surrounded by the foot clan. as the battle clashes there are limbs and heads flying left and right as the turtles decimate the foot. the snow is painted by the blood of the foot clan. The battle climaxes as one of the foot cuts of one of the turtles hands. splinter grabs it and makes a quick exit to mend his injured turtle.
best turtle action ive ever seen in any format
I’ve got some classic Mirage Studios Turtles comics hanging around. The “Back To New York” story was awesome. 4 mutant Shredders versus the Turtles, ending in a major showdown between Leonardo and the real Shredder on a rooftop. Awesomely laid out. The art was at one of its best periods with Laird and Jim Lawson working on the books at the time.
funny. i picked up ninja turtles 1-30 for like 70 bucks on ebay. the 1st issue is like 5th reprint, but the story is all there. from the serious issues to the kiddy issues. they mixed both in. but the one you are talking about lucas, i actually have it. its a good issue and gets continued later on.
the nephew of one of the artists was in an art class of mine one summer. all i remember was the story on how his uncle and friend created it. and his hot sister.
apparently the story went like they. a group of friends were together one night drinking. and they were drawing animals with ninja weapons. and boom ninja turtles were born.
thats cool that you have that issue. i havnt read it since i was a kid, but to date i still think its one of the best issues of any comic ive ever read.
maybe because of when i read it, not sure. but even to this day when i think of TMNT i always think of that issue.
new movie coming http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=54763
!!!
The Empire State Building goes GREEN
I wonder how many light bulbs it takes to turn the Empire State Building green…
New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Movie Announced, Empire State Building Goes Green
Published by Rick Marshall on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 12:07 pm.
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’The 25th Anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kicked off in a big way this morning, with plans for a new live-action movie announced just before New York City’s “heroes in a half-shell” turned the lights green at the Empire State Building.
Yes, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael will indeed be making another trip to the big screen in 2011. The film, which looks to be a live-action and CGI hybrid, will be produced by Scott Mednick (”300,” “Superman Returns”), Galen Walker (producer of 2007’s CGI film “TMNT”), TMNT co-creator Peter Laird and Mirage Studios president Gary Richardson, among others.
I dropped by this morning’s “green-lighting” event at the Empire State Building, which was attended by a number of TMNT notables, including 1990’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” director Steve Barron, and managed to get a few more details about the upcoming movie and anniversary events, as well as some photos of the Turtles and their party van parked outside.
Along with turning the Empire State Building’s lights green for the next 24 hours or so, Laird and Kevin Eastman’s famous creations will also be hosting an outdoor screening of the original live-action “Ninja Turtles” movie in Tribeca Park later tonight. A cross-country tour in the Turtles’ “party van” will then commence, with the four characters making appearances at baseball games and other events as they head westward.
Fans can get an updated schedule of events at the TMNT 25th Anniversary website.
(On a side note, the TMNT van was parked directly in front of popular New York City comic shop Jim Hanley’s Universe — a fact that, according to the event’s organizers, was actually just a pleasant coincidence.)
As for the recently confirmed “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” film, details were scarce but the TMNT notables in attendance all seemed to agree that a blend of live-action and computer-generated effects were likely — confirming much of what Laird told MTV News back in September 2008. The writer and director for the film, as well as whether the film will be a sequel to previous live-action installments or reboot the franchise entirely, are still unknown.
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picture of empire state building green.