If the horrible embed isn’t working you can view it at the 4Kids website.
The first official trailer for the decades-crossover Turtles Forever has hit the intertubes and it is amazing. It’s pretty short, but the end was a big surprise for me and made my interest jump from about 75% to 123%.
Here are some highlights.
This news is getting posted everywhere today, and I would have posted it earlier if I would have understood it the first time.
Fresh out of Reuters is news that Nickelodeon has acquired the global rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise from Mirage and 4Kids for $60 Million. The release mentions a new CG television series and movie, and when I first read it I thought that was all they had the rights for.
I didn’t realize that they bought the whole package, including toy and merchandise rights. I guess this is a big deal for TMNT fans, but honestly, I think Nick will handle the franchise well. I must admit, I’ve been less than amazed at Mirage’s “huge” 25th Anniversary Shellabration. If anything, it will be nice to see some talent behind TMNT marketing.
The current cartoon will continue to run until August 31st, 2010. Check out the full press release at Reuters.
Update: Now read the words straight from TMNT creator Peter Laird’s brain on why he sold.
Get ready for more TMNT related awesomeness out of NECA, makers of the why-don’t-I-own-you-yet action figures. Next month they are releasing limited edition TMNT BATSU urban vinyl figurines.
I haven’t quite hopped on the cute urban toy bandwagon yet, but these may be a great place to start. Each figure comes with it’s signature weapon and even has some articulation. Dibs!
Thanks to Space Monkey X for the tip.
I haven’t really known what to expect with the decades-crossing Turtles Forever special, but now I think I have a much better idea. From this preview it’s obvious that they’re going to be making fun of the 80s series quite a bit, but that’s fine with me. I loved the mutant banana and pizza slices, attacking April side-by-side with some leprechauns, because why not?
I can’t wait to see Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady in this too, it should be a lot of fun!
Now if only we could figure out when we’ll get to see it.
Via Ninja Pizza
Remember that crazy-sounding TMNT crossover cartoon I wrote about a while back? You know, the one where the Turtles we grew up with cross paths with the new class? Well consider me shocked, because it turns out that it is going to play in select theaters for one night only, on October 29th.
The ever-awesome Ninja Pizza broke the news, and you can find a PDF list of participating theaters here. I’ll be there for sure, I only wish they would have gotten the original voice cast from the 80s series to reprise their roles.
What about you, will you pay to see it in a theater?
