Rutger's TMNT autograph collection updates!

[Raph]

What a great day. I received 3 autographs in my mailbox today! The first one is signed by Lalainia Lindbjerg, she did the voice of Venus de Milo on the Next Mutation series.

Danny Jacobs was the voice of Snake in the beginning of the Nickelodeon series, but it didn't take long before he mutated into Snakeweed! He signed my photos of both characters.


- Lalainia Lindbjerg - Venus de Milo


Danny Jacobs - Snake


Danny Jacobs - Snakeweed

[TheCanadiandrome]

woah! so cool dude, grats

[Raph]

It's really a great week! Today I got my photos back signed from Bill Wolf!
He was the Director, producer and occasional writer on the 80's cartoon !

[TheCanadiandrome]

dude that's awesome! grats

[Raph]

Thanks man. Yeah he's a great guy!

Originally Posted by TheCanadiandrome

dude that's awesome! grats

[Raph]

Today I received my photos back from Renae Jacobs. She an amazing person! Not only is she the original April O'Neil, in the new series on Nickelodeon she voiced April's mom and Mom-thing.
She signed and inscribed the photos of both characters lovely!

[TheCanadiandrome]

oh man that's too cool dude!

[Navin Johnson]

Congrats, its amazing how your collection just keeps on growing, keep up the good work, it can't be easy.

[Raph]

Originally Posted by Navin Johnson

Congrats, its amazing how your collection just keeps on growing, keep up the good work, it can't be easy.

It sure isn't, but check what I got today!

Last month I sent out a photo of the title-screen from the 1988 episode "The Case of the Killer Pizzas" to have it signed by it's writer Douglas Booth.

Today I found a thick brown envelope in my mailbox, way to thick to contain one autographed photo.
I opened it and wow..not only was my photo signed, I also found a letter and the Original first draft script of that episode, which he found in his basement and sent to me! How awesome!?

[TheCanadiandrome]

dude i'm like so uber jealous now

[Ohnoyoudiint]

I would love to see a display picture of your entire autograph collection. I bet it looks pretty sweet.

[Raph]

Thanks man.
A complete display would be my website. I've got more then 400 TMNT autographs. It's a bit difficult to display them all in a picture

[Raph]

People sometimes ask me how I get those nice crisp screens for my autographs. Well I take a screencap from the DVD and use Photoshop to enhance the size and dpi, after that the picture is very unsharp and the colors are dirty and sometimes cross-over. If this happens alot I recolor the screen.

Below is a before and after example:

[TheCanadiandrome]

Very cool dude

[BlueKatanas]

Amazing collection! And awesome work cleaning up the screen caps. Can I ask what your process is for requesting autographs? How you find addresses, what you say, etc? Just Curious as you have clearly been so successful in hearing back.

[Raph]

Originally Posted by BlueKatanas

Amazing collection! And awesome work cleaning up the screen caps. Can I ask what your process is for requesting autographs? How you find addresses, what you say, etc? Just Curious as you have clearly been so successful in hearing back.

Hey BlueKatana,

Thanks for the compliment, and sure you can, but I won't give away the secrets of course.

Finding addresses was a lot harder when I started this in 2006. I tried to Google every actor to see if they had a personal/professional website so that I could contact them personally. If that wasn't they case I went to Imdb and where I have a Pro membership. That way you can get acces to emails and all the agency addresses they are registered at!

That's how I started. Eventually some actors helped me out finding others and when FaceBook started it all became a lot easier

About what I say: I just write a polite letter (either on paper, email or in a FB message) telling them who I am, how long I've been a fan and what I do to extend my fandom. Then ask if I may send a picture of his/her character for an autograph.

And after 9 years I'm still not finished...

[Raph]

Hey guys, just a little update for those following my collection updates:

After 9 years I finally found Karen Neil, she voiced Karai in the 4Kids series and the Turtles Forever movie, so thats pretty cool!

Also made contact with Christopher Adams (he was Cody but also Mirage Donatello in the Turtles Forever movie!), Tohuru Masamune (Shredder in the 2014 movie) and Britton Herring (he was Adam McKay, one of the acolytes in the Ninja Tribunal season!)

Pretty happy with these finds and I'm about to send them some photos!
'Till next update!

[Raph]

Darren Dunstan signed and returned some more photos. I still needed him for Turtles Forever Splinter and he also voiced Tsunami, a Justice Force member!

[TheCanadiandrome]

cool cool dude, grats on those

[Raph]

When I say I wanna find everyone who voiced/worked on TMNT, I do mean everyone! Today I got my photo back from James Carter Cathcart aka "Jimmy Zoppi" he voiced Raz, one of the 2 Triceration announcers during the Gladiator battles. When the Turtles battle the Spasmosaur!