Vintage Toy Line Prototypes

[Shogun_Rob]

I know Ive seen soom, Can anyone here post some pictures of any Vintage TMNT prototypes for me ?
I know Ive seen on Ebay some unreleased figures even one that looked like a early version of Nano.
I would also love to see some prodution art or any stories anyone knows surrounding the vintage toy line. Thanks

[OA]

I'm sure someone has some photos...this topic has come up a few times in the past and people usually come through and post some pics...if you look hard enough, I'm sure you can find the last thread that brought this up and it should have photos...

And welcome to the Technodrome!!! :D

[Spitfire]

I had an old topic about this maybe you can search for it. A bunch of people posted prototypes in there.

EDIT: Nevermind it's been deleted. Probly a loooooooong time ago

[Weapon X]

I used to have a bunch of drawings for unproduced figures, but I lost them all and was never able to get them again.

As far as actual prototypes this place has some, but nothing real big.

http://catalog.hollywoodheroes.com/index.php?cPath=3_60

[Kenton]

Those were pretty cool. Too bad you lost all those drawings.

[Weapon X]

Those were pretty cool. Too bad you lost all those drawings.
One was of an unproduces "Punker Raph" figure, he had on a leather jacket and such. There was a Jungle exploror type Donatello, and a bunch more.

[Shogun_Rob]

Those are the people that I had seen listing on Ebay.
Thanks for the link.
I hope someone has some pictures of the figures they have already sold out.

[cowabunga14]

I know that the Artobiography has a pic of the prototypes in it. I think the prototypes are Rocksteady and one of the Turtles. I'll scan the pic some time if anyone's intrested.

[OA]

I used to have a bunch of drawings for unproduced figures, but I lost them all and was never able to get them again.

As far as actual prototypes this place has some, but nothing real big.

http://catalog.hollywoodheroes.com/index.php?cPath=3_60

pretty cool...i actually had never seen that site before...

[Shogun_Rob]

Seems that Hollywoodheros has just listed some original artwork on Ebay if anyones interested.

[MrPliggins]

I think the old book "TMNT Treasury" has some pics of Rocksteady and a Turtle prototype, if you can even find that book now. You might also want to check Peter Laird's "Blast From the Past" webpage. I know he's posted prototype drawings..not sure about any actual prototype figures.

[Space Lieutenant Josh]

Hmm...

http://www.planetracers.com/blast/prblast0020.html

Yeah, pretty lame.

[evil_henchmen]

I have a couple carded production samples and some artwork for an unproduced TMNT Dune Buggy. Here are some pics of the production samples and i will take some pics of the artwork and post them.

http://photobucket.com/albums/y146/evil_henchman/Vintage%20TMNT/

[Weapon X]

Cool production samples, Raph with "pop up display" :D .

That artwork sounds cool.

[evil_henchmen]

Actually just the Leo, Sewer Samurai and the Mike, Sewer Surfer are production samples. The others are just carded figures. The art work is 16 pieces of original art and it's been done in pencil so i'm not sure how well they will photograph.

[Drtooth]

Hmm...

http://www.planetracers.com/blast/prblast0020.html

Yeah, pretty lame.

E-GAD!!!! They were actually planning on making it with a CLOTH headband?!?! I thought the newer Splinter with the cloth robe was dumb, but... a cloth headband that doesn't even fit or look good?

[BigApple3AM]

Cloth = Soft Goods and is a great part of the original tmnt figures that you really don't seen on toys anymore (except for Star Wars where it is used often but with moderation).

One of those toy magazines (not toyfare) maybe Lees or Tomarts did a photo gallery of every single vintage TMNT figure and vehicle moc/mib. It took them two magazines to complete it and at the end they had a bunch of proto pics including a picture of a prototype Jim Lee Leonardo which for some really odd reason never made it as a figure and was replaced with a battle damage savage dragon instead. :x

Plus the sidewalk surfer and some art of never produced tmnt variant designs. I'll have to dig up the magazines sometime (hopefully someone else can post pics of them as mine are burried under stuff).

[Weapon X]

One of those toy magazines (not toyfare) maybe Lees or Tomarts did a photo gallery of every single vintage TMNT figure and vehicle moc/mib. It took them two magazines to complete it and at the end they had a bunch of proto pics including a picture of a prototype Jim Lee Leonardo which for some really odd reason never made it as a figure and was replaced with a battle damage savage dragon instead. :x

I got it, Tomarts 94/95 were the issues.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v357/Dobed/Unproduced.jpg

[OA]

Nice...so is that Tomarts issues #94 & #95?

[Weapon X]

That scan is from #95 the second part, which went from Giant TMNT III figures to vehicles.

[BigApple3AM]

Thanks for backing me up weapon x. I now know how god awful those jim lee redesigns are, but some part of me still really wants that Leonrado, funny they should cut the best looking one from the line up. :-?

[Weapon X]

I thought the same thing, even being about 5 or 6 years old at the time they came out I wondered why there was no Leo, it was at least 5 or more years later that I finally found out that they had the prototype done, in fact I might as well post this Scan from the Toy Fair '95 issue of Tomarts. Notice Bebop and Rocksteady were going to be part of the "Metal Mutants" assortment.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98/BatManBlade/ToyFair1995.jpg

[OA]

Man...that warrior Rahzar is freakin awesome..too bad they never made it...

[Weapon X]

Here's something cool I found, all the stuff was produced of course, but look at the paint job on the Pizza Thrower and the Part Wagon back windows are hollowed out.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98/BatManBlade/Leafback.jpg

[evil_henchmen]

I took pics of the Unproduced TMNT Dune Buggy and added them to my photobucket account. If your interested in seeing them just checkout the link above. There are 16 pieces of original art but i only snapped 5 pics. They are 3 of the Dune Buggy and 2 of the different versions of remote control they were toying around with. Hope everyone likes them.

[jestergoblin]

Awwww.... I LOVED Metal Mutants. I only have Shredder and Leo.

[Weapon X]

Is it just me or does that Dune Buggy look like it would not belong in the old line? :ohwell:

[evil_henchmen]

It is out of place but it's still a nice piece of TMNT history.

[BigApple3AM]

Is it just me or does that Dune Buggy look like it would not belong in the old line? :ohwell:

Not necessarily, looks almost like the turtle mobile from the old line mixed with the beach car (I can't remember the beach car's name). Besides art tends to look better than the final product, so it may look to advanced for the old line but when it went through production it would have probably fit right in.

Thanks for the pics weapon x, what magazine is the third picture from though? (The one with the party wagon and the pizza thrower).

[Weapon X]

what magazine is the third picture from though? (The one with the party wagon and the pizza thrower).
I found it on a site years ago, I'm still trying to find it, hopefully I can and they can have the credit, for having it at least.

[OA]

I actually like the look of that Dune buggy...and I agree it is a bit reminiscent of the turtlemobile...so to be clear, those eariler scans were from Tomarts issues #94 and issue #95? thnx

[Weapon X]

so to be clear, those eariler scans were from Tomarts issues #94 and issue #95? thnx
No, the first scan is from #95, the second scan is from #22 "Toy Fair 1995" issue, and the third is from a web site.

[OA]

k...thnx :)

[Weapon X]

k...thnx :)
Yeah, after looking at my post, I apologise for the "No", even If you didn't take it a certain way, I shouldn't have put it, hell I guess I'm just crazy, but as I read it comes off "mean" to me. :P

[OA]

Naw, not at all...don't sweat it and thnx for info.. :)

[Weapon X]

No prob, If it wasn't so hard to get the quality real good, I could post scans from all the Tomarts that feature TMNT.