"What the heck were they thinking" Officially Licensed Merchandise

[rufus]

Credit goes to Jester for this thread. I did a search of the forum and did not see any threads like this. I figured it would be a great thread.


http://images.bizrate.com/resize?sq=450&uid=598829105
What were they thinking by adding 2k3 splinter to whats supposed to be 87 turtles. I wonder if any kid who never knew about the FW turtles and recieved this dvd thought that it was a bootleg?

[CyberCubed]

The Season 1 DVD also has lyrics to the 2k3 theme song on the back.

[Logan]

Yeah, I noticed that too when I first got it. The first season also has the ninja "rules" from the 2k3 theme song on the back of the package.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Pizza Crunchabungas. Those things were terrible. I remember having them in my lunch once as a kid, and I really had to force them down. I wasn't a picky eater either!

[Slap-Happy]

I think we all know this one...

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o40/Chubbs1117/fail-owned-eat-out-win.jpg

[Archon_Turtle]

I think we all know this one...

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o40/Chubbs1117/fail-owned-eat-out-win.jpg

You know, Steve Murphy and I got into a heated argument over this one. He was doing all merch approvals at the time, and I sent him an email basically saying "Did you seriously approve this?" and hes like "yeah, why?" Anyway, long story short, he did not see any adult connotation to the phrase at all.

[Jester]

Wow...Surprised at Murph's naivete.

[BoggleKng]

Well, I guess Murph doesnt eat out much ;-) lol j/k Murph is a nice guy

[oldmanwinters]

You know, Steve Murphy and I got into a heated argument over this one. He was doing all merch approvals at the time, and I sent him an email basically saying "Did you seriously approve this?" and hes like "yeah, why?" Anyway, long story short, he did not see any adult connotation to the phrase at all.

Wow...Surprised at Murph's naivete.

Believe it or not... neither did I.:tanime:

I am continuously shocked by how many things are actually dirty references of which I am unaware.

[Jester]

Not sure when I first heard the phrase myself...probably right before the magnet.

[Jester]

Ok...as Rose has said, even the "retro" art of the guys coming out of the man hole ain't so retro anymore. If you look closely you can see that the heads are photoshoped. Mikey and Raph's heads are almost identical (except that they are mirror images of each other.), sans bandana ties, same with Leo and Donnie. Also the buckles are modified, and Donnie's straps are removed (which is the only bit that really doesn't bother me. And I just noticed on both...what's up with Mikey's shell?
Here's the original, as made popular by Luzmagica. :D
http://x79.xanga.com/43bf1a7755330233114607/b183928931.jpg
and here is the modified image as it appears on the Turtley Awesome merch:
http://shirtoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/turtley-awesome.jpg

Why did they need to do this? The original is pretty awesome and there's really no need for it.

EDIT: And if they are gonna modify it, why not fix Raph's elbow pad?

[Slap-Happy]

Wow, what's the point of changing the art if they're gonna be lazy about it and just reuse two heads and make mistakes in coloring?

[Powder]

I hadn't noticed any of that, but now that I see the differences it bothers me a little. Oh well, I'll still wear the shirt.

[Cryomancer]

I would guess that they had to make a new vectorized version for shirt printing. So copy/pasting the heads would have been to save time and effort, same for not doing the straps (which sort of stand out in the original anyway, maybe they just wanted em out for consistency), and the arm is just a coloring mistake. I doubt they tried all that super hard on this, basically.

[Jester]

Vertorized Version? Whazzat?

I hadn't noticed any of that, but now that I see the differences it bothers me a little. Oh well, I'll still wear the shirt.
Yeah, I'll still wear my shirts. I have 2 with it on...
The Turtley Awesome one and this:
http://www.wearyourbeer.com/images/TMNT_Cityscape_Black_Shirt2.jpg
I had the original on a shirt years ago, but I wore it to ribbons.

[EvilStarLegacy]

Vector graphics are mostly used for printing. Either they would have made a giant 300+dpi version of the Ninja Turtles image to fit on a shirt(and I doubt they would have gone through the trouble of doing that since the original picture's resolution is nowhere near what's needed) or they do it in Illustrator, get a fully resizable picture, and can print it anywhere. They did do a little bit of copy and paste, and they would have definitely put more work into it.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/bitmapvector.htm

Here's a good explanation of the different between bitmap and vector graphics.

[pannoni1]

On the Topps Series 1 card set, Card 69 says "Rocksteady's Revenge" when the card shows Bebop instead! Those dimwits!