Familiar Poses from a Sales Flyer?

[TurtleGuy]

I saw this picture on a retro Playmates sales flyer.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2877/9925770034_3c0ea40180.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/G2Jliza.jpg
I noticed that it looked familiar and I remembered where: The VHS cover of "Hot Rodding Teenagers"(which the Season 3 DVD cover is based off of):
http://www.thetechnodrome.com/images/vhs/hrt.jpg

Outside of the fact that there are two Donatellos, the other 3 poses match up albeit mirrored.

Does anyone know if the VHS cover based it off of these poses or did someone just "retro-rize" the art? Is the art even from a real sales flyer?

[oldmanwinters]

I'm pretty sure the promo flyer art came first, as you can see they hadn't yet finalized the colors for Mike and Don. The Donatello with no belt I think is even a little older than the other three turtles. When the VHS tapes came out it seems like used those poses as inspiration for the cover.

[CyberCubed]

I love that old vintage art, sometimes its so funny to think of how "weird" the Turtles originally looked before they settled on standard designs.

[neatoman]

Why are there two Donatellos?

[Powder]

Wow, I've seen that art over & over my entiiiiiire life, I even own that flyer print, + the fan club insert that features it.

Yet I've never noticed it has two Donatellos. :tlol:

[thundermaster612]

That classic old Mikey with Donnie's stuff figure.