Summer of Turtles
 

...honestly if we step back, and take off our super fan goggles...the Turtles (both Paramount live-action, and Nick toon) are slowly creeping everywhere...(like a ninja? :D)

- promotional tie-in with PIZZA HUT
- promotional tie-in with CRUSH SODA
- promotional tie-in with the X-GAMES
- PLAYMATES action figure line
- LEGO play-sets
- slow but steady viral marketing, on Facebook (both national, and international) via teaser images
- 2 officially released trailers, and 1 officially released TV spots (in addition to the Trailer 3 released selectively in theaters, and a behind the scenes TV spot in circulation on Nick)
- 9 official posters, and an additional 1 commissioned for the X-Games
- Will Arnett was on the TODAY SHOW
- Megan Fox was on ELLEN
- footage was screened at TWO Cinecons (Las Vegas, and somewhere in Europe)
...Im sure there are more, but I cannot remember, and now this...

MALL OF AMERICA presents...
http://i.imgur.com/K5MApk0.jpg?1

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i think its NO COINCIDENCE, that this kicks off a day AFTER the formal US release of Transformers 4...

...hearing this, definitely lends credibility to the fact that they will RAMP UP promo for TMNT significantly after TF4 is in theatres.

And for the release of the 4th trailer.

I feel for my parent's generation... Slightly. Too old go "get it" and only had to put up with the craze years ago - and now it's their adult children AND grandchildren picking up on a renewed passion for it. lol

It's great to see turtles everywhere, even if the movie designs aren't great, I'm glad some people are enjoying them. At first I read the poster as "Summer Of Tortles" :lol:

Well when you put it like that.....

i have a confession i am both excited and annoyed for the pizza hut promotion

excited to see pizza hut try something in a long time

annoyed cause my local pizza employs an awful Ex of mine so i might be missing out on it

Ahem
 

There are also some high quality figures coming down the line. But you didn't hear that from me..

I wish they would redo the Coming Out of our shells tour or even remaster it on blu-ray and have a pizza special where you get it if you order two large pizzas.

I'm feeling real nostalgic.

i would fan girl squee if they did that

how do you figure? TROLL

This was great....:lol:

I drop a hint and I get treated like a troll. Fine. No more soup for you.

I hope we are able to purchase the maquettes of the Turtles, my blu-ray shelf lacks some awesome toys on it

a hint that can be backed up how

Just realized this is a whole Nickelodeon area in Mall of America. Why must it be so far away!



(Really... legit or not, not sure hostility is needed over one comment...)

looking forward to it.

you must be super excited bro - seeing your work come to life, in a MAJOR way. If i was in your shoes, Id be damn proud.

Hey man,

Your design for Michelangelo is truly beautiful. Love the pants and sneakers as well as his overall color scheme. I would love to have a high quality figure based on it, as well as the others. Any hint as to whether we can expect them in 2014?

I've already said too much...but soooooooon (I hope)

Are we talking like hot toys quality?

There's a lot of stuff they need to put out. The musical home videos, the making of features for the first two films, 4kids series, etc. The musical ones could be an all-in-one deal, the docs should be bonus features on either their respective films or the Turtle Power Doc.

a) calm your tits, bro.

b) can you elaborate a bit? at least give some info as to how you're privy to this information?

Though he's a very unsuspecting user, that's the guy who designed the turtles, allegedly.

It's very surreal to see somebody type that.

Well if you did Infact design them, congrats they are awesome. Any information you're willing to provide would be greatly appreciated.

Can't say anything other than I worked on it at the moment. I'll be able to chat more about experience later and working with Jonathan - which I'm happy to do on the TD forums. I have to wait on the official thumbs up before I can say anything more.

I'm calling shenanigans

It's about time the promotion got kick started with about a month and a half away, because it's going to be a pop cultural test if TMNT has adult demographic appeal after it's presence in the early 1990s, and the nearly forgotten 2007 movie by the mainstream.

I'm not surprised there is so much promotion since the Nickelodeon company itself has to do a lot of the heavy lifting in giving attention to the franchise (the 2014 movie and the Nick show), unlike how it was during Turtlemania when it was the OT's momentum that provided a lot of attention and incentive for the 1990 movie.

Considering this all we know for the promotions at this time before the release, it appears Nickelodeon has grasped the important magnitude of this movie for the franchise itself.

Why are their shells so big/high on their backs?

Call Shenanigans all you like, I don't think he'll pick up.

Could you at least tell us if the Turtles are really tall and hulk-like? Its probably one of the major gripes I've heard from all the trailer review videos. I say when Mikey lands behind April he is sitting on a higher part of the roof.

I'm pretty sure he is. Look at the actors in mocap suits. They won't be much taller than that because it would mess up eye lines.

I really really cant comment on any of it yet, when I do it will probably be in some kind of official capacity.

well, if true, thats cool!

grats, bruh. love the look of em (mostly), actually.

leo looks tuff.

of course, if you're lying...

:tmad:

I'm really looking forward to the ninja turtle pizza hut deals, lol

Jeezum guys, calm down with the hostility - he IS legit. There's no need for name calling.

I'm skeptical but if you insist... I hope some utroms roam this universe.... I read online last night that they had originally had the dr that helps Donatello with the cubes in secret of the ooze was supposed to be a utrom body

^^This. I would have to live on ramen noodles for at least six months if they brought out all the things that I wanted on dvd, but it would so be worth it.

Chill, bro. We should all be friends here, neh? :)

To be fair, this was created with pretty similar mo-cap technology, wasn't it?

http://s21.postimg.org/at73uq0cn/avatar.jpg

They could very easily be as scaled-up as some are assuming. (Of course, I don't know much to we have to base the "eye lines" stuff on beyond some on-set paparazzi photos, so I might be off-base here.)