Hollywood Recycling concept art
 

Looks as though the concept artists couldn't be bothered to come up with new designs for The Turtle Van's arsenal. They are almost exactly the same.

Surprised, I am not.

http://i.imgur.com/eLWWoVE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/H4UeNpo.jpg

huh? don't understand?

The license plate of the Turtle Van almost says "shell razor".

Or is it Shellraiser? :-? Meh, it doesn't matter. :ohwell:

I can't believe they went to the trouble of making a Turtle Van that was only in the movie for less than a minute!

Similar, but to be fair I guess there is only so much they can do with a real door and allow the thing to still close.

Too many letters, have to be creative. lol

I guess these are sort of similar..? Are they by the same people?

Because toys. Same reason Iron Man has a new suit at the beginning of each sequel, when he's already gonna use a new one by the end.

I think they featured more of it but it tied too much into the Sachs stuff & hadda be cut. Just a guess.

They're similar in so far as they're both gunship style wing mounts, but it's not a copy paste job as far as I can see.

Funny, judging by that picture, if the turtles fired those missiles, they'd blow the front tyre off.

Good point. Even more reasons to add to the "This doesn't make sense" pile.

They've clearly reused the same assets in both mock-ups, modified ever so slightly. Conceptually it's identical.

Yes, the same company.

Wonder how the turtles got hold of military grade weapons?
#Ferguson

I don't see how they are the same, guns, missiles, weapons tend to look similar.

I assume they could have stolen some weapons and stuff from the foot in the movie, between the mansion and any other foot place they could have came across.

Just because you post 2 images of similar things doesn't mean they are the same.

Again, same designers, same idea tacked on to two different films.

Point is, it's lazy, especially if we are to believe the turtles are forced to wear discarded junk as clothes, but they have military grade weapons in their van.

And no resorting to crislers law for an explanation.

It's just weak design.

It's not in the movie.

Here's some more Concert Art images.

http://i.imgur.com/HHeWnTU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/w0ucy4V.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZSZUlW5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1IyXGCP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tqbKunP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bvoO0vv.jpg

Not in the final version, sure. Not the point though, is it?

Stop Foot from trying to steal things. Shrug and take said things home yourself. :) lol

Ha! I also...like this.:thumbsup:

I'm fairly certain that was because they already had plans for more than one film.

**** this whole ****ing thread

You mad bro?

Yeah, I noticed that too... Maybe Donnie isn't as smart as he'd like to think he is.

Smrt!

Silly, it's the Bayboot, naturally they use missile-proof tires.

OF COURSE! If their shells are bullet proof, it stands to reason the tires are too.

That's a problem though. A film should never assume it's getting a sequel...that's how you end up with Green Lantern.

agreed.. this, this, this..
matter of fact I dont even think they added that final scene of the movie until the reshoots.. other than that i dont think the Turtle Van wouldve made it in the movie.

the van was in the movie only for a minute because clearly its going to be used in the second one and they wanted to introduce it in the first.... ppl are so dumb....

Agreed. But it's Platinum Dunes, so problems and assumptions are to be expected.

I'm surprised by how few people seem to understand that. :lol: Even if they were intending to use it in more of this movie than they did, they have it accessible for use in at least 2 movies now.

Then why even introduce it?

Why have a pointless Van cameo and cut out Kevin Eastman's cameo for time run?

Why cut out Raph-in-disguise scene, but include the Van cameo?

.... ppl are so dumb....

The van was introduced just because playmates wants our money!! :lol::lol::lol::lol:

See my point above Matthew.

Well, why don't you design something better, if it's so easy?

Other than both vehicles having guns & missiles, I'm not seeing the similarity.

Yeaaaah... as much as I'd want to think "nah," the toys were already made, have to push that van somehow, esp with the Raph in disguise bit cut.


I wouldn't really call anyone dumb for not jumping to automatic conclusions about sequel/sequel footage based on a one-off sighting of a van. For all anyone knows the sequel may barely show it either.

Do we even know how capable this thing is as an actual vehicle? Is there any video of it moving or only photos of it sitting somewhere.

I love the personal attacks on this forum.

"Could you do better?".

See that's the reason i'm going to the movie. To see something I can't do.
And If I pay for it, I can choose to comment on the quality. 'Cause I'm the consumer.

Except in this case, I think anyone could copy and paste, so like I said, I'm not Impressed.

Yeah this guy is ridiculous once you point out a problem with his "issue" of guns and missiles looking like guns and missiles and him personally attacking the company and artist that spend thousands of hours creating this stuff.

Also, people sign on people for a certain amount of films all the time, I don't know what world some of you people live in, if they didn't they might not secure their actors for the next movie.

The foot were a corrupt organization so no I don't think they had an issue with stealing technology from them since they tried to you know kill them and they had a huge cache of weapons that the foot would use against them again.

Let's be fair, no one spent thousands of hours creating that concept art, the weapons are so low res, they look like they came out of a PS2 game.

That's exactly the point. Concept art. They are beta ideas. The ones posted here are most likely only a few of thousands that didn't make it into final production. There are most likely many terabytes worth of concept art that was scrapped.

Working in advertising, there are literally thousands of concept advertisements that get chunked weekely, many of which are recycled concepts. That doesn't make the people working on them for 14 hours per day, lazy or uncreative.

I'm still hearing you as Tommy Magnum in my head.

Eh, what you see as copy/paste, I see as just generic modern weapons. Unless the producers wanted to get more sci-fi/alien or handbuilt by Donnie, there's no use in reinventing the wheel. A big, modern gatling gun and a few missiles.

I think the juxtaposition of the high-tech weapons with the sputtery engine and Christmas lights in the cab is hilarious. It was one of the things that gave me a huge, nostalgic grin in the movie.

They should have painted the missiles orangish red.

http://i.imgur.com/ND0y4gC.jpg

You know that's not true. Hyperbole much?

Thousands? Literally? Tens of, maybe. Even that would be stretching.

I just can't get behind the weapons, or the shrink wrap on the van...

I buy xmas lights in the van, it's plausible, and even a rebuilt van also very possible. But it's lazy to give them high grade military weapons, or access to them. it's callous, and clearly stems from the same brain that wanted them to be 8 feet tall.
Blowing up of vern's car was also utterly pointless. This is a minor infraction in a movie full of bad ideas, but that doesn't make it less true.

Wearing old sports gear as gauntlets, rice mat as armor and soup cans for bracer, un-fixed glasses. But a Gatling gun and missiles, I guess the turtles have their priorities.