What's the geekiest thing you've ever done as a TMNT fan?
 

I tried to name our orange cat "Klunk"... my wife was even on-board with the name, but she didn't know about TMNT yet so I backed out and we went with Marvin (from the movie "RED") instead. :tlol:

Watching the 2k14 movie 8 times at the cinema. :P

Someone get this guy some medical help.

Joining this place.

Reading and trying to understand what many of these discussions are about without the aid of a Wiki, video or blog, in particular the Fan Fiction and RPG sections.

Still probably this tattoo:

http://s27.postimg.org/9gnkzal1f/tmnt_tattoo.jpg

It's the turtle shield from issue 43 of the Mirage comic (one of my favourites), seen here:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sArX3pFXvy...s1600/43-3.jpg

Other than that... probably the time I met Peter Laird and Jim Lawson at Fan Expo in Toronto when I was 21 or 22. They were super nice, I got sketches from both and thanked them for their time and their work... and then I got super weirdly starstruck about it and stood around their booth like a goon for entirely too long. :lol:

Posting over 7,000 things.

I'm pretty subdued with it. I suppose being in my 30s and that 1/3rd of the Christmas gifts I got were Turtles related and being A-Ok with that might qualify. (They didn't know last year that I was back to being a fan so they indulged me this year a bit. lol Doubt it will happen again to that extent.)

Ok that's pretty cool, and that's coming from someone who's not too big on tattoos. :tsmile:
Two green thumbs up. :tthumbsu: :tthumbsu:

Does making more than 16,000 posts on a TMNT forum in 6 years count?

If not, I've got this TMNT tattoo, so maybe it.

Those really are awesome tattoos, Bry and Powder. :tgrin: I've been thinking of getting a Turtle tattoo but I really have no idea what I'd get. Plus I already have so many designs I know I want to get already that space on my canvas is soon going to become an issue. :lol:

Goes for me, too.

Man, love the tattoo, Powder!

Hmmm. The geekiest thing?

I flew to San Diego for Comic Con by myself for the 25th Anniversary.
Great Con. Had such a freakin' blast.

But yeah...as that out-costs my tattoo by quite a bit, I'd have to say that was the geekiest thing I've ever done.

Joining this place I guess.

I flew by myself to NY for the 25th anniversary "Shellebration" & screening of the original film & also took two solo trips for NYCC solely for their TMNT offerings, twice, so I'm with you on that.

Thanks guys! :)

Thanks, dudes! :D

I feel like I've seen this and commented before, but man that turned out well. the overall vibe and the little details and colouring make it feel like Mirage, '87 and 2003 mashed up. Like an ink love letter to the property as a whole.

Wearing this shell backpack almost everywhere I went a few years ago.

In the mid 2000s I made a Flash cartoon of Shredder singing In the Ghetto, with Krang on guitar, and backup singing Foot Soldiers, and I showed it to pretty much anyone who would watch it, including a couple of University lecturers and a girl I was into. In my defence, it was pretty rad.

Powder, that's an awesome tat. If I could just politely suggest something, I'd get the belts made slightly darker just for the sake of contrast. Nah'mean? Otherwise that's a super tasty piece. :)

I'd say the geekiest thing I ever did was write a fanfic on about 300 sheets of notebook paper, before I even had the internet (or a computer) or knew people even wrote fanfics. My wife (then-girlfriend) and I were just lamenting around 2000 or so how TMNT was more or less "dead" as a franchise and there were no new stories, so I wrote one, just for the two of us to read.

I'd say that's pretty "geeky".

Are you gonna post your flash video on your YouTube channel, or is that a "..nah.." because I would love to see it. I know that you posted a few videos on your channel and that's why I asked.

Not anything in particular that I can recall.

Buying the Hedden/McWeeny issues just to see if they if they really were that bad as well as trying to keep a complete collection I suppose qualifies. That's pretty geeky behaviour, to get things you know will suck just because they're part of a series.

I've been using an old school TMNT side-loader backpack as a gym bag.

Is that you, Zack?

My phone's wallpaper and lockscreen and home/work desktop and laptop backgrounds are all TMNT-oriented. I haven't reach the point where I'm displaying figurines of the guys on my work desk, but I will as soon as I find a second set of Revoltechs for cheap. :tsmile:

I may do, but it's set to an Elvis Presley song so it might get annihilated by the © bots.

Ah..good point. I forgot that YouTube pulls videos for the copyright infringement stuff..:ohwell:

Probably helping start a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles podcast. Not my first fandom to do that for, but it's a nerdy endeavor overall.

I know I wore out my VHS copy of the first movie, I watched it so much.

I suppose my growing comic collection is a good sign of nerdiness (which will grow even more starting tomorrow when Winter's Soul finally comes in, then Saturday is Secret History of the Foot Clan HC day...and Amazon tells me Monday will give me that HC of the 2012 TMNT Annual).

There's probably stuff from when I was real little that I don't remember.

...Does watching the NT: The Next Mutation/Power Rangers in Space crossover count? Because I kinda own that on DVD thanks to that box set.

Also enjoyed reading Ross Campbell's non-IDW TMNT stuff.

My TMNT collection is directly next to my HCs of Jack Kirby's Fourth World, that should show how much I love it.

Hah, I've got you beat, Leo- I wrote one back in 1990 shortly after the movie came out! Not only was there no "fan-fiction" at the time (AFAIK) but no internet, either. It was my first attempt at a novel/fan story. Certainly not the last, though.



Heh, I've got so much TMNT art and screen-shots on my PC I've had to organize them all by series and characters, including comic and movies. Pretty geeky, indeed....


Oh, and my PC's tower is now a battlefield for my 2014 turtles and several of the Nick baddies!



I still have my VHS of all three movies, and they still work. But I DID play the heck out of them just the same. Also recorded the COoOST on cassette from a friend of mine's copy so I could listen to it, and still have THAT, too! My comic collection is growing pretty big now, too.

I'd say, yeah, TNM certainly counts. You've GOT to be a geek/fan to sit through any of that series, much less the MMPR crossover.

I did that. I remember having to turn the volume up to max just to be able to hear anything, and you know how videotape stretches and warps, and then the sound warbles up and down in pitch. I think it finally snapped in the VCR when I rewound it.

Geekiest thing? Too many to list. Probably the top of the list is making my own video documentary about the TMNT, which really served no purpose other than to create a collection of clips from multiple incarnations in one place and analyse the character traits and psychologies across the different versions.
:lol:

I only really shared it with my family and to this day don't know whether to be proud of it or deeply ashamed of how many hours of work I put into it and the fact that I was in my late 20s at the time :lol:

Psh. There are many things you can be ashamed of like stealing Halloween candy from children and running a TV ad on Christmas Eve proclaiming Santa doesn't exist.

Being a huge TMNT fan ain't one of 'em. :tgrin:

made a duct tape shredder costume and wore it for an expo. also wore it for halloween out to the bars. good times good times...

Lol!
I have a TMNT 3 tape I used to LOVE!
Now, its silent, and has large white lines down the middle of the screen.
If your lucky, the video channel might cut out for minutes at a time!

Walmart sells it on DVD for dirt cheap. I think it sells for $5.
Heck, I bought a copy of the original movie for the same price.

Yes.
I have the movie 4-pack.
It was about $10 if I remember correctly.
I'll still keep it though, to display it in it's sleeve.

Probably either being on this site, at 36 years of age, or maybe buying a song I heard on a youtube TMNT fan made video. I am serious when I say, I would never have become a Linkin Park fan if it wasn't for TMNT fanvids.

Beautiful work!!! Bravo!!!

I guess the geekiest thing I do is wear knee high turtle socks during sex. :teek:

I went to a Halloween party dressed as Casey Jones. About half of the people there had no idea who Casey Jones was even after it was explained. I remember being legitimately upset that they had never heard of him. I asked myself the rest of the night "how could someone not know of Casey Jones".

:lol: I think that's one of the most original posts we've seen in this thread thus far.

So, out of curiosity, is this like... something you do every time, or a once-in-a-while thing? :P

Considering viewing BayTurtles. I've also watched a bit of TNM.