Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness getting reissued
 

Palladium Books and Paramount Consumer Products are teaming up for a reissue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, The RPG has been out of print for more then a decade, And they are bringing it back with new art and stuff.
https://palladiumbooks.com/about-pal...game-is-back-2

They are launching a Kickstarter campaign for the reissue on Oct 31st.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...er-strangeness

I heard some rumblings of this a week ago. I wonder if it's a repurposing of what they had ready for "TMNT & More Strangeness," that almost came out around 2001-2003 or so. That was almost ready for release when it was cancelled.

I've know about the game for a very very long time but I'm not familiar with the mechanics. Usually games this old have clunkier mechanics that aren't always to the taste of modern players... but I'm willing to check it out. I'm glad they are reissuing it.

Back in High School I was involved in several RIFTS campaigns, which is my only experience with Palladium. It was fun but the rules are a bit numbers heavy so the gameplay isn't the smoothest. Anyway, I might back this just for all the cool extras and to have this in my collection

Thanks for the heads up

Hey!

I got a notice that this launched. If anyone wants to check it out.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...er-strangeness

Wow! Not only various editions of both books to pick from, but also exclusive dice, dice accessories, and miniatures... this can get expensive very quickly

I think I was Kickstarter backer #667. *Whew*

Good news that it's almost hit its (curiously high) initial goal of $250k on the first day.

I'd love to see THAT book with all the unique Paulo Parentes Studio Italian art, but it sounds like it's just gonna be a redraw/tone of the original drawings by a mix of old and new artists.

Kinda wish we could see what more of the alternate covers look like so I were better informed on what I should back. Really curious about the foil versions, as I love the D&D foil cover books I have so if it's anything like those it'll look nice.

Got mine today. Big, nice hardcovers. I got the "red" versions, of course, and the only thing bad about them is all the pinups in the back with the rainbow bandannas.

On a cursory exam the interiors are gorgeous. And things are updated! I see they even added Karai's profile right next to Saki's, and they correctly make her older than Saki and her bio is spot-on.

Both of the books I ordered arrived safe over the weekend. I bought the full-color hardbacks and they both look great! Don't know if this is now the canonical color palettes for all the Palladium exclusive characters but they look better than the IDW Color Classics, for sure. Really nice to see a ton of Terror Bears in the new illustrations and pin-ups.

I also bought the 52-card playing deck and they look really cool too with the vintage Mirage-era artwork on the royal figures/face cards.

Still waiting on mine.

Here are some scans of the Face Cards from the Poker Deck. Content warning for Andrew since they use the color bandanas on the Mirage art, but it is fun to see all of the characters they used:

They should've known better about the Shredder coloring there. His first armor doesn't have sleeves. And his wrist-blade plates should be the same color as all the others.

I was so pleased he wasn't in the infamous Lavender body-suit that I didn't even notice they couldn't get away from those cold-weather sleeves on the card! At least his fingers aren't covered, I guess.

And they followed IDW Color Classics in giving first-appearance Casey the white shirt instead of red. Kinda surprised they had the decency to keep Renet in blue!

Renet looks goofy with the shrimp eyes.
April is also black here :lol:

I’d say ambiguously tan.

I think the real mystery is why Eastman & Laird didn't come to a consensus on her Stocktronic Industries jumpsuit design!

Kinda wish Ace of Hearts would have been a more recognisable character, like Leatherhead or something.

My wife and MIL tried to be nice and surprise me with these but accidentally got the Redux versions instead of Black, White and Red. Might as well have been a lump of coal lol

I’m no Mirage purist, I love most versions of TMNT. But something about seeing Eastman and Laird art from 1985 with rainbow masks just makes me ****ing sick. I wish it wasn’t even an option here, but the project probably never would have got off the ground otherwise. Sad.

Gotta grin and bear it, man. Lucky to have them even try to get a present that "represents you" as opposed to "here are some socks" or even worse, nothing at all..... :lol:

I can't tell you how many crazy, random Iron Man things I've gotten over the years. :lol:

Yeah I’ll probably just quietly replace them later on. They’ll never know lol

Happy ending to this!

I just happened to be on Instagram at the right time and see that Ciro Nieli was selling a signed and sketched copy of Other Strangeness for only $50! Snagged that joker real quick.

Then I took my POS redux version to my local gaming store and they’re making an even exchange for that with a Black White & Red copy of Transdimensional Turtles. Cost me $0.

Goodbye, FAKE book!

Palladium Books has announced that they are not renewing their TMNT license and is selling off their existing stock of books now at a 40% discount from their website. This means buying books from them would only be $35.99 per book instead of the normal $59.99. Shipping via Media Mail was $13.42 to me. I was not feeling any urgency to buy these books as I own all the original books that the two Redux versions revise (I needed them for my book). But now the price was too good to pass up.

I bought the full color versions because red highlights do not do much when I have the purity of true B&W on my shelf. Then again I am something of the mindset that if the color in a TMNT book was not produced by 1980s-vintage Eastman, Laird or Lavigne (in other words: no Photoshop), then I have little interest in it. I am most interested to see exactly what they changed from the original 1985-1990 books to these 2025 books. How they altered the rules and updated the statistics.

I wrote a review of the new edition on my blog: https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com...les-other.html