TMNT movie 4 in 96?
 

so ive been looking at the awesome Playmates Catalogs that VaughnMichael posted here and on the last page of the 96 catalog there is an add for the 4th TMNT movie to come out in 1996 seen here

so what i wanna know is what was this movie gonna be? does anyone know anything about it?

An interdimensional mutant turtle named Kirby. There are pages in Eastman's Artobiography illustrating this character. I think Laird had also made a Blast From The Past post about it, saying that they were going with the Red Sky theme of hyper-mutation, and that Steve Barron was going to direct. Obviously, this was all scrapped.

wow interesting. and was this gonna be live action again? and any scanned pics of this new turtle?

Here be some links to Peter Laird's blog:


Donatello

Leonardo

Splinter

Michelangelo

Raphael

Roseangelo's info on it, here:
http://ninja-pizza.blogspot.com/2008...rth-movie.html

And here's some Kirby:
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/SDC10082.jpg

I'm kind of glad that this film never happened. Not that it really matters, since the Turtles in 1996 weren't what they used to be back in the days, but this film wouldn't have helped either.

But, if Steve Barron was involved, who knows how it would have been.

It was going to be truly terrible, even worse than the movie we got in 2007.

Kirby the 5th Turtle in some kind of bastardization of the Donatello special, as others have mentioned. But it didn't just stop there. It was going to involve a wacky, evil Empress from another dimension played by Kevin Eastman's then-wife and later, when NT:TNM was on the air, it was retooled to include Venus into the mix (total of 6 Turtles in the same movie, then).

There were some admittedly cool biomechanical designs Dooney did for that incarnation, though, that were presumably how the Turtles would outfit themselves to fight against the wacky invaders from another dimension.

wow thats awesome. while im glad this movie wasnt made its interesting to see the thought process for something like this. thanks for all the pics....i wonder what Kirby's bandanna color would be?

I believe it was white?

i was thinking either white or black but white seems to make a bet choice for "future". so heres another question. how is he related to the turtles? i mean hes gotta be some how since hes a mutant turtle also.

He's not a mutant turtle. I forget, but he's either supposed to be what the equivalent to the Kirby guy from the Donatello special transforms into in lala land/dimension, or something Kirby (or somebody) draws that comes to life in lala land/dimension to accompany the Turtles on their way to fight the evil Empress from the other dimension. Or something.

No matter which way you cut the suck in this case, all you get is suck.

hmmm interesting.........

Yeah, I'm glad this movie never got off the ground. The Next Mutation was bad enough but fortunately very few people are aware of it since it was just a one season TV show. If it went to theaters worldwide, then TMNT may have never recovered.

Although, people would probably hold a higher opinion of TMNT III in comparison. :lol:

lol thats true. cuz then people would be like "well TMNT was bad but TMNT 4 takes the cake" lmao.

I thought the ideas woulda been neat for a cartoon... but certainly not a live action movie.

The evil empress makes me think of Rita Repulsa from Power Rangers

That stuff is bizarre...wonder what they were smoking when they thought that sh*T up?

I would have loved to see it happen...but then I REALLY REALLY enjoy trainwrecks.

Yeah, same here...

ya as a kid it would of been great. i mean i saw TMNT 3 twice in theaters and thought it was so awesome...wasn't until later that i realized it wasn't as awesome as i thought lol.

Thank god they never did this movie. I really dislike the Splinter and Raphael look from the pictures.