(2014) TMNT Movie Easter Eggs (SPOILERS)
 

What easter eggs did you all notice? I started realizing how much effort went into the easter eggs about halfway through, so I'm assuming I missed quite a lot of them.

1. The pizza cutting scene with a slice landing on splinters head. Shame they didnt have mikey shouting "IT SLICES...IT DICES..."

2. Mikey mentioning raph being the hype man in their christmas album

3. Shredder has the foot symbol from the 2k3 cartoon on his chest armor

4. Comments about batman/superman (Original comic was designed to poke fun at other comics)

5. Pizza hut pizza box (old TMNT games used pizza hut)

6. Crush soda (more product placement than easter egg) - crush is currently doing a TMNT promo, I saw the can promos like 2 months ago so this was funny to me

7. "Tonight I dine on turtle soup"

8. April faints when meeting everyone for the first time (As always)


not sure if you can count the TCRI / Mutigen canister being an easter egg or not, I don't think they even said what TCRI stood for, so maybe? Also ive heard baxter was mentioned, but I didn't catch that, where was that?

Anyone notice anything else?

Yeah when I saw 2k3 Foot symbol on Shredder's chest armor, I was like :o They referenced it!!! Eventhough it's OT heavy material, 2k3 was in it eventhough a tiny bit.

About Baxter, I think I saw him when Sacks was talking to the other scientists about extracting the turtles blood. He's a black guy in a white lab coat.

This is one of the things I loved about this movie. I really think the writers sat down and looked at all incarnations of the Turtles and gave us bits and pieces for older fans to remember.

I loved the pizza slice scene....and the turtle soup reference.....and the fact that the origin is similar to IDW.

My contribution......the Ninjitsu book Splinter learns from has "Eastman" on it

The Artwork you see in the Opening Credits, Was all done by Kevin Eastman.

I did love easter eggs! The ones I picked out were:
-Nice nod to Usagi Yojimbo
-It said Eastman & Laird on the Ninjitsu training book
-Classic theme song for the horn of the turtle van
-Mikey sings "Happy Together" by The Turtles
and probably some others that I didn't see :tgrin:

Really!? I did not know that, That's Awesome!

You also hear the classic theme when Donnie hacks April's computer.

Uh... the heroes in a half shell line?

I lost my **** laughing from the "Tonight I dine on turtle soup" part.

Too bad Splinter didn't do the "I made a funny!" line.

Maybe for the sequel?

Also, cowabunga on the roof

Yeah I saw all these I loved all these throw backs to the series they were all. One east egg (If you can call it that) that was spoiled for me was the turtles saying Cowabunga, they spoiled this in the trailers.

where was the nod to Usagi?

Sacks said to the turtles when revealing his master plan that they almost went with rabbits.

-ms

Yeah, I actually laughed at that one, and everyone was turning to me. I told them it was an inside joke.

The goggles Donnie wears are similar to the ones Donnie has worn in a couple if episodes of season two.

Physical structure of the Turtles is similar to nick show.

Huh? I find their physical structure more in line with the 2k3 toon than anything else. The large builds, the two toes facing forwards...

But anyways, you think that line about Batman might be a jab that Ben Affleck is playing Batman now, and he also played DareDevil, which the Turtles are a parody of.

Well maybe a bit of the 2003 and the Nick version. I mean in the 2003 they all had roughly the same body build. In the nick version they all have different characteristics. Such as Donnie being the tallest and scrawniest build. Raph being the one with the bulkiest and so on.

That didn't start with Nick toon though, the 2007 movie started that, with making Raph slightly bigger, giving Mikey blue eyes......

they were bulletproof and in the 3rd movie they claimed to be bulletproof ;)... ok i doubt that one is a true nod but most of mine were mentioned

I did the same exact thing. It was just too much to elaborate on so I just said I thought it was funny. But I did like the nod. Thought it quite ingenious. If only they had put that much time and effort into the actual script.