What do you think the turtles will look like?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Teal Turtle

Wow newbies dont get any respect around here....

I will ask one more time, has anyone on the forums actually seen the movie design?

I don't think so.

[Teal Turtle]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

I don't think so.

I remember I was reading that a members friend had seen the toys or something...

[LeotheLateBloomer]

I was hoping maybe they could look like how they did either in the first film or TMNT (with realistic graphics, of course) but also wear the wraps that the IDW comics have started just to give a little continuity for those that watch the Nick cartoon.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by Powder

The turtles were always said to be red ear sliders, except in IDW where they're sea turtles of some sort.

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Where did you pull THAT from? They were in a terrarium in IDW in a lab, with only a small amount of water for drinking. They were NOT sea turtles. They just looked like baby land or pond turtles. If they'd been sea turtles, they'd have been kept in a salt-water tank. Because sea turtles grow too big to be kept in a small tank, and they require salt water to help support their bulk. Since they obviously can't move on land very well AT ALL. Sorry, but calling them sea turtles just makes no sense. They were never even referred to as such!! They were sliders in IDW as well- and Baxter even mentions replacing them with 20$ at a pet shop!

Originally Posted by Cure

Sea turtles have flippers.

Actually they might be ill-represented (badly drawn) Pig-Nosed Turtles



Which are a freshwater turtle with true flippers like sea turtles. but that's really obscure with the notion of sliders begin the most well known pet turtle of the semi-aquatic type, and cheapest. Not to mention these guys are high maintenance and prone to illness, but Baxter probably don't care.

Eastman's page sketch show them with proper legs, but Duncan's final product, they are drawn as sea turtles. Cause they don't really look like Pig-Noses.

[Powder]

That really makes me want to re-imagine the turtles as pig nosed in some fan art.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by Teal Turtle

I remember I was reading that a members friend had seen the toys or something...

yeah, if I remember correctly that's where the whole bamboo armor thing came from. And not much more than that.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by Powder

That really makes me want to re-imagine the turtles as pig nosed in some fan art.

Originally Posted by omnimorphic

I'd like to see that.

Wish granted! I happened to be drawing already, so I opened a new canvas and gave it a whirl.

[Jester]

TURTLE FROM THE BLACK SEWER!!

Very spooky.

[Candy Kappa]

Powder you magnificent bastard, that is amazingly drawn.

[electric_sheep]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

Actually they might be ill-represented (badly drawn) Pig-Nosed Turtles



Which are a freshwater turtle with true flippers like sea turtles. but that's really obscure with the notion of sliders begin the most well known pet turtle of the semi-aquatic type, and cheapest. Not to mention these guys are high maintenance and prone to illness, but Baxter probably don't care.

Eastman's page sketch show them with proper legs, but Duncan's final product, they are drawn as sea turtles. Cause they don't really look like Pig-Noses.

it's pretty obvious that those are sea turtles

[electric_sheep]

this one looks most ninja turtle of them all, it has humanoid kinda head...

[Powder]

Dude, if you're going to post a picture that huge, spoiler it.

[electric_sheep]

how do i do that?

[Jester]

Spoiler:

The good ole [spoiler] tag....

[Commenter 42]

Originally Posted by electric_sheep

this one looks most ninja turtle of them all, it has humanoid kinda head...

Not to split hairs, but that looks to be a desert tortoise, not a turtle.

[Sabacooza]

Originally Posted by Teal Turtle

Wow newbies dont get any respect around here....

I can understand that. I can't call myself a newbie because I've been here for quite a while but I end up being ignored like one. I guess it all depends on how popular you are, what you did for the TMNT community and how much you post.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Slap-Happy

Yeah, because mutant turtles who were trained in ancient Japanese martial arts by a rat makes total sense.

Ah, Crisler's Law is still burning brightly...

[Toby Barrett]

Because it's the only law that makes any sense around here! D:

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by FlogginMcMurryZombiePizza

Really?!
Why are they doing movie tie-in from a 10 year old movie?!

Well ****... now I'm scared. I was like "well... if this is what they look like, I'm good"

He said the 1990 movie.

...what year do you think it is? lol

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Ah, Crisler's Law is still burning brightly...

I've pointed out before, that's one uppity, pretentious "rule". Some things ARE ridiculous. Monty Python. I love it. It's f*cking ridiculous. Sometimes it's insightful. Sometimes it's skull-hammer retarded. But it's by itself and on its face absolutely ridiculous, and any attempt to inject it with more depth than is required is silly.

Now, TMNT is far more nuanced than Monty Python, and there is great room for drama, pathos, action, insight, history, and humor, far more than almost any other fictional franchise in its ability to attract disparate groups of people to it for entirely different and often opposite reasons. BUT, even at its most serious, it's a silly concept. It is absurdist humor above all else, even when it's dark, it's absurd, because it's so outlandish and over-the-top that it's utterly fantastic and unreal. You can take it very seriously, and at times in equal measure stop and soak in the fact that the giant talking turtle creature sliced the head off what he thought was his arch-enemy but turned out to be a pile of worms. No matter how bad-ass it is, who can describe any of this stuff out loud with a straight face? Bueller?

I love all levels of TMNT from comical to serious, but man, let ridiculous things be called ridiculous. It in no way de-values the material. Batman's f***in' silly, too.