April O'Neil's character design

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Originally Posted by neatoman

[LIST=1][*]As already stated, April's design is virtually identical to what Corben drew, which was in turn based on what she looked like in her first appearance. It's really just color that's the big difference.[*]April's toy was part of the first wave of action figures, which would imply the basic design of what she was going to look like probably floated around before David Wise was involved.

I don't want to be David Wise's lawyer, I don't know him at all, maybe he was a liar (I need to watch full interviews with him so I can form my opinion). But I don't see any reason why he couldn't just suggest changing the color of April's jumpsuit from blue to yellow when he remembered Fujiko.

I'm guessing (maybe I'm wrong) that the character designs for the show and the figurines were done at the same time. It was a kind of "room of ideas" where Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird and the developers from MWS and Playmates were. I think Wise was there too and that's when the idea of the yellow jumpsuit was proposed.