Official Movie Poster

[Technogeek29]

Personally I think they are pushing the arch types of the characters really hard. Leo is the Bushido Samurai warrior because he has swords. Raph has a tough guy look because he's the tough one and cool so sunglasses because screw you that's why. Mikey is the modern Turtle so give him a hipster look which means he will have all the jokes and pop culture references. And Donnie is the nerd...No that's pretty much it, he'll just be their to spout techno babble.

[TheMasterTurtle]

I don't tend to add my opinions often because of avoiding arguments but since most of us are able to agree on this - awful. My hope was the designs, at minimum, would be bearable but Michael Bay has struck again. I don't understand why such drastic makeovers were necessary. I hope for the sake of the franchise this movie doesn't affect anything however I personally struggle with supporting this one bit. This will just be another bump in the road like 'The Next Mutation.' ...sigh.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

For Christ's sake. About two minutes of thought were put into their individual designs:

"Hey, Donatello is smart! He can wear glasses! Then people will know he's smart!"
"Raph is tough! He can wear sunglasses that don't fit him! All the cool kids wear those!"
"Mikey is some sort of dude or something. He can wear a chain necklace!"

I'm not saying it's an easy task, but GOD. Don't put 10-year-olds in charge of character design.

[MrTMNT2012]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

For Christ's sake. About two minutes of thought were put into their individual designs:

"Hey, Donatello is smart! He can wear glasses! Then people will know he's smart!"
"Raph is tough! He can wear sunglasses that don't fit him! All the cool kids wear those!"
"Mikey is some sort of dude or something. He can wear a chain necklace!"

I'm not saying it's an easy task, but GOD. Don't put 10-year-olds in charge of character design.

No, two minutes of thought would just have them copied and pasted from previous incarnations.

This is great because it's something new but still recognisable and that's exactly what the franchise needed, otherwise it'd become stale and boring!

[raph27]

I think they're okay, actually. Was expecting worse. Still would have liked OOTS look but...okay. I can live with these.

[marcelangelo]

Originally Posted by TrickOrTreater

Just borrowing this from reddit

http://i.imgur.com/Gxp2vym.png?1

wow, I always thought donnie said 'ALF lips' in that scene....
I think the poster sucks!I hope some of you are right and this is kinda just a placeholder not intended for the public access but only for toy distributors visiting this turtles booth...

[Commenter 42]

Can't imagine they chose a "crappy" poster because it's just toyfair.
The buyers at the fair are no different than the public. Selling merch is selling merch.

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by MrTMNT2012

No, two minutes of thought would just have them copied and pasted from previous incarnations.

This is great because it's something new but still recognisable and that's exactly what the franchise needed, otherwise it'd become stale and boring!

Change for the sake of change is not good.

ADAPTING the Turtle's look to fit the style of your take? That's fine. That's expected(as long as it's good). Out of the Shadows did that and it worked really well. OotS Turtles look great.

They're beating us over the head with over-designed aspects of their personalities because Bay and Liebesman play to the lowest common denominator.

And those are the key words: Over-designed, lowest common denominator.

Not to mention the fact that their faces are just bad. Just plain poorly designed.

[snake]

Originally Posted by Universal_Adam

I'm not too concerned about the nostrils. Real turtles have nostrils.

But these aren't real turtles, these are mutant turtles.

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by snake

But these aren't real turtles, these are mutant turtles.

Seriously.

I wish this whole realism boner people have these days would finally go flaccid.

Not everything has to be Chris Nolan's Batman.

[Roseangelo]

Originally Posted by Universal_Adam

I'm not too concerned about the nostrils. Real turtles have nostrils.

Real turtles also aren't ninjas.

[ObiWanFan4life]

Originally Posted by TrickOrTreater

Change for the sake of change is not good.

ADAPTING the Turtle's look to fit the style of your take? That's fine. That's expected(as long as it's good). Out of the Shadows did that and it worked really well. OotS Turtles look great.

They're beating us over the head with over-designed aspects of their personalities because Bay and Liebesman play to the lowest common denominator.

And those are the key words: Over-designed, lowest common denominator.

Not to mention the fact that their faces are just bad. Just plain poorly designed.

^ This. Good God.

Originally Posted by TrickOrTreater

Seriously.

I wish this whole realism boner people have these days would finally go flaccid.

Not everything has to be Chris Nolan's Batman.

But, they're still gonna try to make it look like Chris Nolan' s Batman.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by snake

But these aren't real turtles, these are mutant turtles.

Originally Posted by TrickOrTreater

Seriously.

I wish this whole realism boner people have these days would finally go flaccid.

Not everything has to be Chris Nolan's Batman.

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

Real turtles also aren't ninjas.

But just about any living animal have nostrils it not hard to grasp its not like they haven't had them before

[TrickOrTreater]

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

Real turtles also aren't ninjas.

You mean if I give some turtles weapons they won't all of a sudden start fighting? Bummer.

Originally Posted by ObiWanFan4life

^ This. Good God.

But, they're still gonna try to make it look like Chris Nolan' s Batman.

And that is why they fail.

Originally Posted by samxsteal

But just about any living animal have nostrils it not hard to grasp its not like they haven't had them before

Who. Cares.

They're not real.

If they wanted to do nostrils they should have made it waaaaaay more subtle. Like the Out of the Shadows design.

And ditch the freaking pouty lips.

[Bossa Nova]

I think this poster is complete crap. And Raph and Don's glasses are stupid as anything. But, if I'm ignoring the photoshop fail and terribly anatomy that probably WON'T be present in the actual film, I'm still pretty excited about their actual designs. Leo actually looks the worst to me imo, I think because his lips just look so pronounced and he looks the most freaky human hybrid out of all the four, but it's not so terrible that I'm gagging like I was when I saw that horrific Halloween mask. Useless accessories (aside from those moronic glasses), just don't get me all that riled up. They're annoying, but nothing to really whine about.

[Ramboraph4life aka Matt]

They look like if Gremlins had sex with Shrek, and then that spawn had sex with the Goombah from the Super Mario Bros. movie.

Fugly Looking Trolls with DSL lips.

I'm tired of this BS that 'just because it's Different, it's automatically a good thing'.

Let's be honest folks. If people had a poll of "which looks better, these designs or the designs from the first 2 movies", the original designs would win.

Now think about that. A low budget film from about 24 years ago has better looking designs (and better looking characters) than a $100 million production in today's age. Doesn't that tell anybody something? Isn't that sad?

I'd take an updated (and by updated I mean using the tech to maybe have the faces move better during fight scenes) look of the original suits over these troll looking dummies any day. That simple.

[TMNT is cooler than MOTU]

I just wanna see these damn things in motion.

[electric_sheep]

let me shock you all and say that i actually like how they look, except glasses, they are not that bad...

[TigerClaw]

Given the timing of these leaks, do you think its possible we will see a trailer at the beginning of February? Maybe possibly on Sunday on the day of the Superbowl? I know for a fact there is no Superbowl spot for it. But that doesn't stop trailers to upcoming movies being posted on the day of the big game.

[samxsteal]

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

They look like if Gremlins had sex with Shrek, and then that spawn had sex with the Goombah from the Super Mario Bros. movie. .

how do they in any way look anything like you just discribed i have show then to several casual fans and bigger fan alike all seem to love this new look.

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

Fugly Looking Trolls with DSL lips..

"OMG they have lips the look like crap" is so stupid lips don't make pr break a character it away for them to Articulate word realistically that what you get with a more realistic style like this and mocap im just surprised people are surprised they actually have then it mocap and there using facial mocap

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

I'm tired of this BS that 'just because it's Different, it's automatically a good thing'. .

and yet look at your avatar the style that artist uses is quite similar to that of this very movie a realistic large darker version. this is different yes but this does not make it bad just different.

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

Let's be honest folks. If people had a poll of "which looks better, these designs or the designs from the first 2 movies", the original designs would win. .

I would differently say that while Jim henson Was a Genius his suit and tech are far outdated for this day and age. we haven't seen them in action i would bet that after seeing the in action they will look better then any practical effects could offer this is why we use CGI instead of Practical in the first place.

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

Now think about that. A low budget film from about 24 years ago has better looking designs (and better looking characters) than a $100 million production in today's age. Doesn't that tell anybody something? Isn't that sad?.

I disagree that these design are worse there different that is all.

Originally Posted by Ramboraph4life aka Matt

I'd take an updated (and by updated I mean using the tech to maybe have the faces move better during fight scenes) look of the original suits over these troll looking dummies any day. That simple.

That would look corny and terrible slopped together. think planet of the apes people were worried about that and the movie turned out great with some of the best CGI out there the same tech there using in this movie