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SYFY Exclusive- Behind the Scenes of Making NECA’s TMNT toys

by Kyle Tobey
written by Kyle Tobey

SyFy has posted an exclusive look in to NECA studios and what it took to bring the 1990’s movie version of the turtles to life.

In the exclusive article, we get a look at what it takes to bring this version of the turtles from our memories to our toy shelves! The pictures are great and it’s a must read for anyone interested in TMNT, toy design, or anyone who likes hearing stories about making things.

As a bonus, as you flip through the pictures, we get a look at upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures based on the Foot Clan and Shredder.

It’s an exclusive article, so I wont post any of it here. But absolutely check it out on SYFY.com

 

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How to Make Fun and Easy TMNT Ornaments

by Justin W
written by Justin W

There are plenty of ways to celebrate your favorite heroes in a half shell during the holidays, but one of the easiest and most creative options is to make your very own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ornaments. Believe it or not, these festive TMNT ornaments are actually quite simple to make, as they only require a few basic ingredients. With that in mind, let’s talk about the tools you will need to make some fun and turtley awesome holiday decorations!

Necessary Items: Green Ball Ornaments, Acrylic Paint, Wire Hangers

Optional Items: Colored Felt or Ribbon, Googly Eyes, Glue

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The first step is to prepare an area for arts and crafts. If you’re using paint, you’ll want to put down paper towels to make sure that the paint doesn’t end up ruining anything. Alternatively, you should also have a safe space for cutting and gluing fabric if you should choose to work with felt or ribbon instead.

The next step will depend on your method. If you are painting, take a green ball ornament and begin painting a classic Ninja Turtles bandana around the decoration. For those who plan to include their mouths, make sure that the bandana is at least slightly above the middle section of the ornament. Once the paint for the bandana is dry, you can begin to paint some eyes on the bandana. After the eyes are dry, the mouth should be the last thing to paint.

Tip: While the paint for the bandana is drying, begin painting the bandana for another ornament.

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For those of you planning to work with felt or ribbon, cut out small bandanas and use a small amount of glue to affix the fabric to the green ball ornament. Once the glue has dried and the bandanas are firmly in place, glue some googly eyes to the bandana. If you wish, you can also use paint to create mouths and complete the illusion with your TMNT ornaments.

Well, there you have it! This project shouldn’t take more than an hour, and it can be tons of festive fun for almost any Ninja Turtles fan. If you’ve got a turtles fan in the family who needs a little holiday cheer, these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ornaments might just do the trick.

As a final note, we would like to mention that all of the examples of TMNT ornaments on this page were created by Ninja Turtles fans from around the world. We would like to thank them for coming up with such an awesome and simple idea and letting us share it with the world!

Happy Holidays and Cowabunga!

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10 TMNT Bedrooms You Wish You Could Sleep In

by Justin Bozung
written by Justin Bozung

We’re all completely devoted and slightly crazy (some more than others) when it comes to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Some Shellheads are comfortable just owning a few TMNT action figures, a couple t-shirts etc.   While others need to own Turtles merch from every country in the world!   Then there are some the ultra hardcore Turtles geeks who wear something associated with TMNT out no matter where they go.  They may wear a Turtles tee out on a Friday Night.  They might wear green tennis shoes to a dressy occasion.   The ultra hardcore Turtles fan also owns movie props from any of the live-action Turtles movies.    And yet, there are still those Turtles fans that actually transcend the ultra hardcore Turtles fanatics, and those folks–who’ll call “Turtles Sleepers”–go beyond just being a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  They become the Turtles in their own way, they root their lives in the TMNT universe in some way.    One easy way to do that is to transform one’s bedroom into the ultimate shrine to TMNT or to change your bedroom into one of the Turtles living locations.

What follows are some of our favorite examples of TMNT fans who have gone beyond the call of duty of fandom and combined their world with the Turtles.

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and if you don’t have the money to turn your own bedroom into a Turtles Shrine like those above did, you can always just buy a bunch of pizza boxes and make furniture out of them.  You know the Turtles would’ve done it!

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Ideas For TMNT Pumpkin Carving This Halloween

by Justin W
written by Justin W

Over the past few years, fans have been carving up some pretty awesome Ninja Turtles inspired Pumpkins to celebrate Halloween. Although all of these projects required a lot of creative effort, some are obviously going to be easier to accomplish than others. Not everyone knows how to program an Arduino to change the color of light that a Jack-O-Lantern displays, but most of us can carve a pumpkin and add a few finishing touches. With that in mind, here are a few ideas to help you add some Cowabunga to your spooky festivities!

Paint a Mikey-O-Lantern

Pumpkins are naturally orange, and so is Mikey’s mask. With a few simple steps, you can make a Mikey-O-Lantern using little more than some green paint and a knife. Simply cut out the eyes and use the paint to cover up every part of the pumpkin except for his mask. If you want to get a little more creative, you can either cut out a mouth or paint it on, as depicted in the two pictures below. Fans of Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might also want to consider adding a few dark green freckles to each cheek, completing the illusion!

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Make Your Halloween Green

If you’d prefer to make a Jack-O-Lantern that doesn’t look like Michelangelo, you could always just paint the entire pumpkin. Start with a base coat of green paint and continue on with blue, purple, and/or red paints in order to recreate your favorite Ninja Turtles. As you can see in the image below, a few small touches of white and black can also be added to accentuate the eyes and mouth. Who says every pumpkin needs to be carved? It can be just as much fun to create colorful representations of your favorite TMNT characters without ever picking up a knife!

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Go For a Traditional Carve

If you want to use more traditional methods to carve a TMNT pumpkin, there are actually quite a few possibilities. There are several patterns available online that you can print out and use as a trace for your Jack-O-Lantern, but many of them will require a careful hand in order to carve appropriately. With that in mind, parents may want to make sure that they help with the more difficult carving projects in order to ensure a safe and fun Halloween project.

Find the stencil for this at ZombiePumpkins.com

Find the stencil for this at ZombiePumpkins.com

Have a Turtley Awesome Halloween!

No matter what type of TMNT pumpkin you decide to create, it’s important to keep everything safe and fun during your Halloween celebration. Find a project that works for every turtle fan in your family and give everyone an opportunity to join in on the festivities. If you want to go all out, make sure you’ve got the tools and the know how to get the job done. With that being said, here’s hoping that all of you have a great time carving pumpkins this Halloween season!

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Where To Find Your Turtles Halloween Costume In 2015

by Justin Bozung
written by Justin Bozung

Pay attention!  There are only 37 days left before Halloween…..

It seems safe to suggest that last year, 2014, and this year too, 2015, can be called the year (s) of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.   While we’re not exactly experiencing Turtles-mania on the scope and scale that we did in the mid 1980’s with the rise and popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series produced by animation pioneer Fred Wolf, nor the buzz created by the 1990 live-action movie, these past two years have seen a major resurgence in the Turtles and inspired fans old and new alike.    So, it should come to no surprise, that with the release of the 2014 Michael Bay produced-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and its sequel slated for release next year that a slight return to Turtle-mania is on the horizon.  Which is why there is no better time to dress up for Halloween like any of the boys from the sewer, or even Shredder himself.     Costume manufacturers and retailers are reporting that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be one, if not the one, most popular Halloween costume of 2015.      

Going out as one of the Turtles for Halloween is incredibly easy and yet, if you really wanted to go all in and put all of your chips on the table, there are also a variety of websites out there on the interwebs that will show you how to make such a incredibly-detailed and screen-ready replica Turtles costume that you’ll have no excuse this year not to have your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume prepped and ready for action by this October 31st.

Retailers like Party City and Spirit Halloween offer basic Halloween Turtles costumes that will satisfy those who wish to dress up as Mikey, Donnie, Raph, or Leo for this one night of the year.  And what’s great about these costume retailers is how they cater to all age groups and sizes.  If you’re looking for a Turtles Girls costume you’ve gone to the right place with any of those websites.   They also have youth, toddler, boys, and adult Turtles costumes as well as a few designed to appeal to the bad guy in all of us — Shredder Costumes!

Another company that does a really great job when it comes to finding your perfect Turtles costume is Michigan-based costume retailer TV Store Online.    Not only do they offer Turtles fans many of the same one-night only costumes that you can find on retail websites like Party City and Spirit Halloween, but they also offer one-of-a-kind and exclusive designs too.   Let’s say you’re the ultimate Turtles fan and want to walk around wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume all year round, but still, want to present yourself as being a normal person?  Well, TVSO has a great selection of Turtles Costumes Hoodies, which are designed to function as a costume but also to be worn around anywhere and not let you look like you just escaped from a mental institution when you show up somewhere with a Turtles costume on in the middle of the winter at Christmas time.

And of course, there are the websites out there that are garnered toward the more D-I-Y Turtles fan, those who love the Turtles, but also wanna spend the time and effort on creating their own Turtles costumes, or even, re-creating or making amazing screen-accurate Turtles costume replicas from the live-action movies.    Big DIY Ideas is a great place to start as well as the website Instructables.   Both of those sites will have you shouting Cowabunga when you see what you can make when you get creative.   So, it doesn’t matter whether you want that one-night-only Turtles costume, or a long term Turtles costume that can double for the latest comic book geek fashions, or something that would even wow the hottest Hollywood costume designer working today, the options out there as a Turtles fan this year are simply amazing when it comes to showing everyone around you just how much you love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this Halloween.   

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