LEE’S TOY REVIEW #xx, pg. 32 / “TOY FAIR 2003 DECLASSIFIED”, TMNT – 2k3 Waves 2 peek (( xx, 2003 ))

LEE'S TOY REVIEW #xx, pg. 32 / "TOY FAIR 2003 DECLASSIFIED", TMNT - 2k3 Waves 2-4 peek; April, Casey, Hun  (( xx, 2003 ))

LEE'S TOY REVIEW #xx, pg. 32 / "TOY FAIR 2003 DECLASSIFIED", TMNT - 2k3 Waves 2-4 peek  (( xx, 2003 ))

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–>> Listings for SIMPSONS and PRO ZONE MLB are included on the page. Apparently i did not save those pages with the photos from those lines. I guess Tokka was more obviously focused on preserving TMNT imagery when i culled the rest of the magazine, for whatever reason i did that. Musta been having some manic fit again.
LEE'S TOY REVIEW #xx, pg. 32 / "TOY FAIR 2003 DECLASSIFIED", TMNT - 2k3 Waves 2-4 peek; 'EXTREME SPORTS TURTLES' designs by Michael Dooney  (( xx, 2003 )).. Mike Dooney’s designs !!

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: THRASHIN' MIKE  ..card back (( 2003 ))

LEE'S TOY REVIEW #xx, pg. 32 / "TOY FAIR 2003 DECLASSIFIED", TMNT - 2k3 Waves 2 peek; ROLEPLAY, vehicles, Lair Playset (( xx, 2003 ))

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 Alright .. the past is the past, and the PAST was’a blast ( for’sum o’ us anyways ) – -but let’s cut straight to the race, with PIXEL DAN’S famous NY T.F. Paper chase.

Let’s go head on in, kids !! Gracias, Dan !!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Playsets at Toy Fair 2015 – Secret Sewer Lair 2.0 & 24″ Leonardo Lair

Playmates Toys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Action Figures Walkthrough at Toy Fair 2015

Playmates Toys Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vehicles at Toy Fair 2015 – Pizza Thrower and More!

More from round’ the Toy Fair Web ::

 

~ t

“NOTEBOOK RULED NINJA” by SHANE (( 2013 ))

“NOTEBOOK RULED NINJA” by SHANE (( 2013 ))

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–>> Every year during San D, Tokka is usually able to get at least ONE REAL QUICK illustration from Kevin Eastman. At the “0” hour of closing, everyone was cleaning up, SDCC’s security was about to beat and arrest me and Tokka’s head was about to explode into 25 billion little HD Technicolor Pixels. It just wasn’t gonna happen.

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; HEAVY METAL BOOTH - Shane creating a Turtle for TOKKA

Then suddenly this young chap stepped-up to the plate, one of Heavy Metal Magazine’s rising STARS – SHANE .. and here we have a quick and cool TMNT masterpiece for Tokka to add to his TURTLE art-collection in the same genre o’ black & white vibrancy that started the whole EASTMAN Legacy in the first place !!

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..where to start with the news after such an absence the past several weeks, Tokka ??

H’mm   – -Step at a time, lets start with the end of summer toy and collectible news ::

 

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; "COMIC BOOK #TMNT" peek ; MICHELANGELO

TOY ARK (Thank you T.A. for your valuable assistance in my updates ) :

 

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; "COMIC BOOK #TMNT" peek ; MICHELANGELO

..Playmates COMIC TMNT peeks by VARNER STUDIOS.. 

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER#TMNT/  STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; "COMIC BOOK TMNT" peek iii..i’ll try to summarize the movie related FLOOD of merch and such we got this summer and hopefully get to comics AND MORE ORIGINAL CONTENT YOU REALLY ONLY FIND HERE in the coming days and posts !! Yup, that’s my testimony n’ i’m stickin’ to it.

Bare with me again please, still trying to rebound. Also trying to build back a little bit of a team and network here like we started with when Stephen first founded this ol’ place. We’ll do the best we can.

Also apologies personally if i promised to incorporate your news info in my updates and have failed or not gotten to it yet. Please forgive me, it has been a very traumatizing year, let alone summer.

Back soon !!

 

~ t

Book Review: Raise Some Shell, by Richard Rosenbaum

Hello Turtle Fans!

With all of the upcoming new TMNT movie chatter, and the popularity of the current Nickelodeon show and the comics, there is a renewed interest in learning more about the franchise and it’s history. There seems to be a number of mini-books popping up ‘analyzing’ tmnt and it’s history. Don’t fill your kindle just yet, though… Continue reading “Book Review: Raise Some Shell, by Richard Rosenbaum”

GREEN-GREY SPONGE-SUIT SUSHI TURTLES :: “THEY’RE COMING IN MAY!” (( 1990 ))

GREEN-GREY SPOONGE-SUIT SUSHI TURTLES :: "THEY'RE COMING IN MAY!"  (( 1990 ))

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**Green-Grey Sponge-Suit Sushi Turtles

Cover: Mark Martin

Writer: Mark Martin

Artist: Mark Martin

Letterer: Mark Martin

Caterer: Mark Martin

Overview: Tokka and with funding from readers like YOU !!

First Printing: 1990

Number of story pages: 48

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–>> MOVIE OVER MICHAEL BAY ; HERE COMES MARK MARTIN !! !!

..in fact Bay better run for the hills from this one !! !!

The city has gone “BATTY” and all the impressionability impressionable youth have been swept away in the evil crime wave of the unscrupulous BAT CLAN’s BAT-MANIA. The Dark Knightdentious and phenomenon of the “BAT GUY” is secretly influenced by the salad loving Oroku Soggy, now known as THE SHOOTER.

In the only AUTHORIZED parody of the iconic original TMNT Film, T.V. News reporter April MayJune discovers the completely UNauthorized Sushi Arranging Rodent Master parody; MATCH STICK and his former ‘HARD-EDGED’, kick-butt gritty Comic-book Turtle sell-outs :: THE GREEN-GREY SPONGE-SUIT SUSHI TURTLES!!

These now cuddly, cereal-mascot, mutant has-beens are ::

Velveeduh :: Unofficial leader of the squishy bunch, master of fishing line & expert pocket-fisher.

Toyoduh :: The groups’ Über-nerd teen and egghead is an expert with yarn powered DUDE•L •LOOM.

Viceroy :: The ‘cocky wiseacre’ of the group and happy-go-lucky safety patrol mutant is a hand expert with all things that go ON & OFF with the famous electronic accessory known as the “CLAPSTER”.

And finally there’s the whiny Pierrier :: This brooding LOUD-MOUTH is a Mr.Master with the MASTER MICROPHONE.

When the Turtles’ SECRET UNDERGROUND PAD ™ underneath the Popeel TV MARKETING DEVELOPMENT LABS is Überley decimated .. a wake-up call from the crime fighting, tiki-mask wearing Kootie Jones ( who fights crime with real kooties & harkens back to a day of the grittier Turtles that weren’t all soft n’ squishy – a void filled by the notorious BAT GUY fandom ) and a not-so mystical cardboard cutout of Match Stick ..may be just what they need. Just what they need to get back in shape to the Bad-guy BAT-BUTT kicking comic-book BAD ASSES they used to be before they all got fat n’ soft on official GGSSST branded cereal !! !!

Will the Sushi Turtles & Match Stick be able to save the city and her youth from the twisted Bat-Empire of the Shooter and his “Festering” lackey; Master Shih Tzu ?? Or will Shooter take over the city like an IRON CHEFand transform it into sneeze-guarded salad bar of the world ruling with an IRON SALAD TONG ?? Will April MayJune & Kootie conquer each other’s egos and a let love conquer all ??

FIND OUT; NEXT WEEK !!

SAME BAT TIME !!

SAME BAT CHANNEL – –

— er just pick up this insane masterpiece of a book – – that has to be read to be believed ( if you CAN BELIEVE IT ) and coming from the one & only mad genius that is MARK MARTIN !! !!

Make WAR, Not LOVE, DUDES !! !!

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More related notes ::

Direct from Rich; your Rocky Mountain Comic-Man; the first quarter of the new year brings the return of the Triceratons, X-files, Ross C.’s continuing Northampton, Animated Adventures, and more. No sign as to comic adaptationd of the new movie or related just yet, but it may just be too early.

IDW TMNT Schedule; Now thru’ March :

January, 2014
01The X-Files Conspiracy #1; TMNT New Animated Adventures #7
08TMNT Color Classics, Vol. 2 #3; TMNT New Animated Adventures, Vol. 1 TPB; TMNT #30; TMNT Annual Deluxe Edition HC
22TMNT: Utrom Empire #1
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February, 2014
05TMNT Color Classics, Vol. 2 #4; TMNT, Vol. 7: City Fall, Part 2 TPB
12The X-Files Conspiracy: TMNT #1; TMNT New Animated Adventures #8
19TMNT: Utrom Empire #2
26TMNT #31

March, 2014
05TMNT Color Classics, Vol. 2 #5
12TMNT New Animated Adventures #9
19TMNT Villain Micro-Series, Vol. 2 TPB; TMNT: Utrom Empire #3
26TMNT #32

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If you had not heard, **I’m immensely sad to relay the passing of James Avery via CNN ::

— Actor James Avery, who played the beloved Uncle Phil on the hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died, his publicist said Wednesday. He was 68.

The cause of death was complications from open-heart surgery, said his manager, Toni Benson. Avery had surgery on November 11 and died Tuesday evening at a hospital in Glendale, California, according to Benson.

“Fresh Prince” co-star Joseph Marcell, who played the family butler Geoffrey, told CNN that Avery was “a marvelous man and a truly wonderful actor.”

Avery played Philip Banks, the stern but loving uncle to Will Smith’s character on the show.

“He strove to present an Uncle Phil that everybody wishes was their uncle,” Marcell said.

Avery believed the show was important because the “striving of the African-American ought to have been shown on television,” Marcell said. “What he has done for television, for African-Americans on television is unsurpassable.”

“Fresh Prince” co-star Alfonso Ribeiro tweeted news of Avery’s passing.
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James Avery is best known for “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.”

“I’m deeply saddened to say that James Avery has passed away,” Ribeiro wrote. “He was a second father to me. I will miss him greatly.

Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will Smith, posted the couple’s condolences Wednesday on her verified Facebook page.

“Our condolences to aunt Florence (his mother), Miss Barbara (his wife) and all those who loved him,” Pinkett Smith wrote.

A classically trained actor and poet, Avery grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he was raised by a single mother. He served in the Navy during the Vietnam War and first appeared onscreen as a dancer in an uncredited role in the 1980 film “The Blues Brothers.”
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A biography provided by his manager said that after he served in the military, Avery moved to San Diego, California, where he began writing TV scripts and poetry for PBS. Before joining the military, he once said, he had dreams of being like Richard Wright and living in Paris. But life took a different turn.

“I knew I loved the arts,” Avery said in an interview for the show “Unscripted.” “I knew I wanted to be a writer, but the theater was something I had been involved in before.”

Avery appeared in multiple TV shows and movies, including “CSI,” “That ’70s Show,” “The Closer” and several appearances as a judge on “L.A. Law.”

Indeed, with his deep, mellifluous voice, he frequently played judges, professors and doctors — Uncle Phil began as a lawyer and eventually became a judge — and was much in demand as a voice actor. His voice roles included Shredder in the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” series and James “Rhodey” Rhodes in the 1990s animated series version of “Iron Man.”

He most recently appeared in Zach Braff’s new film, “Wish I Was Here,” which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.

But his most famous role was on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” which aired from 1990 to 1996.

The show, co-executive produced by Quincy Jones and created by Andy Borowitz and Susan Borowitz, cast Smith — then best known as a rapper — as a Philadelphia teenager who is sent to live with his wealthy Los Angeles relatives. As Banks, a former civil rights activist and Harvard Law-trained attorney, Avery provided a role model for Smith’s sometimes wild character.

Avery, too, leveled with youthful audiences, noting in “Unscripted” that he left home at 18 because “I had too good a time.”

In a 2007 interview with the New York Film Academy, he was forthright about his abilities.

“You can either be a movie star or an actor. I’m an actor,” Avery said. “(But) I’ve done pretty good.”

He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Barbara Avery; his mother, Florence Avery of Atlantic City; and a stepson, Kevin Waters…

"TOON TURTLES" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  TOON  SHREDDER ..' AUTHENTIC ANIMATION CARD #636 ' - isolated (( 1993))

~ t

GRUNTS #1 :: “THE LESSON” – A TALE OF THE TRICERATON MARINES (( 1987 ))

GRUNTS #1 :: "THE LESSON" - A TALE OF THE TRICERATON MARINES pg.1 (( 1987 ))

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–>> In honour of Veteran’s Day & Week, i’ve uploaded from GRUNTS #1 :: “THE LESSON” – A TALE OF THE TRICERATON MARINES (( 1987 )) .. and ONLY that single, classic story from Mirage’s ’87 anthropomorphic war-anthology one-shot.

Pencils/ script / story by Peter Laird

Inks by Ryan Brown

Letters by Steve Lavigne

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One of my all-time favourite Peter Laird side-stories. ::

GRUNTS #1 :: "THE LESSON" - A TALE OF THE TRICERATON MARINES pg.1 (( 1987 )) ** For your convenience in reading, i’ve given the entire story it’s very own set on the t2z – flickr. **

During a rest break from combat in the dirty barracks within the ZOGNEB ARZAK SYSTEM the overzealous ZAD and a small band of his fellow, young Triceraton Marines are gloating about their strength & might and the weakness of their mammalian enemies.

Ol’ Sergeant Zule soon puts a stop to the brave but naive bands’ smugness with a tale about when he was young Triceraton Marine and a vicious encounter & the hard lesson learned from facing an enemy mammalian URSID.

GRUNTS #1 ::  spot ad ..art by Peter Laird  (( 1987 ))

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Based on characters and comic books created by Peter A. Laird, Kevin B. Eastman.