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“World’s Largest gathering of Ninja Turtles in celebration of new TMNT Shell Shock Ride at Nick Universe”

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World’s Largest gathering of Ninja Turtles in celebration
of new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock Ride
at Nickelodeon Universe

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., (Feb. 27, 2012) – Nickelodeon Universe is taking the thrill to the next level with the addition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock, the first ever ride of its kind in the United States. Themed after the popular animated series, the interactive ride will put the adventure in guests’ hands as they control their experience from take-off to landing. To celebrate the addition, Nickelodeon Universe is calling all fans at 8 a.m. on Saturday, March 17, to help break the world record for the largest gathering of Ninja Turtles which currently stands at 786. Participants will receive a free ride on Shell Shock, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt and a mask while supplies last.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock, scheduled to debut in March 2012, will take riders 70 feet in the air in a matter of seconds reaching up to 25 mph. With 12 single bucket seats at the end of a cantilevered arm that rotates around a central tower, this ride is a thrill-seekers dream. Each guest will control their seat which can rotate wildly like a plane propeller or a gentle teeter-totter like a see-saw making no two ride experiences the same. The attraction is based on the highly-anticipated all-new CG-animated television series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which will premiere on Nickelodeon later this year.

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shell Shock continues the momentum of fun and excitement that Nickelodeon Universe offers to Mall of America guests every day,” says Jennifer Lauerman, Nickelodeon Universe marketing director. “We can’t wait to see the ride take off for its first time and hear the screams of excited riders.”

“We’re excited to be working with a great longstanding partner like Mall of America to help give fans their first interactive experience with Nickelodeon’s new incarnation of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles property,” said Pam, Kaufman, Chief Marketing Officer with Nickelodeon. “Fans of all ages are in for the ride of their lives with this cutting-edge new attraction featuring the beloved heroes in a half shell.”

A second new attraction to Nickelodeon Universe will also open in March, Dutchman’s Deck Anchor drop stainless steel spiral tube slide system. These two intertwining tubes will over quite the thrill for guests from 56 and 35 ft. in the air. One leaves from the third level while the other one leave from the top of the Flying Dutchman Ghostly Gangplank Adventure Ropes Course. The attraction is based on the Flying Dutchman character from Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants—the number one animated series with kids for the last 12 consecutive years. Admission to the slides will be included in Ropes Course admission or can be purchased for $2 per person with a wristband purchase or $3 per person without a wristband purchase.

For more information on the new ride visit www.mallofamerica.com or www.nickelodeonuniverse.com.

About Mall of America
Mall of America is the nation’s largest retail and entertainment complex. At 4.2 million square feet, MOA is home to more than 520 world-class shops; Nickelodeon Universe, the nation’s largest indoor family amusement park; SEA LIFE Minnesota Aquarium, a 1.2 million gallon walk-through aquarium; Moose Mountain Adventure Golf; Theatres at Mall of America – a 14-screen movie theater with VIP theatre and more. The Mall opened in August of 1992 and is located in Bloomington, Minn., just minutes from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. Follow Mall of America on Facebook and Twitter or visit our blog.

About Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon, now in its 32nd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon’s U.S. television network is seen in more than 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 17 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA – News, VIA.B – News).

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** Check out the Nick Universe Events page for more information, time and location !!

IDW :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V.5 #1 // COVER RE; DETROIT Fanfare EXCLUSIVE // ‘OLD HOB’ sketch by Kevin Eastman (( 2011 ))

** View LARGE On Black **

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Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles “Mutation in Progress” :: USB flash drive (( 2011 ))

** DOWNLOAD “Urban Ninja’s Guide to Comic-Con” & the rest of the TMNT USB Content here **

**Disclaimer ..i’m ONLY allowing download of the TMNT elements on the promotional USB flash drive given away at the “Mutation in Progress” event at SDCC 2011. This action is being done as a service for friends and fans unable to attend the event & due to global requests.

If at any time the content is requested for to be removed, please contact Tokka immediately and i’ll take OFF the content in turn right away.

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© 2011 Viacom International Inc. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and all related titles, logos and characters ©/ ™ 2011 of Viacom International Inc. Based on Characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman.

San Diego Comic Con 2011

Holy crap. Either SDCC is getting longer every year, or I’m getting too old for this stuff. Maybe both.
Since there is all SORTS of comic con coverage online by people who…you know…get paid to do it, I figured I would just do some personal coverage about what Heather and I actually did while we were there. Here goes!

Preview Night
Heather and I went down Wednesday night for Preview night. Because the show is only open for 3 hours that night, it is usually when I choose to pick up whatever exclusives I can. As i am a ridiculous fan of the Venture Brothers (you should be as well), a large chunk of our time was spent waiting in line at the entertainment earth booth for their amazing Dr. Jonas Venture and Rusty Exclusive.

Meanwhile I sent Heather on a recon mission to the IDW booth for the Turtles Ash Can. Once done with the EE line, we took some ash cans over to the Heavy Metal booth where Kevin was gracious enough to sign a bunch of them for us to give out on this very site at a later date.

Thursday
We started the day off early (I was bouncing off the walls at about 5 in the morning in anticipation — Ask my severely annoyed wife!). As I am trying to get a few comic properties off the ground, I went to a lot of industry “how-to” panels this year. The First was Goal-Setting for Creative Types. I really recommend attending next year if you didn’t get the chance this year. WAY more fun than it sounds, and super informative.

Then it was off to the Fan Boy and Chum Chum panel. This show is bizarre. Not only am I a fan, but my dear friend and TMNTA artist, Ken Mitchroney works on the show, so we were there to hang out with him and show our support. Afterwards, Kenny signed a book for me to submit to the CGC signature series. This is the first con signature that Ken has done since 1992, and the only Ken Mitchroney signature series CGC book. The CGC folks were pretty darn surprised when I said “I have a book to submit for signature series. I brought the artist with me.”

Later, Heather and I walked the floor with Ken for about an hour before parting ways. 3 o’clock rolled around, and it was time for the IDW Panel. While the panel was super fun (they made people spin a wheel to decide what they’d talk about), No new TMNT information for those of you who’ve read any articles on the topic in the last couple months (which I am pretty sure you have…seeing as how you read this blog).

One cool thing about the panel is that the wheel also had prizes on it. One kid even won a cameo in an issue of the new TMNT comic. I won a sketched cover of their new Godzilla book! Woo for winning stuff!

By the time the panel was done, we were both pretty tired, so we milled around the floor for a little bit, then headed back.

Friday
We started our day a little later, since the first panel we wanted to go to (The Venture Brothers) wasn’t till 11:30. That panel was in the Indigo ballroom, which is a fairly large room. For you Venture fans, Doc and Jackson premiered a new music video and confirmed the next two seasons…but the majority of the panel was just them being ridiculous. There were a couple people there…

Since Venture Brothers made us miss the Walking Dead panel, I had some time before the Nickelodeon Turtles Preview. So I did some shopping.

This is why the comic con account saving begins the day after the previous con ends.

Meanwhile, Heather went a-huntin’ celebrities!

We headed over to the Turtles event at 3:30, which started at four. If you have read our post about the Nickelodeon Preview Event that they had at the studio a while back then chances are there wasn’t any new info for you at this event. The event, while well presented, seemed to be catering to the casual fan, rather than the hardcore fan (who regularly keeps up on TMNT happenings). Here are some pictures though:

Yeeeah, so about the RiffTrax panel. Rifftrax is awesome. If you don’t know what it is, check it out.
This panel is a favorite of ours. But this year, the line got much longer, much faster, than last year. Heather and I waited in line for for about and hour and 45 minutes…and didn’t get in :*-( Sad us. After that disappointment, we decided to call it a day.

Saturday
I had planned on getting up early for the Comic Book Law School panel, but was in no mood for it when I woke up…so we ended up hitting the con about noon. When straight for the Cartoon Voices I panel. Primarily because both Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, and Tara Strong were on the panel. It was a great. After a few general questions, they did an awesome script read of snow white and the seven dwarves (which they made hilarious!). Sadly, it appears that I neglected to take pictures of that panel. Sorry!

After the Cartoon Voices Panel, Heather and I split up. She went to the Joss Wheadon and The Guild panels, and I went to Creator-Owned Comics with Robert Kirkman. Kirkman is one of my favorite current comic writers, and I was also interested in the subject of creator-owned books. It was a great panel. Afterwards, I headed over to Transforming Comic Readers into Writers, which was a panel primarily focused on using Comic books to teach literacy.

After our panels, we met back up at Heavy Metal, said goodnight to Kevin, and headed out.

Sunday
A friend of mine, Ethan, and his brother Malachai, create an awesome book together called Axe Cop. You should worship it. Anyway, they had a panel for Axe Cop first thing on Sunday morning. I didn’t wake up in time, and for that I feel douchy. Sorry Ethan.

But since that was really the only thing on the agenda for sunday except for the Buffy Musical episode at the end of the day, we decided to walk around and take pictures. You can see my entire photo dump on our facebook page.

Lastly, was the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both heather and I are unabashed Buffy fans, and for the last 5 years, the convention has run the Buffy musical episode as their final program of the day. So we sat through the Sons of Anarchy panel (which was before Buffy in Hall H), and then had a lot of fun at the Buffy shindig. It was awesome.

Then it was home to Los Angeles. Like I said before, the con felt it was crazy long this year, and I still feel like I was hit by a truck, but it was all good times.

I will leave you with some pictures of me with people I like 🙂