Hey guys,
Just letting you know that Kevin’s panel and the TMNT25 Panel are up in our YouTube channel. Click the Pic.
-Steph
Category: Conventions
Home Safe and Sound
to some very excited and loving kids.
Check back over the next couple days for Con posts.
Sideshow Collectibles announces NEW TMNT statues!
In some exciting SDCC ’09 news, Sideshow Collectibles announces an awesome set of 4 new TMNT statues! If you’ve never seen what Sideshow does, then you have no idea how exciting this news can be.
Check out the below link and select “Turtles” to watch the video shown during their SDCC panel:
Thanks to Drasgow on the Drome for bringing this to my attention!
– Terminator
SDCC09 Thursday (Or, Everything That Could Go Wrong, Did)
Hi guys!
First of all, I want to thank Terminator for being so on the ball with the technical difficulties update for me today. Let me expand on that situation.
So despite the fact that the convention promoted “Free WiFi” on their site prior to opening day, they neglected to mention that pretty much the only place the WiFi works is in or around the Press room. Meaning that, upon entering the conference rooms area, I quickly noticed that I couldn’t even load a webpage, let alone stream a video. That is also why it is taking me so long to upload Kevin’s Panel. I couldn’t upload to our Youtube channel from the con, so I am staying up (really Effing late!) to get this stuff out to you guys. Please keep an eye out over the next few hours on our youtube channel for Kevin Panel updates.
That having been said, lets tide you over with some pictures.
So first is a shot of the front of the line for Kevin’s Panel. I was quoted as saying before the line started forming, “As much as I love Kevin, I’m not sure how many people are going to show up to this…
Open mouth…
Insert foot…
Mmmmhmmmm…
Still Going…
Anyway, you get the idea…Crap-ton of people.
The panel itself started with some pretty standard turtle history stuff, and Kevin being as gracious and humble as ever in regards to fan appreciation. He showed a slide show with a bunch of photos from back in the day. Some I had seen, but many I had not.
He then went into a few new projects that Heavy Metal is working on. War of the World Goliath, and The Heavy Metal Movie. Can’t begrudge the guy a good PR opportunity. This being a TMNT blog however, I am not going to spend too much time covering them, and simply urge you to check out http://www.heavymetal.com if you want to know more.
Well, I am busy trying to get these videos out to you guys, so i am going to turn my attention to that rather than spending time doing this little slideshow for you guys. However, the photo dump from today can be found here. YOu’ll find picture of all sorts of stuff in there including the Mirage booth and the con exclusive prints they had out (ore on those later when I am not beating my head against the wall).
Much love.
Stephan
SDCC 09 Preview Night
Hey all,
Just got in from Preview Night. And it was effing insane. Seriously, there were so many people there would would have sworn it was a regular night from last year. So you know how my posts work. I tell my storys through pictures. So lets get to em!
So I guess I should start out by telling you that that snazzy picture I started this post with was a green screen setup they have at the Ubisoft Smash booth.
They had Smash and Turtles In Time there. Which both seem to be new builds. I didnt cover much of either of them tonight cause I was hunting exclusives and they asked me to interview their Producers on Friday morning anyway. Here is a shot of that blue screen setup they had:
Next we have a few pictures of the Heavy Metal Booth:
The Mirage Booth was pretty much empty, but set up…So I took an opportunity for a little make believe time… “Yes…I’m Steve Lavinge…Sure I’ll sign your book!” And before you get all uppity, we staged this. That book belongs to PlastronCafe of the Technodrome, who I hung out with a lot today:
Next, onto the neca booth!
We did get confirmation that those color variants of the Con Exclusive April ARE real, and scheduled to release:
FIRE! (This wasn’t at the NECA booth…it was just cool.)
These last couple pictures show what was probably the most exciting things for me. I got the opportunity to talk with Steve Varner for about 40 minutes.
Steve, as you may know, sculpted a LARGE number of the original Playmates line. He even sculpted the very first ninja turtle…which…HE HAD WITH HIM!
After crapping my pants over that, it was time to leave, and share my all too short day with you guys. But I will be getting up bright and early tomorrow and will be bringing you Kevin’s Panel LIVE (I hope)! Otherwise, we will have it up on our YouTube Channel immediately after wards. See you in the morning 🙂
Stephan