Category: General Announcements

The Nickelodeon TMNT Fan Event

The green curtain has lifted. And as promised, I am ready to talk about what we’ve all been so secretive about for the last few weeks. However there is a ground rule. While I am happy to talk about the event that transpired today, I cannot and will not discuss any particular elements of what we saw, or how I felt about specific elements of the material that was shown.

Today, Nickelodeon hosted a fan event at their Burbank CA animation studio for a small group (about 20) of fans that they hand selected from various sources. As I want to get this information out as quickly as possible, I will get down to brass tacks about the event. Our schedule went like this:

-We arrived at about 9am, where we were served an ala carte breakfast.

-We were then taken to a large decorated conference room where we introduced ourselves and were introduced to the Nickelodeon Executive Team.

-Next we took a guided tour of the entire studio.

-We then returned to the conference room where we screened an animatic of a pilot episode (essentially storyboards with voiceovers).

-Playmates made a presentation about their new toyline and showed a large cross section of the first wave of figures, vehicles, and playsets.

-After the toy presentation we returned to our seats and observed a live reading of part of a script; meaning the voice actors were in the room with us, reading from scripts. This included the voice talents of Rob Paulsen and Jason Biggs.

-Lunch/Social Hour

-We were broken up into small groups to discuss our feelings and opinions about everything we had seen today (this was the focus group portion of the event)

-We ended the day with a Q&A session with the writing and production team.

Again, while I will not give any particulars about content, I will say that the event was amazing. I have never seen a company go through so much effort to involve their fanbase with a product.

As for how I felt about the content and products, I will say that I was impressed with everything I saw today; and for the first time in a long time I will be buying the toys and watching the show because I am genuinely interested; as opposed to simply feeling obligated to do so.

Our boys are in great hands with Nickelodeon, my brothers and sisters.

Peter Laird’s Blog Split!

Co-Creator of the TMNT, Peter Laird, has decided to split his blog in twain (I love finding an excuse to use that word)!

Pete now has a blog specifically dedicated to TMNT related content, while the original blog will now focus solely on personal blogging.

Sometime soon — perhaps in the next couple of days, or maybe even tonight if I get a burst of energy — this blog will no longer feature stuff relating to “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”. All of that material — and any new TMNT-related items I put up in the future — will be viewable on a NEW blog, at this URL:

http://peterlairdstmntblog.blogspot.com/

Once this happens, I will not be answering TMNT-related questions or responding to TMNT-related comments on this blog’s posts. In fact, I will be deleting such comments from any posts on this blog.

However, I will be happy to respond to TMNT-related questions and comments on the NEW blog, which is very cleverly named “Peter Laird’s TMNT Blog”.

This blog — palblog — will now focus on all the stuff I like to put up which has nothing to do with the Turtles. There may be a TINY bit of overlap — I may mention the TMNT in passing on this blog — but from now on, I plan to keep the two worlds separate. — PL

Got that?

Peter Laird’s personal blog is: http://plairdblog.blogspot.com/

Pete’s TMNT Related blog is: http://peterlairdstmntblog.blogspot.com/

Holy Facebook Connectivity!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know that GoGreenMachine is now on facebook!

New Stuff:
You can sign in and comment using your facebook credentials on GGM!
Any post on GoGreenMachine will now be linked on the facebook page!

This is going to be pretty cool!

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Record Setting Gobbledygook Auction on Heritage

If you haven’t already been tracking it, the cover art for Gobbledygook #1 as well as a set of the books are currently up for auction on Heritage. As of this post, the art is auctioning for about $5,400. However, that isn’t the surprise.

Currently the copies of Gobbledygook #1 and #2 are selling for approximately $9000 collectively. With two days left on the auction, this already smashes what the books have typically gone for in the past (usually around 3-5k for the set). These numbers can be attributed to the fact that this is the first time the books have appeared on a high profile auction site such as Heritage. The books also come with documented providence from Kevin Eastman, which isn’t typical.

It will be interested to see how many sets pop up for sale following this auction.

Click the picture to check out the auctions for yourself.

Kevin Eastman Currently Selling…Everything

Ok, not quite everything. However; the auction is for “50 boxes” of TMNT merchandise. This should probably include just about one of everything, as Kevin was sent atleast 1 sample of every TMNT item ever produced. Included in the auction is one of the last surviving Turtle costumes from the first film.

GeekChicDaily is also running a contest to promote the sale.