The Toys That Started it ALL

These two little beauties have been sitting on a pile of folders containing much of the untold toy history in my archive for a while now. With the pending documentary looming far away, I thought I’d share a sneak peek. These are part of a privet collection, so I think at some point I will have to return them, but they are living at my house for now. They are the two original casts of the first Turtle sent to Playmates and the original Rocksteady, these are the FIRST original concept toys, there was one other concept Turtle that was a little taller, but I’m not sure if it still exists. In fact until I got these a couple months ago I wasn’t sure if the rocksteady existed anymore. Sorry its a crappy cell phone picture upload… but I don’t want to show you too much until you see it in the doc hahaha.

Like I say there is also a large stack of files containing the untold story of the Turtle Toy line and its history. This content was sitting in a box in storage for over 20 years until an associate of mine dug it out to share with us in the Turtle Doc. On that note, I hope I can tell you more about the future of the doc and its archive contents very soon. Keep posted to the drome and right here on GGM! Thanks all!

Busy Busy!

Hey guys,
I just wanted to drop a quick note about my schedule this holiday season. As you can imagine, between work, the holidays, and now planning a wedding, I am one busy turtle. So if I am slow to respond to your e-mails, or seem to have vanished during this holiday season I apologize!

Over the last few days I made a concerted effort to tackle my inbox of e-mail I haven’t got to yet, so If you are still waiting to hear back from me on something, feel free to remind me! But please don’t take the speed of my response personally. I can only tell you that I hope to be back to my old self after the New Year!

On a final note, We got many quality entires for the recent Christmas contest, and the winner will be announced sometime next week.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

From our family, to yours; Whatever holiday you happen to be celebrating this season, have a safe and happy one!

DO THE WRAP RAP!

Some Crazy Birthday Trivia!

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Do you know who elses birthday it is besides mine? Take a guess…NO! I am not talking about Anna Nicole Smith (who also share(d) a birthday with me).

It is none other than the world famous Ken Mitchroney! Crazy right? I just found out too!

Ken was responsible for the art in a bucket load of the Archie TMNT Adventures comics before Chris Alan took over. If you have never checked out his work, you definately should. He is a deadly talented artist, and a very dear friend. Happy birthday buddy!

Miragelicensing.com is up!

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Just a quick note to tell you that Miragelicensing.com, the new home of the Mirage Group is up and running! Check it out!