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DIAMOND SELECT TOYS :: Nickelodeon TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES; “LEONARDO” Vinyl Bust Bank (( 2014 ))

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**Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo Bust Bank

–>> Very roughly 8″ scale; Art Asylum’s sculpt of these fully functioning coin banks is darn near dead on T.V. show accurate; paint and all. Each bank is semi-articulated allowing for a limited range of posability on your shelf or wherever the bank is displayed, keep in mind that certain poses may tip the balance of the bank and will not work.

The elbow structure and weapon positions need to be placed to offer support to the bank. You should be able to position the bank in a cool n’ fun pose without it tipping over, you’ll just have to play with the arms and poses ’til you find something that works to your choosing.

Weapons are of a decent, tho in Leo’s katana case — the plastic is a bit flimsy. Each bank needs a small amount of assembly to put the weapons in the Turtle’s hands correctly. Mike’s nunchuckus have a real chain.

One can definitely see this being a fun change savings device for kids but again it is not necessarily a toy. Parents should prolly use some discretion if getting this for their children, especially if the little savers are very young. These are defiantly awesome pieces for the bigger kids & TMNT fans to save their pennies in the tradition of high quality standards of Art Asylum and DST.

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“The Ninja Turtles are still raising shell! Twenty-five years after their debut, the TMNT are as popular as ever, and this 8-inch vinyl bank depicts team leader Leonardo in full action mode, wielding a pair of katana swords. Insert coins through the slot in his back! A Diamond Select Toys release. Designed by Art Asylum!”

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Related notes ::

NYCC Nick TURTLES PANEL from NYCC in case you missed it, courtesy evan2000; HUN,RENET,MYSTIC TURTLES,CAR DON, BEBOP n.ROCK – -et. al.. ..

JAKKS PACIFIC MIKEY GIANT FIGURE showing up at TRU – via Mike D…thanks, Mike!!

UPDATE: TMNT #22 RI B 100 copy Eastman Sketch to be Released Oct. 15, via Rocky Mountain’s RICH..thanks !!

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IDW :: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 30th ANNIVERSARY RE SDCC 2014 #2 ; “LI YANG,The PANDA KHAN v. RAHZAR” by D. Garcia (( 2014 ))

** View LARGE On Black **

….from this past Summer’s IDW convention exclusives batch.

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Related notes ::

IGN – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Talking Season 3 with Seth Green, Rob Paulsen and Greg Cipes

via TMNTMASTER :

“Hey Turtle fans, are you heading to New York this week for NYCC? There’s a bunch of TMNT stuff going on in and around the city for you to check out!”

THURSDAY – OCTOBER 9TH

12pm – 4pm / 4:30pm – 7pm: ”Your Own Nickelodeon Recording Session.” Be the voice of Mikey in a scene with the Kraang, or the voice of Donnie in a scene with April! Stop by the Nickelodeon NYCC booth to voiceover classic and current Nick cartoons.

4pm – 6:30pm: Head over to Toys”R”Us in Times Square for a chance to get autographs from Ciro Nieli (exec producer), Brandon Auman (exec producer), Rob Paulsen (Donnie), and Greg Cipes (Mikey)

FRIDAY – OCTOBER 10TH

10am – 1pm / 1:30pm – 4pm / 4:30pm – 7pm: ”Your Own Nickelodeon Recording Session.” Be the voice of Mikey in a scene with the Kraang, or the voice of Donnie in a scene with April! Stop by the Nickelodeon NYCC booth to voiceover classic and current Nick cartoons.

12pm – 3:30pm: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are partying it up at the Nickelodeon booth! Head over to grab a photo with these costume characters.

2pm – 3pm: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles panel in Empire Stage 1-E. Exec producers Ciro Nieli and Brandon Auman will be joined by voice stars Rob Paulsen (Donnie), Seth Green (Leo), Greg Cipes (Mikey), and Eric Bauza (Tiger Claw) for exclusive sneak peeks at Season 3 of the television series.

SATURDAY – OCTOBER 11TH

12pm – 3:30pm: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are partying it up at the Nickelodeon booth! Head over to grab a photo with these costume characters.

12pm – 7pm: Take a trip to Brooklyn and visit the TMNT “Turtles in Time” art exhibit at Bottleneck Gallery. For more info, check out their Facebook page.

SUNDAY – OCTOBER 12TH

10am – 1pm / 1:30pm – 5pm: ”Your Own Nickelodeon Recording Session.” Be the voice of Mikey in a scene with the Kraang, or the voice of Donnie in a scene with April! Stop by the Nickelodeon NYCC booth to voiceover classic and current Nick cartoons.

12pm – 7pm: Take a trip to Brooklyn and visit the TMNT “Turtles in Time” art exhibit at Bottleneck Gallery. For more info, check out their Facebook page,( ** & on TUMBLR )

Thanks to M.James; **Nick TMNT s.1 out now !!

In case you missed it **CBM : Rejected Pitch Art For Michael Bay’s TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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Bath-Time TMNT by Tesco

New TMNT bathtime items have surfaced in the UK.

The first is a series of ‘bathbombs’ that contain a mystery head and shoulders mini figure, the second is as a Leonardo ‘3D model’ bath gift containing bubble bath.

The Leonardo ‘3D Model’ priced at £7 (approx.$11 USD) is good quality and worth keeping beyond its use as a bubble bath container. It also appears to be a Tesco exclusive.
http://www.tesco.com/direct/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-bubble-bath-gift/357-9 673.prd

Having tried the bath bombs with my baby son, I can confirm that they turn the water bright ‘ooze’ green, but the figure is nothing special and poor quality. Definitely worth buying for its sole purpose alone and for the color change gimmick.

The bath bombs are produced by Kokomo Studios who previously produced its own bubblebath in the shape of a Kraang Ooze vail.

These products can also be purchased here

The TMNT brand is continuing to make bath time more fun. Hopefully someone in the think tank will devise a katana-themed back scrubber!

Nickelodeon TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: MICHELANGELO ..rejected noggin; sculpt by Stefan Varner (( 2012 ))

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–>> Iconic toy sculptor, STEVE VARNER of ** VARNER STUDIOS crafted all 4 of Nick’s initial 2012 TMNT figure wave bodies and all, with one noted exception.. Michelangelo.

Stefan Varner, son of Steve and fellow toy designer at VARNER was in charge of creating Mikes noggin. Four ( or more ? ) attempts were made to get Mikey’s face just right. The fifth head passed Stefan’s and Nickelodeon’s expectations and that is the current noggin you’ll find on main Mikey figures in production worldwide. This particular sculpt is etch signed by the artist.

..the rejected head set atop the manufactured PLAYMATES Mike body.

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TARA returns with a new Collector’s case for Playmate’s NICK TURTLES !!

PARAMOUNT’s TMNT & Tohoru Masamune, THE SHREDDER & Minae Noji’s KARAI ( & more ) feature prominently in the latest issue of VENTS MAGAZINE.

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Grandreams ‘Hero Turtles’ colouring books

Published by Grandreams between 1990-92 – the UK had a range of ‘Hero’ Turtles coloring books, poster sets and activity books. These were mostly sold in Newsagents and Sweet Shops.

The color-in imagery used within these various stationary books was artwork based on the TV show. A lot of images were the Turtles and Splinter fighting off Mousers and Foot Soldiers. And like with the current censorship, there was not a nunchuck in sight.

No idea who the artist behind these was, but the random pictures were all very well drawn and stood out at the time. Being a coloring book, the images were easy to trace and make customized pictures from. As a kid I never really coloured in any of these and enjoyed copying through on white paper with the help of a desk lamp. The coloring books also had a nice crisp colorless image of the logo to trace around to use. An improvised method to use as I didn’t have a computer or the world wide web back then.