So Cute You Could DIE! – Littlest Pet Shop Customs by Elizabeth

I have learned throughout my years, that if there is a toy line manufacured, there is someone who customizes them. Some time ago I happened across a toy customizer by the name of Elizabeth. But she wasn’t your average action figure customizer. Elizabeth makes custom Littlest Pet Shop toys.

“But Stephan”, you say, “What does the Littlest Pet Shop have to do with the TMNT?”

“Well”, I say, “let me show you.”

These precious little guys are custom LPS toys I commissioned Elizabeth to do for me. I absolutely love them, and I bet you do too! If you would like to contact Elizabeth about the possability of getting some of these cuties made for you, you may do so at this address!

Despite the fact that she is a much better photographer than I am…Here are a few more pictures of the toys

TMNT Treasures: Turtlemania Special – GOLD Edition

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If there is ever an item destined for the TMNT Treasures section, this would be it. There are plenty of rare TMNT items out there – Gobbledygooks, Silver Turtlemania, and many others – but this book is truly the rarest of the rare. I know I was not alone in thinking that my collection could not be complete without having this book, and frankly, I was 99% certain that there was no way it even still existed.

With a print run of only 10 books, the chance of finding one over 20 years after publication was slim at best. But at last one of these little buggers has finally come to light. As far as I know, this is the ONLY existing copy. And now it resides in my collection!

So let’s take a look at the book, and its Silver and Regular Edition brothers.

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As you can see there are some obvious differences. All of the differences in these books take place just in outer covers; the interiors are identical. The fronts of the books are identical as well, except for the color paper. It’s the back where things get interesting.

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The regular edition is the plainest of the bunch and features only the pre-printed sketch on the back. On the Silver you see the same thing, except this guy is numbered, as well as signed by Kev & Pete. The gold takes it a step further and adds all of the Silver’s traits, plus an awesome sketch.

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Let’s talk about the Gold book, shall we? The condition of this book is stunning, and really, is WAY better than my Silvers and Regular Editions. The sketch is fantastic. I knew that the Gold edition would have a sketch, but for some reason I really didn’t expect it to be so large and detailed. As a collector of early TMNT artwork as well, I can say that a sketch like that, from 1986, and from Pete, of which there are surprisingly a lot fewer early sketches than from Kev, is also a rarity. All in all, just a very cool, historic piece. And at last, we can see that at least one of these books has survived the times.

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In this photo, you can see my painted inside cover piece by Kev (and how it looks in black and white published in the open Regular edition) along side the Silver & Gold. The plan is to frame all 3 books, along with the artwork, in one frame. Should make for a nice display.

It’s obvious that the art on the Gold is Laird, so I wonder if they took turns, maybe each drawing 5 sketches? Did they draw characters other than the Turtles? I suppose we’ll have to wait and see if another copy comes to light…if one does.

-Terminator

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 ..card back ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // GROUP ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // Leonardo ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // Casey Jones ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // Raphael ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // Michelagelo ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // Donatello ((1991 ))

RAD ROLLERS,Collectable Action Marbles :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles COLLECTION Series-1 // Shredder ((1991 ))

Twenty-oh-Nine @ Rubbish Gallery Continues thru’ Jan.1 // Colorado Springs, CO

Twenty-oh-Nine @ Rubbish Gallery 12/11 - 12/12/2009.. Colorado Springs,CO

Twenty-oh-Nine .

Rubbish Gallery has been showing and supporting emerging artist in the Pike’s Peak region for over four years.
Our aim this holiday season is to not only provide small and affordable art to give as a gift, but to take it one step further
and present a product that can be sold for less than the price of dinner and a movie.
Twenty-Oh-Nine is a collection of creations from local artists selling for $20.09.
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Doors open this Friday Dec 11 { Show OPEN THRU’ January 1 !! }at 5:17 PM, all art will be sold off the wall on a first come first serve basis.
All original artwork by local artists. Over 40 different artist’s made over 200 pieces of art for this years show. Give the gift of locally made art this year. ( *including tOkKa !! )

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Info

**Rubbish Gallery 17 B Bijou St
Downtown in the alley behind Old Chicago across from 15 C
Monthly Opening night on Second Fridays.
Open every Friday And Saturday night 5:17 – 10:17
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FLEER 3-D ACTION “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” // PREVIEWS SOLICITATION PAGE (( June 2003 ))

FLEER 3-D ACTION "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" // PREVIEWS SOLICITATION PAGE (( June 2003 ))

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–>> These are a little hard to describe.

.. a weird concept, that was kinda both cool and exceedingly odd at the same time.

These PUNCH-OUTs came on trading card sized plastic and the character was disassembled all over the place on the card. They came in packs of 12 .. with small, easily losable joint pieces that were supposed to connect the arms, tails, legs, weapons to make the 2-d character appear 3-dimensional. The effect works ok for “Some” of the figures. Like the Turtles look alright, others.. not so much.

Prolly the tricky thing is they tried to make these things work with a design mixture of using Mike Dooney’s style guide art and modified photographs of the TMNT toys. Shredder’s figure is alright. But Splinter and the Foot Soldier are pretty strange.

Splint almost looks more like some crazy stick puppet or something.

I’m sure these figs were ok for the ‘paper craft’ lovers out there, and again they aren’t that bad. But i guess the whole concept didn’t take off very well. Over a year or two later after these were released – many of the packs were still waiting to be sold on the pegs gathering dust in the trading card section of stores.

Fleer’s history with the TMNT trading cards in general was a little off anyway. Still they managed to release some very cool collectible trading and gaming cards in the past decade.

This was just one instance where the pieces didn’t totally ‘ Fit ‘.

~t