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TIGER ELCTRONICS :: “BATMAN” Handheld LCD VIDEO GAME; “CAN YOU OUTWIT THE JOKER ?” (( 1989 ))

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–>> POST the big game weekend and FAT TUESDAY, let’s have some more BATMAN crossover fun featuring one of the Dark Knight’s greatest films of all time and a famous TIGER ELECTRONICS spot-ad of handheld LCD game on the same film.

In the mid to late 1990s, some may recall TIGER Picked up the TMNT license for handhelds based on the classic Turtle show & NEXT MUTATION.

~ t

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Related bits ::

..in case you missed the BIG KRAANG/TECHNODROME TMNT: OUT OF THE SHADOWS movie reveal during the game –

( yeah, sure ya missed it .. )

• MUCKMAN NOT CANCELLED !! Following up on ** Nacho’s TMNT Latin America report on MUCKMAN being an AMAZON EXCLUSIVE, i was able to reach out to Aubrie at **Playmates finally and get the REAL info on what the heck is going on with releases like Muckman and all the other confusing supposed “cancellations” some fans seem to fly off the handle with and upset everyone about..

– [ in regards to Mix and Match Leatherhead, ect. ] Our Mix N Match figures are currently on HOLD so that we can push new TV characters from the show on Nickelodeon, which is in Season 4. – MEANING THE LINE AND LEATHERHEAD ARE NOT CANCELLED, just on hiatus..~ t

– [ in regards to Half Shell Heroes Rahzar & Roach, and possible Kriby, Mutagen Man, and hopefully Karai ] The HSH Rahzar and Cockroach is shipping and should be hitting shelves at major retailers mid-February.

– [ in regards to the Basic Triceraton, looks like we may ONLY be getting Mozar — maybe this wiull change but for now ] The “Basic Triceraton” is Mozar. He was an Exclusive to Walmart in the month of December, stopped shipping for January and will be hitting shelves in all major retailers now.

Atilla and friends — Muckman and friends

– [ Dream Beaver DIRE ] Dire Beaver and Dark Beaver should be hitting shelves in June at all major retailers.

– [ TMNT sidekick 3-pack – perhaps a restructuring of distribution is in order for this one.. ] The Icecream Kitty, Cluckingsworth and Spike Turtle 3 pack was removed from Target’s website and we are no longer moving forward with it.

– [ MUCKMAN ] Muckman is set to be released in 2017.

– [ KRAANG PRIME, this was never promised for release – only his prototype was released ] We are no longer moving forward with the KRAANG PRIME.

..keep in mind things ALWAYS change in this business, and Nickelodeon & Playmates are constantly in a state of flux with these decisions. Fan input is important, and speculation run amok isn’t going to help anyone. If you are really concerned about your favourite release being cancelled – – it’s best to be calm, polite, respectful, patient and direct with your concerns and go straight to the horse’s mouth to get the answers you need. I’ll keep you posted as i learn more.

More from Nach and TMNT Latin America ::

WIZ KIDS’s **TMNT HEROCLIX sets are now giving – – *** UPDATED PACKAGE INFO AND A REAL MIRAGE LOOK with Michael Dooney inspired displays !!

White Foot Soldier ::

2016 Playmates Toys Fugitoid Ship Video Unboxing and Review
More movie toy fun from DVD – –

TMNT Out of the Shadows Basic Line and Technodrome Action Shots

TOY NEWS INTERNATIONAL / PIXEL DAN ; Reviews and pre-TOY FAIR highlights. ::

More from DVD in China – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Movie Figures & Playsets Revealed Including A Technodrome

Wonder Festival 2016: Prime -1 Studio Arkham Knight & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Movie Turtles

~ t

ACE NOVELTY :: “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES” COLLECTOR PINS – No.3 ‘Shredder’ (( 1989 ))

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Follow GGM on Facebook, or just check in. Remember – GGM’s FB page is updated continually with TMNT and related info. The page is set to “Public”, is rated PG, and is absolutely FREE!! You don’t have to be a FB member to benefit from the info shared on that page !!

–>> Card back is identical on all the small, near 1″ pins with exception of character’s name on bottom of the card front.

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The following courtesy of ** Gary A. Williams @ s & Sheamus respectively.
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AnimeNEWS NETWORK :: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Platinum Games Listed by Ratings Board

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IDW-JEM3

Our ..Friend MIRAGE & IDW TMNT alumni, Sophie Campbell is asking her fans to vote for her in CA’S best of 2015 ::

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ToyArk reports that **MONDO has a creative gift idea, featuring a BLANK limited run of Mike Mitchell’s 9-inch “Lil’ Mikey” vinyl figure.
ToyArk also reports on Mondo’s latest update with a video – ” Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – First Turtle Vinyl Figure We get a look at the articulation on each version. They show the swap out heads and the packaging.”
October’s Toy Fair announcement of Mattel’s MEGA BLOKS brand returning to retake over the TMNT building toy license ( after over a decade ) was a disappointment to many LEGO fans. However, once everyone saw the NEW Turtles MEGA BLOKS product, MANY WERE BLOWN AWAY at the Mini-figs, accessories and building environments encompassing 3 distinct incarnations of the teens Nick’s insanely popular Ciro Nieli produced TMNT, the more kid-centric HALF SHELL HERO line, and the CLASSIC ’80s TMNT cartoon show.

TMNT Mega Bloks Blind Bag1 Via GGM’s HERO – –

SMYTH’S UK shop has a peek at the impressive first wave of Blind Bag offerings of the Turtle mini-figs featuring the Teens, a Crimson Shredder, Kraang Droid, and a basic Foot Soldier ( Look LEO comes with a SPACE HEROES comic book !! ).

MEGA-BLOKS-HALO blindbagSample

Suspecting these will make it to a North American release as well to parallel the larger box releases, no guarantees – – but Tokka predicts an affordable price range of $ 3 – 7 like the similar “CALL OF DUTY” ,HALO , ,MINIONS, HELLO KITTY, “Sponge Bob Squarepants” blind bags currently available & the past few years.

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“Leonardo vs. Xenomorph” ..pin-up ; pencils by Peter Laird, inks by Ryan Brown (( 1989 ))

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–>> Mike J. has pointed out some interesting imagery of posters & teasers from COSMICBOOK ::

MIKE JOHNSON’s cool TMNT Movie/ X-GAMES poster
Here’s what appears to be a smaller TMNT Movie promo poster. More on this as i found out the details.
An instagram user spotted some “street art” style posters or at least some very artistically styled teasers around LA; including an intruiguing SHREDDER poster.
AFI :: “New Playmates TMNT Movie Figure Reveals” ; The new toy pack-in catalog brochure of the MOVIE toy line ( as you know; Playmates puts lots of these little brochures in their figure packs ) is included in this article; the new toys are also reportedly hitting store shelves EARLY – as i type this and days prior. “CONVENIENTLY” ( yeh – sarcasm ) the PARTICULAR store and area where the toys were located at are NOT disclosed in the piece; so keep your eyes peeled EVERYWHERE,kids.

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“-BANISHED FAN FILM”

CBR:: ‘TMNT: Banished’ fan film kicks off Indiegogo campaign.

“The fund raiser is live!”
**http://www.igg.me/at/tmntbanished

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Got this in from a friend back East; i believe located in Georgia at a TARGET store, thanks Dakota :: Reissues of figures from prior TMNT waves such as Cockroach Terminator ( shown in the screencap from the friend on Instagram above), Dogpound, Leatherhead, and Snakeweed and maybe others – – have been reported to have newer paint applications and deco that looks much more improved and somewhat similar to their prototype predecessors. Playmates’s scale with the Turtles line has been an ever present issue – – but these newer paint decos on the older releases may make up for the line’s short comings. So again, keep an eye out.

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Previews are out, books are on the shelves and reviews are popping up so I feel there’s no need to hold this back.
Metalhead’s redesign for IDW’s TMNT! Had fun with this one! As you may see on his debut book (TMNT#34) the speeder/car mode was something that I suggested and writer Tom Waltz and editor Bobby Curnow embraced.

My goal here was to not only give this version of the character a voice and look of its own, but also to pay a homage to the original design. Mission accomplished I believe.

Hope you all enjoy it.

“Fave” it on Deviant Art > http://fav.me/d7l054i
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— M. Santolouco

KAY•BEE TOY STORES :: Christmas in October // COMPLETE ad set (( OCTOBER,8 1989 ))

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–>> Trivial observation: while it may have been a basic design choice, most K•B ads from back in the day..say 1980s and 1990s that Tokka recalls were illustrated like what we see here in this complete ad set. That may have been a cost saving measure as well. Or maybe it was just a printing choice of many retailers at the time. Countless stores had illustrated newspaper print ads for decades. You’ll still find them on occasion in newspapers and the like today. Most newspaper ads it seems are mostly photographic nowadays however.

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I recall black & white print ads in newspapers say like in a classified page that were also illustrated for the toy store. I don’t think i have any photographic ads in my archives for K•B ( formerly ‘KAY•BEE’ ), unless they are from the late 1990s or early 2000s.

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Not 100% sure, but this may be my only complete circular set for K•B nay for some random and loose pages. I don’t always get to post these COMPLETE ads as there is very time consuming process that takes a bite into my personal work. However, in the long run they are important pieces of TMNT advertising and toy history, if not just Toy history in general. A glimpse into the past of retail toy shopping in a per-internet shopping era.

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Guessing things like this just really didn’t survive many recycling bins or rubbish collections just short of microfiche or someone saving them or what have you. It’s prolly beneficial to all when i do make the time to post ’em digitally.

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Sometimes i am asked of the fate of K•B after the final bankruptcy and demise of the once iconic Mall TOY retailer in 2008.

TOYS ‘R’ US came in a year later to purchase all intellectual properties, names, iconography, logos, licenses, et al. like they had with the operations of the FAO Schwarz brand the same year.

Last seen K•B was used in SOME labeling within some TRU stores to possibly a lesser degree than the FAO Schwarz branded boutique set-ups in the retail stores right now. I’m not sure what products received that labeling or if that continues currently or into the future. Time will tell.

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The stores became a staple for shopping centers and malls in North America for decades and has burned into countless childhood memories including mine.
I’m sure a portion of the value of that iconography is what lead to the TRU purchase in ’09. That value may resonate into a major return of the K• B brand in some form or fashion some day.

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Related notes ::

Somewhat TMNT related ; MTV :: 8 ‘LEGO Movie’ Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

Comics ::

~ t

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Season Three DVD set

Greetings, fellow Machines!

Well, I received an interesting E-mail today…
Apparently the sales of the Old Toon DVD sets were in such major demand back in the several years it took to get Everything released. A lot of seasons were broken up into multiple DVDs, and you eventually had a huge stack of these DVDs that encompass ten years and over a hundred episodes.

Well, Lionsgate decided to go back to the third season and do some revamps. Since there were forty-seven episodes in the single season, they had originally done multiple DVDs with single episodes. Now they’ve gone back and consolidated all 47 episodes into a four DVD season set:

Program Description

Cowabunga! Everybody’s favorite pizza-devouring crime fighting classic turtles are back when Lionsgate Home Entertainment releases Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3 on DVD July 23. This collection brings together for the first time all 47 episodes of the entire third season of the classic ‘80s TV series in a 4-disc DVD set. Tap into radical turtle power and relive all the kung-fu action when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3 arrives for the suggested retail price of $19.98.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are bursting straight out of the sewer and ready for some mind-blowing mutant-morphing pizza-powered action! Raphael^™, Donatello^™, Michelangelo^™, and Leonardo^™continue their epic quest to battle evil in this Complete Season 3 Collection, featuring 47 out-of-the-shell episodes. Join the green machine and their friends as they help to save the world against Krang^™, Shredder^™, Bebop^™ and Rocksteady^™ – one slice at a time.

And it’s a good season… you’ve got episodes like The Old Switcheroo, Enter the Rat King, Four Musketurtles (my personal favorite), Cowabunga Shredhead…

So keep your eyes peeled! I’ll be getting more info as July approaches. 🙂

~Machias