“NOTEBOOK RULED NINJA” by SHANE (( 2013 ))

“NOTEBOOK RULED NINJA” by SHANE (( 2013 ))

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–>> Every year during San D, Tokka is usually able to get at least ONE REAL QUICK illustration from Kevin Eastman. At the “0” hour of closing, everyone was cleaning up, SDCC’s security was about to beat and arrest me and Tokka’s head was about to explode into 25 billion little HD Technicolor Pixels. It just wasn’t gonna happen.

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; HEAVY METAL BOOTH - Shane creating a Turtle for TOKKA

Then suddenly this young chap stepped-up to the plate, one of Heavy Metal Magazine’s rising STARS – SHANE .. and here we have a quick and cool TMNT masterpiece for Tokka to add to his TURTLE art-collection in the same genre o’ black & white vibrancy that started the whole EASTMAN Legacy in the first place !!

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; HEAVY METAL BOOTH - Shane creating a Turtle for TOKKA• •

..where to start with the news after such an absence the past several weeks, Tokka ??

H’mm   – -Step at a time, lets start with the end of summer toy and collectible news ::

 

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; "COMIC BOOK #TMNT" peek ; MICHELANGELO

TOY ARK (Thank you T.A. for your valuable assistance in my updates ) :

 

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; "COMIC BOOK #TMNT" peek ; MICHELANGELO

..Playmates COMIC TMNT peeks by VARNER STUDIOS.. 

San Diego CHAOS CONUNDRUM 2014 ::  VARNER#TMNT/  STUDIOS Booth, SDCC '14; "COMIC BOOK TMNT" peek iii..i’ll try to summarize the movie related FLOOD of merch and such we got this summer and hopefully get to comics AND MORE ORIGINAL CONTENT YOU REALLY ONLY FIND HERE in the coming days and posts !! Yup, that’s my testimony n’ i’m stickin’ to it.

Bare with me again please, still trying to rebound. Also trying to build back a little bit of a team and network here like we started with when Stephen first founded this ol’ place. We’ll do the best we can.

Also apologies personally if i promised to incorporate your news info in my updates and have failed or not gotten to it yet. Please forgive me, it has been a very traumatizing year, let alone summer.

Back soon !!

 

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“MUTANT MILITARY 2” TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: YANKEE DOODLE RAPH (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  iv (( 1992 ))

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"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  i (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  ii (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH ..card backer i (( 1992 ))

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"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH ..card backer ii (( 1992 ))

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PORTRAIT OF YANKEE DOODLE RAPH
The Sewer Civil War Hero!

VITAL YANKTISTICS:

Accessories: Bodacious Bed Roll, Removable Belt, Reptile Rifle with Sai Bayonet, Foot Firin’ Flint Pistol, Cool Canteen with String-a-long Strap
Favorite Food: Yankee Pot Roast Pizza
Favorite Saying: Don’t fire ’til you’ve eaten all your pizza!

It’s good to have the one and only classic Military Mutant Yankee Doodle Raph on your side. His ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War – and that’s how he got his good ol’ American name. Yankee Doodle Raph represents all that’s right with out heritage – apple pie, pizza pie, octipi… and all that other stuff. The Foot will retreat when this rebel with courage comes forward. Raph’s ready with his Foot firin’ flint pistol and reptile rifle – with weapons so radical, the Foot will surely stay away from the sewers. So let the drum and fife play loud and play proud. Yankee Doodle Raph can’t be stopped, cuz he marches over all borders with good on his side!

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  v (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  vi (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  vii (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  ix (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  x // ..with MM2 "Kookie Kavalry Leo" '92  (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xi // ..with MM2 "Kookie Kavalry Leo" '92  (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  viii (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xiii // ..with  WACKY WILD WEST TMNT  "Chief Leo" '92  (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xii // ..with  WACKY WILD WEST TMNT  "SEWER SCOUT RAPH" '92 (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xiv // .. vs. MM2 "Dimwit Doughboy Rocksteady" & "Private Porknose Bebop" '92  (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xv // .. vs. NINJA TURTLES Movie "SHREDDER" '14 (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xviii // ..fake TURN OF THE CENTURY (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xvii // ..fake TURN OF THE CENTURY (( 1992 ))

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  xvi // ..fake TURN OF THE CENTURY (( 1992 ))

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Pixel Dan rounds out the final 3 figs in the first wave of the new TMNT movie toys .. ::

SHREDDER ..

FOOT SOLIDER ..

Splinter ..

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !!

"MUTANT MILITARY 2" TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ::  YANKEE DOODLE RAPH  iii (( 1992 ))

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: Collector’s Guide (( 1993 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: Collector's Guide iv (( 1993 ))

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–>> Little collector guides like this have been pack-in check-list mainstays for action figures & toy lines since the 1980s in the very least; if not earlier. You prolly have several piling up from your current TMNT purchases with more than enough left over to give away to your pals & to line the bottom of the bird cage.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: Collector's Guide ii (( 1993 ))

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: Collector's Guide iii (( 1993 ))

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES :: Collector's Guide i (( 1993 ))

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ToyFair Digital Round-up ::

 

HALF-SHELL HEROES
HALF-SHELL HEROES for the lil’ Turtle Fans

TOYARK ::

 Playmates is not allowing anyone to photograph the (PARAMOUNT) TMNT movie toys.

Any pics that leak out of the movie toys were done so in stealth and without permission of Playmates. We can’t post them on front page.

 

LEGO 2014 SPIDER BYTEZ
LEGO 2014 SPIDER BYTEZ

TNI & Pixel Dan ::

EXTRA ::

  • **TOY FAIR REVEALED A CASEY ROLEPLAY MASK, via & thanks to J.Jupiter ..thanks to Dakota :

Casey Roleplay mask

  • ** LINK REMOVED BY REQUEST.. 

We’ll keep you posted on all the TMNT goodies n’ hyperlinks ( to make you hyper )and headin’ your way in this crazy 30th year of TMNT !! !!

 

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

KAY•BEE TOY STORES :: Christmas in October pg.1 // ..KAY•BEE logo isolated  (( 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.

KAY•BEE TOY STORES :: Christmas in October pg.1 // ..TMNT toys isolated  (( OCTOBER,8 1989 ))

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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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KAY•BEE TOY STORES :: Christmas in October pg.4  (( OCTOBER,8 1989 ))

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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.

KAY•BEE TOY STORES :: Christmas in October pg.4 // ..TMNT & BAYOU BILLY games isolated  (( OCTOBER,8 1989 ))

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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 ::

"HEAD" lamp

 

Comics ::

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES – CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xli // .. with '91 T.D. TOSSIN' LEO (( 2013 ))

 

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–>> Minor, touch-ups and vintage add-ons to match the prototypes OF THE CLASSICS ‘BOP & ROCKY a little bit better & enhance the figures. For some reason, i only painted one side of each of ‘circles & stripes’ on each of Bebop’s shoes. I may go back and change that later.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } i (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Puck touch-ups } iii // ROCK' (( 2013 ))

Added to the customization : the ORIGINAL 1988 Rocksteady Manhole Cover Shield accessory, touched-up ..works relatively well with the Classics Rocky.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } v // ROCK' (( 2013 ))

Minor tough-ups on grenade pin, and light-metallic on boots. Really small details.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } vi // ROCK' (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } vii // ROCK's Retro-Mutagen Machine Gun & Turtle Carver Machete  (( 2013 ))TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } viii // ROCK's '88 Manhole Cover Shield  (( 2013 ))

The metallic touch-ups on ROCKY’s vintage ’88 Manhole Cover Shield look adequate.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } ix // ROCK's display base  (( 2013 ))

Touch-ups on ROCKY & Bebop’s display bases. Originally it was just a one-toned grey colour. The Turtle’s Classics bases at least had a light wash – ‘Bop and Rock’s didn’t – – so i changed it.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xi // 'Bop (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xiii // 'Bop (( 2013 ))

Gentle silver high-lights in hardened punk sunglasses eyelets, sparkling violet Mohawk. Studs on bracelets painted.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xiv // 'Bop (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xv // 'Bop (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xvi //  Bop's Turtle Shell Drill & '88 Knife  (( 2013 ))

The ORIGINAL Bebop ’88 Knife works great with the CLASSICS Bebop.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xvii //  Bop's display base  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xviii //  "DURR" --   (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxi //  'Bop picks  (( 2013 ))TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xx //  ROCKY aims  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxii //  ..turtle-skeet shootin'  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxiv //  ..en gar'DUH  (( 2013 ))TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxv //  ..SHELL DRILL ATTACK  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxvi //  ..'Bop with '07 NIGHTWATCHER "STUNT RIDER" Motorcycle  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxvix //   ..'Bop with '07 NIGHTWATCHER "STUNT RIDER" Motorcycle  (( 2013 ))TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxi // ..Rocky with '93 Technodrome Scout Vehicle  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxiii // ..Rocky with '88 Rocksteady  (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxiii // ..Rocky with '93 MUTATIONS Rocksteady (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxiv // ..Rocky with '90 "GIANT SIZE" BAD BOYS 13" Rocksteady (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxv // ..'Bop with '88 Bebop (( 2013 ))

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxvi // ..'Bop with '93 MUTATIONS Bebop (( 2013 ))
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxvii // ..'Bop with '90 "GIANT SIZE" BAD BOYS 13"  Bebop (( 2013 ))
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xxxix // .. with '89 KRANG (( 2013 ))TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - CLASSIC COLLECTION :: ROCKSTEADY & BEBOP { tOkKustom Punk touch-ups } xl // .. with '07 TMNT movie Shredder (( 2013 ))

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  • More new movie related images ripping up the internet via the Tokyo Toy show, an anonymous photographer and Rich W. Supposedly there’s a small peek at Splinter in the lower right hand corner of the poster image. You have to look really hard.

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  • TMNT- PEZ 2014 peekQuick peek of the brand-new revised TMNT PEZ dispensers based off Ciro & crew’s designs from the Nick Show. Due in July in North America & August in European markets.

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