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Tales of the TMNT #42 arrived in comic shops this past week. This tale, titled "The Curious Case of Mr. Jones," features a script by Dan Berger and art by Jim Lawson.
Eric Talbot has been busy lately posting scans of several pages from his sketchbook.
After being initially revealed in the current issue of Lee's Toy Review, NECA has now posted pictures of all four Turtles with their display bases on their website. You can check all of them out here.
TMNT writer Tristan Huw Jones is sharing more of his, unfortunately rejected, story ideas for Tales of the TMNT. You can find the details of these four mega-tales at Tristan's blog.
Last week, TMNT writer Jake Black posted some preview pages from Tales of the TMNT #44. You can check out all of the pages in his blog, here.
Kevin Eastman has announced some of his upcoming projects over at HeavyMetal.com. Amongst them is a book collecting the entire Bodycount story, which was originally published by Image back in the 90s.The new soft cover collected version will be oversized (magazine format as opposed to the original comic book format it was published in by Image comics), with an exclusive hardcover I’ll tell you about later. The soft cover will be available in late spring, on the site as well as comic shops.
Tristan Huw Jones, writer of last year's extremely popular Tales of the TMNT #36, has made the exciting announcement that he and Ryan Brown have co-plotted a story featuring Leatherhead that will be published in the upcoming Tales of the TMNT #50.
Tales of the TMNT #45 
Tales of the TMNT #46 
Tales of the TMNT #41, "Swan Song" with back-up story "Fathers and Daughters," is now available in comic shops.
TVShowsOnDVD.com is reporting the release of Season 6 of the original TMNT cartoon series on DVD this April. Unfortunately for the TMNT completest, there continue to be some overlooked episodes that don't seem to be planned for this upcoming release.
Konami's original TMNT arcade game from 1989 came in as 2007's top X-Box LIVE arcade titles in sales!
Now that retailers have survived the Holiday shopping season, it's time for them to clean out and restock. As such, the new product that trickled into stores just before Christmas is now hitting all stores in waves. Here's some awesome camera phone pics of what you can expect to find.
The current issue of Lee's Toy Review features a fantastic picture of the upcoming TMNT figures from NECA. Inside you can expect to find more exclusive pictures of these great-looking figures.
In addition to being a collector of obscure TMNT items, I'm also a bit of a tech geek. This means I ask for things like USB turntables for Christmas. And, having received such an item, I have now used my basic audio editing skillz to record the LP of the Spanish translation of the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour to MP3.
The live-action, direct-to-video "We Wish You a Turtle Christmas" hit stores in 1994 at the same time as its counterpart, "Turtle Tunes." Each video is 30 minutes long and features the Turtles and sometimes Splinter and sometimes these random kids (who apparently know the Turtles quite well) singing songs that never had a chance for a Grammy.
Regular readers of The 5th Turtle know that Murphy has taken the last five days to tell the story behind The Forever War and why it never saw print in issues 71-75 of the Archie comic book series, as was originally planned.
The TMNT Mini Mutants playsets are now shipping and have been spotted at Toys R Us for $19.99. Each playset comes with two exclusive Mini Mutants figures.
Shredder figures) and Raph's Iron Pumpin' Gym (with Raphael and General Mono figures).
Tales of the TMNT Vol. 1 Treasury Edition shipped to comic shops this past Wednesday. To the left you can see the exclusive bookplate that is tipped-in to all copies of the book ordered and shipped from PanelToPanel.net, while supplies last.
Playmates is sponsoring a new "Code Green" sweepstakes in partnership with 4Kids.tv. Game cards are available in the new Alien Hunters and Mutations action figures. There are eight different cards (pictured above), each of which has a code on the back redeemable at 4Kids.tv/codegreen.
The new movie-based Mutations action figures are now shipping and have been spotted at Toys R Us. These figures come with a canister of ooze and a trading card from the new "Code Green" promotion. The TRU price tag on these is $10.99, but don't be surprised to see these for $9.99 when they show up at Target and WalMart. Of course, if you can find 'em before the end of the month, you can use the UPCs to send away for a Bigfoot action figure.
This is a promotional trading card from TMNT-branded frozen pizzas from McCain Elio's Foods sometime around the release of the first TMNT movie in 1990.
So I got my dog tag Friday!! I would have posted sooner, but I had important things to do. Like....um....
Anyway! It's very light (because it's anodized aluminum), and it's my new favorite thing- I wear it everywhere, even to bed. DON'T YOU JUDGE ME. I may wear it to work tomorrow, under my shirt. I am seriously considering it.
Sorry if it seems a bit blurry in the photo- but this is the best I can dowithout exerting effort. It looks very neat. :D So, yes, Etchstar: recommended!
Here's a look at the photo that was used in TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze for the newspaper at the end of the movie that declares: Ninja Rap Is Born!
The first items from the new "Retro" line of TMNT merchandising is beginning to hit stores.
Urban Outfitters also has a couple t-shirt designs, the best being the "Say YES to Pizza, Say NO to Drugs" shirt (bottom left). There is also a women's tee.
This is old news now, but to the left you'll see the final sculpt and paint for the upcoming Leonardo figure from NECA. All four Turtles will be available in the spring.
1990's Coming Out of Their Shells Tour was a huge hit in the United States, but the album also made its way overseas and even got translated for Spanish-speaking countries.
TMNT has been nominated for an Annie Award in the category of Storyboarding in an Animated Feature ProductionStoryboarding in an Animated Feature ProductionGood luck to Sean and the entire Imagi crew!
- Don Hall – ‘Meet The Robinsons’ – Walt Disney Feature Animation
- Denise Koyama – “Surf’s Up” – Sony Pictures Animation
- Ted Mathot – “Ratatouille” – Pixar Animation Studios
- Sean Song – “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” – IMAGI Animation Studios
- Nassos Vakalis – “Bee Movie” – DreamWorks Animation
This is Michaelangelo as Michelangelo's David as drawn by Dan Berger for the January 27, 1991 TMNT newspaper comic strip.
Panel to Panel is now offering Tales of the TMNT Vol 1: Treasury Edition for pre-sale with their exclusive bookplate. This book includes all seven issues of the first volume of Tales of the TMNT as well as a brand new full-length story and a new frontispiece by Jim Lawson.
The new Mini-Mutant 2-packs have been sighted at Toys R Us stores for $5.99. Pictured to the left is the mini-Foot Tech Ninja with his larger counterpart.
I didn't post anything on Thanksgiving because I couldn't think of any TMNT Thanksgiving-related items/images. Then tonight I was browsing through my Next Mutation coloring books and I found this.
Eric Talbot has a new TMNT sketch on his blog today. 
Dario Brizuela has posted some previews of the pencils for Tales of the TMNT #44 on his blog.
