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20 unusual facts about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


Active Enterprises

Action 52 also included a game titled The Cheetahmen, which Active Enterprises trademarked in 1992 and hoped to turn into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-inspired media franchise consisting of action figures, a comic book series and even a television cartoon series.

Brian Elliott

Brian also has Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles painted on his mask.

Dan Spitz

Paul Reed Smith has created a special "Spitz" head stock (a first for PRS) and a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rendering was painted on this new guitar by tattoo artist and lowbrow painter JR Linton.

Homo habilis

In 1989, "Mr. Habilis", a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, was named after being a homo habilis (specified to be the first one).

Japanese armour

The Shredder, villain of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, wears a full suit of samurai armor with razor-sharp spikes.

Jiaozi

In the 2012 series adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, in the episode "Never Say Xever", a blind Japanese Noodle chef, Mr. Murakami, in a gesture of gratitude to the turtles, offers them a free meal and asks what their favorite dish is, they say "Pizza", so he comes up with "Pizza Gyoza", (Gyoza dumplings with Pizza toppings as fillings).

Mining in Mongolia

They get the name from the resemblance the green bowls they carry on their backs (which are used to pan for gold) have to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Mr Stink

Mr. Stink then leaves Chloe's house to go wandering but not before giving her a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stationery set – which the friendly local shop owner, Raj, was flogging for cheap.

Onyanko Town

Unlike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series of video games (especially the first NES release which would come out four years later in 1989), open manholes kill the player instead of helping her evade the roaming dogs.

Richard Goldwater

During this time Archie introduced Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Josie and the Pussycats and licensed properties Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Spin That Wheel

The track appeared on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack and was also released as a single.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan, released as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan in Europe, and simply Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Japan, is a 1990 Game Boy game by Konami.

The game is based around the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions

April O'Neil is a reporter like her 1987 cartoon and movie appearances; while she dressed in yellow like the cartoon, she resembled actress Paige Turco from the film.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee

Knock Out challenges the player to KO the most players in a set time or to reach a set amount of KO first.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, released in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) franchise, and was also the first TMNT game released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters

She only appeared in the original comics by Mirage Studios at the time of the game's release.

After defeating the first four opponents (including a clone of the player's character), the player proceeds to fight Casey Jones and then Hothead (a character based on the Dragon Warrior from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics) before the final match with the Shredder.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled

Players control the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael.

The game begins as the turtles watch a television newscast of April O'Neil reporting from Liberty Island.


André Nemec

Other film writing projects include the newest installment of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, as well as unaccredited writing work on Now You See Me.

Brian Ferrara

In the same interview, Ferrara says he was inspired to get into the comic book industry by such titles as Heavy Metal, Mad, Wolverine and Punisher from Marvel, Lobo and Batman from DC, Evil Ernie, The Crow, The Tick, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Combined sewer

Famous examples of sewer dwelling are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stephen King's It, Les Miserables, The Third Man, Ladyhawke, Mimic, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Jet Set Radio Future.

Cory Tait

Tait did an interview with 'MMA Prospects UK', where he describes that his inspiration in taking up martial arts was 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers and hyper activity'.

Cris Velasco

He also composed music for the videogame based on the original Battlestar Galactica series, Terminator 3: Redemption, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Anderson's Cross, Haze, Splinter Cell: Double Agent (main theme only), Clive Barker's Jericho and is credited with doing additional music for Van Helsing.

CSS Industries

The company also obtained licenses to produce certain products with imprints of cartoon characters, including Care Bears, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Walt Disney characters.

Dennis C. Brown

He is best known for composing the soundtrack to the 1987-1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series, along with Chuck Lorre—whom he continued to collaborate ever since.

Ivan Bosiljčić

His first role was to provide the voices (dubbed in Serbian) for children’s animated programmes such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the part of Donatello and in Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Jack Mendelsohn

An Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor, he has numerous credits as a TV scripter, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Three's Company, The Carol Burnett Show and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Jim Henson's Creature Shop

They are also responsible for bringing the Ninja Turtles to life in the 1990 live-action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as well as creating the costumes for the hit show Dinosaurs and making the "Milky" character in the Blur music video "Coffee & TV".

John Besmehn

He co-developed the toy line for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a multi-billion dollar comic book, animated television series and movie franchise, originally conceived by the comic book team, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Miyamoto Usagi

Miyamoto Usagi is also featured in the video game called Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo, and has appeared in the 1987 and 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons.

Motion Pictures, S.A.

Motion Pictures has had and extended animation catalog series, bringing to Spain for more than 20 years famous series as The Smurfs, Inspector Gadget, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Calimero, Dennis the Menace, etc..

Patrick Spaziante

Spaziante other works include worked on Mega Man and Transformers for Dreamwave Productions' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the miniseries Muties for Marvel Comics, and Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon Comics, which was based on the television series of the same name.

Pete Ploszek

He has appeared in Parks and Recreation, Shameless, and is set to portray Leonardo in Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Rowby Goren

He also wrote for numerous cartoon series including Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Berenstain Bears, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Tiny Toon Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! as well as Saturday morning series such as various Sid and Marty Krofft's H.R. Pufnstuf series.

Stellar engineering

In the season 3 (1989) episode "Take Me to Your Leader" of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady use a Solar Siphon to aim towards the Sun, and store the solar energy into compact batteries, freezing the Earth making it too cold for people to resist them.

Travel to the Earth's center

As Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady steal the crystal to power the Technodrome, the trouble begins.