Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

[Michael Coello]

Sept 24, 2013 9:14:37 GMT -5 wwefan71080 said:

Sept 20, 2013 20:26:24 GMT -5 Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie said:

bollox to shredder not being from japan!!!!!
might as well call it FIGHTING TORTOISES then

This is one of those cases of why couldn't they get Jet Li

Last time I checked, Jet Li's English skills needed work, and especially didn't have the type of boisterous volume of a Shredder.

[Bub (BLM)]

My guess with Shredder is that they're going in the IDW re-incarnation route with both Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi. It will excuse Shredder being white, and it also gives a better timeframe for all the feuding Ninja clan backstory elements. Honestly, whatever they do is okay with me as long as it respects the characters.

That being said, I'm still butthurt that Ken Watanabe isn't playing either Shredder or Splinter.

[muzzle]

Michael Bay hey? Can' wait for the Americanism, the militarism, the shallow consumerism, the sexism, the racism, over the top slow motion, non emotional scenes that are filmed to be emotional scenes and the casting of a young hot female to get in the "girlfriend" crowd who don't two f***s about TMNT. f*** OFF YOU c***, YOU SHOULD BE DIRECTING AEROSMITH MUSIC VIDEOS AT BEST!

[andrew8798]

IdleHands.com has seen the toys from the movie and describes them for us:

Each turtle's mask matches the color from the cartoons.

Overall look:
- Each turtle has the weapons they should have. (YAY!) 2 swords for Leo, a staff for Don, 2 sais for Raph, a pair of nunchucks and a three sectioned staff for Mikey.
- Each turtle looks LIKE A TURTLE and not alien...at all. (BIGGER YAY!) In fact the designs are quite traditional and unremarkable, and feature far less texture than the 90's movie turtles. Eyes are fairly normal and not cartoonishly large. No beak along the nose area like some speculated. Three fingers and two toes.
- The sort of hunched over posture present in the actors in those leaked set pictures is present here.
- Amazingly, each character appeared to have a different physique with some (like Raphael and Leonardo) having super heroey muscle tone (though Raph appears more pumped up than Leo) and Donatello appearing slimmer..leaner. Michelangelo could possibly be slightly shorter than the rest.

- Leonardo in a sort of pseudo samurai gear get up including shoulder armor, some leg bits, arm bracer and foot wear up to the calf with bindings showing. He might have some armor (non metal) along his chest as well.

- Donatello's gear is a mix of techy, modern and a dash of samurai with more normal footwear (for a 2 toed giant turtle), some gadget on his head and gadgetry coming off of his shell. The ends of his mask are far longer than the rest, draping down to his waist.

- Raphael has adopted an urban warrior look with white, bandage-like wrappings on his feet, right leg, and right arm. He wears this very conan-esque loin cloth..thing..with leather straps draping down as if he were more suited for gladiatorial battle.

- Michelangelo's outfit seems the simplest with a hoodie wrapped around his waist, pants and sneakers with the toes cut out, wrappings on his hands and forearms, a necklace (could be puka shell beads?) and his mask ends drape down to his chest. He looks frighteningly ready to spit out some modern catch phrases.

Splinter:
- Again, a very traditional design.
- Hair pulled up in a samurai..nub? Fu Manchu facial hair going on.
- His eyes seemed a little odd but I couldn't make out what was going on there.
- Slightly tattered samurai outfit with a blue upper half with gold accents, tan lower belted robes and blocky sandals.
- Comes with a samurai sword.

Shredder
- This guy looks like he owns stock in the Ronco knife company! Pointy edges coming off of absolutely anything. He'll be the stuff of ridicule for some time. Very overcomplicated outfit.
- Helmet is pseudo-traditional, adopting elements of the classic look (mostly the shape and key elements) with the top coming down over the eyes to the nose. Mouth area is recessed.
- Describing the rest of this armor is a nightmare. Suffice to say, even though he's covered head to toe in metal armor or blades, his arms are still mostly bare. It's a bit comical. He's got the shoulder pieces with the blades coming off them, the shin armor with the blades coming off them, black armor areas to offset the steel parts and a cape that looks metal with blades coming down the side. I'd expect we'll see him whip that around in battle.
- His only weapons (beyond his whole body) seem to be the bladey thingies coming off his forearm armor. The one on his right arm seems incredibly complicated..maybe a spinning blade?

Foot Soldier
- No surprises here at all..just as drab as the goons in masks we saw on set.
- The figure designs are a bit more colorful with a brownish scarf, blue vest, black arms, tan pants, grey knee pads and black boots. They also seem to have made the mask more of a grey than the copper look we saw on set.
- The changes in colors and such lead me to wonder if they did that for the toy line just to bring something out for kids beyond a boring black outfit or has there been changes to the Foot Soldier's look? Our bet is the former. Makes little sense to put out figures that don't match the movie look, though....but it's not like it hasn't happened before.
- Figure comes with a small hand gun, a larger rifle and a knife. You may be able to strap the smaller gun to his leg in a holster sculpted on.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Eh, I don't like the idea of the Turtles wearing a lot of clothes. At the most, I'd rather see them in their traditional ninja gear with maybe one extra feature or two, like the cap Raph wore in Archie's "future TMNT" stories.

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I kinda like the idea of each turtle having a look that represents their skills and personalities, but it runs the risk of being way too much. Hopefully it looks good. Just like a Bay production to just add more and more stuff. Shredder sounds like he's 95% knives.

[Deleted]

I have zero problem with the turtles wearing a lot of ridiculous gear. In fact I kind of like it because I remember when stuff like this was common:

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I wanna see Shredder after reading that because if he looks half as stupid as that sounds it will make the can opener Joke from the original sound like a premonition of what was to come.

[Throwback]

here's the foot clan.

and here's Mikey

[the2ndevil]

I would call the Foot an upgrade, easily.

Has there been a single on set image of Shredder without his helmet on?

More and more, I'm expecting the man cast to be voice only.

[WoodStoner1]

Jan 5, 2014 0:43:54 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

I wanna see Shredder after reading that because if he looks half as stupid as that sounds it will make the can opener Joke from the original sound like a premonition of what was to come.

Did someone feel bad that Uncle Phil died and wanted an homage to the buffoonish Shredder?

Also, I hope the existence of the movie doesn't = the Nickelodeon show being cancelled. As that will probably still be 100000x better either way.

[Deleted]

Jan 5, 2014 0:55:08 GMT -5 Throwback said:

and here's Mikey

Where did you find that image? I've looked, and I can't find anything about that being the movie version. I'm really hopeful that it is, as that looks a whole hell of a lot better than the "TMNT" CGI movie or the Nick show, both of which look more like Ninja Lizards to me.

[Throwback]

Jan 6, 2014 11:40:59 GMT -5 @wvguitar said:

Jan 5, 2014 0:55:08 GMT -5 Throwback said:

and here's Mikey

Where did you find that image? I've looked, and I can't find anything about that being the movie version. I'm really hopeful that it is, as that looks a whole hell of a lot better than the "TMNT" CGI movie or the Nick show, both of which look more like Ninja Lizards to me.

www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=29469

Also a few pics of Mikey in disguise here as well as Whoppi Goldberg's and Will Arnett's characters
sciencefiction.com/2013/07/23/new-tmnt-movie-pays-homage-to-the-first-live-action-film-in-new-leaked-photos/

[StuntGranny®]

Jan 6, 2014 12:43:26 GMT -5 Throwback said:

Jan 6, 2014 11:40:59 GMT -5 @wvguitar said:

Where did you find that image? I've looked, and I can't find anything about that being the movie version. I'm really hopeful that it is, as that looks a whole hell of a lot better than the "TMNT" CGI movie or the Nick show, both of which look more like Ninja Lizards to me.

www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=29469

Also a few pics of Mikey in disguise here as well as Whoppi Goldberg's and Will Arnett's characters
sciencefiction.com/2013/07/23/new-tmnt-movie-pays-homage-to-the-first-live-action-film-in-new-leaked-photos/

Ugh, I had honestly forgotten all about Megan Fox being April, then I saw that pic. Weeping.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

I'll say this much: they got the perfect guy to play Vernon. But no pink shirt?

[trollrogue]

FYI Kevin Nash is technically the first "White Shredder"

In fact he was so white the Turtles had to fight through a Vanilla Ice concert before facing Diesel 'Super Shredder' in "TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze"

[mizerable]

Why do I like that Michelangelo picture?

Perhaps it's just me, but I grew up with the cheesy cartoon, and not that TMNT bullshit, so maybe there's that 1% hope that we'll get something similar to that.

But then again...Michael Bay...Megan Fox. ugh.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Jan 6, 2014 15:14:55 GMT -5 mizerable said:

Why do I like that Michelangelo picture?

Perhaps it's just me, but I grew up with the cheesy cartoon, and not that TMNT bullshit, so maybe there's that 1% hope that we'll get something similar to that.

But then again...Michael Bay...Megan Fox. ugh.

I grew up on the 80's show, I was prime aged for that. I love it to death and have over 100 figures I would bet. But TMNT and the new Nick shows are just better shows by a long shot. Better writing, more consistent animation, they just kill it.

[Bub (BLM)]

That Michelangelo image is fan art from Deviant Art. It's been online for months now.

[WoodStoner1]

Jan 6, 2014 13:51:04 GMT -5 trollrogue said:

FYI Kevin Nash is technically the first "White Shredder"

In fact he was so white the Turtles had to fight through a Vanilla Ice concert before facing Diesel 'Super Shredder' in "TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze"

Tries to go to Dimension X, tears quad.