Author: Rob Blatt
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Who was the Artist for the Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cardback Art? A Search for an Answer.
If you don’t want to read, there isn’t a definitive answer here, but I think the assumption that Errol McCarthy did the original art is valid. This is likely the first ad for retailers to sell the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VHS, “Turtle Soup,” from page 117 of Video Store Magazine in June 1988.…
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The 1991 Groundchuck Variant and Common from Playmates’ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Line
There were two Groundchucks in 1991, and the variant is the one with the yellow skull on his left shoulder pad and silver hair. Groundchuck was a part of the 1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles releases from Playmates. The figure is pretty close to the character that debuted as a part of the Teenage Mutant…
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What Happened to the TMNT Competitors from 1992?
In 1991, it seems like there were sharks circling around the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. While toy sales had broken the one billion dollar mark from 1988 through 1991, things appeared to be cooling off for the turtles according to a story in the LA Times. 1990 was a year like no other for the…
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The Highest Resolution Images I Could Find of Leonardo as The Creature from NECA Universal Monsters TMNT
The NECA Universal Monsters/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line is expanding to Leonardo as The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Raphael as the Wolf Man. The packaging for the Leonardo as The Creature includes box art by illustrations from Daniel Horne. One issue that I personally have when these things are announced or put online is…