New Toyark forum member Shawpaw has pointed us to a description of the toys for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action movie. Idle Hands has a full description of the Ninja Turtles, Shredder, April On’Neil, Splinter and the Foot Soldiers. The good news is the Ninja Turtles themselves sound great. The bad news is that the Shredder sounds a bit ridiculous. But these are only the opinions of the person describing them. Expect these to be revealed at Toy Fair 2014 in February.
Read on for the descriptions from Idle Hands.
Key points below, Check out Idle Hands for full details.
THE TURTLES
– 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.
– Each turtle’s mask matches the color from the cartoons.
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.
APRIL O’NEIL
– Nothing out of the ordinary here, especially since we saw her on set in her yellow jacket. Blue jeans, black boots up to her knees and a satchel across her chest.
– Worth noting the figure doesn’t much look like her.
– Comes with a camera and 2 sai knives.
THE 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.
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.
TMNT 2014 Movie Toy Descriptions
The movie teaser poster looked pretty good. This might not be that bad after all, but still not a fan of Megan in general, but we'll see.
I wonder what scale these figures will be in? The article doesn't indicate if it will be the 4 or 6 inch. I really hope they turn out great and the movie also turns out great.
Hmmm...I guess those sound decent.
So no word on articulation for the turtles, hopefully they have as much as the nick figures had or more.
I wonder if this is over at that other forum, people will be rioting in the streets.
Are they still supposed to be aliens anymore?
I wonder if this is over at that other forum, people will be rioting in the streets.
Are they still supposed to be aliens anymore?
I think the turtles will have at least ankle articulation and the reviewer notes that April doesn't have it. Also, im betting it's a 6 scale as they mention the turtles ARE huge and bigger that April. No idea how big shredder and splinter are in comparison.
Im not a fan of the Michelangelo description but Raph and Leo sound decent.
i'm very interested to see what these look like. i'm okay with them looking rather different since we have the cartoon going on now where the turtles have pretty much their classic look.
from the description shredder sounds pretty badass.. i hope it doesn't come off hokey though.
toy fair is too far away!
Didn't one of the executive producers end up saying the script was mostly unchanged from the first couple of drafts? I seem to recall that. I eventually stopped following news on this movie though.
Regardless, these descriptions don't alarm me in the slightest. The personal touches for each turtle actually seems to fit their personality (aside from Raph's loincloth-esq accessory, which seems iffy) so it sounds good to me.
Shredder sounds absolutely awful, but you know what? I don't care how ridiculous it may look, so long as "Eric Sachs" actually dons Samurai-inspired armor at some point in the movie. It'll make up for the Foot clan being soldiers with guns.
Maybe.
When I first read this on another site it just seemed fake to me. A toy show in Russia where you can't take pictures but yet they can just describe it to us lol. I don't know? Will have to see what they look like when they are made...
That is true, Joe. Isn't there something with Playmates too though that they either don't ship or sell to other countries outside of the US? I just find it weird that they would be debuted in Russia?? I'm sure it will prove to be true, it's just a head scratcher for me...
I still hold out hope that both the movie and toys will be, at the very least, tolerable.
Bah, I'll be more than happy just getting the upcoming Classics movie Turtles instead.
Oh my god the new Michelangelo design looks fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. There's pictures over on another forum of a leaked kids Halloween costume of Michelangelo. The new turtles appear to rely heavily on Botox injections to their lips. Given it's a Halloween costume, it still looks horrible. Ugh. if you get a chance, brace yourself and go take a look.
I am SOOO relieved that the "alien" aspect has supposedly been removed. At least the ooze being alien is a somewhat interesting interpretation. I'm still skeptical though, and that's coming from someone who will actually defend Megan Fox's (marginal) skills as an actress (hey, she was good in Jennifer's Body, lol).
Worst case scenario, the new animated series is strong enough to keep the franchise moving forward even if this movie is an absolute trainwreck.
The ooze is alien in origin for most iterations of TMNT (including the original Mirage comics). It is by no means a new thing.
You can still see the Krang/Utrom puppet created for the movie in one of the scenes. It's in a glass pyramid in the part where the turtles sneak into TGRI, shortly before Tatsu shows up with his ninjas.
Anyhoo, I'm not sure what to think of that leaked costume. The overall look (scavenged clothing) isn't terrible, though mask does look similar to Shrek. But we all know how closely these things usually resemble the characters from the movies (they don't), so I'm not worried.
I am very eager to see the movie toys, though - particularly Shredder/Eric Sachs.
I think a lot of people are making too much about the mask/face. It's most likely very ill-representative of how he'll look in the film. I mean it doesn't even match the rest of his body for Chrissake. It's a different shade of green and has no scales.
Just saw this on another site!
Roids? They look better than that costume. Not digging raph's full head bandanna
Eh that seems like a bit much.
I'm not going to judge their look until after I see the finished film. When the original TMNT movie came out, I thought those costume designs were ridiculous. But the movie turned out good (a little corny here and there, but overall a good translation).
Hopefully this one will be as good as the current TV series.
There are a few more at this link showing Leo, Donnie, and Shredder.
Keep reading: TMNT 2014 Movie Toy Details - Page 2
Not a member yet? Join The Toyark Now!