Selected clips from the documentary "Special Collector's Edition The Making of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Behind the Shells" www.imdb.com/title/tt0323157/
I remember being a kid and having this on VHS. I also remember being very upset when it broke as I tended to rewind a lot as a kid. lol I always liked seeing behind the scenes footage.
+Ashley Dyke Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to be more precise, and yes it is. I've been a fan ever since I was a toddler in the mid 1990s. The 1987 series is what first got me interested with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and also got interested with later versions, the 1990, 1991 and 1993 live-action movies, The Next Mutation 1997-1998 live-action TV series, the 2003-2009 animated TV series, the 2007 movie AND the current 2012 series. As for the 2014 movie and the upcoming 2016 Out of the Shadows sequel, I'm not too crazy about.
I remember having one book about the TMNT phenomenon. The description about the first TMNT movie described how puppeteering the turtles felt similar to playing a video game. 1:18 shows exactly what that felt like!
My brother used to have a fan book of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which had info about the first Nintendo game and first motion picture. The description behind the scenes of the first motion picture told me that puppeteering the Turtles felt similar to playing a Nintendo game. (1:32 explains what that meant!)
This video makes you enjoy the work on the costumes and puppetry unlike the Making of video of Coming Out of Their Shells which does nothing but lie to you.
I grew up with the turtles, and i enjoyed watching them as a kid. Unlike many other showas from back then, this is one of the series that gets worse and wors the older i am, and yet they try to sell it as if it was the number one show of all times.
Imagine if Steve Barron (TMNT I), Michael Pressman (TMNT II) and Stuart Gillard (TMNT III) saw the original TMNT Cartoon and saw the Ninja Turtles looks just before filming any of the TMNT Live Action films here including this one. They will be thinking before the first days of the filming, when they see the straps on Donatello and Leonardo's ninja belts with the strap attached, they will deliberately request to cut off the straps and make their ninja appropriate instead because all these directors may want the turtles to look like the ones in the original TMNT cartoon. I remember people in my country complained over the straps joining Don & Leo's ninja belts during the airings of the 3 TMNT Live Action Films between 1999 and 2001 for those who watched the original TMNT cartoon here.
So that's how, those heads and eyes was moved. The body was a suit on actors, but without turtle heads. But the head was part of mechanic. That ofcourse, the old and hard trick for 90 years. But in 2014-2016, the technology become more easier and cool.
I remember everyone listed to Vanilla Ice in the 90s. So they can't say they hated him when they listened and liked his music. The only reason they it that now is because one person influenced the idea to hate him. He was better than the back street boys.
What makes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movies so enjoyable to watch? Especially when it involved the animatronic puppeteering by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. So much effort poured in the making of the first and second ones. Too bad Jim Henson wasn't around to see the second film's release, which was why it was dedicated to his memory.
@SourPix i actually own all tutles comics, so i will answer.. In one of the comics, the turtles went to a dimension where they were forced to figh in a martial arts tournament, and they were given outfits for the tournament, and Raphael was the only turtle that kept the outfit throughout some editions of the comics.. Raphaels costume was all black, like a ninja.. thats why he kept it, so he could hide in the shadows..
@chacragirl that is a good question. it's from the Archie comics, based off the cartoon but went it's own canon after following 1 season of the show. Raph wears his wrestling costume, a full black body suit. on the pin-up picture he's taken off the face and overall part of the suit. probably due to the warm weather in the issue it was featured in.
HAHA! Props to the kid that said "Calabunga!" I used think that's how it was pronounced back in the day too. Years later I realized after seeing how it was spelt, that it was actually pronounced "Cowabunga". I'm glad I wasn't the only one!
I used to have this set of Military Ninja Turtles, where each branch of the Military was represented by a different turtle. I had Donatello in a ghille suit! They were my favorite and I wish I knew what happened to them.
They all have a different role in the movie, Leonardo was one of the punk kids (though I don't know which one), Raphael was the guy in the back of the cab (the "What the heck was that?!" guy), and Donatello was the Foot soldier who delivers the message.
They have to do a new Turtles Movie with this Technology and Jim Henson Puppetry! And they gotta put Krang as an Animatronic in it! ..would be so awesome!
The funny thing is, CGI didn't kill animatronics...the Producers and Directors who DEMANDED CGI did. You ought to blame them before blaming animation houses over it.
every time they showed the little kids saying one of those old turtle sayings, i would just laugh ..because every kid in the 90's were saying the same thing including me....turtle power!!!! lol
That kid at the end eventually grew up to become the kid featured on the news with a blank expression, zombie facepaint and saying, "I like tuwtles." :-|
@chacragirl it's from the archies comics which depict the turtles in weird situations. they fight aliens, take part in the wwe, get lost on an island, etc.
omg the first one 'the best'? of COURSE it is. Not only is the first Turtles movie good, it's one of the best comic book movies ever made. Splinter's scenes are fucking phenomenal, especially when he speaks to Raphael about controlling his anger. That first Turtles movie is what made my childhood. MADE it. And of course Batman with Keaton. That movie was the shit too. The moment when Batman broke through the glass on the roof was beyond epic....It changed my persona.
The first movie is and always will be my favorite! I wonder who were those dumb idiots who protested that the 1st movie was so violent and dark, don't they know the 1st comic of the TMNT is more violent and that's what made the turtles so popular back then! (Check out the 2014 Documentary to see for yourself) they also did the same for the 1989 Batman movie! And to those parents instead of bitchin' and ruining movies for the rest of us just don't let your kids watch them and STFU!
@chacragirl That's from the Archie line called TMNT Adventures... If I recall the continuity, the black pants were part of an all black costume that Raph had picked up on some alien planet. I can't recall why he was only wearing the pants at this time, but perhaps he was hot on the high seas and wanted to air off.
