New Eric Talbot Sketch

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Eric Talbot has a new TMNT sketch on his blog today. Check it out!

Lots of New Toys Shipping to Retailers

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Now that retailers have survived the Holiday shopping season, it's time for them to clean out and restock. As such, the new product that trickled into stores just before Christmas is now hitting all stores in waves. Here's some awesome camera phone pics of what you can expect to find.

Above is the Mini Mutants Battle Shell.

Ninja Battle Gear: These are basically the same as the old boxed sets, but now you also get ooze (the same ooze that's included with the Mutations figures.
Mike | Leo | Raph | Don

Mini Mutants Motos:
Mike | Leo | Raph | Don

NECA TMNT Figures Make The Cover

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The current issue of Lee's Toy Review features a fantastic picture of the upcoming TMNT figures from NECA. Inside you can expect to find more exclusive pictures of these great-looking figures.


Thanks to batman27 for the original picture and a slew of other TMNT fans who spread it like wildfire.

TMNT Flashback: Happy New Year!

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To close out 2007, here's the TMNT newspaper comic strip from December 30, 1990.

Saliendo De Sus Caparazones

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In addition to being a collector of obscure TMNT items, I'm also a bit of a tech geek. This means I ask for things like USB turntables for Christmas. And, having received such an item, I have now used my basic audio editing skillz to record the LP of the Spanish translation of the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour to MP3.

As such, I am offering these files for download for a limited time. You can download the album here. Grab 'em while they're there!

Track Listing:

1. Rap Del Tortugon (original song)
   
2. Baila Tortuga (original song)
   
3. Cuenta Con Nosotros (Dance Mix) (original mix)
   
4. Saliendo De Nuestros Caparazones (Coming Out Of Our Shells)
   
5. El Poder De La Pizza (Pizza Power)
   
6. Buscando Piedras (Skipping Stones)
   
7. A Luchar (Walk Straight)
   
8. Cowabunga
9. No Hay Tratos (No Treaties)
   
10. Sigue A Tu Corazon (Follow Your Heart)
    
11. Cuenta Con Nosotros (Count On Us)
    

TMNT Flashback: We Wish You A Turtle Christmas

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The live-action, direct-to-video "We Wish You a Turtle Christmas" hit stores in 1994 at the same time as its counterpart, "Turtle Tunes." Each video is 30 minutes long and features the Turtles and sometimes Splinter and sometimes these random kids (who apparently know the Turtles quite well) singing songs that never had a chance for a Grammy.

Pictured to the top left is the cover to a Netherlands release that combines both videos onto a single DVD. Although I'm not exactly positive that this is an official DVD release (you can see the whole DVD cover here and judge for yourself).

To the bottom left is the cover to a promotional cassette soundtrack that was released to advertise the original VHS tapes (full cover insert here). The cassette features all of the songs from both videos, although some songs are missing dialog that leaves them with awkward chunks of instrumental. One of the songs actually runs longer than it did on the video.

Merry Christmas to everyone who is celebrating today and tomorrow!

The Forever War: The First 6 Pages

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Regular readers of The 5th Turtle know that Murphy has taken the last five days to tell the story behind The Forever War and why it never saw print in issues 71-75 of the Archie comic book series, as was originally planned.

We still have over a year to wait to see this story in print, but in the spirit of the Holiday season, today Murphy has gifted us with the first six pages from this story.

You can read these six pages at The 5th Turtle, here.