Originally Posted by Greenskar (Post 238331)

So interesting story.

So comic-con 2011 was in town and after making our rounds for the day my gf and I decided we were done, starving and in need of a hot shower and a nap after combing the many isles of the con. Downtown gaslamp district was packed and many familiar venues had been transformed into panel parties. We decided to venture out towards our favorite downtown SD pizza place only to find out that this was closed off to the public because a panel was about to air soon.

Defeated, we both begin to round the corner and search for the taxi that will bring us salvation. Instead, once we turned the corner we were ambushed by 15 foot soldiers menacingly blocking our path and threatening us into the building. Ok so it was really staff in black pajamas handing out red, blue, purple and orange bandanna masks (I took red) and they said we should just go in and say shredder sent us. We walk in and find a large group of TMNT fans gathered and receiving free bottles of water and being served pizza by the slice, cowa-freakin-bunga dudes! The stage was setup like a new York alleyway with trash bins. This panel introduced the creators of the new cartoon, the writer apparently just started studying ninjutsu as a martial art and wanted to incorporate more of the actual philosophy into the cartoon to give it a new feel. April O'Neil will be trained as a kunoichi (female ninja) and interesting weapon upgrades like Mikey's nunchucks converting into a Kasari gama are examples of new ideas that they were bringing.

Then out of nowhere the trash bins we were standing next to to get a better view of the screen behind the podium flung open and revealed the new toys you see in this thread!

Fellow Arkers I can attest to the coolness of these figures and will definitely be picking up the turtles. There was also a turtle bike that converts to a stealth mode when the turtle shell slides over the driver ( I assume the stealth tech is in the shell or something in the cartoon) and it was pretty awesome.

If these look just as good at retail as they did in the panel I might be hooked on a new line. Crap.

Originally Posted by baddasspk (Post 238210)

I think I see Krang at the very top of the playset as well

Originally Posted by Paxtin (Post 238707)

Mike sadly does not have actual chain for his nunchaku.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...in/Mike_02.jpg
Not really surprising, but a bummer.

Originally Posted by trebleshot (Post 238758)

Actually, those look like the weapons that go with the deluxe versions.

Originally Posted by jestermon (Post 238764)

Here is hoping they have classics april with large booby action in the yellow open jumpsuit.

Originally Posted by jestermon (Post 238764)

The classics look good but I'm thinking they are going to be crazy expensive.

Hopefully the bands on the new figures are all brown looks much better than the white.

I have the Neca set and they are great but the original red still bugs me since I grew up on the cartoon not the comic.

I won't pay $16 for them though, if they try to price them higher like the large thundercats classics were, that would be a little steep.

It would suck if they were $6.99 for the new line and that much for the classics.

Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty (Post 238789)

@Paxtin,


And while I might be wrong, how I understood it is that it was the Classics Mikey who had the chains on his nunchuks, not the mainline Mikey.

Originally Posted by 245am (Post 238683)

This must be what you were talking about
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Return to TV in CG Animated Series for Nickelodeon - Los Angeles Art - Public Spectacle

I haven't really been keeping up on TMNT, so this is probably old news, but it sounds like others are in the same boat as me and this is new. Plus there's already footage of the cartoon. Seriously, how the hell did I miss this?

The cartoon teaser images

Changes made in the new cartoon