The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle New York Comic Con exclusives sold out lightning fast, but fear not turtle fans, NECA has announced its 2008 San Diego Comic Con exclusive will feature the turtles in the half shel as they appeared in 1984 - black and white, baby!

Much like the New York exclusive, this set contains all four Turtles, their complete accessories, and detailed display bases with all-new highly anticipated Black & White paint and deco! San Diego Comic Con will be the first place to pick up the Black & White Turtles anywhere, so be there! As a special bonus, the set will feature a 4″ x 6″ certificate hand-signed by Peter Laird.

Yes, this exclusive will also be limited to 500, so you best hope you have your preview night tickets already, or you are going to be out on this one too.

via NECA Online

As you are sitting around the office, or waiting for your Xbox Live system to reboot for the umptenth time today, and you need something to do, why not take up papercraft?

The 4Kids TV website has a whole lotta characters you can download, print, cut and paste together to make an interesting cubicle decoration or piece of art to give your significant other.  There are quite a few manga inspired creations there, plus you can download all of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Splinter too) and create your own ninjas on 20 weight.

Hopefully the alphabet headline hasn’t thrown you into a tizzy, but the good news is NECA, the company that has recently acquired the licensing rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, will offer a show exclusive at the New York Comic Con.

Peter Laird, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, will be appearing at the NECA booth on Saturday, April 19th, from 1PM-3PM, signing a New York Comic Con Exclusive Edition Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Box Set. This set contains all four Ninja Turtle action figures, plus additional accessories and diorama bases. This exclusive, limited to just 500 pieces, will be the only version of the box set to contain all the additional accessories from the single-carded Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series 1 - in stores this May.

The exclusive will set attendees back $50.

Take the jump for the box art.

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We’ve already seen the TMNT figures based Eastman and Laird’s designs, now we have a pic of April O’Neil in “Not Final Art Form”.

image via Toynewsi.com

Now these are some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures I would actually go out and buy. Based on the original artwork of Eastman and Laird, the first series of TMNT figures feature the turtles in a half shelf wielding their weapons of choice.

Take the jump for a closer look.

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It came as no surprise to me as The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took the number one spot at the box office raking in an estimated $25 million for Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co. Leo and crew were able to use their box office draw to topple the Spartans from Frank Miller’s 300, which took the number two spot.

Next weekend should hopefully see a boost in box office sales, but if you then calculate a regular weekly drop between 30 and 40 percent, the ninja turtle movie could easily make over $100 million.

“It’s sequel time, dudes,” said Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of the Weinstein Co., which is distributing “TMNT” overseas. “We knew from the inception of this project that that the `TMNT’ characters would continue to resonate with audiences across the world.”

via CBS News (link)

Apple has posted a new trailer for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Looks really good, with more of the storyline revealed. I only have one problem in that the blacks of the trailer look really washed out. I hope when it is seen in theaters the blacks are really black as it will give a whole noir feel to the action adventure animated movie.

You can also see the Hi-def version at the Apple site

via Apple (link)

Kino-Govno.com got its hands on a whole slew of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles images (162!) from the upcoming movie. The art style is fairly simple, and reminds me of the 3D modeling style from about five years ago. But there are a few shots that make my jaw drop, especially the rain and fur shaders.

Of course we have a few to share…

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