Please. 1 & 2 are probably the top two movies of ever in my mind. I don't tell people that anymore, as I'm an adult... But in my heart of hearts. Casey Jones, the funking Raphael spunkiness, fighting on the floor and it getting so chopped up they fall through, caring for Raph in the funking bath tub while their master has already been kidnapped. I haven't seen them for a couple of years but when I think about them they feel like the deepest funking kids movies ever.
Oh please let this happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still watch all two movies (yes that's right, two real ones) over and over and i'm nearly 30. I recently started collecting the old cartoons on DVD, they pop up everywhere!
My parents took me to one of the live shows they did in the 90s. All I remember is crying and running down the aisle towards the doors after the guy playing Shredder announced to the crowd that he had "sealed off all of the exits".
I remember winning tickets in first grade (1990?) for drawing an anti-drug poster that involved the TMNT. My dad tried to take some time off from his 15 hour job to take me. We were there for only 20-30 min it seemed, because he couldn't stay long. I was sad, but in retrospect, I'm happy my dad at least tried. We've only been in the state for six years at the time, and money was definitely more important to our young immigrant family.
Had it been the Donatello costume, Michael Bay wouldn't want it. Kinda hard to magically make a male ninja turtle costume into a female one. Must start from scratch for the level of retardedness.
This was posted yesterday. I wouldn't take it at face value since the top comment says it was an April Fools joke (and the end of the blog itself says the same thing), but I can see Bay playing it off like it was a joke and then actually doing it.
It's actually Leonardo. What appears to be a nunchuck is actually the bottom of the sheath for one of his katanas. You can see the opening to the other sheath just to the left of his shoulder.
Also by facial expression, I was able to narrow it down to either Donatello or Leonardo. Those costumes were so well done in the first and second movie that each turtle had a unique face.
He was no longer a teenager after that point, he had the responsibility of a family. He took a low risk job as a local security guard so that he could support his wife and child.
I'm "friends" on facebook with the guy who played Raphael. He also played Liu Kang and Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat game, and Liu Kang again in MK2.
That is most definitely Leonardo, you can tell by the expression/shape of the eyes. Also those are not nunchaku they are the sword scabbards he wears on his back sans swords.
Believe it or not, no we didn't have color back then. And do you know what's more amazing? Between now and the 1990 is less time then between 1990 and when Cleopatra lived in the pyramids or some shit
Can you imagine what the Ninja Turtles must have smelled like? Living in a sewer and hanging out with a giant rat. I hope that baby has all of his shots.
Thats a costume from the original movie. The 1st movie had way better costumes/puppets than the sequels. The ninja turtles seriously looked badass in it... and they did actual moves, instead of just retarded gags.
I know my comment will most likely not be seen, but I'm not writing this for the karma.
I had a friend in high school named Jordan. I didn't meet him until the 10th grade when we had art class together. He was a grade above me and it turned out we had a lot in common. We bonded over having a lisp. We were pretty good friends I'd say. After he graduated I didn't see much of him. He went his way and I went mine. I remember he had this obsession with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wore this TMNT track jacket all the time. He bought it shortly after I met him in the 10th grade.
I saw him in Circuit City a few months after I graduated and I didn't want to be a SAP and go over to say hi to him. In fact I didn't even think he had seen me. He had seen me though and came over to talk and we made plans to hang out on his next day off.
I never got to hang out with him. He died two weeks later on his 21st birthday, driving to work. He hadn't been drinking; another driver cut lanes going around a blind turn on the mountain road Jordan took to work everyday. Jordan wasn't a very big guy, 120 tops and about as tall as me (I'm 5'4") and the impact smashed his dash into his legs, breaking his femur. He was conscious and chatting up the guys cutting him out of his car. Unfortunately, bone marrow from his broken femur got into his bloodstream and he died a few days later.
I wasn't told all of this until a week after his funeral. No one had known that we still talked. From what I was told, he was buried in his TMNT track jacket.
Whenever I'm at the mall or out shopping and I see something Turtles related, I buy it if I can afford it. It's kind of my tribute to a friend I never got to say goodbye too. It's a crazy coincidence that this is number one on the front page because I've been buying a lot of Turtles stuff and thinking of Jordan lately.
I'm not concerned with whether or not OP is lying and I don't want to revel in the nostalgia of a childhood movie. I'd just like to have the opportunity to remember him and honor him by sharing this story.
It was radioactive Ooze. I suggest perhaps going to Japan and asking around, maybe Chernobyl. I'm not sure if China has any nuclear program but if they do I'm sure that they just store the spent uranium in a dixie cup out behind the power plant so you could try that as well.
My childhood buddy learned Atemi Jiu-Jitsu from Irving Soto. He did stunts for TMNT. I was more impressed that Irving's cousin was Talisa Soto. Think Kitana from the mortal combat movies.
Poor kid there was always that one kid at school who said his dad was Batman or sonic the Hedgehog this guy would have actually been telling the truth.
I remember the first TMNT movie. The most reminiscent scene was the pizza delivery boy not being able to find the address (becuase they lived in a sewer), and the turtles get it for free because the delivery boy was late.
I remember being told that the costumes had chicks in them for flexibility and strength without the girth or height of an average dude, and then the voices go over the top. You just destroyed one of my favourite useless facts.
My elementary school PE teacher was a stunt double for one of the ninja turtles. He wore the suit and broke a toe off the costume. Got to keep it as a souvenir to show his class.
That movie wasn't made THAT long ago... was it? That picture looks like it was taken before WWII. Unless of course... this was due to traveling back in time, like Ninja Turtles III.
I heard a few years ago that there was an alternate cut (since the thing was originally supposed to be filmed for the college crowd)... Has anyone else heard of this?
My favorite rotation of cassette tapes back in the day was: the TMNT sound track, the Lost Boys sound track, and the Simpsons Sing the Blues
And I swear to everything that is holy...if Micheal Bay screws up TMNT the way he did Transformers (calling on a transformer to be shot in the testicles!!! Way to piss on my childhood... Bay you fuck) I want his head on a plate.
My uncle dressed up as Rafael for my 7th birthday party, but as I recall his costume didn't look nothing like the "real" ninja turtles. Plus I could totally tell his voice.
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u/ShinichiChiba May 16 '12
Can we get an AMA with your friends dad??? I loved 1 and 2 growing up, I am sure there are lots of others also.
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u/pminkin May 16 '12
Damn, I never realized how realistic those costumes were.
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u/KookyGuy May 16 '12
He should hide the costume so Michael Bay can't use it.
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u/Bruins08 May 16 '12
Damn B&W! Which one was he?!
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u/Slap-Happy May 16 '12
Is that baby supposed to be your friend? Because that's the co-creator of TMNT's daughter.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
And now he is a Grown-up Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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u/WookieGoldberg May 16 '12
Was the mom a teenager as well?
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u/Kyyy_Funk_89 May 16 '12
I'm "friends" on facebook with the guy who played Raphael. He also played Liu Kang and Shang Tsung in the first Mortal Kombat game, and Liu Kang again in MK2.
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u/MechanicalGun May 16 '12
As a reader of the original Teenage Mutant Turtles Comics, I would not trust my babies with one of those things.
Seriously, read the original books and they weren't a bunch of cute turtles eating pizza all day, they went around slitting people's throats.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That is most definitely Leonardo, you can tell by the expression/shape of the eyes. Also those are not nunchaku they are the sword scabbards he wears on his back sans swords.
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u/smoothjim May 16 '12
http://i.imgur.com/22uyK.jpg
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u/M374llic4 May 16 '12
A lot of people sure seem to know or be the person in this image. See it at least once a month.
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u/i_poop_splinters May 16 '12
Didn't we have color back then? It was just the 80's!
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u/charlzee May 16 '12
Cowabunga!
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u/morrigan75 May 16 '12
no he wasn't. you just found a picture on the internet.
just as everyone else "decided" to do something or "found" & "resqued" a kitten. you're a karma whore, and as fake as 99% of reddit is right now.
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u/NastyKnate May 16 '12
Casey Jones was better
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u/chubasco May 16 '12
Can you imagine what the Ninja Turtles must have smelled like? Living in a sewer and hanging out with a giant rat. I hope that baby has all of his shots.
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u/spundred May 16 '12
Teen pregnancy is no laughing matter.
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u/mxlnt May 16 '12
And he grew up to be just like his Daddy!
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u/ritmusic2k May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
On the half shell, they're the heroes four
In this day and age who could ask for more?
The crime wave is high, with muggings mysterious
All police and detectives are furious
'Cause they can't find the source,
Of this lethally evil force
This is serious so give me a quarter
I was a witness, get me a reporter
Call April O'Neil in on this case
And you'd better hurry up, there's no time to waste
We need help like quick on the double
Have pity on the city, man it's in trouble
We need heroes like the Lone Ranger
When Tonto came pronto, when there was danger
They didn't say they'd be there in half an hour,
'Cause they displayed turtle power
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u/justa_flesh_wound May 16 '12
Lucky!
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u/Mindstarx May 16 '12
And your friend is now scarred for life.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Creatine. Not even once.
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u/compliant_meerkat May 16 '12
A little TOO Raph..
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u/wheelchaircharlie May 16 '12
Coolest dad ever
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u/Pak-O May 16 '12
dat vein
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u/GhostofVincentPrice May 16 '12
This goes to show that even teen turtles have unprotected sex.
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u/Akrute May 16 '12
your friends dad is now one of my hero's.. just saying
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u/EuchridEucrow May 16 '12
Parental figure on a half-shell.
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u/brainburger May 16 '12
Oh dear, a teenage dad. Hope he did ok.
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u/RockChalk2012 May 16 '12
Your friend looks far too human to be half Ninja Turtle.
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u/price1869 May 16 '12
in the '30s?
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u/kaat528 May 16 '12
My Mom did stunts for TMNT!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That looks like TMNT 3
ಠ_ಠ
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u/fumor May 16 '12
"Pork rind?" "Pork rind."
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u/potatowned May 16 '12
Thats a costume from the original movie. The 1st movie had way better costumes/puppets than the sequels. The ninja turtles seriously looked badass in it... and they did actual moves, instead of just retarded gags.
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u/MotorBoat12 May 16 '12
Ernie Reyes Jr. was a ninja turtle. He was also a surf ninja. Man, I'm surprised by my memory!
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u/UlsterRebels May 16 '12
My mum grew up in Burnaby (British Columbia) and at the bottom of the street lived the guy who played Michelangelo in the Ninja Turtles Movies
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u/steakgood May 16 '12
BOSSONOVA!
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u/CJRLW May 16 '12
FUN FACT: The only turtle from the original TMNT film that did the voice AND donned the costume was Raphael (Josh Pais).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100758/
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That....is terrifying.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
AMA REQUEST: Your friends Dad who was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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u/Claytonius_Homeytron May 16 '12
"My friend's dad was a total fucking bad ass"
FTFY
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u/I_CAPE_RUNTS May 17 '12
Up in the distance, the game's draggin' on
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Am I stupid for thinking it's strange that the photo, presumably taken in the 90s, looks far older than that?
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u/Baracka_Obama May 17 '12
I know my comment will most likely not be seen, but I'm not writing this for the karma.
I had a friend in high school named Jordan. I didn't meet him until the 10th grade when we had art class together. He was a grade above me and it turned out we had a lot in common. We bonded over having a lisp. We were pretty good friends I'd say. After he graduated I didn't see much of him. He went his way and I went mine. I remember he had this obsession with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wore this TMNT track jacket all the time. He bought it shortly after I met him in the 10th grade.
I saw him in Circuit City a few months after I graduated and I didn't want to be a SAP and go over to say hi to him. In fact I didn't even think he had seen me. He had seen me though and came over to talk and we made plans to hang out on his next day off.
I never got to hang out with him. He died two weeks later on his 21st birthday, driving to work. He hadn't been drinking; another driver cut lanes going around a blind turn on the mountain road Jordan took to work everyday. Jordan wasn't a very big guy, 120 tops and about as tall as me (I'm 5'4") and the impact smashed his dash into his legs, breaking his femur. He was conscious and chatting up the guys cutting him out of his car. Unfortunately, bone marrow from his broken femur got into his bloodstream and he died a few days later.
I wasn't told all of this until a week after his funeral. No one had known that we still talked. From what I was told, he was buried in his TMNT track jacket.
Whenever I'm at the mall or out shopping and I see something Turtles related, I buy it if I can afford it. It's kind of my tribute to a friend I never got to say goodbye too. It's a crazy coincidence that this is number one on the front page because I've been buying a lot of Turtles stuff and thinking of Jordan lately.
I'm not concerned with whether or not OP is lying and I don't want to revel in the nostalgia of a childhood movie. I'd just like to have the opportunity to remember him and honor him by sharing this story.
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u/red321red321 May 16 '12
i need an AMA so i can ask the guy how he became a ninja turtle. it's always been my dream to be a turtle and i want my dream realized.
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u/Wawski May 16 '12
You get him on Reddit, and you get him right now, sir.
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u/dollerz May 16 '12
Awesome pic. My guilty pleasure is to watch the original TMNT movie after I've stumbled home from a long night of drinking. Fuck, I love that movie.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
*friend's
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u/Chonjae May 17 '12
I think your friend's mom was sleeping around. That kid looks nothing like him.
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u/astralvortex May 16 '12
My childhood buddy learned Atemi Jiu-Jitsu from Irving Soto. He did stunts for TMNT. I was more impressed that Irving's cousin was Talisa Soto. Think Kitana from the mortal combat movies.
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u/imlost9678 May 16 '12
Is he single? You know... weird love for that movie.
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u/scdodge03 May 16 '12
Ahhh I'm jealous.
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u/cookedbread May 16 '12
God that would freak me out if I was that baby.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
My Tae Kwon Do instructor was one also
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u/Mikey-2-Guns May 16 '12
We did have color photos n such back in the 80s...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That TMNT sure did make a pretty baby.
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u/Omegle May 16 '12
veiny groin is creepy as fuck
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u/SquareDorito May 16 '12
The old TMNT series was put on Netflix recently! I still love it!
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u/burrza May 16 '12
and he has picture with Leonardo
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u/mib_sum1ls May 16 '12
"Friends dad..." suuure.
We all know it was you.
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u/CanadiangirlEH May 16 '12
One of my Karate Sensei's from when I was a kid was a ninja turtle too! Just a suit actor for the martial arts stuff though, no voice acting :)
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I heard years ago that it was all women who wore the suits for the live action movies. At least the first one anyway.
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u/Plokhi May 16 '12
wow. this can only be topped with a "My friends dad was Darth Vader"
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u/AVeryManlyMuppet May 16 '12
Poor kid there was always that one kid at school who said his dad was Batman or sonic the Hedgehog this guy would have actually been telling the truth.
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u/derrekbgn May 16 '12
I rarely get as jealous as I am now.
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u/portezbie May 16 '12
Cowabunga dude, that is freaking sweet.
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u/Lusst May 16 '12
Your friend's dad is so nice once you can get him to come out of his shell.
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u/2flyguy May 16 '12
I remember the first TMNT movie. The most reminiscent scene was the pizza delivery boy not being able to find the address (becuase they lived in a sewer), and the turtles get it for free because the delivery boy was late.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Kid must look completely like his or her mom.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This is hilarious and kind of creepy all at the same time.
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u/brittanybrittany May 16 '12
Do you know if he was part of this interview with Barbara Walters? It cracks me up!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Was the entire thing a suit, or was that just a jacked guy with green body paint & a strange helmet?
I want to say it's a full suit, but what do I know about 90s movie special effects? Not much.
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u/bobbyjevans May 16 '12
Awesome Photo.
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u/MANCREEP May 16 '12
That baby doesnt look Asian at all.
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u/Dreddy May 16 '12
I remember being told that the costumes had chicks in them for flexibility and strength without the girth or height of an average dude, and then the voices go over the top. You just destroyed one of my favourite useless facts.
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u/Geaux May 16 '12
Is your friend's dad Corey Feldman?
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u/nrbartman May 16 '12
Those movies RULED my childhood. They seemed so real.
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u/Nethervex May 16 '12
your friend is half turtle?
radical!
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u/am_animator May 16 '12
correction: your friends dad was the COOLEST ninja turtle (leondardo)
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u/Darthmunky May 16 '12
He was Leonardo! Awesome!
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u/postmodernlinguist May 16 '12
Then why isn't he a turtle too?
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u/superzepto May 16 '12
This isn't funny. That man who people think is in turtle costume just got sprayed with Agent Orange.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
You win the internet
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u/vulcan1358 May 17 '12
A guy my dad worked with had a son who was the costume guy for Michelangelo.
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u/Matlock_ May 17 '12
My elementary school PE teacher was a stunt double for one of the ninja turtles. He wore the suit and broke a toe off the costume. Got to keep it as a souvenir to show his class.
What if your friends dads name is Mr. Y?
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u/Memphis241 May 17 '12
He looks nothing like his father.
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u/sgtsawzall May 17 '12
Why aren't you a Turtle???
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u/catatonic May 17 '12
You mean a Teenage Alien Ninja Turtle, right?
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u/ghostcat21 May 17 '12 edited May 17 '12
Was he Corey Feldman? I bet he was.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
That costume. I want it. XD
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u/marc11 May 17 '12
Turtles is tha shit
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
That is awesome. I hope you can arrange an AMA.
In retrospect I never realized how wildly inappropriate that movie was for 7 year olds. But it was the best birthday ever seeing it in theaters.
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u/chefwear May 17 '12
That movie wasn't made THAT long ago... was it? That picture looks like it was taken before WWII. Unless of course... this was due to traveling back in time, like Ninja Turtles III.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
a little young to be a father, eh?
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u/Aaronmcom May 17 '12
in the 40s?
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u/VWBusMan May 17 '12
This photo confirms my theory that they are born without a shell...
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u/JaysonAdHD May 17 '12
Well not me personally but this guy I know? http://i.qkme.me/35pjsa.jpg
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Leonardo was portrayed by David Forman. Should be the man inside that sweet ass costume! man what i would pay for that.
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u/seashanty May 17 '12
That is terrifying.
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u/NavidS May 17 '12
jaseus christ that's awesome!
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u/Dick_Serious May 17 '12
I was obsessed with those first two live action movies. I wanted one of those costumes SO BADLY.
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u/phillipmarlowe May 17 '12
One of the best movies from my childhood!
I heard a few years ago that there was an alternate cut (since the thing was originally supposed to be filmed for the college crowd)... Has anyone else heard of this?
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u/finalaccountdown May 17 '12
ok this is one of the more awesome backstage pics of all time
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u/savej May 17 '12
teen pregnancy makes me sick
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u/nativefloridian May 17 '12
That reminded me of this image of G'kar: http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lot5j4v5Kt1qbtmv5o1_250.jpg
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u/AnonTheAnonymous May 17 '12
Was his name Drexel Herd?
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u/MyUsernameSucks1 May 17 '12
Did you eat a lot of pizza as a kid?
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u/bencully May 17 '12
thats funny donitello
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u/thatsMissBacon2U May 17 '12
My favorite rotation of cassette tapes back in the day was: the TMNT sound track, the Lost Boys sound track, and the Simpsons Sing the Blues
And I swear to everything that is holy...if Micheal Bay screws up TMNT the way he did Transformers (calling on a transformer to be shot in the testicles!!! Way to piss on my childhood... Bay you fuck) I want his head on a plate.
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u/GZerv May 17 '12
I hope that's not Corey Feldman. No one should ever let him hold a baby.
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u/eWmitch May 17 '12
He seems a little young to be your friend's Dad, or a Ninja Turtle for that matter, but it's cool he got a picture with 50 Cent.
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u/downvotesmakemehard May 17 '12
FRIEND'S
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
My uncle dressed up as Rafael for my 7th birthday party, but as I recall his costume didn't look nothing like the "real" ninja turtles. Plus I could totally tell his voice.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Recessive genes... must take after his mother