Look up Michelle Ivey, she owns two of the turtle heads and a few other props from various films, She is quite possibly the biggest tmnt fan of all time. She was on "totally obsessed" a long time ago, but I met her at a con last year and she said she still owns all the stuff. So theres a little more info for ya :)
This is heartbreaking given the sheer artistry that went into these films. The suits looked real. As a kid, there’s no way anyone could tell me that they weren’t real. They looked so good that they appeared in the now infamous Barbera Walters interview where Donatello’s costume had a tear duct issue, where Donatello starts crying and huge amounts of water come out of his mask. That being said, the stunt men were amazing, given how they fought, and backflipped, in suits that weighed close to 45 pounds or more, with metallic gears in the face, without proper ventilation at all. The quality of the practical suits in the first 2 films is up there with the animatronic dinosaurs in the first Jurassic Park. The first movie is still great even now.
The stuntmen didn't do the flips and stuff in the full-featured suits. There were multiple versions of the suits used in different circumstances; when they were doing athletic stunts, they didn't have the gears for controlling the faces because there was no need to encumber the performers or risk damaging the components. The stunt performers were still impressive, just not as inhuman as they'd have to be to perform those stunts with the full rigs.
@@jawbone78 Thanks! That’s definitely good to know. There’s a basic reason why that never really crossed my mind the way it would with other animatronic heavy films though. As a kid, my Dad, God rest his amazing soul, took me to see the Coming Out Of Our Shells Turtle’s Tour. Despite the far less impressive costumes than the impeccable ones seen in the film, there were parts of the show where they had animatronic mouth movements leading directly in to short fight scenes. Despite being pretty heavy, those Turtles Tour costumes were definitely lighter all around too.
That look on their faces is called adulthood. It is the face of going from "pizza time" to one slice of thin crust. It is going from yelling "cawabunga" while reaching for your skateboard to yelling "help, i've fallen and I can't get up" while reaching for your life alert. It happens to the best of us.
I tried to make one years ago but never got past sculpting and the sculpt got damaged on a move. www.deviantart.com/eledoremassis02/art/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle-Michelangelo-283716727
Its kind of sad that they didn't preserve those suits and they just let them disintegrate. TMNT 1 and 2 were like me and my brother's favorite movies as kids.
There really isnt much you can do to preserve them, the material the suits were made of decomposes from age. Keeping them out of the sunlight helps but the reality is the original suits were not built to last any longer it took them to film the movie.
Disney World used to have the turtles as meet and greet characters back around the time MGM Studios first opened, so 1989-ish, maybe a little after. They were more cartoony looking but it would be interesting to see how they're holding up as they'll be around the same age.
Reuse them in a TMNT zombies movie. Kinda like Marvel has a zombies universe. The turtles could be aware of what they have become, but slaves to their hunger for flesh :P
Yeah it would be awesome for only in the hands of TMNT NECA Scalpers that will sell them on Ebay by combining the cost of the replica suits with the cost of the Gold Nintendo World Championship Cartridge. We will all get the chance to find and afford Neca TMNT, when they release The Tmnt 3 movie figures that everyone hates😕
Seems really strange that a studio would let all their suits fall apart. You'd imagine that a lot of the original suits would be locked in a hermetically sealed vault somewhere.
I agree, but at the time, the Turtles were a major cash cow. The movies were a cash grab and I can't imagine that anyone back then would've thought the IP would have the longevity it's seen. I believe that if the powers that be had anticipated said longevity, the suits would have been preserved and done tours around all the major puppet museum circuits.
@@monetstallion9363the first movie was anything but a cash grab. You can tell there was passion and actual care adapting the comics and keeping elements of the cartoon.
@RATTLEHEAD oh I didn't mean cash grab in a "throw it together" kind of way. I meant it in a "wow, we can't believe what a juggernaut this is, so let's strike while the iron is hot" way. The first two movies were the best, IMHO. Had Jim Henson not passed away when he had, I believe the third movie would have been much more... visually appealing.
I miss the look of the 1990's turtles. They seemed to get it right, as far as I'm concerned. Not sure what they were trying to do with the Michael Bay versions, but they just...do not work.
Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo look like they have just been sitting in the attic for a little to long. But Leonardo looks like he has been through a vacuum cleaner and back.
When these went viral. I have to think they were sitting in a closet for nearly 30 years, and the person who rediscovered them jumped back in terror. They should have been put into a pop culture museum. #TMNTforever
These guys were my heros as a child (and still are today to be honest lol) I'd definitely love to own a full suit as a statue in my home someday. I had no idea the suits were made out of a material that would shrink and crack so badly. Thanks for the video!
@@yanx007 I thought that was modern day, I mean Ghost busters was great until the "remake", Judge Dredd was a classic, their working on a new Matrix reboot...like who tf asked for that? Just saying, I think modern day is worse for milking franchises, JP World 2 anyone?
@@coronaman-9478 Yeah, didn't think that through, but you knew what I meant....and if you didn't, I'll make it easier on you. Jurassic Park>Jurassic World.
I don't think folks appreciate tmnt from back in the day it was one of the only cartoons/movies that created characters look exactly like their real world design
Cursed images? No way. It is extremely interesting to see how these things have held up. It's also sort of morbid, what was once a moving figure is now a lifeless corpse, blank stares in the eyes with stale smiles. Thank you for showing this. I really enjoyed it!
Unfortunately, Ralph’s suit looks like an autopsy! Very creepy! Although, before the restorations, we could have used the suits for an awesome TMNT Zombie movie. At least Donnie’s suit. If I’m not mistaken, he was the one that was killed in one of the comics. That would have been cool.
Man, once again you've tapped into my brain! For my entire life I've been fascinated by these suits. I've searched for images like these sooo often with little luck. This was great!!
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Poor Leonardo. He looks like the last frame on those side by side mugshots that show how crack deteriorates a person.
That Raphael suit does look like it's from "Secret of the Ooze", but it's missing the slice marks on his shell from that movie. I always assumed those were there to reflect the abuse he took in the first film.
I remember as a kid finding a video here on TH-cam about an extreme Ninja Turtles fan who had tons of merch and other Stuff she had bought. If I remember correctly, she had bought one or two of the costume heads from the movies.
Zombie Raphael in the thumbnail after rising from the sewer grave: "heeeey, what's a guy gotta do, to get some BRAAAAINS around here?!" (Proceeds to attack and eat random New Yorkers)
I think its so cool some of these costumes were restored to their former glory and they look absolutely stunning. These costumes should be in a museum for fans and the world to look at for years to come. I know that some people might not agree with me and thats fine, this is not a knock on those that are in private hands. Thank for sharing the photos and information on these TMNT costumes.
It's so cool that these were actual costumes worn by actors rather than all CGI like we get today. It's pretty scary what they look like now after 25+ years, but hopefully they can be fully restored to their original glory.
@@sdot6939 i agree, and they did real choreographed awesome martial arts scenes, they'd NEVER do something like that today, would love a sequel to the first movie with the original April...maybe like the Turtles come back after hibernating for yearrs to the modern world? Would be so fun if they took the approach of the classic movie...
I feel like there could be a nice blend of both. Have the actors wearing full body suits like the original, but then CG the heads on. It would give the turtles much more expressive faces and facial capturing could expedite animation.
Pure 90s philosophy: let's make trailers better than movies and milk movie franchises to the ground without any care for the public. So don't expect to preserve anything. That was the 90s.
My sister used to watch all of the TMNT movies in are living room. I had a nightmare of them getting killed in a beige alleyway in daylight. 2 got killed by being shot down by SWAT one died jumping head first into a TV. The last one jump into barbed wire and got up and said where's my skin and he turned and looked directly at me breathing heavily and then I woke up in the middle of the night I was still scared shitless because I could still hear the breathing and then I realized it was me.
REALLY makes me rethink the whole 5 Nights at Freddy’s being a scary thing now! I don’t know maybe because I am a fan, but you would think if anything the costumes from the first movie would have been saved or keep somewhere in display in good shape.
the histroy of these costumes need to be restored and cared for properly and im glad to see people have been starting to take care of them it would be so cool to see one of these are still existing
It looks like they were trying to make a TMNT zombie apocalypse movie with the 1990's movie turtles returning from the grave as undead brain pizza eaters. It's not surprising that Leo didn't sell at auction, I mean who would want that horrifying thing in their home? I don't think that he can be restored now, sad as it is that foam rubber material wasn't made to last forever and he wasn't maintained all this time (obviously), so he has deteriorated beyond the point of salvation. Sorry old friend but I'm afraid we can't save you. * sniff * 😢 The other suits don't look as bad and it's nice to see that someone has gone to the trouble to restore at least two of them, it's just ashame that most of them have been left to rot. Raph's head is cracking open for Christ's sake! Somebody do something already!
Maybe, although it is so possible that someone could restore it if they have the right tools and skills for it. I wonder what happened to the next mutation suits.
I remember seeing a video about the batsuit from the 1989 Batman movie. It was falling apart after so many years, but was painstakingly restored to its former glory.
Yeah, as someone who works with a lot of materials, it makes sense. Those suits were meant to be (fairly) lightweight and last only about as long as the filming. Even then, they were a sweaty nightmare to wear because of the insulation properties of sponge foam and latex, and they needed constant repairs between takes. You could build a much better and breathable AND long lasting suit now if they did that for practical effects on a new Turtles movie. They won’t-because CGI has come so far and Batman is one of few characters that still wears a bulky suit...but it would look amazing on camera if they applied Jurassic Park (1) type special effects to a new Turtles movie.
If I was a producer of these movies, I would never let that amazing suits rot somewhere. These suits are a product of hard work and talent. I know it's not cheap to keep these suits intact, but given the amount of money that movies earned to heir producers because of these suits they definitely deserve better.
I actually saw these suits with my secondary school class (around the time of the film's release) at London's _Museum of The Moving Image._ I have a vague memory of one of the girls on the bus home/the next day, clutching a thin _swatch_ of painted foamed rubber that she had torn off one of the hand gloves (to my quiet disgust), saying it smelled of "really eggy farts".
Literally makes me sad that these productions don’t save them properly and restore them once every couple years... at least Warner Bros restores their old bat suits so they always look new
Hollywood please remake these old suits and put actors in them and make that a live action film for 2020 with some CGI and instead of rebooting it rather tell more turtle adventures from the comics both the 80s and the current IDW run please!!!
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Look up Michelle Ivey, she owns two of the turtle heads and a few other props from various films, She is quite possibly the biggest tmnt fan of all time. She was on "totally obsessed" a long time ago, but I met her at a con last year and she said she still owns all the stuff. So theres a little more info for ya :)
They need to CGI those TMNT costume designs and they would look ten times better, and use those CGI designs on a future live action TMNT movie
@@SuperLuigi97 or... just make new suits!
Where's the nightmare fuel you keep talking about? I'm confused.
This is quite morbid and disturbing for me. My inner child who watched the cartoons and movies on VHS shuttered
As much as I love that movie, I couldn't have those suits in my house, It'll be like having your old friend's corpse standing around
Lol, that's gonna be so creepy.
Yeah seeing them in that state is heartbreaking and is pretty much nughtmare fuel.
A true bro keeps their bro’s corpse
Imagine one night they came to life in that state :O lol
@@APRICEPRODUCTION like a fnaf type, be one hell of a horror movie lol
I don't even want to know what Splinter looks like
Especially from the 3rd one. Yeesh!
Lol, i wonder if the tail remains at least.
Ah, the rat. It has a name.
seatspud 😂
Ughhhh Imagine going into an old basement and stumbling upon a giant ass zombie looking rat! PTSD
I hate seeing movie stars ruined by drugs
😂
Yeah me too 😔
@@sjdaley hey he was making a joke so you get wooshed
@@sjdaley boi-
Underrated
Jesus, that Leonardo suit looks like an unearthed, permafrosted corpse.
It might be just me but of all the suits that's the one I want
That was the *creepiest* shit I ever saw!!!😱😱😱
@@denkikaminari3975 youre sick
@@dgavinin 😃
It is.
This is heartbreaking given the sheer artistry that went into these films. The suits looked real. As a kid, there’s no way anyone could tell me that they weren’t real. They looked so good that they appeared in the now infamous Barbera Walters interview where Donatello’s costume had a tear duct issue, where Donatello starts crying and huge amounts of water come out of his mask. That being said, the stunt men were amazing, given how they fought, and backflipped, in suits that weighed close to 45 pounds or more, with metallic gears in the face, without proper ventilation at all.
The quality of the practical suits in the first 2 films is up there with the animatronic dinosaurs in the first Jurassic Park. The first movie is still great even now.
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The stuntmen didn't do the flips and stuff in the full-featured suits. There were multiple versions of the suits used in different circumstances; when they were doing athletic stunts, they didn't have the gears for controlling the faces because there was no need to encumber the performers or risk damaging the components. The stunt performers were still impressive, just not as inhuman as they'd have to be to perform those stunts with the full rigs.
@@jawbone78 Thanks! That’s definitely good to know. There’s a basic reason why that never really crossed my mind the way it would with other animatronic heavy films though. As a kid, my Dad, God rest his amazing soul, took me to see the Coming Out Of Our Shells Turtle’s Tour. Despite the far less impressive costumes than the impeccable ones seen in the film, there were parts of the show where they had animatronic mouth movements leading directly in to short fight scenes. Despite being pretty heavy, those Turtles Tour costumes were definitely lighter all around too.
Looks like the turtles passed away and they are trying to preserve the bodies....😬😬😬
They look like lenin's old preserved corpse.
this like if splinter saw his sons died and decided to keep them because he misses them ew
@@ucitymetalhead
At least Lenin still looks good.
@@samuraijackoff5354 yeah he really doesn't loom that hot when you get a peek behind the scenes. Ask a mortician did a good video on him.
This looks horrible, my childhood heroes look dead and decaying here. 😥
Joshua A just like us. We are getting old and dying
@@itypethetruthnobshere8975 no, we ain't 😭
JUST LIKE MY HOPES AND DREAMS
Godzilla fans:First time?
just order a neca nijaturtles 90's design and you'll see your youth getting back 😁
Splinter: "Look what they've done to my boys...."
@@Dragzilla66 Work with me here. XD
@@Dragzilla66 We know, but I couldn't help quoting another meme - ironically from a movie I never saw
They have began to biodegrate.
th-cam.com/video/88iR8myLjQw/w-d-xo.html thank me later
What happened to the Splinter animatronics?
Leonardo’s crack addiction left him a shell of his old self
Lol
He had a shell of a time though.
😂😂
Heyoo!!!
Ba-dum-tsh
That look on their faces is called adulthood. It is the face of going from "pizza time" to one slice of thin crust. It is going from yelling "cawabunga" while reaching for your skateboard to yelling "help, i've fallen and I can't get up" while reaching for your life alert. It happens to the best of us.
The turltles would be very good friends with tobey's Spider-Man.
Lmfaoo, the "I've fallen and I can't get up bit" made me wheeze. If you know, you know.
I want to see someone recreate them just like the way they did but with better material of today.
@MUDDHORN REPLICAS i seen replicas base on the movie but to me something off idk if you compare them side by side.
Do you have Instagram? I know an account that makes amazing replicas of these suits. Look up PSGprops
@@steelstreet3765 look up PSGprops on Instagram
@MUDDHORN REPLICAS 🤙🤙
I tried to make one years ago but never got past sculpting and the sculpt got damaged on a move. www.deviantart.com/eledoremassis02/art/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle-Michelangelo-283716727
Its kind of sad that they didn't preserve those suits and they just let them disintegrate. TMNT 1 and 2 were like me and my brother's favorite movies as kids.
If the TMNT movies were made in the 80s, they would've preserved it.
Few studios preserve props. Most film props are disposed of, regardless of the following they have later.
@@ScooterinAB Its still sad
There really isnt much you can do to preserve them, the material the suits were made of decomposes from age. Keeping them out of the sunlight helps but the reality is the original suits were not built to last any longer it took them to film the movie.
@@Full_Otto_Bismarck Thats a fine point. Perfect replicas made of more durable material would be awesome to see then.
Never did my 8 year old self think I'd be seeing this 30 years later...
Kept you waiting huh...?
No kidding right?
Definitely a reminder that we are all getting older.
@@MrHalo087 please dont remind me lmao.
@@PNW5ohTREE what's the problem? I find getting older comes with more respect because people dont look at you as a inexperienced ignorant kid
3 brothers are rotting out while Mikey is living his life with his "cowabunga it is" meme merch and pillows
*The Last Ronin Intensives*
imagine seeing those costumes in a haunted house.
I never thought the ninja turtles could look so dead and broken inside
You obviously never watched the Coming out of their shells tour.....
@@sassytroy8282 Oh trust me, I did ._.
@Mireya Rodriguez, yeah 2020's been a rough year for everyone apparently.
I assume you've never seen the Michael Bay adaptations?
@@thesexybatman263 I've seen everything 👌🏼
The Shredder did it. He defeated the turtles... And now left their dead bodies to rot. Damn.
Too bad they lost they never lose well frist time for everything I guess RIP 90s turtles gone but not forgotten.
No
It was that dam stomach brain freak Krang..ill seek revenge for my fallen turtle brothers!...
NOOOOO WHYY
Dude we have to get shredder back for this.!!😤😠☹️
TMNT getting ready for a Five Nights at Freddy’s crossover.
I basically said the same thing and I just noticed ur comment u beat me to it
Lol I just noticed ur name red foreman from that 70s show
Yeah Five Nights at Jim Henson's
@@jtdolla2002 Pretty much.
Exactly lmao.
Disney World used to have the turtles as meet and greet characters back around the time MGM Studios first opened, so 1989-ish, maybe a little after. They were more cartoony looking but it would be interesting to see how they're holding up as they'll be around the same age.
When TMNT2 came out.. tmnt1 was out on VHS for only $4.99.... mind blowing... 30 years later, still considered the best Turtles movie
That Leo suit really needs to make an appearance in "The Walking Dead."
Yep
"Its the last place its been seen."
So... he escaped????
That's why he could only find a bit on information about Mikey costumes, they all went for pizza.
@@Boltscrap The ones that are left, at least.
Try to not think about that when going to sleep.
@Spoods Noodle Doodles Oh god no...
hey he's a party dude! lol
You should’ve done that backwards. Starting with Mikey, who there wasn’t much of, and ended with Leo, which was the only one TRULY terrifying!
That’s the problem with latexes. Eventually everything disintegrates.
*Insert Thanos quote
Reuse them in a TMNT zombies movie. Kinda like Marvel has a zombies universe. The turtles could be aware of what they have become, but slaves to their hunger for flesh :P
Did someone say Marvel?
NECA should release a movie Zombie version of the Turtles as a tribute to the way the latex suits look now. 🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♂️🧟♀️
I fear the suits would fall apart during the filming.
Forget it, you would never be able to pre-order one lol
Yeah it would be awesome for only in the hands of TMNT NECA Scalpers that will sell them on Ebay by combining the cost of the replica suits with the cost of the Gold Nintendo World Championship Cartridge. We will all get the chance to find and afford Neca TMNT, when they release The Tmnt 3 movie figures that everyone hates😕
@@fernandoguajardo2750 🤣🤣🤣
I was gonna say they totally do look like Zombie Turtles.
It went from a beloved children's movie to five nights at Freddies 😲
Ikr
Would be a neat movie style...
Lol
Freddy's its a name so it get 's instead of ies
@Existance Untold No it's not
Seems really strange that a studio would let all their suits fall apart. You'd imagine that a lot of the original suits would be locked in a hermetically sealed vault somewhere.
Just look at what Disney did to a lot of the Power Rangers monster suits before moving to New Zealand
I agree, but at the time, the Turtles were a major cash cow. The movies were a cash grab and I can't imagine that anyone back then would've thought the IP would have the longevity it's seen. I believe that if the powers that be had anticipated said longevity, the suits would have been preserved and done tours around all the major puppet museum circuits.
@@monetstallion9363the first movie was anything but a cash grab. You can tell there was passion and actual care adapting the comics and keeping elements of the cartoon.
@RATTLEHEAD oh I didn't mean cash grab in a "throw it together" kind of way. I meant it in a "wow, we can't believe what a juggernaut this is, so let's strike while the iron is hot" way. The first two movies were the best, IMHO. Had Jim Henson not passed away when he had, I believe the third movie would have been much more... visually appealing.
@@larrychilders6599 just look what Fox did Rito
I miss the look of the 1990's turtles. They seemed to get it right, as far as I'm concerned. Not sure what they were trying to do with the Michael Bay versions, but they just...do not work.
Absolutely agree. But its with a lot of movies, the SGI versions have no soul
Michael Bay ruins everything
@@ryankibler7973🚫 *MIKEY BAY!!* 🚫
🦹♂️ _...here to ruin your day..._ ⛔
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Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo look like they have just been sitting in the attic for a little to long. But Leonardo looks like he has been through a vacuum cleaner and back.
I’m gonna have nightmares of waking up to that decomposing Leonardo suit sitting crosslegged in the chair across from my bed.
Personally, I’ll love to own Shredders suit. That thing was insane.
The Shredder!?
Hmm... Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw
You're probably talking about the first movie, but what about TMNT 2? Having that multi-bladed helmet or the Super Shredder costume would be cool too.
so you can cosplay as him
When these went viral. I have to think they were sitting in a closet for nearly 30 years, and the person who rediscovered them jumped back in terror. They should have been put into a pop culture museum. #TMNTforever
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@@FLCollection620 But yet, not the first to make that silly comment. 😁
This is like finding “well preserved” mummies.
These guys were my heros as a child (and still are today to be honest lol) I'd definitely love to own a full suit as a statue in my home someday. I had no idea the suits were made out of a material that would shrink and crack so badly. Thanks for the video!
The turtle at 2:50 is owned by Dan Lanigan. He is the host of the Disney+ series Prop Culture, and that turtle suit can be seen in the series's intro.
Well this was depressing. Not so bothered about the third movie ones lol.
I don't care about it either. Besides, the 90s were all about milking movies franchises to the ground.
@@yanx007 I thought that was modern day, I mean Ghost busters was great until the "remake", Judge Dredd was a classic, their working on a new Matrix reboot...like who tf asked for that? Just saying, I think modern day is worse for milking franchises, JP World 2 anyone?
@@matilija I didn’t know Jurassic park world was a movie
@@coronaman-9478 Yeah, didn't think that through, but you knew what I meant....and if you didn't, I'll make it easier on you. Jurassic Park>Jurassic World.
Damn. My childhood is ruined. You’re telling me that they weren’t actually turtles?
That's right, but they were teenage mutant ninjas.
I hope this is a joke
stop. right. now. no.
They are turtles.
No, they were teenage mutant ninja tortoises
I don't think folks appreciate tmnt from back in the day it was one of the only cartoons/movies that created characters look exactly like their real world design
Its like we were given a look inside a morgue at the mutilated corpses of the ninja turtles
Even your halo pic looks better than the turtles
Craig you made infinite crash with your Windows XP texttures
It's like "Körperwelten / Body Worlds" but with the Turtles.
That Raphael is definitely from Secret of the Ooze.
Jup. The spots on his head are way more subtle than in part 3.
Cursed images? No way. It is extremely interesting to see how these things have held up. It's also sort of morbid, what was once a moving figure is now a lifeless corpse, blank stares in the eyes with stale smiles. Thank you for showing this. I really enjoyed it!
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It happens to everything in the universe. Even the very elements will decay and become lifeless one day.
It just hit me that that turtles wore masks so people wouldn’t recognize their identities.... the only 4 mutant turtles in NYC....
They also wore trench coats and hats to further disguise themselves. The mask were there to further help.
Damn. It. All... L. O. L.....
Unfortunately, Ralph’s suit looks like an autopsy! Very creepy! Although, before the restorations, we could have used the suits for an awesome TMNT Zombie movie. At least Donnie’s suit. If I’m not mistaken, he was the one that was killed in one of the comics. That would have been cool.
Man, once again you've tapped into my brain! For my entire life I've been fascinated by these suits. I've searched for images like these sooo often with little luck. This was great!!
Poor Leonardo. He looks like the last frame on those side by side mugshots that show how crack deteriorates a person.
3:29 - I love him trying to hold back his laughter as he says "souls were sucked out of their bodies..."
a THROUGH THEIR BUTTS!
That Raphael suit does look like it's from "Secret of the Ooze", but it's missing the slice marks on his shell from that movie. I always assumed those were there to reflect the abuse he took in the first film.
I remember as a kid finding a video here on TH-cam about an extreme Ninja Turtles fan who had tons of merch and other Stuff she had bought. If I remember correctly, she had bought one or two of the costume heads from the movies.
Zombie Raphael in the thumbnail after rising from the sewer grave: "heeeey, what's a guy gotta do, to get some BRAAAAINS around here?!" (Proceeds to attack and eat random New Yorkers)
Large pizza with extra brains, Times ticking dude!
A million times yes
@@anthonytuccillo6274
122 ⅛...
122 ⅛???
Now where the hell is 122 ⅛???
@@Menaceblue3 Your standin on it dude....
🤣🤣🤣 HILARIOUS!
Man I feel the actors who had put on these costumes should’ve been allowed to keep them.
Lol why would they want them?
@@thebignacho why not?
Those suits must be stuffed of líces now 😕😁
Wdym the actors are turtles
Donnie’s stunt double for 2 and 3 kept his head from 2 and uses it in his comedy sketches now.
A TMNT Movie or Series revolving around Zombie Mutants would be pretty awesome to see.
I love these movies! So much better than the recent one’s!
So basically we could get a "turtle reunion" of the third movie.
I think its so cool some of these costumes were restored to their former glory and they look absolutely stunning. These costumes should be in a museum for fans and the world to look at for years to come. I know that some people might not agree with me and thats fine, this is not a knock on those that are in private hands. Thank for sharing the photos and information on these TMNT costumes.
It's so cool that these were actual costumes worn by actors rather than all CGI like we get today. It's pretty scary what they look like now after 25+ years, but hopefully they can be fully restored to their original glory.
Well not like the cgi would look good if they used it
I think robotics look great. It's a shame animatronics aren't used much in todays movies.
I know a guy who has a "Coming Out of Their Shells Tour" Suit, and he just started restoring the mechanics in the head.
Leo's a zombie and Mikey looks like he's been cursed with an unquenchable bloodlust.
What would be crazy creepy is if the suits got up and start moving around by themselves?!
You gotta wonder how The actors who were the suits for the actual movie feel seeing what these look like today...
they don't care about it
They're probably scared now...
I remember as a kid learning about actors in a suit playing as the turtles. I was slightly depressed because I wanted them to be real. haha
Shang Tsung: *YOUR SOUL IS MINE!*
lol
Flawless.......... victory
Fatality!
TH-cam algorithm: wanna see the turtle suits that scared you as a kid now?
Me: sure
I actually saw TMNT 3 in a theater when it was released. I was 10 years old and it was the VERY FIRST movie I saw in theaters.
The suits we're the best they should bring them back!! CGI just does not cut it!!
the 1990 turtles looked so real
@@sdot6939 No. They certainly did not...
@@sdot6939 i agree, and they did real choreographed awesome martial arts scenes, they'd NEVER do something like that today, would love a sequel to the first movie with the original April...maybe like the Turtles come back after hibernating for yearrs to the modern world? Would be so fun if they took the approach of the classic movie...
I feel like there could be a nice blend of both. Have the actors wearing full body suits like the original, but then CG the heads on. It would give the turtles much more expressive faces and facial capturing could expedite animation.
Agreed. Till this day I still prefer the 90s suits over CGI
Sadly Henson’s studios rarely preserve anything! They usually rip all the props they keep to reuse for part for other projects!
Pure 90s philosophy: let's make trailers better than movies and milk movie franchises to the ground without any care for the public. So don't expect to preserve anything. That was the 90s.
Cannot believe it has been thirty years already. I saw this movie several times in the theatre and I was 28. Man, I feel old.
My sister used to watch all of the TMNT movies in are living room. I had a nightmare of them getting killed in a beige alleyway in daylight. 2 got killed by being shot down by SWAT one died jumping head first into a TV. The last one jump into barbed wire and got up and said where's my skin and he turned and looked directly at me breathing heavily and then I woke up in the middle of the night I was still scared shitless because I could still hear the breathing and then I realized it was me.
Not sure why but I laughed my ass off at that. I used to have nightmares about Grimace, that purple bastard from McDonald’s commercials. I can relate.
@@thomasloveless4800 If you were a kid in the 70’s, that fear could make sense since Grimace actually used to be a bad guy.
REALLY makes me rethink the whole 5 Nights at Freddy’s being a scary thing now! I don’t know maybe because I am a fan, but you would think if anything the costumes from the first movie would have been saved or keep somewhere in display in good shape.
Who the hell writes "5 Nights at Freddy's" instead of Five Nights at Freddy's or FNaF? That's just odd...
Balloon Boy Yes! These are the questions that keep us up at night! OH and I am on to you! You just want my batteries!!! 😒 I see your game!
Imagine still playing or talking about fnaf in 2020 lmao shit is dead.🤣🤣
@@kekety7273 No is not is more alive than you research better instead of talking crap dumb kid
@@maxie2670 it's dead get over it weaboo.
didn't that crazy lady in my strange addiction buy the Michelangelo suit from PT 3
I remember cowabungacorners she also had leo
the histroy of these costumes need to be restored and cared for properly and im glad to see people have been starting to take care of them it would be so cool to see one of these are still existing
Wow it's been 30 years since the the first TMNT movie came out hard to believe.
Damn, Donatello looks like how he did in the beginning of TMNT: Urban Legends
Lmao
The Donatello head looks more like the design of the original comics, with a longer face. Interesting.
exactly what i was thinking too
4:01 Is that barney and hulk's son??!
🤣
It looks like they were trying to make a TMNT zombie apocalypse movie with the 1990's movie turtles returning from the grave as undead brain pizza eaters. It's not surprising that Leo didn't sell at auction, I mean who would want that horrifying thing in their home? I don't think that he can be restored now, sad as it is that foam rubber material wasn't made to last forever and he wasn't maintained all this time (obviously), so he has deteriorated beyond the point of salvation. Sorry old friend but I'm afraid we can't save you. * sniff * 😢
The other suits don't look as bad and it's nice to see that someone has gone to the trouble to restore at least two of them, it's just ashame that most of them have been left to rot. Raph's head is cracking open for Christ's sake! Somebody do something already!
Maybe, although it is so possible that someone could restore it if they have the right tools and skills for it. I wonder what happened to the next mutation suits.
I love the implication that Mickey escaped
I remember seeing a video about the batsuit from the 1989 Batman movie. It was falling apart after so many years, but was painstakingly restored to its former glory.
This looks like “The Walking Dead” TMNT edition.😱
This was fascinating! I see what you mean with their creepy gaze! Like Shao Khan stole their souls! 😱😱😱😱
Heartbreaking to see them so "dead"
Ikr
If someone digs up the TMNT suits they probably wouldn't even know what they are.
I never thought I'd see these suits look scarier than the cgi turtles from Michael Bay's movies.
Yeah, as someone who works with a lot of materials, it makes sense. Those suits were meant to be (fairly) lightweight and last only about as long as the filming. Even then, they were a sweaty nightmare to wear because of the insulation properties of sponge foam and latex, and they needed constant repairs between takes. You could build a much better and breathable AND long lasting suit now if they did that for practical effects on a new Turtles movie. They won’t-because CGI has come so far and Batman is one of few characters that still wears a bulky suit...but it would look amazing on camera if they applied Jurassic Park (1) type special effects to a new Turtles movie.
It’s cool to see how far we’ve come in practical Affects since the 90s and even early 80s
A lot of memories about TMNT 1, 2 movies and my childhood came back to my mind with these images of these dead and rotten turtles :(
If I was a producer of these movies, I would never let that amazing suits rot somewhere. These suits are a product of hard work and talent. I know it's not cheap to keep these suits intact, but given the amount of money that movies earned to heir producers because of these suits they definitely deserve better.
I wish they made a whole new remake of TMNT. Loved watching this in my childhood.
Leo's is still the most horrifying.....Seeing my favorite turtle in such a state is reeeeeeeeally messing me up inside. X_X
I'd be interested in knowing what happened with the Splinter puppets.
After this video, do you really wanna know?
@@jrob4795 hell nahhhhh
@@roijabz2937 Lol
These Turtle's suits look like Yoda from Empire strikes back!!
Probably similar materials, sadly...
I actually saw these suits with my secondary school class (around the time of the film's release) at London's _Museum of The Moving Image._
I have a vague memory of one of the girls on the bus home/the next day, clutching a thin _swatch_ of painted foamed rubber that she had torn off one of the hand gloves (to my quiet disgust), saying it smelled of "really eggy farts".
I wouldn't mind having all three but in better shape original condition.
TEHY ALL LOOK LIKE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS REJECTS OOOOH GOD
I remember years and years ago, on the old NinjaTurtles website, a picture was posted of a Mikey suit at Planet Hollywood.
Staring... into our soul....
Literally makes me sad that these productions don’t save them properly and restore them once every couple years... at least Warner Bros restores their old bat suits so they always look new
The suits where 100% scary then, and 110% scary now.
IMO anyway, I really don’t like puppet suits like those, always scary and uncanny valley for me.
@3:12 I was not expecting to see a turtle hanging himself with piano wire but here we are. That reveal was Doki Doki levels of shock.
I knew I wasn’t the only one that think he look like he hung himself
Hollywood please remake these old suits and put actors in them and make that a live action film for 2020 with some CGI and instead of rebooting it rather tell more turtle adventures from the comics both the 80s and the current IDW run please!!!