Chasing Turtles

In Memory of James Avery

1945-2013

Isaac calls in the family (or we could just call him Reuben, since that’s his name…) to help him build a life-sized sewer access pipe in his dad’s workshop, where he shows more of the skills we need when taking on a project like this with such a tiny crew. There’s a good chance he did his own craft services on this shoot too. Watch through to the end and get a good look at the killer shot we’ve put into the title sequence. it gave Cousin Curt chills!

Elias Derby brings the Turtle Power crew into his unbelievable TMNT collection – toys, figures, food, art and more. It’s not surprising to find out that Elias has been setting up his own museum, because when we visited him in 2009, it was already very much underway. Enjoy a look at just some of his trove of turtle treasures.

The relationship between The Jim Henson Company and the TMNT was crucial to the success of the first movie, and in this teaser we go back to some of our earliest interviews and show just a hint of the awesome, never-before-seen footage we’ve managed to find. Old school Hollywood fans might know the Henson studio is Charlie Chaplin’s original studio, and this interview with Brian took place in what once was Chaplin’s office. It was amazing to be there, and all three of these interviews went deep into the process of bringing the turtles to life.

Comic Con 2012 finally sees the Turtle Power crew catch up with Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai and learn a bit about his relationship with our favourite mutant ninjas. It also presented us with an amazing walk-on cameo from a legend in another field of entertainment. Check it out!

In this episode, join the documentary crew in a snippet of an interview captured in Kevin’s garage in March 2009 as we watched him work. It will surprise nobody that, just after this, we all got pizza…

Isaac makes a crazy same-day round-trip to Nashville to catch up with actress Judith Hoag, best known to TMNT fans as the first Turtle movie’s April O’Neill and gets a little known piece of history that surprised us all.

The Turtle Power crew catches up with some famous faces who entered the entertainment industry the hard way – in turtle costumes.With Ben Garant and Michael Ian Black

The latest Chasing Turtles takes you way back to 2009 and into the offices at Mirage, where we were lucky to have Peter Laird sketch his favourite turtle and give us a mini-lesson on duo shade paper and its role in TMNT history.

We can finally show you some footage from our July 2012 peek inside the secret bunker at the heart of Playmates Toys where V.P. of Product Development Ray Geiman gave us a sneak preview of some upcoming TMNT figures and more. Don’t worry, there’s plenty more to see from that visit, but you’ll have to wait until the film is complete…