The big winner for "most leaks before New York Toy Fair" this year is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2014 movie, hands down. We pitched our
Turtle movie design descriptions at you after some retailers in parts unknown got a look. Then we got a peek at a horrible Rubie's Halloween costume that must have been received so badly, it was followed by some "official unofficial" leaks in an order which could only be seen as "official unofficial". We saw an intentionally small image showing the Turtles looking much like Turtles. The world breathed a sigh of relief as our report now had a visual to back it up. Then came a larger, far clearer image of Donatello, showing his thinner, techy look for the film. The world seemed to appreciate the differences. Last, we got a couple of angles on Shredder, who we mentioned had blades...EVERYWHERE..but still insisted on rocking a sleeveless outfit. That one went down...pretty much like we expected. The giant sized Meh was heard around the world. It wasn't until a banner popped up showing the Turtles with lips that the hate really began to spew onto the interwebs. We agree..lips on Turtles are silly...but not as silly as lips on giant robots. I'm looking at you movie Optimus Prime. Annnd that takes us to now, with UK Toy Fair in the bag and Nuremberg Toy Fair just having ended and once again, we look to our hero Thorsten for a report of that which we could not see...
