Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a quartet of, as the name suggests, mutated crime-fighting turtles. These heroes in a half-shell consist of:

• Leonardo
• Donatello
• Raphael
• Michelangelo

Fiction

Infestation 2

The world of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was one of many universes invaded by the Elder Gods. Infestation 2 #1

Toys

Collaborative

Likely the closest we can get to a Transformers answer to the Mario and Sonic at the Olympics series.

• Party Wallop (2024)

• Accessories: Raphael-based head, Donatello-based head, Leonardo-based head, Michelangelo based head, nunchucks, staff, katana, 2 sai
• Known designers: Amy Bence (packaging artist), Matthew Cohen (photography)

Collaborative Party Wallop transforms from the Turtles' Party Wagon into a 7-inch fall robot who can assume any of the four's likeness via its accessories, swappable heads, and rotating belt buckle.

Notes

• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have seen a handful of Transformers characters inspired by their likenesses, including some Unicron cultists featured in the Marvel Comic, and a few Nightbirds in Transformers: The Wreckers #1 wearing their bandanna colors.
• Though a true TMNT/Transformers crossover event has yet to happen, both franchises have had a surprising amount of production overlap. Some of the more notable instances of this include:
  • David Wise, one of The Transformers cartoon's most prolific writers, later went on to act as the 1987 TMNT animated series' head writer, writing and/or script-editing nearly all of the series' 193 episodes. As he tended to do, some of his TMNT scripts recycled elements (and even an entire episode plot in one instance) from his Transformers scripts.
  • Dreamwave Productions, riding high from the success of their various Transformers comics, acquired the comic license for TMNT in 2003 and put out a Peter David-written ongoing based on the concurrently-running animated series in June; however, it was suddenly cancelled (three guesses as to why) and ended in December with its seventh issue. IDW Publishing has held the license since 2011, and they came very close to having both franchises meet: Infestation 2 saw the Elder Gods invade the worlds of both Hearts of Steel and their own TMNT continuity, while the events of The X-Files: Conspiracy take place in a universe where the Ninja Turtles and the Hearts of Steel Transformers co-exist, though neither event saw one franchise actually interact with the other.
  • Michael Bay served as producer for the short-lived live-action duology released by Paramount Pictures (whose parent company, Paramount Global, has owned the TMNT franchise as a whole since 2009) under their Nickelodeon Movies banner. Megan Fox prominently featured in these movies as Turtles mainstay April o'Neil.
• The Turtles themselves are no strangers to Hasbro franchises, as they have crossed over with Power Rangers multiple times in the past.

External links

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Wikipedia