Eastman sold his share of the Turtles franchise to Laird in 2000. In 2009, Laird sold it to Viacom, now Paramount Global. The franchise has continued with new comic book series, television series, films and video games.

Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Joe” and “Transformers” before it, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” was created mainly to promote the various tie-in toys produced by Playmates, a company who also made action figures based on “Star Trek.” Even by those standards, the Turtles merchandise was enormously successful: Within the first four years of what came ...

Splinter was already a rat who learned Martial Arts before becoming a mutant by a traffic accident where some mutagen was spilled on him and the turtles.

And didn't have a real Studio. It was just a mirage they put out the comics independently through their own Mirage Studios. And created a worldwide phenomenon.

Another giant IP deal unfolded yesterday, as Viacom/Paramount/Nickelodeon acquired the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million.

Mirage Comics & 2003 cartoon In these continuities, Splinter and Hamato Yoshi are not the same person. Splinter is the pet rat of Yoshi and watched his keeper practice the martial arts, subconsciously memorizing Yoshi's techniques.

While the 1987 cartoon adaptation that rocketed the Turtles et al. to stardom took the horrifically dark turn of having Splinter be a human man mutated into a rat monster, the film remains true to the comic's origin story of Splinter having always been a rat, the beloved pet of the ninjitsu master Hamato Yoshi.

Shortly after losing his home, Splinter witnessed four pet turtle hatchlings being dropped by a young boy when a man tried to help a blind old man crossing the street about to get hit by a T.C.R.I. truck. The hatchlings consequently fell down a storm drain and were exposed to a mutagen flying out of the same truck.

Born of a radioactive accident, raised by a talking rat, and named for Renaissance painters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - cool-headed leader Leonardo, fun-loving Michelangelo (misspelled as “Michaelangelo” in early stories), bookish Donatello, and hot-tempered Raphael - delivered vigilante justice to the streets of ...

Originally, Splinter was a vengeance-consumed rat who gained human-level sentience through accidental mutation, and when he found the four mutant turtles, he didn't raise them with love as his adopted sons, he raised them to be killers.

While the 1987 cartoon adaptation that rocketed the Turtles et al. to stardom took the horrifically dark turn of having Splinter be a human man mutated into a rat monster, the film remains true to the comic's origin story of Splinter having always been a rat, the beloved pet of the ninjitsu master Hamato Yoshi.

Tom Holland - Michelangelo When it comes to the Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo is often considered the “baby of the group”, and though Tom Holland is anything but a baby, he does have that vulnerable, wide-eyed, and playful nature to him.

The Turtles and Batman share the same universe rather than different universes/realities as in the comic book miniseries, which removes said miniseries' plot point of the Turtles' desperate need to return to their own universe, as staying in the DC universe will end up killing them, because the mutagen that created ...

Since 1988, countless numbers of figures have been made, making TMNT one of the most successful toylines in history. Many of the earlier figures are highly desired by collectors now, so they fetch extremely high prices on the secondary market.

1988 TMNT Action Figures Being the inaugural bunch makes TMNT toys from 1988 particularly collectible. On top of that, things like being in the original packaging, never having been opened, or never having been punched with a hole to hang the toy packaging up with all contribute to higher values.