TMNT Turtle Van Complete 1987 Fred Wolf Series Animation History Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Update

Update 1 - This is almost the exact same video as the original, but now it has information from the Season 2 episode The Incredible Shrinking Turtles. Some how I missed it when I was writing up this tome on the Turtle Van. Sorry for the mix up.
In this video I discuss the Turtle Vans incredible animated history in the 1987 Fred Wolf Series. There was so much to cover! I discuss all of the battles, the interiors different styles, everytime the roof blasters and the side door blasters were used, everytime Donatello turned the van into a different type of vehicle and a lot lot more. If you like really long videos this one is for you!

[@razrentals8897]

Update 2 in progress. If anybody thinks of anything I missed please let me know and I’ll add it to the video and release a 2nd update within the next few weeks. Special thanks to Michael O’Mahony for letting me know April drove the van in the season 1 episode Shredder and Splintered. I always remember her driving the News Van in that episode, but he’s 100% correct. This info will be added in update 2. Update 3 I just found another use of the Turtle Launcher. It happens so quickly I must have skimmed right past it! In the episode Michelangelo Meets Bugman Again April is about to fall off of the Conspicuous Consumption Shopping Mall and the turtle van shows up really quick. Leonardo launches out of the top of the van to save April. The launcher is similar to the one seen in Whats Michelangelo good for and Donatello’s Bad Time where it’s just the segment of the roof instead of the whole roof cracking open.

[@MarkVersion1]

another update or does update 2 now includes the toy review?

[@razrentals8897]

@@MarkVersion1 maybe I’ll release them both together at the same time. Give myself some time for anyone else to give me any new info if I missed anything else.

[@MarkVersion1]

@@razrentals8897 you're one of the hardworking youtubers. I do hope you get more subscribers for your work.

[@toyboxnostalgia]

"UTLE" lmao 1:15:39 😂😂😂 What a FANTASTIC video, as always, Gary! 🎉 Thank you for making this!!!

[@razrentals8897]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@PLASTK_pizza]

Ah yes, the Directors Cut! 🤙

[@privateprivate31337]

An update? Guess I'll need to watch it again

[@razrentals8897]

Haha, not much of one! I just had to add info about the episode “the incredible shrinking turtles”. I skipped it some how.

[@ANIMUS97]

Wow, just as you said, I had this playing in the background while working. The 3 hours just flew by 😄 Thanks Garry 👍

[@razrentals8897]

Glad I could help!

[@leodenverrex3819]

I listened to it repeatedly all day!

[@countryman6412]

Same , dude since watching these videos it reignited my turtle hunt ❤

[@razrentals8897]

That’s awesome!

[@topherowlish]

This video is one of your greatest achievements in information yet! Truly fantastic video, Gary! Looking forward to seeing how long the actual toy review is!

[@countryman6412]

Same🤙🤙

[@razrentals8897]

Thank you! I’ve been working on the toy review, but got a little sidetracked.

[@NeonSupernovaUPW]

Stellar work, Raz!

[@razrentals8897]

Thank you!

[@anthony88ization]

I watched the first upload. Watching this one to the new stuff

[@razrentals8897]

There’s only one new added bit. The info about The Incredible Shrinking Turtles. Everything else is exactly the same.

[@anthony88ization]

@@razrentals8897 in Raz we trust. Can’t wait for the part 2

[@Turtle_titan775]

Love all the details you put in ur videos ur awsome man keep up the good work

[@razrentals8897]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@Jeffs008]

As usual, you did a great job! Thanks for putting this together 🎉

[@razrentals8897]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@user-wn2km7bf7v]

Hi Raz, awesome video. Sorry to be a pain. You forgot Season 1 Episode 5 Shredder and Splintered. At the beginning of the episode, Donatello gives April the key to the turtle van. Later April, Vernon and the news team are with the van outside Channel 6. Vernon says 'Gun it April', I think the only time Vernon shows insubordination to Burne. Next you see April doing some bad ass driving. Finally they stop and get out of the turtle van next to Giant Krang

[@razrentals8897]

Hey thanks for commenting! Trust me you’re not being a pain at all! Letting me know is very helpful. I’ll add the info to the video as soon as possible and release Update 2. For some reason I always remembered her driving the van in that episode. I want this thing to be as complete as can be so thank you for letting me know!

[@Symphonia30]

Been a long time since your last video, there has been some great turtles updates lately

[@razrentals8897]

There’s been a ton of new stuff being announced every other day. I don’t know how I’ll be able to keep up with all of it haha.

[@HelmetCowboy]

This was great and super informative! Also listened to this while working haha

[@razrentals8897]

Haha awesome! I use to listen to Avgn videos while I would work on artwork for people.

[@seanbeckett4019]

I'm playing it in the background now 👍😁💥

[@razrentals8897]

Awesome!

[@rinrio-oki3665]

Excellent video. I myself need to carve out some free time and just sit myself down and “really” watch the Red Sky episodes. I scrub through the RS and European Vacation episodes on high speed, only as a final desperate look, when I can’t find a reference source of a NECA item in the earlier seasons. Since, scrubbing is at high speed, I don’t know what’s really going on story wise, but will stop if it seems interesting. That Red Sky episode where the Turtles use Kraig’s Android Body as a Kaiju Mecha was interesting enough to slow down and have a watch, and surprisingly, it was a pretty descent episode with Dreg absorbing the attributes of other mutants, and really trying to cause harm. I thought it was a level of seriousness the previous seasons never reached outside of the pilot episodes and a few gems from seasons 6 and 7. Well, anyway, keep up the good work. Anticipating part 2 of NECA’s Van review. Overall, I think they’ve locked themselves out of some serious geek cash by some of the Van’s design choices they’ve made. Noting how the wheels alone are stuck behind glued in hubcaps is a big let down. Who wouldn't want a DeLorean-style hover like Van upgrade? They could’ve of further rode our wallets with s Snow Job, submarine, or speed boat upgrade accessory packs too. We all would’ve paid. Boo NECA! Boo! lol! ✌️

[@razrentals8897]

It’ll be interesting to see what they eventually put out as an accessory for the van. It’ll be difficult to add any major altering device to the van. How could they do the catapult? Who knows but I think you were right about the ice cream truck disguise. What program do you use to scrub the cartoon?

[@rinrio-oki3665]

@@razrentals8897 Hey, Raz ✌️. Yeah, still can’t believe they glued so many things down on it. I’m diligently plugging away at a reasonable workaround myself. So, if things work out, I plan to have a set of multiple upgraded vehicles. I tore the entire thing down to figure out what they got in store for us, which is very little. What they should’ve done was give us a basic core chassis to upgrade. Since, they didn’t do that, figured I’d have to make my own. Just finished my first core when you wrote me a few hours ago… Deciding what upgrades I want to make… Scrubbing to me means just watching a video on a faster speed to save me time. I’m usually short on time, or I have a pile of videos I want to watch, so I just set the playback speed usually to 1.5 x normal playback speed through KZbin’s playback settings. Most of us can understand what a person is saying faster than that person can actually form a sentence in real-time, so I tweak the speed setting up a little. For me, my grasping of the concepts being spoken by that person begins to tap out at 2x normal speed, so if that person’s normal talking speed is already fast, then 2x is too fast for me to understand everything that’s being said … So, it’s the actual iphone KZbin App I’m using, while watching through my phone device. Now, note, I’ve noticed that different devices may make the playback sound like high pitched chipmunk speak, so I don’t scrub playback through our older living room TV, or the fridge TV, because I think the YT app on those devices are outdated or somehow blocked from being upgraded somehow. So, to me, your videos are perfect at 1.5 x. Perfect pitch, perfect pauses, perfect inflections, which all sound understandable at that faster speed for me. Since, I watched the main ‘87 Turtle episodes sooooooo many times, I set the playback speed to 2x, to help get through the episodes twice as fast, if I’m just looking for an image of an Easter Egg. The key also here is: Easy access. I have all the 200+ ‘87 episodes, the 3 movies, Turtles Forever, TMNT x Batman, and Fred Wolf Space Usagi’s pilot all stored in the cloud for free, through the Google Drive app across 13 different free accounts that Google allows you to chain together through Drive. You can quickly jump in between the linked accounts, and while there search for a specific title of a episode by just typing a few key words, like ‘hot’ for the episode “Too Hot to Handle”. I can’t remember everything, so when I do my screen grabs I like to make sure I have the scrub bar show the exact playback time from the episode, and I usually take a picture of the episode title name, crop that, and merge both pictures together through a free online picture merger called IMGonline. I also use these free iphone apps: - PhotoShop Mix - To stitch together more precisely those longer panoramic shots. - iMovie - Amazing powerful free app to edit videos. I’m attempting a video clip repository in the cloud of every toon object NECA has given us. I’m also trying to amp up the community’s specific interest in the toon line, so NECA will keep the focus on everything toon. I usually read comments that say they don’t remember this character, or that this person was only in one episode, which might lead people to tap out and abandon the toon line altogether, but if I show them a short super cut between 30 sec to a min, then they’ll have some tangible history with the character and be Toon lifers like you and I. I don’t like paying for any online subscriptions, but Adobe’s online AI fill generator, named Adobe Firefly, is worth the $5 bucks a month. So, for our large panoramic shots of maybe a city scape, there might be blacked out areas because of old school screen aspect ratio or whatever, but Firefly will fill that area with believable alternatives in seconds. The online app is freaking incredible, Bruh. For example: The appearance of REX-1’s girlfriend, REX-Anne, never shows what her legs look like. As long as you crop an empty area where her legs would be, and use FF’s Text to generate some robot legs, it’s a wrap! You can take a picture of the purple theme bricks from the newest movie and generate an entire screen’s worth, used to make wrapping paper, or as a templet for a 3D diorama wall. They’ve saved me so much creative time, and it seems the technology is getting better as time goes by… I know I’ve dropped a lot on you, friend, but have you had a chance to guess all the Easter Eggs on the foam top board of Donnie’s Lab yet? I got everything except two. Top left hand corner there are pieces of paper. I haven’t found the paper with purple and green writing on it yet, or the location of that specific banana peel…

[@3drage]

It was about hour 2:45 when I remembered there's a toy review somewhere in here.

[@razrentals8897]

Ha, unfortunately it’s not in here it has its own separate video. 5 hours of turtle van stuff I think I may have lost it.

[@yashik]

Have you ever considered in future to make similar video about animated 1987 turtle blimp?

[@razrentals8897]

Yes! I’ve been thinking about it and looking into my reference a bit. Theres not nearly as much stuff as the van, but it’d be cool just to put it all together.

[@michaelduron152]

Hey man how are u neca toon pizza club raph comes with a pizza dough face what episode is that from? I cant remember for the life of me?

[@razrentals8897]

Hey sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Things have been a little hectic here over the past few weeks. At the moment I have two examples of the pizza dough on their faces, but neither have mouths. There’s a shot of Raph with dough on his face, but only his eyes are cut out in the episode Beyond the Donatello nebula. There’s also a shot I know of where Mikey has dough on his face, but no eyes and no mouth. That’s in welcome back polarisoids. Hope that helps. I need to look over my stuff some more.

[@michaelduron152]

Undefined flying leo

[@michaelduron152]

Raph throws it n it lands on mikeys head lol

[@razrentals8897]

@@michaelduron152 thanks! I just had a friend on Facebook tell me that too haha. I need to get back in the swing of things. I just had to have my computer fixed so I just got access to my files. I need to start compiling something together for these new releases

[@dawwe8869]

Eyy

[@therock212006]

Zzzz way too long. Would have been better if you showed the van.

[@Jacobisrael805]

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