Introducing the 'Backlit TMNT 30th Anniversary NES'!

[Platinumfungi]

Very honored that both Andre of Black Nerd Comedy and Richard Usher from Partners in Kryme autographed the 'Backlit TMNT 30th Anniversary NES'. For those unfamiliar, Partners in Kryme is the band that did the legendary song 'TURTLE POWER' in the original 1990 TMNT movie.



Leonardo from TMNT Entertainment with the NES!
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** Just in time for the new movie release, we are proud to present the 'Backlit TMNT 30th Anniversary NES'. **

Weeks of planning, over 500 messages, 150+ man hours of labor, countless mockups and revisions, working all hours of the day and night, and a lot of love went into this tribute that honors the original black and white TMNT comic books.

This system is by far the most intricate and laborious art piece I have ever created. It is the grand culmination of my skills over the past 7 years of customizing video game systems.We pushed ourselves and our tools to the limit, but we succeeded in what we set out to do - create a one-of-a-kind piece of art that honors the heroes in a half shell.

The cut out design was all done by hand! Using extreme care not to accidentally break any of the tiny pieces, I worked for days to finely sand the edges by hand after it was rough cut out.

The backlit design in this particular system is actually a brand new prototype! Using a secret combination of materials and methods that I have developed over the years, it produces a rich color fully backlit design that works well with the 8 bit pixel art.

The paint is all professional automotive base coat clear coat system. Custom mixed colors with metallic added. All defects from the original 1985 molding process were block sanded out, all rough texture was sanded smooth, all scratches/gouges carefully inspected and sanded smooth, original bottom labels carefully preserved. The clear coat was color sanded and buffed just like you would do on a show car! Estimated 17 hours of work just for the painting, sanding, and buffing (that had to be done by hand).

The system even has custom Audio and Video port decals that match the color palette.

The icing on the cake is four controllers, each with the custom avatar of one of the turtles.

In the end, I hope that TMNT fans appreciate the weeks worth of work that went into this system and enjoy this truly one-of-a-kind design

All the best,
Platinumfungi

[Luke]

The game came out in 1988 or 1989, no?

[samsonlonghair]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themselves came out in 1984. Still, I see your point, Luke.

[ninjainspandex]

Should of made it green imo

[Luke]

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themselves came out in 1984. Still, I see your point, Luke.

Yeah, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I thought it was designed for the anniversary of the game. And that graphic, I believe, is from the gameboy game Fall of the Foot Clan and not from a NES game.

Still cool.

[Platinumfungi]

It's the 30th Anniversary of TMNT this year. They originally started as black and white comic books in 1984. All four of the turtles wore red in the comics. It wasn't until the cartoon adaptation that the four individual colors were created.

This NES system is just a fun tribute to the comics The pixel art is from TMNT III: The Manhattan Project for NES.

If you haven't already seen it, I actually did do a green 'Backlit' TMNT NES awhile back. So I wanted to do something unique and different.

Here's the other TMNT NES I designed and built. I had 'Custom NES Guy' paint it -

[ninjainspandex]

Now that is more like it!

$50 shipped?

[Gunstar Green]

I've never been a big turtles fan but that's really sexy work.

[EllertMichael]

Now that is more like it!

$50 shipped?

Wrong forum.

:keke:

[Xeogred]

Wow, those are awesome.

Reminds me of the custom Super Mario Bros / TMNT cakes I got when I was a kid, haha.