{"id":45965,"date":"2025-11-27T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45965"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:23:01","slug":"tmnt-armaggon-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/tmnt-armaggon-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"TMNT: Armaggon addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we've said before, when Playmates opted to license the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/i> for toys, they swiftly recognized that having only four characters would not a good toyline make, so they solicited more ideas from Mirage. That's how we got Bebop and Rocksteady<\/a> for instance, and even the most famous version<\/a> of Baxter Stockman. But not every idea made it.<\/p>\n

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Peter Laird submitted an idea for a mutant shark, which Playmates flatly rejected. Years later, Stephen Murphy (who had a history<\/a> of salvaging discarded ideas) was introducing a shark character in TMNT Adventures<\/i> and opted to use Pete's design, with a name cribbed from a typo in some unknown Kevin Eastman project (it was supposed to say \"armageddon\"). He even got Laird to draw the cover of TMNT Adventures<\/i> #44<\/a>, which prominently featured the character.<\/p>\n

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Armaggon proved to be a fairly popular villain in the comics, meaning that if Playmates had turned the pitch into a toy when it was submitted, that probably would have been fairly popular, too. Instead, it took three more decades<\/a> for him to finally get to be plastic.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>