{"product_id":"vintage-1990-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-donatello-movie-pin-🐢-tmnt-the-movie-pinback-button","title":"Vintage 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Donatello Movie Pin 🐢 — TMNT The Movie Pinback Button","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRemember Donatello in the 1990 TMNT Movie? 💜 Donatello, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, 1990\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 1\/2\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUhK6m0MfIM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eVintage 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie pin with Donatello! Donnie, in his purple mask, is leaning out the window of a red truck and reaching out toward you, with TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES® in green and THE MOVIE in red across the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back is a shiny steel shell with a pin, and the fine print runs around the rim: BUTTON-UP 2011 AUSTIN TROY, MI 48083, the button maker in Troy, Michigan, and ©1990 NORTHSHORE INVESTMENTS LIMITED\/ MIRAGE STUDIOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🐢 Donatello\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the movie Donatello was the smart one. Leif Tilden wore the suit, Corey Feldman did the voice, and David Rudman worked his face by remote control, while Ernie Reyes Jr. did Donnie's stunts in the suit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🎬 The 1990 Movie\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the mid-1980s, Roger Corman pitched Eastman and Laird a live-action movie that would have starred Sam Kinison, Gallagher, Bobcat Goldthwait and Billy Crystal as the Turtles, in green makeup. Thankfully, that is not the one that got made. The real movie was produced by Golden Harvest and shot from July to September 1989 in North Carolina and New York City. Most of the big studios passed on it, and New Line Cinema, a small independent company back then, picked it up halfway through production. Steve Barron directed it from a script by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck, with Judith Hoag as the reporter April O'Neil and Elias Koteas as the vigilante Casey Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Turtle suits came out of Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London, built in 18 weeks, and Henson said they were the most advanced creatures he had ever worked with. It was one of his last projects before he died, shortly after the premiere. The movie opened on March 30, 1990, made $202 million on a $14 million budget, and was the highest-grossing independent film up to that time. The copyright on the first two films was held by Northshore Investments, and that is the name you will find on the back of this button. Look closely at the movie and you can spot a young Sam Rockwell as one of the Foot Clan thugs, and Kevin Eastman himself in a cameo as a garbage man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🐢 How Four Turtles Started as a Joke\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKevin Eastman and Peter Laird were two young comic artists sharing a place in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1983. One night that November, Eastman drew a masked turtle standing on its hind legs with nunchucks, just to make Laird laugh, and Laird wrote \"teenage mutant\" over it. The idea poked fun at the big comics of the day: the teenagers of the New Teen Titans, the mutants of the X-Men and the ninjas of Daredevil, with a little Howard the Duck thrown in. They thought about giving the turtles Japanese names and went with Italian Renaissance artists instead, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, which Laird said \"felt just quirky enough to fit the concept.\" Even Splinter was a joke on Daredevil's teacher, Stick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn March 1984 they started Mirage Studios in their home, paid for the first printing with a tax refund and a loan from Eastman's uncle, and ran an ad in the Comics Buyer's Guide. All 3,000 copies sold in a few weeks. In 1987 they licensed the Turtles to Playmates Toys, an animated series came along that same year to sell the figures, and it ran for almost a decade. About $1.1 billion worth of Turtles toys sold between 1988 and 1992, and by 1990 there was a Turtle on just about everything a kid could own, buttons included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🍕 Cowabunga\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePin it on a jean jacket, a backpack or a hat the way we did in 1990, or frame it in a shadow box with the rest of your Turtles stuff. The cartoon's theme song summed him up in three words, \"Donatello does machines,\" and he was the brainy brother who built the gadgets and thought his way out of trouble. 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