It's so crazy how the costumes still look 100x better than the new movie cgi

I kind of love this type of puppets and technology more than what we do today.

these turtles look way waaaaaaaay better then that cgi crap... These actually look and come across as the cartoon ones

Ninja Turtles are the greatest thing ever

Still the best suits and best look of the turtles!!

I remember being a kid and having this on VHS. I also remember being very upset when it broke as I tended to rewind a lot as a kid. lol I always liked seeing behind the scenes footage.

Should have used these turtles for the new flicks, I loved them as a kid, kids today would have gone nuts.

haha he remembers drawing them one night when he felt "a little silly" = reefer

I wish the new turtles were small instead of being gigantic behemoths.

And i still have my vhs of the ninja turtles movies as a kid this bring back memories

All this art and experience down the drain... thank you CGI.

O my God, this is so 90's its radical...

Yes, bring back the practical effects n costumes!

Wow the robot puppets that's cool

I thought they were real until I saw this. Great. Another part of my childhood is gone.

My brother used to have a fan book of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which had info about the first Nintendo game and first motion picture. The description behind the scenes of the first motion picture told me that puppeteering the Turtles felt similar to playing a Nintendo game. (1:32 explains what that meant!)

just watched all 3 movies and i still laughed my ass off at mikey

Best costumes ever.

Vanilla Ice wasn't a group, he was a single person.

Jim Henson’s creature shop is still better than CGI

i like how they use to take time making the movie the costumes the casting and not stupied CGI Crap.They look real enough then the 2014 one.

I like the ninja turtles and Donatello is my favourite turtle!!!

No amount of CGI can beat these costumes

I remember having one book about the TMNT phenomenon. The description about the first TMNT movie described how puppeteering the turtles felt similar to playing a video game. 1:18 shows exactly what that felt like!

This video makes you enjoy the work on the costumes and puppetry unlike the Making of video of Coming Out of Their Shells which does nothing but lie to you.

I grew up with the turtles, and i enjoyed watching them as a kid. Unlike many other showas from back then, this is one of the series that gets worse and wors the older i am, and yet they try to sell it as if it was the number one show of all times.

tHATS insane they were able to make em look so real for back in the day

Boss-A-Nova...... Umm Chevy Nova?.... Excellent!!!!!!

i wish they kept using those turtles and never deviated from them. miss those turtles

@SourPix i actually own all tutles comics, so i will answer.. In one of the comics, the turtles went to a dimension where they were forced to figh in a martial arts tournament, and they were given outfits for the tournament, and Raphael was the only turtle that kept the outfit throughout some editions of the comics.. Raphaels costume was all black, like a ninja.. thats why he kept it, so he could hide in the shadows..

Because it's his entire entourage appearing with him. His DJ Earthquake and his dancers Hi-Tec, E-Rock and Juice.

I grew up on turtles! Salute 💯💪...my son is 5 and loves them.this will never be forgotten

That's why these turtles are awesome!

Man I love how cheesy and 80's this behind the scenes look is. I love being a turtle man those kid where so epic lol! DFTBA

NICE MAKING OF TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES SECRET OF THE OOZE II !!!!

it's funny you say that because he indeed was the pizza guy from the first film as well as Michaelangelo (guy in turtle suit)

This version of the turtles is my favorite, why they dont used the same turtles for the 2014 movie?

So that's how, those heads and eyes was moved. The body was a suit on actors, but without turtle heads. But the head was part of mechanic. That ofcourse, the old and hard trick for 90 years. But in 2014-2016, the technology become more easier and cool.

1:18 - That puppeter sure looked like he had fun puppeteering Donny!

Great Movie! This takes me back when I was a little kid.

Imagine if Steve Barron (TMNT I), Michael Pressman (TMNT II) and Stuart Gillard (TMNT III) saw the original TMNT Cartoon and saw the Ninja Turtles looks just before filming any of the TMNT Live Action films here including this one. They will be thinking before the first days of the filming, when they see the straps on Donatello and Leonardo's ninja belts with the strap attached, they will deliberately request to cut off the straps and make their ninja appropriate instead because all these directors may want the turtles to look like the ones in the original TMNT cartoon. I remember people in my country complained over the straps joining Don & Leo's ninja belts during the airings of the 3 TMNT Live Action Films between 1999 and 2001 for those who watched the original TMNT cartoon here.

I miss my childhood teenage ninja turtels

I remember everyone listed to Vanilla Ice in the 90s. So they can't say they hated him when they listened and liked his music. The only reason they it that now is because one person influenced the idea to hate him. He was better than the back street boys.

I love behind the scenes videos!

little kid at end- "I LOVE BEING A DOIRDLE!"

1:50 The Dominoes Guy from the first movie!!!

Watching this brings me way way back:)💝

WoW Dude U2!!! those were the good ol days

I had this on vhs

Raymond Chow (Enter the Dragon) was the executive producer of the first film.

that was some nice footage, and we also witness the death of vanilla ice's career, it's WIN WIN

Dude, I never knew this was just high-tech sock-puppetry.

i love it

I love these two movies.

What makes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movies so enjoyable to watch? Especially when it involved the animatronic puppeteering by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. So much effort poured in the making of the first and second ones. Too bad Jim Henson wasn't around to see the second film's release, which was why it was dedicated to his memory.

R.i.p. jim Henderson

hahaha "one of the hottest rap groups in America... VANILLA ICE!!"

WAAAY BETTER

That kid at the end eventually grew up to become the kid featured on the news with a blank expression, zombie facepaint and saying, "I like tuwtles." :-|

2:29 --- "All the teenage wise CRACK that kids all around the world have come to love". No wonder. LOL

That thumbnail is priceless.

COWAAAAAAAAA--oh my God, it totally does.

Goddamn. Stop being so fucking adorable, Paige.

I can't believe this was so long ago

when l was kid l had the three movies of tmnt of the 80s to 90s in VHS and my friend julio cibrian recorded me this movies in english

The funny thing is, CGI didn't kill animatronics...the Producers and Directors who DEMANDED CGI did. You ought to blame them before blaming animation houses over it.

"Watching bad tv and feeling really silly". Translation- high af

@chacragirl that is a good question. it's from the Archie comics, based off the cartoon but went it's own canon after following 1 season of the show. Raph wears his wrestling costume, a full black body suit. on the pin-up picture he's taken off the face and overall part of the suit. probably due to the warm weather in the issue it was featured in.

True that. She always been my favorite April.

awesome

HAHA! Props to the kid that said "Calabunga!" I used think that's how it was pronounced back in the day too. Years later I realized after seeing how it was spelt, that it was actually pronounced "Cowabunga". I'm glad I wasn't the only one!

Vanilla ice is not a group vanilla ice is only one person.

Interestingly, Kevin Eastman is also the guy behind the Heavy Metal magazines that started in the 1970s.

Holy crap! Mark Caso was two characters in TMNT 2. Besides Leonardo, he was the co-worker in April's department who told her Donnie was on the line.

I just laughed when i heard him say "One of the hottest rap groups in america, VANILLA ICE". oh you 90s... you were so high.

They have to do a new Turtles Movie with this Technology and Jim Henson Puppetry! And they gotta put Krang as an Animatronic in it! ..would be so awesome!

This video is missing one thing. - The 'I like turtles' kid.

@chacragirl it's from the archies comics which depict the turtles in weird situations. they fight aliens, take part in the wwe, get lost on an island, etc.

I used to have this set of Military Ninja Turtles, where each branch of the Military was represented by a different turtle. I had Donatello in a ghille suit! They were my favorite and I wish I knew what happened to them.

My childhood is gone! DX

That was so cool

1:48. Nice human mask, Raph!

omg the first one 'the best'? of COURSE it is. Not only is the first Turtles movie good, it's one of the best comic book movies ever made. Splinter's scenes are fucking phenomenal, especially when he speaks to Raphael about controlling his anger. That first Turtles movie is what made my childhood. MADE it. And of course Batman with Keaton. That movie was the shit too. The moment when Batman broke through the glass on the roof was beyond epic....It changed my persona.

I have and love this VHS. :D

@chacragirl That's from the Archie line called TMNT Adventures... If I recall the continuity, the black pants were part of an all black costume that Raph had picked up on some alien planet. I can't recall why he was only wearing the pants at this time, but perhaps he was hot on the high seas and wanted to air off.

Ahhh this video Oozes the 80s and my childhood haha

The pizza dude in the first one was Michelangelo. So it was Michelangelo vs Michelangelo. LOL

I missed your Mensa Jim Henson

The karate trainer pat johnson also worked on the karate kid. a bit of trivia for u kiddies.

Best living communication (of me)(for all).

Still better than CGI

holy crap i remember watching this when i was like 6

I bet kids that saw the footage of a severed turtle's head being controlled by a puppeteer most likely resulted in years of therapy.

They create a new song called, The Ninja Rap *RANDOM INTERRUPTION* "All of their ninja skills, are relatively the same.." *back to topic* The ninja rap is performed..

1:35 ITS THE I LIKE TURTLES KIDS DAD!!!

Yeah...a little too Raph.

he was! in the early 90s, looking forward, vanilla ice was no joke.

imagine watching this as a kid, do you know how traumatizing and confusing this would be

" By one of the hottest rap groups in america, Vanilla Ice !" *chuckles to herself*

i’d watch these guys more then what Michael Bay made earlier... but i do love the first cgi movie coz it’s cartoony still & has it’s charms... wait i thought Vanilla ice was just the guy.. (that’s not his stage name? then why’s the movie called vanilla ice if the “groups” not in it?..).. & idk how popular he was then but the movie probably brought him down.