Raph on Ice!

 Took the fam to see "The Greatest Showman" in the Park last night! The girls sang along and we got TMNT ice pops from the ice cream truck. Solid evening!!!

Easter 2022!

 HAPPY EASTER!!!

Old Cookie

 Just thought I'd show off this TMNT Easter cookie that I decorated 10 years ago!

Santa's On His Way!

 My cookie for Santa has been frosted and I must say, it's pretty radical!

ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!

 Which do you think I will choose?

Blue Bunny Wrapper

 Guess who's laminating again?

Turtles at Pizza Hut

I was hyped for this movie! I didn't care for the redesign of the TMNT, but I was optimistic that the story would make up for that. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the movie. By far not my favorite, but not my most hated. Plus it gave us some tasty Pizza Hut pizza options!

Old Festive Candy

Decided to clean out some of the cabinets in the kitchen this past weekend and stumbled on these TMNT Christmas candies from the days of yore...or 2014!

It Came From The Attic: Part I

 Ninja Turtles Fair Prize

Well, here we go again! Staying with my Mom at my childhood home for a few weeks brought back a ton of memories and nostalgia, but looking through all the totes of stuff I own that have been stored in her attic really kicked those feelings into high gear. Today I will share a few of these items I have saved for decades with you. Like this cheap but AWESOME prize came from the New Jersey State Fair in the early 90s. Sure it's a cheap piece of particle board with a paper frame, but it's got an AMAZING picture of my favorite boys in green, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it and I earned it by popping a bunch of balloons with darts. Such an wonderful award for such an astounding achievement.

Farley's Ninja Turtles Fruit Snacks Package

Holy CRAP! I am so glad that I kept this. We had fruit snacks in our lunches almost every day. Super Mario, Zelda, Shark Bites and even Michael Jordan, but nothing could top the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Sure, they still make TMNT themed fruit snacks today, but they just don't seem to taste as good as they did back when I was 11 years old!

Cookie TMNT!

My wife and son made these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cookies while I was at work yesterday. My son greeted me when I got home with a Leonardo! They were pretty good!

Slumber Party!!!!

I'll bring the Pizza-Crunchabungas! What are you bringing?

Ninja Turtles Pie Cards!

Every Turtle fan knows about the existence of the legendary Hostess teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pies! They were released in 1991 and were pies covered in a Ooze green frosting and filled with vanilla pudding. These were delicious and if you pulled one of these out of your lunch box, you were the envy of every kid in the cafeteria. Having the Turtles endorse these pies was a huge selling point, but let's not forget the inclusion of stickers and trading cards inside each pie wrapper. I had some of these growing and just recently purchased these sets on ebay to add to my TMNT collection. Let's take a look!

These Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze cards were actually the second offering from Hostess in their pies. There were 5 cards in this set and the backs of all the cards had the same message promoting the release of the new movie. The cool thing about these cards though, was the fact that they were made out of plastic! They did this because the cards were packed with the pies and cardboard would have been destroyed if it was left in there.

These stickers were the original offering from Hostess in their TMNT pies. There were 5 in total in this set. One sticker for each of the Turtles and a fifth sticker showing all 4 Turtles together. The artwork on these was a modified version of the wrapper art on the pies. Hostess just replaced the pies in the Turtles hands with their weapon of choice. If you look at the Mikey sticker he can be seen still chewing on one of the delicious confections!

I honestly have no idea where these hologram cards came from. I know they were not inserted into the Turtle pies as a premium, but they have the same exact artwork as the TMNT pies stickers! There were only 4 of these holograms produced. One for each Turtle, the group shot was left out of this collection. Please excuse the scratches on these scans. The holders they were in really showed some wear during the scanning process. Overall though, these are pretty cool! Now let's take a minute and reflect on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pies by watching the commercial below.

Why has Hostess not brought these back yet? It's time for them to return fresh from the sewers to you!

Get your ice cream here!

Tis the season for ice cream trucks!!! Had a Ninja Turtle last night and it was AWESOME!

Cookie Time!

Oh hell yes! I know what I'm doing with the kids tomorrow! TURTLE FACE COOKIES!

Ninja Turtle Ice Pops!

This past week I organized the second of four Cookouts that my job puts on as a fundraiser for our local American Cancer Society. Each year we raise approximately $5,000 for the cause, but this year I was looking for a way to earn some extra donations when my wife stumbled onto the Facebook page of a local woman who runs an ice cream truck! I checked out her page and saw she had done some previous ACS events and looked at her pictures. I saw this...

She had Ninja Turtles, Sonic The Hedgehog, Batman and Minions ice cream pops available! I immediately messaged her and we were able to have the ice cream truck show up for the latest Cookout and she agreed to donate a portion of what she made to the American Cancer Society!

I was so excited to indulge in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ice cream bar! I had not had one of these in decades! Mikey was cherry flavored sherbet with gumball eyes. Holding this really took me back to when I was a kid and my Dad would let us get some ice cream at the local general store. It was the same general store that was used as a filming location in the original Friday The 13th film!

More often than not myself and my brother would choose a Good Humor Fat Frog bar.

These things were amazing! They were made of green colored vanilla ice cream with candy eyes. I'm pretty sure they disappeared from freezers in the mid to late 80s. After that I would enjoy a Choco Taco, Bubble O'Bill, Flintstones Push Up or Strawberry Shortcake bar from the local ice cream truck.

So finally I was happy to have that feeling again of being a little kid in the summer holding an ice pop shaped like one of my favorite cartoon characters. On a side note the ice cream truck owner donated half of what she made to the American Cancer Society! Very generous of her! Now in honor of ice cream peddlers everywhere, let's take a look at a classic commercial!