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Need help identifying TMNT episode
PeterAndCompany
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So over the holiday weekend, the wife and I head out to an antique store with my parents. Usually I just tag along not expecting to really come across anything; 95% of the items in these places are throwaway items. Particularly in the back corner of the store, in a half-lit room marked "As-Is," where all the broken/incomplete items get placed in a cluttered mess for people to sort through.
It was here, buried behind a bunch of magazines and sheet music books, that I came across this:
An original hand-painted production animation cel of April O'Neil from TMNT, circa 1987 or so. Sealed and stamped as an official release, this is NOT a reproduction: this is an actual piece of cel art used for the show. It was tagged at $125 with the certificate of authenticity, but since the certificate had apparently gone missing, they had tossed it into the back room and marked it down to $20.
The owner of the piece then said she'd sell it for $15, and would ship me the certificate once it turned up (she says it's in an envelope "mixed in with a pile of papers at home"). I didn't ask how she had come to acquire it, or why she didn't think it was worth that much. All I know is that I made off like a bandit on this one.
After getting it home, I rematted and reframed it (which is what you see in the picture -- unfortunately I got a bit of a reflection in the glass, but it's the best photo quality I could do). If you look close at it, you can see individual brush marks, a slight difference in color between the shadows and the lines they used to define where they would be placed, and points where the main colors overlapped the original lineart when painted over top. It's freaking amazing that I found a piece like this that had been literally tossed into a pile of trash.
My question now is for anyone who is a fellow TMNT fanatic, and who might have access to the DVD's or digital copies of the episodes: Do you know which episode this is from? I'm really curious to know which one this was used in.
It was here, buried behind a bunch of magazines and sheet music books, that I came across this:
An original hand-painted production animation cel of April O'Neil from TMNT, circa 1987 or so. Sealed and stamped as an official release, this is NOT a reproduction: this is an actual piece of cel art used for the show. It was tagged at $125 with the certificate of authenticity, but since the certificate had apparently gone missing, they had tossed it into the back room and marked it down to $20.
The owner of the piece then said she'd sell it for $15, and would ship me the certificate once it turned up (she says it's in an envelope "mixed in with a pile of papers at home"). I didn't ask how she had come to acquire it, or why she didn't think it was worth that much. All I know is that I made off like a bandit on this one.
After getting it home, I rematted and reframed it (which is what you see in the picture -- unfortunately I got a bit of a reflection in the glass, but it's the best photo quality I could do). If you look close at it, you can see individual brush marks, a slight difference in color between the shadows and the lines they used to define where they would be placed, and points where the main colors overlapped the original lineart when painted over top. It's freaking amazing that I found a piece like this that had been literally tossed into a pile of trash.
My question now is for anyone who is a fellow TMNT fanatic, and who might have access to the DVD's or digital copies of the episodes: Do you know which episode this is from? I'm really curious to know which one this was used in.
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