The Weird Story of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rock Band Tour
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Did you know that at the absolute height of their popularity the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a rock band and went on tour? The called it the "Coming Out of Their Shells" Tour and it traveled all over the US and even went international a little bit.
They released an album of songs that included "Count on Us", "Pizza Power" and "Cowabunga" that was sold in Pizza Hut.
And, of course, there was that stop at the Oprah Winfrey show.
This is the history of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Their Shells Tour
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I had the cassette from Pizza Hut and played it non-stop. Good times.
It is on CZcams. I did find a website a while back that you could download it from
My mom worked there, and brought it home to me, and I still listen to it on Tidal from time to time. :)
Me too, we stopped at pizzahut on a roadtrip and played it through three times that trip in between my dad's country/classic rock mix tapes.
I still do somewhere 💙
It went hard 😂😂😂
I’m so happy Splinter taught me the importance of skipping stones.
That was the best track on the album, and I still make references to it 😆
Do you know what I love most about this channel? It doesn’t condescendingly snark at things people are nostalgic for, it celebrates them and keeps the memories alive. 🙂
It always amused me that A.) Shredder sings a whole-ass song about how much he hates music, and B.) The song "Pizza Power" lived on as part of the second TMNT arcade game.
That's how I first heard of the song. I used to love going to the mall just to stand at the machine in the arcade and listen to it.
@@Owl_Space A flyin saucer to delight.
"she can't hold her breath long enough" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Somebody needs to take the quote "Reviews in 2024 don't affect ticket sales in 1990" and pin it directly onto the top of youtube. 😂
The Simpsons, Batman, and TMNT were crushing it in the 1990s. I am blessed to be part of Gen X and got to experience those huge events in pop culture history as a kid. Best toys, movies, TV shows, and video games ever! Kids these days missed out big time. You had to be there to know how huge those franchises were back then. Speaking of the Simpsons, they had a hit record called 'The Simpsons Sing the Blues' featuring such notable tracks as 'Do the Bartman' and 'Deep Trouble.' I'm surprised they didn't do their own live action concert tour.
That one had Homer singing If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all, right? I always felt that, even as a kid lol
@@itsagundam79 Yes, that song is titled 'Born Under a Bad Sign.' Definitely one my favorites.
I went to the Getting Down in Your Town Tour, Casey did not wear the mask the full time and looked a lot like the one in the movies, he was great and impressive in person. I saw the show four times, got back stage twice and even hung out with Casey when he'd come to pick on us in line. He spends a lot of the show down in the crowd (not shown in the video) and is a great guy. Found out the reason he wore his mask for the video (which is NO where near as good as it was seeing the show live at Six Flags), is because of Union reasons. In the live show he wore the mask only to run out on stage, the rest of the show he didn't have it on. I have a lot more information about the tours as I was a big fan back then and have followed through the years, even friends with some of the actors :)
When they appeared on Oprah to promote the tour, I think I died a little inside and grew up a little faster that day 😅
My Mom was an Pizza Hut area manager, so she brought home both the cassette and the VHS, and eventually a bunch of the in-store promo material (which I oddly still have in my garage). When the tour came through we were practically screaming with excitement in the backseat.
I wasn't able to watch any of the live shows, but I did catch the Pay-Per-View option. The "You Can Count On Us" chorus pops into my head almost any time I look at my figures. I was able to catch the He-Man Live show in the 80s.
One of Michael Ian Black's first jobs out of college was performing as one of the turtles. He said he had issued with his shoulders for years due to the weight of the costume.
It blew my mind to watch that documentary a few years back on TMNT and learn that MIB and Ben Garant were a part of it lol
I saw the "Coming Out of Their Shells" Tour live at the Mud Island Amphitheater in Memphis, TN. Ended up finding the cassette for it a few years later at a Dollar Tree of all places. Thanks for the walk down memory lane and reminding me how old I am.
Lol sane place I saw it
@@Necrowolf81 small world!
I had the VHS tape and tape cassette.
I loved them.
If this ever got re-released on DVD or Blu-ray i would happily pay to recapture a strong and happy memory from my childhood.
This was my first concert, I loved that song “count on us”. I never noticed the turtles weren’t in their shells as a kid. Thanks for the memories your channel is radical.
I also had never noticed the literal "Out of Their Shell" pun or whatever. I own this VHS and have watched it more than once as an adult. I feel stupid now, for many reasons.
I never noticed they weren't in their shells until today 😅
I'm glad I'm not the only one who claims this as my first concert. I too didn't notice they weren't in their shells...
BRO. This tour and album were THE SHIT in 1st grade. We did some special work in class just to watch the Behind the Scenes video-not the actual show-and we were STILL excited. I can't tell you how many tapes of this album I bought from Big Lots as a kid from playing them out. "Skipping Stones" is the best track on this album. Heavy nostalgia for this one!
"They're comin' out of their shells....!" *****guitar riff
I had this cassette tape and would rewind that song over and over again.
This is why I love when a Secret Galaxy episode drops on a Thursday. Finding out about stuff I never knew about and this is a perfect example. I never even knew this had happened and thanks to Secret Galaxy. I do now!
If you can you should listen to the album at least once, they really went for it back then and created a full range of songs from rock, rap, ballads etc...
😄👍
@@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269 Maybe one day. 😀
Didn't make it to the show, but I had the free comic book/pizza hut ad prequel that came in the newspaper!
I still have the audio cassette, and my best friend still has a working copy of the VHS. We actually showed it to some other friends recently, and it. Is. BAD.
Yeah, I almost (almost!) feel bad when I say that even at age 9, maybe 10?, when I got this on cassette, it made me, a die-hard turtle-head (yes that is totally a fine name to be called), cringe pretty hard
Splinter singing about Skipping stones is the greatest song ever made.
Better than Seagulls Stop it Now? Better than What Does the Fox Say? I'm going to have to look up this song.
Young me thought it sounded like Bruce Springsteen
@@itsagundam79It’s a great track, but the group that did What Does The Fox Say, Ylvis, is freaking incredible and deserves to be better known 😆
My friend saw them at Madison Square Garden. I never saw them but wore my cassette tape down to dust.
I unironically love this music and could rock out to those songs all day, much to my wife's chagrin.
Those tour turtle figures are the first TMNT figures I bought in decades and started me down the modern TMNT toy rabbit hole, ALSO much to my wife's chagrin 😅
I'm sure I remember hearing about this, but we never made it out to one of the shows though. the only song I DO know out of it was 'Pizza Power' only because Konami landed the rights to it for the attract mode to 'TMNT: Turtles in Time' which is actually still intact in the 'cowabunga collection' out now on consoles!
at 9 and 10 years old, I thought this was the goofiest thing in the world... and today I still do but it fascinates me how this happened and all the behind the scenes stuff.
I saw it live at 8 or 9 and it's the first time I remember being disappointed in media I was looking forward to. My biggest gripe: Shredder had a musical number about hating music. He should have just been a non-musical character.
Agreed, I was 10-11 at the time. Thought it was cheesy and lame.
This concert tour being on Oprah was the only time in my 38 years of life I watched her willingly.
Also I did a talent show with a brother andv2 friends in elementary school to one of these songs.
Also domino's passing on the stage play was interesting as they were in the movie, the delivery guy being one of the turtles suit actors, and the VHS had a pizza hut commercial of a kid on a baseball team is kinda interesting.
This was one of the 1st musical cassettes that I owned as a kid. I remember when it came out and how big it was for around a year if you were the target age they were going for. I would listen to this thing every single day for months after I originally received it. Kinda wish I still had that cassette, unfortunately it either ended up in the trash or a yard/garbage/boot sale.
Are you me? This has to have been the first or the second cassette I had. Right behind a best of weird al tape.
I went to this in St. Louis, MO I was 10.
I did too
I was at the one in KC
I was also at the show. RIVERPORT!
I went to this concert in Denver, I was around 12? I bought a Leonardo with guitar felt pennant on a stick, and my Mom sewed it onto my Levi's jean jacket. I still have that jacket in my closet.
Still have this VHS and still have a VCR. I know I could watch this on CZcams but I think for nostalgia I’m gonna pop this in tonight and give it another watch along with some Pizza Hut. 90’s was peak entertainment!
I still have a recording of the oprah interview. I remember my mom telling me they were on and rushed home to watch it. When it was all said and done I looked at her and said, "Oh god, please don't let them come over here....this is terrible." LOL I remember the look on those poor children in the audience and I was one of them!
This is when executives and idea makers go "Oh we went to far, lets bring it back a bit!"
When I was 17, and had "outgrown" the Turtles, I went to a Fourth of July festival at Camp Lejeune, NC with some family. Chicago was the headliners and Sinbad the Comedian and TMNT opening! My niece was eight, and was the ultimate Turtles fan. It was a great time for everyone, and one of my coolest memories.
You never outgrow the turtles. You only outgrow your joy.
I first heard about this because of the Pizza Hut promotional cassette album, and then Nostalgia Critic with AVGN’s review on the TMNT Coming Out of their Shells! It’s actually enjoyable for a cartoon themed rock band! Pizza Power is really great song, that I even ripped it to my iPod back then!
I was a weird kid that the Coming Out Of Their Shells cassette tape is how I became a TMNT fan as a kid. Didn't really get into them before than for some reason. Listened to it repeatedly. Became addicted to all things Turtles afterwards.
I got my 3 year old watching the “Pizza Power” song on CZcams .
It is now on repeat in our home.
Wish my parents took me to see this when I was 5. Looked fun
I never got to see the show, but I did have the cassette. As a kid the other songs were just what you had to wade through to get to "Pizza Power." I actually downloaded the whole album off Kazaa a long while back. Turns out now "No Treaties" is my favorite from the album. I put it on a burned CD right next to "Run With Us" from The Raccoons.
I still have this tape somewhere in storage. There will never be any lyrics more beautiful and profound than "walk straight, there's no need to mutate".
My dad got me and my brother that audio cassette tape. We were about 3 and 4 years old but even back then we hated it. I remember my initial reaction when I saw the cover art and hearing the music was “this is not ninja turtles” 😂.
My Gpa would find all sorts of things from flea markets when I was a kid. A few of the weirder things were an unlicensed game called "Chiller" for the nes..and the VHS of this tour. I remember the box having a shine to the lettering. I sort of remembered the songs when I watched it over, but I vividly remembered Splinter singing about skipping stones.
I was too young to appreciate Shredder roasting the kids. That had to be fun for the actor.
The old style opening is back, and I thank you for it.
10:57 All that was said there, especially regarding this particular Turtles cash grab, was accurate.
This, like The Secret Of The Ooze, was hitting the peak point of the oversaturation of the brand and the downward trajectory to come.
It’s a darn good thing the property is so malleable and beloved that it will never fully go away, even despite things like this.
I loved the cassette. I was very happy a few years ago when I found the album was available on YT Music. Master Splinter's "Skipping Stones" was my favorite song, and it still holds-up.
Man, I haven't thought about this in more than 30 years. We had like 10 of these cassettes, pretty sure I got the VHS of the concert for christmas that year. The late 80s and early 90s were awesome lol
I probably have the cassette in a box somewhere still...I was so excited when it came out. We didn't have a Pizza Hut in my town at the time, and so my mother went to one near Seattle on a trip she had to make there on the day the cassette was released. She brought it home, I listened to the song from the commercials (which I had to fast forward to, as it was at the end of one side of the cassette), I heard the song, and thought: "Wow...that was pretty boring." And, I don't believe I ever listened to it again, nor did any of my siblings. I saw the trailer for the Oprah appearance (which aired on the same day that the New Kids On The Block appeared on her show...my sister was a big fan of them), but didn't actually see the episode itself...and now i might have to seek it out! ;)
I remember this! Sad because when I lived in Minnesota, they were on the tour but a bunch of shows got canceled.
Great job folks and keep being awesome and thanks again!
Also, i loved that at about 9:00 in the video, you see Jason Voorhees lol. Nice job adding the clip from The New Blood!
not to mention that the track 'Pizza Power' was featured in the 1991 Konami Turtles in Time Arcade game as well as the SNES release.
One thing that drove me bonkers as a kid was that a few lyrics in the cassette sleeve were wrong. If memory serves me (and it rarely does), in "Pizza Power" there's a line like "they don't even pass the test" and the written lyrics had something like "Mikey passed a test". It bothered me SO MUCH that here I am typing this comment decades later XD
Hooray, the cold openings are back!
"Skipping Stones" was my "I want to be in my feelings" song as a kid.
OMG I was literally just watching videos of this yesterday actually. I have the tabs still open next to this one even. I listen to a lot of random 80s and heard a singer that is a dead ringer for one of the singers on this, and was hoping to figure out who they are. Excited to watch this here in a bit, thanks so much for sharing!!!
Saw the movie in 1990, loved it, had the VHS tape. After the movie, I heard about Pizza Hut and this promo,
I had to go out, get a pizza, and the cassette. Still have it. Underrated music, even if it was aimed at toddlers
and children under ten. I might just take the time to crank it up! Loved the anti-substance abuse song 'Walk Straight'.
I was a huge TMNT fan as a kid and was surprised by the Coming Out of Our Shell tour when my step-mom told me about it after seeing their appearance on Oprah. She even recorded it for me so I could watch it later after school. Got the cassette and listened to it all the time and sung the songs while on the playground at school. And of course I got the VHS of the show and watched it over and over until the tape broke.
It was truly a silly moment in history and not just for the franchise, but it was also a lot of fun for me as a kid. The right place at the right time as a TMNT fan.
I went to this as a kid. They threw foam pizzas into the audience and I got one but some lady yanked it out of my hand and gave it to her kid.
Unapologetically, Coming Out of Their Shells was my most played album on Spotify in 2020.
I was about to turn 10 when the tour came down here to Mexico, and we were right in the middle of the Turtlemania. I was not able to go see the concert, but my parents got me the LP. I must have rocked that disk so many times!
I'm still unironically listening to this album to this day. "Count on us" has a sound that just continues to grab me.
This is an absolutely amazing channel. Keep up the great work!
The "Making of the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour" was the first videotape I ever owned when we first got a VCR.
Several years after that, when TMNT was waning in popularity, I found the VHS of the full show new in a store for something like $3.
My cousin had the VHS tape. I remember watching that several times as a kid. We knew it was bad and overly cheesy, but we were so starved for content that we hyped it up like it was the best thing ever.
Great video. I had the cassette as a kid. It took me over 30 years but after watching this video I finally realized the turtles weren't wearing their shells the whole time. It was quite literally in the title, lol.
The tour had one more place it touched that is easy to overlook: "Pizza Power" is used for the intro theme to the Turtles in Time arcade game! Sadly it wasn't used for the home ports.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Thank you so much so making this classic video!
What I missed out on seeing the Street Frogs live? Fortunately I definitely got taken to see the TMNT tour when they came to Chicago. I was young and excited to see them live but it's kind of a blur. Still, I know I enjoyed the show. Thanks for unlocking another happy childhood memory.
I’d aged out of that sort of thing by the time Coming Out of Their Shells was touring. The only live stage shows I saw featuring cartoon characters were “Bugs Bunny meets the Super Heroes” (featuring the Looney Tunes characters, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and some easily identifiable Bat-Villains) and Ice Capades starring the Snorks.
I'm not sure if this was actually the first concert I attended, but it's definitely the first one I remember going to. My mom took me to see it when I was little, and to this day she still laughs about her and the other parents watching a mob of hundreds of frenzied kids rush the stage towards the end of the show.
Now I need to go through my cassettes and see if I still have a copy of the soundtrack...
I bought my first pieces of music for myself when I was 8 or 9 (93/94). There was a pawn shop near my grandma’s house I used to buy game boy games from, and the year I got my first stereo, I bought this and the Secret of the Ooze OSTs on cassette there for $1 each.
I was today years old when I found out the title music from the TMNT Turtles in Time arcade game was originally from this concert tour.
I still almost cry when "Count on Us" hits it's loudest rocking volume, such great memories!
Great Stuff, as always!
That show was the first concert I ever went to... and the tape got so much play in both my Walkman and my little boombox!
Thank you for the nostalgia bomb
I remember being freaked out by the logo of Mikey busting out of the shell. Sucks we didn't get to see them perform more in the movie accurate suits. I guess it was an impossible request to fulfill for the suit performers.
I still have my cassette sitting on my stereo right now! And I got the PPV when it aired! I watched it just a couple years ago here on CZcams and it's still ridiculously fun and enjoyable!
I had this on VHS!
Great video, but Dan, I cannot believe you missed an incredible opportunity for an amazing call back joke -
“Gumby and Thundercats Live. That’s two separate things - can you imagine? Oh wait..”
I got the VHS copy of the show, thanks for sharing this Rocking retrospect! (Cowabunga!)
Never even knew about this until years later. I was/am a turtle fan...but don't ever remember this being advertised to me or being aware of it
I LOVE that the intro is back!!!!
My friend gave me the VHS as a gift in 4th grade. Loved it. Still love it.
I had a copy of this album on cassette, and listened to it so much that my mother had to make copies to keep me from wearing it out. I went back and listened to it recently, and I think there's something to be said for leaving nostalgia in the past sometimes...
the concept of the turtles wanting to be part of our world was best shown in the new animated tmnt mutant mayham
I still have this album in my Spotify playlist. Was listening to it this week. Good times!
I wanted to see this as a kid so bad
I remember getting that tape. Mom hated it, so I naturally loved it. Haven’t thought about it in 30 years! Thank you for TMNT memories. Just to be curious, I looked it up on iTunes, listening to it while writing this.
I remember I would watch the VHS of this show everyday when I got home from school. Still have songs and moments from it burned into my brain.
Best part of the Radio City Music Hall was Shredder taking five minutes to absolutely roast the kids in the audience and offering to take one of their moms back to the Technodrome to get well...shredded I guess.
Never got to see the show, but I did have the cassette.
I did get to see a Disney on Ice or two, and to Dan’s point, it’s amazing how as children we ignore the obvious adults manipulating the suit, or mouths not moving, and simply see the character.
This was my very first concert when I was like 4 and to this day it has not been topped. Only thing that sucked is I left my ninja turtles fanny pack on the bathroom and when I went back for it it was gone. Still, legendary. I look back now and realize it didn't age well, but it was still a pivitol memory for me.
I owned the VHS and couldn't tell you how many times I watched it. Never once did I realize they didn't have shells.
It's always a good day when Secret Galaxy posts a video! I think it's so funny that Pizza Hut was the official sponsor for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but the pizza company featured in the first movie was Domino's. Speaking of Domino's, since you've already talked about The Noid, will you one day cover Will Vinton Studios?
I saw this show as a kid and at the time, I liked it, but I was a weird kid.
My aunt took me to the show and the fact that she was willing to sit through it proves she loves me.
They also had a Christmas singalong VHS from the Out of Their Shells era: We Wish You a Turtle Christmas. Maybe you’re saving that for a December video 🙂
I practically wore out the cassette and was convinced that "No Treaties" meant that Shredder wasn't allowed to have any snacks after the war.
Next mutation did not feature an episode where they teamed up with the power rangers. The team up in question was an episode of power rangers that featured the turtles not the other way around.
Exactly. Still sucks that they were more awesome in In Space than their own show.
I was never lucky enough to see them live, but i did play the VHS until it stopped working. And for all my time spent with it, never once did i notice that the turtles had no shell...
I just remember the commercial with the little kid yelling a quote from the movie “I LOVE being a turtle!”
I remember the Oprah show. Also, one of the songs was used in the game Turtles in time. Thus becoming my favorite song off that album.
Seeing the stage show at 6 Flags St. Louis is one of my happiest childhood memories.
The local Pizza Hut sponsored them to be in the Arnold Days Parade last year and it was as awesome as I remembered.
I saw this live in Colorado. For my brother, sister, and I, it was absolutely amazing!
Yes!!!!! I wore this VHS out from re watching so much
When the music is inside of you, something you know that's got to come through. That's why we're here. We're singing to you. We're coming out of our shells.
They were supposed to be my first concert. They canceled Phoenix. Had to go see rod stewart in white tights . Im still trumatized to this day.