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Dec 17th 2012 By: Graeme McMillan

Haha, this stuff. I've seen them before.
So the mutants keep mutating. This was for the fourth movie subtitled "The Next Mutation." As Mark Pellegrini says below, that title was re-used for the live-action TV show (where it didn't make sense because the idea of further mutations was dropped). The Hulk/monster transformations was used at the end of the original cartoon series, as well as for Raphael when Peter Laird got back to writing comics.
Here are the mutations: Raphael and Splinter would be monsters (guys at Mirage admitted they used the same idea twice). Leonardo would be Colossus from X-Men, turning his skin into a hard material. Michelangelo had the mental ability to trick people into seeing him as a human, though he had to wear clothes otherwise they'd see him as a naked human! Donatello gained straight-up psychic powers, but was nearly blind.
I recall there was talk in the newsletter about the next stage of mutation being an upcoming arc in the comic, too, but instead it ended with the Braunze arc.
December 18 2012 at 1:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythis is for the the next mutation not a unmade fourth live-action
December 17 2012 at 2:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, it's for an unmade 4th live action movie that was going to be titled "TMNT: The Next Mutation". When it got canned, concepts for the 4th movie were recycled for both the last two seasons of the Fred Wolf animated series and for the live-action Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation TV show.
You can read a research article on the subject here:
http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2011/03/4th-live-action-tmnt-movie-that-never.html
Those Brendan McCarthy designs are insane:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5F7_zNQhlKo/TXlvj1KxhnI/AAAAAAAAFco/pGbXTv-AlRU/s400/ninjaturtles10.jpg
I might actually have paid money to see that. Those guys look like real teenagers.

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