Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past is a one-hour TMNT TV special on Nickelodeon, that aired Sunday, November 22, 2015. It was released on the Nickelodeon website on November 1st, 2015.
Plot[]
Told in the style of Playmates Toys' Half-Shell Heroes Preschool Segment action figure line, the storyline finds the Turtles going back in time to the Cretaceous Period, where they encounter friendly dinosaurs from the past and dangerous aliens from the future who have a nefarious plan of their own. However, things get even more complicated when Triceratons , Bebop and Rocksteady show up!
The film begins with the Ninja Turtles with more cartoonish and animated appearance. The film starts with the Turtles in the Party Wagon chasing after the van that Tiger Claw, Bebop and Rocksteady in there. Inside of the Party Wagon, Leonardo and Raphael are seen in the front while Donatello and Michelangelo in the back.
Inside, Raph is complaining that they're getting slower. Donnie explains that according to the GPS saying that Shredder's goons are heading to the national New York City History Museum. Mikey thinks that they're heading for the laser show, but Leonardo doubts it and thinks they're up to steal something. Raph thinks that the new Shredder's helmet is going to be red, with spike and tassels, the others glare at Raph in confusion and surprise for a long silence, but Raph exclaims that tassels are cool. Leo tells his brothers to stay focused as they're getting closer to the goons.
Meanwhile in Bebop and Rocksteady's van, Rocksteady complains about the vehicle, saying that it is too small, his knees are cracked and has Charlie the Horse with Bebop asking him to stop. Tiger Claw is deeply annoyed by their complaints asking them to be quiet for ten seconds since he's creating a plan to steal the Cronite. However, Bebop and Rocksteady continue to get on Tiger Claw's nerves, much to the latter's annoyance.
As the three mutants arrive, they exit the van and head to the museum. The Turtles are there too and Michelangelo is amazed by all those dinosaur bones, just as three mutants arrive. When Bebop questions about the meteorite, Rocksteady says that it is a giant rock from space, it has so much properties. Tiger Claw explains that the meteorite is an energy source it is the most rarest rock in the space and it fell to the Earth 65 million years ago. Rocksteady thinks that it is the day when in the Earth is cave people, but Tiger Claw facepalms in dismay, stating that people never existed back then and insults Rocksteady by calling him "Rockhead", much to Bebop's amusement and Rocksteady's anger. Meanwhile, Donnie complains about stupidity of warthog and rhino as Leo explains his brothers of which opponent they should fight as they leave, except for Mikey, who watches at the dinosaur statue in awe.
Tiger Claw, Bebop and Rocksteady found the Cronite. Mikey accidentally touches the bones of the dinosaur, which crumbles to the ground, making enough sound to drive attention to Tiger Claw, Bebop and Rocksteady, as the Turtles furiously yell at their youngest brother, "MIKEY!!!" Seeing that their mission has been compromised, the Turtles then start their fight. Leo fights with Tiger Claw, Donnie and Raph fight with Bebop, and Mikey fights with Rocksteady. While fighting, the Turtles were able to steal the Cronite as they escape the museum, leaving the mutants empty-handed.
The Turtles return to the lair, where we see Ice Cream Kitty is playing the video games. When Leo is about to be next, Ice Cream Kitty grabs both controllers and uses it to control both cars as she wins. Leo thinks that Ice Cream Kitty is cheating, but she meows innocently.
Working on his lab, Donnie finds out that Cronite is more powerful than Kraang crystals. His brothers arrived in the left and see the giant figure covered in the sheet. Don uncovers the sheet revealing the Shellformer: it can fly, riding on Earth and transform into Giant Turtle Mech, much to Mikey's joy. When Donnie is about to insert the cronite to the tank, Leo declines, saying that they have to return the cronite back to the museum. Raph and Donnie ask Leo to reconsider, saying that if they return it back to the museum, then the Shredder's goons will steal it again. When Mikey asks Donnie to show him how it reconstructs into the robot, Don asks if he must do something that he can reconstruct the robot right in the middle of New York City. Donnie then agrees.
In New York City, the Turtles have aboard the Shellformer. Leo starts rejecting the idea saying that it is the most horrible idea but Donnie informs his brothers that if he'll be annoyed by them, he'll push the eject button. Unbeknownst to them Bebop and Rocksteady are watching them. The Shellformer starts to fly (after Raph asks Don to make it fly), Bebop and Rocksteady jump right at the vehicle just as Donnie forcefully turns all the levers as the ship starts to fly with warp speed. Just as it seems it can't be stopped, the Shellformer flies right at the T.C.R.I. building, but it disappears in one second...
...then reappearing in the wormhole as it enters the portal, with the Turtles, Bebop and Rocksteady. The mutants along with the vehicle have been sent back in time, the Cretaceous period, where dinosaurs are still living. After Donnie succeeds to maneuver the volcanos, this maneuver causes Bebop and Rocksteady to lose their grip as they fall right at the mount, knocking them out unconscious, just as the Shellformer crashes to the ground.
The Turtles exit the Shellformer, with Leo asking Donnie, "Where are we?!" As they look around in awe, Donnie explains to his brothers that they are in Cretaceous period millions of years back into the past! Don thinks that it is because of Cronite, believing that when it burned off, it created wormhole and it transported them here. When Leo asks how are they going to get back, Donnie says that they can go back only if they have a ten minute walk. Donnie, Raph and Mikey start to like this place, but Leo still wants to go home.
Meanwhile, Bebop and Rocksteady wake up, only to find out that they're in Cretaceous (though Rocksteady believes it to be Jersey), the Pteranodon appears and screeches at them before they cowardly escape it.
Meanwhile, with the Turtles, Leo is seen still wanting to go home. Mikey is seen warming up towards Stegosaurus. When Leo attempts to warm up to Triceratops, he accidentally jumps at him, scaring the Triceratops so much that it runs away with Leo on his back. When Leonardo asks him to stop, the Triceratops does so as Leo falls on the water as his brothers laugh at him, to his annoyance.
Suddenly, one little dinosaur snatches one of Raph's sai, and Raphael runs after it. The dinosaur disappears into a log, then it mysteriously appears in a tree and throws down the sai beneath one of Raph's feet. Raph picks up his weapon as his brothers tease him about how he was outsmarted by "chickenosaur". Raphael gets so angry that he explodes at his brothers in rage. Suddenly, one unknown dinosaur appears from the bushes. When Mikey goes to pat it, the dinosaur suddenly snaps at him menacingly. Believing that dinosaur is hostile towards him, Mike attempts to warm up to it. As the dinosaur reveals himself from the shadows, it is revealed to be raptor just as his species arrive and attack.
The Turtles try to fight them, but they appear to be a bit faster and stronger than they seem. Mikey then puts two branches on his feet and scares them off. It actually worked as the raptors retreat. Unfortunately, Mike wasn't the one who scared the raptors off; it is revealed the reason why the raptors retreat it is because they have been approached by the large dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex!
The Turtles try to run away from him, but he is faster. They try to fight him but he appears to be more skillful and stronger for a dinosaur. The Turtles try to hide in the log, but the same white dinosaur (that stole Raphael's sai) appears and screeches, giving attention to T-Rex, who grabs the log with his menacing teeth and when he throws it up to the air, he smacks the log with his tail, as it flies right towards the cliff as it becomes smashed as the Turtles fall. Michelangelo uses his nunchaku to throw his kusarigama to the mount. With this, Mikey grabs Leo, who grabs Donnie. Don tries to grab Raphael, only for Raph to be snatched by a Pteranodon, much to his own and his brothers' dismay.
Raph angrily tells her to let him go and starts insulting her. Angered, the Pteranodon starts smacking Raph all around, with Raph remarking of how he hates Cretaceous period as the Pteranodon flies off.
The other three Turtles arrive in the Shellformer and escape T-Rex. When the Turtles ask about Raph's whereabouts, Mikey thinks that he's already in the Pteranodon's belly, slowly digesting into dino poop. When Donnie asks Mikey if he always have to say gross things, Mike says, "Absolutely," much to Leo's and Don's annoyance and disgust.
Meanwhile, Raph seems to be exasperated and has enough. He bites the Pteranodon's feet and starts attacking her. As she flies around out of control, she and Raph hit the tree as both fall to the ground. Raph escapes the Pteranodon's grasp and tries to fight her, only to learn that he accidentally slashed one of the Pteranodon's feet after their bumping into the tree. Raph fixes her wing with his appendages. The Pteranodon thankfully screeches at Raph and flies off. Raph smiles at her and then goes to find his brothers.
Meanwhile, Bebop and Rocksteady have new clothes and upgrade. When they decide to find the Turtles, they have been confronted by strange shadows with blasters as they take the two mutants hostage.
The Shellformer lands as the Turtles greet Raph. Mikey happily hugs Raph. Leo is furious that he and his brothers stayed in Cretaceous period for a few hours exclaiming that they were supposed to be here for only ten minutes. Donnie thinks that Leo's right and says that they could bring macrocosmical events on the future, plus all the humanity is vanquished. Horrified by this, the Turtles decide to leave only to be confronted by the same T-Rex and the other white T-Rex, much to their horror.
The Turtles quickly escaped two T-Rexes and aboard the Shellformer and when Mikey excitedly pushes the button, the Shellformer transforms into giant robot transformer and the Turtles use it as a weapon to fight the two T-Rexes. Despite T-Rexes' own strength and speed, the turtle robot was able to defeat them. After defeating the final T-Rex, Mikey feels sorry for him, saying that he wanted hugs, only for Raph agitatedly remarking that he wants them in his belly. Just as they were about to go back to the future, they realize that the fuel is gone and the Cronite is destroyed, since they have used so much energy to fight T-Rexes. With this, the Turtles are stuck in the past!
When the Turtles start to lament their fate, there's a thunderous earthquake. When the Turtles head to investigate, they see the giant perimeter base. As they look around, they see that this is the Triceratons base, and their enemies have captured and enslaved the several dinosaurs. As they have thinking for the plan, the Turtles need to cover themselves in the shadows just as they always do. The Turtles then see the crystals, which Donnie gets an idea that they can use them to go home. When Mikey goes to snatch one of them, he accidentally loses his grip as the crystal falls to the ground, only there is no attention. When Mike and his brothers are relieved, Mikey leans on the cart, it crashes with Mike, giving attention to the Triceratons, and Raph furiously calls out to him, "MIKEY!!!"
Noticing the Turtles as intruders, the Triceratons attack the Turtles and defeat them with their own brute strength. The Turtles try to escape, but the Triceratons unleashed the Robo Raptors. The Turtles then see the cliff and they are surrounded. The Turtles then try to fight them but the robotic dinosaurs have defeated them. Just as it seems that the hope is lost, the dinosaurs, whom they have encountered earlier, appear and battle the robotic raptors, sending them fleeing. Raph says that this is going to be in his list of the best actions of his life.
Meanwhile, Bebop and Rocksteady are thrown into the prison cell by the Triceratons, who are revealed to be the shadows who have captured them. Bebop and Rocksteady see that the cage is made out of red sensors. When the two goons decide to formulate their plan of escape, Bebop has Shuriken and uses it to touch the red sensors of the cage which causes the sensors to hit the control panel and the control panel is destroyed freeing Bebop and Rocksteady from their cage. When they're about to escape they realize that this piece is installed with booby traps and they have successfully escaped and head to outside. Suddenly they have been confronted by the Triceratons once again and they encounter their leader: a female Triceraton, named General Zera. When Bebop tries to disguise Rocksteady as a Triceraton it failed and they are both are in the cage once again much to their dismay. Zera declares that the Triceraton empire will rule the galaxy. The Triceratons like the idea but Bebop and Rocksteady are not.
Meanwhile, the Turtles who are accompanied by their dinosaurs while riding on them decide to go back to the Triceraton base and get some a few crystals to use them to go home. However, there's one little catch: three Turtles have dinosaurs except for Donnie. who has not, but Don decides to use his ninja skills as a defense. Mikey thinks that Donnie needs his own dinosaur too, but Don, who becomes too much dispirited, decides to not to use a dinosaur.
Just at the Turtles think what kind of dinosaur would be good for Donnie, the same orange T-Rex appears and attacks! The Turtles and dinosaurs evacuate to the cave where they are stuck, thanks to T-Rex blocking their exit with his head being stuck. Mikey decides that Donnie will be friends T-Rex. Mike gives Don pizza and Raph sardonically calls him an idiot. Although Donnie is fearful, he reluctantly agrees. When T-Rex eats pizza, he likes it and then licks Don's face with his long, slimy tongue, and the Turtles are amazed that Mike's idea wasn't stupid after all.
As Donnie attempts to befriend T-Rex, Triceratons attack. Don jumps onto the T-Rex in fear, motivating the large dinosaur to roar at the Triceratons thunderously. Gently patting T-Rex on his face and laughing triumphantly, Don decides to get Cronite and go home. Now that Donnie had a T-Rex, Mikey suggested they need to be geared up, so the Turtles started to gather those they can forage and wore new clothing along with their dinosaurs, who even wore matching colored masks and knee pads like their mutant friends.
After the Turtles carve new weapons to battle with, they ride their respective dinosaurs toward General Zera's base. She discovers them and orders her troops to activate the Robo Spinosaurus. A cage opens up on one of the screens, making the captive Bebop and Rocksteady shiver. The Turtles and their dinosaurs sneak past a wall before something crashes in front of them, and they dodge several flying rocks. A robo dinosaur with a saw on its back emerges, and the Turtles and their dino friends charge toward it and attempt to battle it. Eventually, the Turtles and their dinosaurs manage to defeat the Robo Spinosaurus and then charge toward and battle the Triceratons. Bebop and Rocksteady, who somehow managed to get free, were also seen fighting the Triceratons. Zera grabs them both and orders the Turtles to stop battling, which they pause in mid-fight, and adds that if they continue, she will destroy their two mutant friends.
Donnie objects to Bebop and Rocksteady being their friends before asking them how they got here. Rocksteady says it's a long story, while Bebop begs them to free them and that they'll help beat these Tricerafools, before Zera bangs their heads together. She then demands the Turtles to surrender and drop their weapons, which they reluctantly do. When Zera assumes the Turtles accept defeat, their dino friends suddenly appear roaring behind Zera's back and ambush her and her Triceraton henchmen. The Turtles, the dinosaurs, and even Bebop and Rocksteady then charge toward and battle Zera and her Triceraton minions. After they kick Zera to a wall, she unleashes her Robo Raptors and demands them to kill the Turtles and their dinosaur pets.
The Turtles run from the Robo Raptors, as there were too many of them to fight. Not even their dinosaur pets could fend them off. Leo asks Donnie if he can reprogram the Robo Raptors, which Donnie succeeds in doing after tampering with the control panel, with Bebop even saving Donnie from getting blasted by Zera when she notices. The Robo Raptors stop fighting the Turtles and then charge toward Zera and her Triceraton army, thinking they're food. Zera and her Triceraton race all run off in panic as the Robo Raptors chase after them hungrily.
The Turtles all stand in triumph, their dinosaur pets behind them. Bebop and Rocksteady then appear and try convincing them that they also did a good job and to give them a ride back to the future. Leo says he won't leave them here, but they have to promise to turn over a new leaf. They agree, although Bebop takes the expression literally and commands a leaf on the ground to turn over. Raph then tells them to make themselves useful and grab the time stuff so they can all go home, which they do. Donnie says he can use the broken Spinosaurus parts to repair the Shellformer, but is unsure if they can travel back to the present time, though Leo tells Donnie to just step on it.
Three days later, the Turtles, the dinosaurs, and Bebop and Rocksteady all stand in front of the now-finished Shellformer. Leo, Donnie, Mike, and Raph then say goodbye to their respective dino friends in their own way. Afterwards, the Turtles and Bebop and Rocksteady get inside the Shellformer. Leo comments that he couldn't wait to get back home and play video games, while Mikey adds with eating pizza and watching TV. Donnie talks skeptically about being able to fly them back to the present, but an agitated Raph yells at Donnie to just do it. Donnie then presses a button and they speed off into thin air. Their dinosaur friends look on as they leave, with the T-Rex roaring as a final goodbye.
The Shellformer lands on a building before the hatch door opens. The Turtles and Bebop and Rocksteady get out and see the city in red lights, covered in various signs like "Consume" and "Obey". Mikey thinks they landed on the moon, but Donnie corrects him and says they're in New York in the future before they all notice a statue of Shredder in place of the Statue of Liberty. Raph says a giant statue of Shredder in the future can't be a good thing before Don suggests they check the place out for ten minutes or so. Everyone else but Leo agrees before he sighs and decides to join them, and they all happily run off.
Debuts[]
- Zera the Triceraton
- Zorg the Triceraton
- Shell-Former
- Leonardo's Triceratops
- Raphael's Pterodactyl
- Donatello's Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Maurice
Trivia[]
- Unlike the current CG-animated series on Nick, Half-Shell Heroes is 2D-animated.
- "Random House" put out a "Blast to the Past" book in September, while Playmates released new dino toys in the fall to coincide with the special.
- Instead of their normal brown elbow and kneepads, the Turtles' pads are now the color of their respective bandana color.
- Shredder appeared silent cameo several times, usually as a statue in the future.
- Master Splinter, April O'Neil and Casey Jones are absent in this special.
Production[]
Transcript[]
Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past/Transcript
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