Blast from the Past #359: April O'Neil, ballerina?

Today, I came across this publication of the Amherst Ballet Theatre Company's 1978-1979 season...

... and was idly thumbing through, thinking I might recognize some person or place or event mentioned in it (having lived in or around Amherst at that time), when my eye was caught by a name on this page...

... and looking more closely, I realized that it was none other than Paige Turco, who played April O'Neil in the second and third live action TMNT movies. Here's a closeup of her section of the page:

Small world. -- PL

A nifty nugget of NECA news...

I got an email from Steve Murphy yesterday, with some information which was sent to him from Randy Falk at NECA. Here are the pertinent quotes from Randy, along with an image:

"I just wanted to send over an image of our SDCC exclusive for this summer.
It will be a brand new April O' Neil figure that comes with a Battle Damaged
Mouser and a Regular Mouser with a new head featuring an articulated jaw.



This is the first non Turtle figure in the NECA TMNT collection

This version of April will be available at San Diego Comic Con this July.

We are going to try to make arrangements to offer a small amount of figures online for those who can not attend SDCC."

Pretty cool! I look forward to putting these on my shelf next to the NECA Turtles. -- PL