Thursday June 04, 2015


COWABUNGA! WizKids Partners with Nickelodeon for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tabletop Games!

While at Origins, WizKids announced a partnership with Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids, to produce multiple tabletop games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The first two games developed under this partnership will be a special series of TMNT HeroClix� figures, and a TMNT Dice Masters� game, both set for release later this year.

�We are very excited to partner with Nickelodeon on expanding the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brand,� said Justin Ziran, President of WizKids. �We expect fans of both Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and WizKids will be very pleased with the lineup of games we have in store, and we can�t wait to get them in players� hands in the coming months.�

WizKids has seen great successes in its HeroClix collectible figure-battling and Dice Masters Dice Building� products, and is very excited to bring fan-favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, spanning all iterations of the comics from classic to present day as well as the classic cartoon and current hit CG-animated series on Nickelodeon, to both games.

�The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are classic and beloved characters, and we can�t wait to see them integrated into WizKids� tabletop games,� said Manuel Torres, Senior Vice President, Global Toys and Publishing, Nickelodeon. �We are as excited as our fans are to see Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Shredder and more come to life in HeroClix and Dice Masters.�