Michelangelo Toys Around

“Michelangelo Toys Around”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 Cartoon) episode
Season Code:	04
Episode:	03
Original airdate	September 12, 1990
Written by	Ted Pedersen Francis Moss
Supervising Producer	Fred Wolf
Producers:	Michael Algar
Episode chronology ← Previous Next → "Turtles of the Jungle" "Peking Turtle"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990 Season September 10, 1990 - December 8, 1990 List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: Syndication "Plan Six From Outer Space" "Turtles of the Jungle" "Michelangelo Toys Around" "Peking Turtle" "Shredder's Mom" "Four Turtles and a Baby" "Turtlemaniac" "Rondo in New York" "Planet of the Turtles" "Name That Toon" "Menace Maestro, Please" "Superhero for a Day" "Back to the Egg" Saturday Mornings "Son of Return of the Fly II" "Raphael Knocks 'em Dead" "Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe" "Raphael Meets His Match" "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X" "Leonardo Lightens Up" "Were-Rats from Channel 6" "Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo" "The Big Zipp Attack" "Donatello Makes Time" "Farewell, Lotus Blossom" "Rebel Without a Fin" "Rhino-Man" "Michelangelo Meets Bugman" "Poor Little Rich Turtle" "What's Michelangelo Good For?" "The Dimension X Story" "Donatello's Degree" "The Big Cufflink Caper!" "Leonardo Versus Tempestra" "Splinter Vanishes" "Raphael Drives 'Em Wild" "Beyond the Donatello Nebula" "Big Bug Blunder" "The Foot Soldiers are Revolting" "Unidentified Flying Leonardo" 1987 Season – 1988 Season – 1989 Season – 1990 Season – 1991 Season – 1992 Season – 1992-1993 Vacation in Europe sideseason – 1993 Season – 1994 Season – 1995 Season – 1996 Season

Michelangelo Toys Around is a season 4 episode of the 1987-1996 series.

Appearing in Michelangelo Toys Around

Major characters

• Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
• Donatello (Barry Gordon)
• Michelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
• Raphael (Rob Paulsen)
• April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
• Vernon Fenwick (Peter Renaday)
• Mr. Tyler (Cam Clarke)
• Kevin Tyler
• Wilbur Weazell (Peter Renaday)

Minor characters

• Dwayne
• Maurice (Rob Paulsen)
• Toy Fair Security Guard (Thom Pinto)

Species

• Human
• Mutant turtle

Objects and vehicles

• Turtle Van
• Tyler Toys Delivery Truck
• Mr. Tyler's limo
• Tyler Toys Van
• Weazell's car

Locations

• Toy Fair
• Turtle Lair
• Tyler Estate

Plot

Michelangelo has a nightmare about being chased into an alley by a robotic dinosaur, which turns out to be a new toy that was being advertised in a newspaper he was looking at.

The Turtles tune in to April's coverage of a current toy fair, which is only open to people in the business. Michelangelo is disappointed by this news, so he disguises himself with a mustache and pretends to be a toy salesman. However, this fails to get him into the fair, so he decides to pretend to be a toy himself to infiltrate the building.

Unfortunately Kevin Tyler, the bratty child of toy tycoon Mr. Tyler, demands "that turtle toy," and Michelangelo is unable to sneak away before being carted out to a van outside. April spots him and alerts the other Turtles.

While in the van, Michelangelo overhears the delivery men discussing a plan for the Tyrano-Toys to start wreaking havoc, and for the sinister toy-designer Wilbur Weazell to take over Tyler Toys. He's delivered to the Tyler estate and left to his own devices in Kevin's palatial room, and after a rocky start with the young boy, he eventually befriends him.

Meanwhile, Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael make their own way into the toy fair to investigate further. They witness Weazell testing out one of the Tyrano-Toys, which has a blaster hidden inside it. When they try to deal with the problem, Weazell entraps them and nearly kills them, but they eventually manage to escape.

Michelangelo is teaching Kevin how to make a pizza when Weazell's henchmen come after him, but end up apprehending Tyler instead. Kevin and Michelangelo escape in a large toy car just before the other three Turtles arrive. Weazell retaliates by sending a number of the Tyrano-Toys after the Turtles, and they are driven into retreat.

Just then, Michelangelo leads a small army of Kevin's toys across the lawn, damaging and destroying the Tyrano-Toys. He and Kevin free Mr. Tyler from the basement, and Tyler provides Michelangelo with a master controller that will allow him to take over the Tyrano-Toys. He uses them to apprehend Weazell and his henchmen.

See also

• Michelangelo Toys Around/Gallery
• Michelangelo Toys Around/Transcript

Notes and errors

• When the Toy Fair security guard threw Michelangelo down the steps the outer wall was a brick wall but the wall is normally a concrete wall.
• In Act Two, when Weazell orders Dwayne and Maurice to attack the Turtles, a wooden beam inexplicably appears at their respective feet.
• Michelangelo was seen with Raphael's colors in the distance shot after he stepped out of the closet and he was later seen with a pair of sai on his belt after Dwayne and Maurice slipped on the tin cans.
• When the Turtles were swinging from the net at the beginning of Act Three, Donatello's mouth moved but no words came out.
• When Kevin and Michelangelo ride down the stairs in the toy car to save Kevin's dad Michelangelo's mouth moves but you don't hear him talking.

Trivia

• When the three Turtles are swinging across the room of the Toy Fair a Turtles toy display can be seen below complete with what looks to be like the Turtle Blimp .
• The Toy Fair displays a board game called "Monotomy", based on the real life board game "Monopoly".

Home media releases

DVD

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 4
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection