Tower of Power

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	Episodes: "Tower of Power"; "Rust Never Sleeps"; "A Real Snow Job"; "Venice on the Half-Shell"; "Artless"; "Ring of Fire"; "The Irish Jig Is Up"; "Shredder's New Sword"; "The Lost Queen of Atlantis"; "Turtles on the Orient Express"; "April Gets in Dutch"; "Northern Lights Out"; "Elementary, My Dear Turtle"; 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

Tower of Power is episode number 144 of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. The episode is a part of the Vacation in Europe series from 1992-1993. The Vacation in Europe series takes place during season 4, so the Technodrome is still in Dimension X. This episode of the show was written by Michael Edens. It originally aired on September 11, 1993, in Syndication. Starting in this episode, Hal Rayle temporary Voices Raphael.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Splinter win a boat trip to Europe. They believe it is a trip in a first-class ship but have to go in a small boat. They take the Turtle Van aboard. On the Atlantic Ocean, the turtles are suffering from Sea-sickness.

When arriving in Europe, they head for Paris, the capital of France.

Krang has a giant electromagnet, and wants to use it to pull the Technodrome from its Dimension X asteroid location by using the Eiffel Tower in Paris as an antenna. In Paris, the turtles and Splinter are touring the sewers of Paris, which is not their idea of a sightseeing tour.

April O'Neil, Vernon Fenwick and Irma from Channel 6 are also in Paris, to report from the celebrations of the Bastille Day, when The Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady arrive and wire the Eiffel Tower and throw a switch. A wrong occours, which instantly magnetizing it and pulling everything except the Technodrome into the Eiffel Tower. The Turtles rescue April and the others. Not knowing the cause of that magnetism, they continue their sightseeing.

Meanwhile, Shredder hits the power generator switch again, and now the Eiffel Tower begins to be pulled loose from its foundations and toward the dimensional portal. But Donatello gets time to destroy the generator, and the Eiffel Tower falls down to the ground.

The origin of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' names

In this episode, the turtles visit the Musée du Louvre in Paris, which includes paintings from the four ranaissance Renaissance artists who gave the name of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Michelangelo mentions that it was a dude named Leonardo (Leonardo da Vinci) who drew the Mona Lisa painting.

Character voices

Notes

Hal Rayle voices Raphael for the this episode and the entire Vacation In Europe season.
This side season was made in 1992 and was shown in the UK during Christmas of that year before being shown before the proper Season 7 run a year later.

Locations

Turtles' Lair
New York City Harbour
Paris Streets
Paris Sewer System
Eiffel Tower
A' Escargot Slimee French Restaurant
Au Deux Croissants Cafe
Notre Dame Cathedral
Technodrome

Vehicles

TurtleVan
Channel 6 Newsvan
Sailing boat

Inventions/devices

Neutronic Generator

Errors

When Vernon walks to the Channel 6 newsvan after Burne drops April from the Bastille Day ceremony coverage he is seen walking straight through the rear door instead of around it.
Vernon's jacket disappears when he falls into the giant cake.
Irma's watch disappears from her wrist when she pulls out the scissors when she and Vernon are stuck on the tower.
The "Stop" sign in the Turtles' lair is coloured green with orange letters.
Dontatello reads the letter from Greasy Eddie's Pizza but in Plan 6 From Outer Space it was Michaelangelo who originally read it.
When the Turtle Van is first seen in the French sewer, the inside of it is not colored in.
When all the weapons go flying at Donatello, even the wooden part of Michelangelo's nunchuks go flying at him, but wood isn't magnetic, plus Leonardo is seen with his swords back on his belt afterwards even though they are still seen attached to the wall.
After Leonardo was thrown into the Turtle Van in practice, he was seen with Raphael's colours.

Quotes

Irma: OK Vernon, You're on!
Vernon: (nervously) Bonjour! We're coming to you (gulps) live from Paris, Uh that's in France you know...where the Bastille Day ceremonies are about to start, uh, uh...commence uhhh...begin (laughs nervously and adjusts collar) It's terrible when you know a lot of words!