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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comes to Hilo

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On August 9, 2013 actor Greg Cipes (gregcipes.com) the voice behind everyone’s favorite turtle Michelangelo will be making special appearances at Hilo elementary schools to visit with the students, and spread positive messages.

The 80’s and 90’s was a huge era for cartoons, comics, video games, and movies. If you grew up in the 80’s and 90’s you will remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) as one of the biggest franchises to come out of that era.

The TMNT was an iconic pop culture juggernaut featuring a weekly cartoon series, numerous comic book adaptations, several video games, and major motion pictures. The turtles are Leonardo (Leo), Donatello (Don or Donnie), Raphael (Raph), and arguably the most popular turtle of the TMNT crew, Michelangelo (Mike or Mikey).

TMNT was created in 1984 by Kevin Eastman and friend Peter Laird. A comic book series soon entailed produced by Mirage Studios. By 1987 the TMNT was on the airwaves with a weekly CBS TV series that lasted 10 seasons.

By 1989 TMNT had its own video game, and in 1990 the first TMNT motion picture was released. Throughout the years the TMNT brand has remained popular with both children and young adults. Nearly 20 years later, the TMNT still thrive in pop culture with a newly released TV series on Nickelodeon network, and a new motion picture planned set for a 2014 release.

Greg Cipes who goes by “Cipes” Born 1980 is an actor, producer, and musician. Along with being the voice of Mikey, Cipes is also the voice of numerous major cartoon characters (Danny Rand) Ultimate Spiderman, (Beast Boy) Teen Titans,  (Kevin Levin) Ben 10, (Zatt) Star Wars Clone Wars, (Steve Jackson) Fish Hooks, and several more cartoon series.

Cipes’ recent movie and television work include Fast And Furious, General Hospital, True Blood, Bones, CSI Miami, NCIS Los Angeles, Charlie Sheen’s Anger management, and numerous others.

Cipes will also be making a special public appearance and live musical performance Saturday August 10,2013 at Car Audio Specialists located at 23 Pohaku St Hilo (Behind CD Wizard) from 12 p.m. to 3p.m.

The event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcomed and attendees are encouraged to come dressed in their favorite comic book character for a meet and greet autograph session with Cipes. The event is sponsored by Car Audio Specialists and Meltwrap.com.
—Learn more:
Mariner Revell rrphawaii@aol.com

(808) 960-5527 between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

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