WizKids Readies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games for 2015

Early news from the 2015 Origins Game Fair (with me arriving in Columbus, Ohio soon to find out more things firsthand) has WizKids Games announcing a deal with Nickelodeon to release "multiple tabletop games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise".

In what might not be surprising news to those familiar with WizKids, the first two TMNT games planned for release by WizKids are a "special series" of TMNT HeroClix figures and a TMNT Dice Masters game, with both of those scheduled to appear in 2015.

If you're curious as to which versions of the turtles you might see in these games, the answer seems to be "all of them". In a press release announcing the partnership, a representative of WizKids Games writes that the company "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. "

Completely by chance, my 6yo son and I had started to assemble this LEGO set on Wednesday morning before this announcement had been made:

He discovered the Nickelodeon cartoon show while we were on a trip in late May 2015, and I suspect that my wallet will be saddened once he finds out that these games are on the way...