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April O'Neil (swimsuit bikini), "Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) animation cel

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Title:	April O'Neil (swimsuit bikini), "Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) animation cel
Artist:	None Specified
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Animation
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	12,021
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Added to Site:	6/22/2020
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Happy beginning of Summer, 2020! In honor of the season change, this is my 50th animation cel upload, featuring a rare (and unused) look at April O'Neil on vacation.

From the third season Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Fred Wolf Films) episode "Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp," this cel features April O'Neil's only appearance in her swimsuit. April only appears in her bikini for about 2 seconds of the actual episode, as the focus of the scene is on Donatello's conversation with Irma (also in her swimsuit), trying to recruit them to help out their friends the Punk Frogs. Irma wants nothing to do with it and runs off, never to be seen again for the rest of the episode. April doesn't say a word, but an immediate cut to the next scene shows her suited up in her familiar yellow jumpsuit.

If you watch the animation closely in the finished episode, April doesn't move at all, as we only see her static in a single cel while Irma moves and speaks. However, this cel shows April's hands at a different position than the pose seen in the episode, illustrating that some animation was planned and prepared for April, which never made it into the finished episode. The seller from whom I purchased this cel actually had a total of seven cels featuring unused April animations.

This is a painted acetate cel layered over background print. In this case, the the supplied background basically matches the episode context. These cels were sold framed in mats and protective plastic sleeves at various toy and department stores throughout the early 1990s under the "Animation Art" label. This cel was scanned inside the sealed plastic sleeve, so the image clarity suffers a bit. Also attached is a screencap from the VUDU digital copy, showing the approximate cel in its final form around the 6 minute, 20-22 seconds mark.

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	O. M. Winters
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Last Login:	September 2025
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