Honda creates customized GROMs featuring Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

JAPAN – January 20, 2014 – In collaboration with Nickelodeon, Honda created five customized concept GROM models based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles during the Tokyo Auto Salon 2014, an annual custom automotive exhibition held from 12 to 14 January at Chiba’s Makuhari Messe.

 

The Honda GROM (Honda MSX125) is a 125cc motorcycle, targeted at the youth market and popular due to its unique style and coloring. The motorcycles on display at the event were based on the four main characters of the media franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) said in a press release.

 

 

Visual elements from the television series, which draws inspiration from both American and Japanese animation, showcased the stylistic effect of a printed comic that were used to outfit the vehicles. Mask motifs and the characters’ names covered the headlights of four motorcycles which were also wrapped and painted in the Turtles’ signature colors – Leonardo’s in blue, Donatello’s in purple, Raphael’s in red, and Michelangelo’s in orange.

 

Nickelodeon’s master licensee of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dreams Come True will be showcasing the GROMs from January 22 to 23 at a by invitation only event at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center in Hamamatsucho. There are also plans for Honda to display the one-of-a-kind motorcycles at upcoming automotive shows and its showroom in Aoyama.