This Decaying Ninja Turtle Costume Will Give You Nightmares

What Leo should look like (via Entertainment Earth)

There is no shortage of Hollywood memorabilia available on the Internet.

So why would you want this—a discolored, crumbling costume from a movie only 12 people ever watched?

The Leonardo suit, worn by Mark Caso in Stuart Gillard’s finale to the 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy, is up for grabs in a Prop Store auction.

The lot went live today, offering a 25-year-old green turtle bodysuit to the highest bidder—starting at £5,000 ($6,115).

Leo’s rotting corpse is estimated to bring in between £10,000 ($12,230) and £15,000 ($18,350).

Cowabunga, indeed! (via Prop Store)

And he can be yours for a little as £5,000 ($6,115) (via Prop Store)

The body and head show substantial breakdown require restoration (via Prop Store)

Even his toenails are falling off (via Prop Store)

Children of the ’80s and ’90s no doubt recognize the four pizza-obsessed crime-fighting reptiles named after Italian Renaissance artists.

Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael—trained by their rat sensei Splinter—must protect the very city from which they have to hide their true identities.

This costume should have remained hidden, quite frankly.

The rubbery bodysuit looks like it spent the past two decades in the same sewer as the turtle bros—its faded blue mask stretched above disintegrating eyelids and a ghoulish grin full of cracked resin teeth.

“Both the body and head of the costume show substantial breakdown to the foam latex elements and require restoration,” according to the Prop Store item description.

The body is currently filled with “some” stuffing and rests on an oversized clothes hanger, but needs additional work to make it stand.

Want to feed your nostalgia without fear?

Other TMNT collectibles include a pair of aluminum swords yielded by Caso as Leo (starting at £2,000/$2,445), a scale model of Leonardo from a pre-digital live-action production (£1,000/$1,220), and a life-size Raphael statue from the promotion of 2016’s TMNT: Out of the Shadows (£2,000/$2,445).

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