Mirage C.E.O. Gary Richardson recently took a world wide trek to the Land Down Under to take care of some TMNT business in Australia. Here's some pix of the totally Turtly tour! Whatta trip!
bridge
The soaring Sydney Harbor Bridge.
harbor
A view of the scintilating Sydney skyline from the Harbor.
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The Sydney Opera House, packed to the gills.
space needle
Danile Ha (left) and Con Goutzoulas (right) from Gaffney pose with Gary at a historic site near the Space Needle in Sydney.
Gaffney
First stop: the Gaffney headquarters in Melbourne.
entrance
The Gaffney HQ entrance. Does that doorman look familiar to you? Go ninja, go ninja, go!
conference roon
The mondo-sized Gaffney conference room - you can tell big deals are done here!
samples
A sampling of Turtle merch, new and old, inside Gaffney's HQ.
crew
Some of the top brass at Gaffney. From left to right: Fred Gaffney (Chairman), Gary, Daniel Ha (Brand Manager), Lim Mi-Kyoung (Director of Licensing) and Stuart Coventry (General Manager). Gary feels right at home. :)
booth
Off to Toy Fair! Here's Gaffney's booth.
ed and gary
Gaffney C.E.O. Ed Medica and Gary at the Gaffney booth.
gary
That's one tall display!
funtastic
Sarah Lee, Licensing Manager for Funtastic Ltd. poses with Gary at their booth. Funtastic Ltd. is one of the key TMNT licensees and the distributor for Playmates Toys in Australia.
booth
Funtastic's booth.
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Playmates merch at the Funtastic booth.
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A final shot of the Funtastic booth.
leisure
Leisure Dynamics' booth, TMNT ball licensee.
That's everything Gray had a chance to shoot - we hope tha that you enjoyed a quick tour of a long and fruitful trip!

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