I'm not pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive-to-work at-home edition.

So normally I use my at-home times to do interviews, which in today is no exception.

So I have Eric Englehard, who was the lead designer, the lead set designer, of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Hey, Eric.

Hi, Mark. I, Eric. Woo!

Hi, Mark.

Very excited to be on this podcast for the first time.

Okay, so let's get from the very beginning.

How did you end up leading teenage mutant ninja turtles?

Well, I was a game designer at my previous company, which was WizKids working on HeroClix, and there I designed four teenage Ninja Turtles sets. I've always been a big fan of the turtles. And when I came to Wizards, they knew that that was one of the fandums that I had.

And so, yeah, they tapped me to lead turtles.

And I got to lead it all the way from the beginning of exploratory to the end of play design,

which is pretty unusual for a modern set.

But I was the turtles expert in the office.

So that helped.

Yeah, you and I are both comics fans, although you know Turt, I mean, I know Turtles a little bit,

but you know Turtles much, much better than I do.

Yeah, I mean, I'm a huge comic book fan. I have, you know, I have about 60 long boxes of Marvel Comics in the basement there, and I've written for the Marvel Handbooks.

And, you know, and yeah, did a bunch of Marvel and DC superhero sets when I was at working on HeroClicks.

And, yeah, I'm just a huge comics fan.

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