Life-Size, Fully Functional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower To Debut At Comic-Con From Pizza Hut

Paramount Pictures and Pizza Hut are teaming up to bring a huge, working, pizza-throwing machine to this year's San Diego Comic-Con, in celebration of the upcoming release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into theaters.

The Pizza Thrower stands at more than 12 feet tall, 9 feet wide and extending 16 feet long, and boasts a 180-degree rotating tower with a turret-mounted seat to trigger the pizzas.

Comic-Con attendees will have the opportunity to climb aboard the vehicle for practice against targets or to take down Shredder. The thrower will fire faux Pizza Hut Cheesy Bites pizzas at the targets and enemies of the Ninja Turtles.

Visitors can also sample Pizza Hut's Cheesy Bites Pizza while onsite or waiting their turn to operate the Pizza Thrower at the convention. 

"Building the Pizza Thrower as part of our partnership with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film is one of the coolest things we've seen in a while," said Jared Drinkwater, Senior Director of Marketing, Pizza Hut. "There's no better place to bring technology of this scale to life than at Comic-Con. We know that convention goers are going to love taking down Shredder, sampling Cheesy Bites Pizza and will have a lot of fun with both of our brands throughout the convention."

The Pizza Thrower was developed by Syyn Labs, a Los Angeles-based organization that fuses the worlds of technology and interactive sciences with artistic mediums to design and construct visually dynamic spectacles that inspire thought and provoke conversation. For the Pizza Thrower, the construction began on the chassis of a two-decade old pick-up truck. Using a mix of molded box steel tube and fiber glass reinforced plywood for the tank-like structure along with an array of gizmos and gadgets, the developers engineered not only a visually stunning vehicle, but also a functional pizza throwing unit.

Here the Pizza Thrower's specs:

Pizza Thrower Vehicle Specs & Features:

• Dimensions: 12 feet tall; 9 feet wide; 16 feet long
• Weight: Nearly 2 tons
• Chassis: A pick-up truck platform from two decades ago
• Structure Materials: Mix of molded box steel tube and fiberglass reinforced plywood
• Suspension: Modified airbags for 8 inches of vertical travel
• Vehicle Speed: 5-10 mph while shooting; capable of 75 mph
• Thrower Speed: 20 feet per second
• Thrower Distance: 30 feet
• Paint/Finish: Two-tone military green with a pizza-resistant finish
• Cost: Priceless – it's a life-size Pizza Thrower after all!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opens August 8.