--- title: Pizza Hut Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower at Comic Con description: Pizza Hut builds Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower for San Diego Comic-Con. canonical: https://time.com/3023490/pizza-hut-built-a-giant-real-life-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-pizza-thrower/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-23T15:12:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:52.582Z og:title: Pizza Hut Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower at Comic Con og:description: That will launch actual pizza at Comic Con-goers og:url: https://time.com/3023490/pizza-hut-built-a-giant-real-life-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-pizza-thrower/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte657f33f5aba4d90/69869cbf06f2c10baf330038/tmnt.jpeg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 400 og:image:height: 225 og:image:alt: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pizza Hut Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower at Comic Con twitter:description: That will launch actual pizza at Comic Con-goers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte657f33f5aba4d90/69869cbf06f2c10baf330038/tmnt.jpeg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Pizza Hut Built a Giant, Real-Life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pizza Thrower > Sponsored content. 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Other publicity stunts involve building a 12-foot Pizza Thrower and realizing your _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle_ dreams. Thank you, Pizza Hut, for providing the latter. The chain will [debut](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pizza-hut-to-debut-life-size-fully-functional-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-pizza-thrower-at-comic-con-2014-07-22) a massive vehicle, complete with a 16-foot rotating cannon to launch pizzas, at Comic-Con in San Diego, which takes place July 24-27. Comic-Con goers, who probably owned the toy version seen below, will literally eat it up. Well, metaphorically eat it up. Unfortunately the launched pizzas will be fake. 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