Hmmm... this is news to me. I seriously doubt it will come out in 2007 at this rate.
Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
I was obsessed with these guys when I was about five years old. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dr. Who and Star Trek all the way.
My parents wouldn't buy me the action figures, so I made my own out of clay and painted them green. Their arms and legs kept falling off, but I'd just happily glue them back on.
I was a geeky child. Posted by JLM (Member # 7800) on :
They're the world's most fearsome fighting teens They're heros in a half shell and they're green When the evil shredder attacks These turtle boys don't cut 'em no slack
Wow. This is going to be awesome. I'm still in love with the live action versions, though. But, either way, this should be good.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
We just watched several episodes in our continuing quest to make college as much like preschool as possible. That was such a great show! Why don't they make kids shows that good anymore?
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
quote:Originally posted by blacwolve: We just watched several episodes in our continuing quest to make college as much like preschool as possible.
You have no idea how true that statement is. Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Oh, I really do.
Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :
They had a 2003 version of the cartoon series as well. Basically they changed things from the original TV series, which as we all know, is bad and wrong, so it wasn't very good.
Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :
Actually, if you want to talk about changing the original content, the 2003 series is apparently much closer to the original comics, which the late 80s/early 90s series is actually a departure from. Or so I've read. I watched the latter as a child, and have seen a bit of the 2003 version, but never read the comics.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Aw I miss the old movies. Nothing will ever beat them in my mind.
Especially Splinter at the end of the first and second one, "I made a funny, ha ha ha!"
Oh, you dirty rat you.
"I made another funny!"
I used to LOVE TMNT when I was a kid. My mom took my brother and I to see the live on stage performance after we burned out both our copies of the soundtrack. Now THAT makes me, at 21, feel old.
Posted by Earendil18 (Member # 3180) on :
I remember watching the live action ones when I was younger and they were pretty fun.
However, every once in a while I stop in my tracks and ask...
"teenage...mutant....ninja...turtless???"
Double yew tee eff??
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I feel that same way, but I liked it pretty good as a kid. Of course I never got up early enough to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons... :/
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
After studying operant conditioning, I found it very amusing that the master, a rat, was named Skinner.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:After studying operant conditioning, I found it very amusing that the master, a rat, was named Skinner.
Kinda like the first time you watch Sesame Street as an adult and realize why Big Bird's teddy bear is named "Radar". Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
Exactly! Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
Read to get some information on the original comics. I've seen a few of the originals and they were a lot darker than the television show.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
And apparently April was black.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I was more interested in playing with the action figures than in watching the show. I don't mind watching the new cartoon every once in a while.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by neo-dragon: Actually, if you want to talk about changing the original content, the 2003 series is apparently much closer to the original comics, which the late 80s/early 90s series is actually a departure from. Or so I've read. I watched the latter as a child, and have seen a bit of the 2003 version, but never read the comics.
I had a friend who was really into them, he had TWO copies of every comic...one to read, one to collect still in the plastic.
You are right, the comics were NOT the same as the series...they were darker in tone, and were really started as a very sarcastic comment on superheros and comics in general. It was nto ever suppose to become commercial, but of course it did, and all of the edge was lost and it became the very thing it was mocking.
I moved to MA later in life, and oddly enough met one of them in Northampton, one of my friends had known him his whole life. They were from Northampton, it turns out. I don't remember which one I met, but he seemed really down to earth.
Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :
*hits submit button*
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
MWa ha ha ha ha! 68% Donatello!
I'm sooo good!
I think it was mostly because my favorite color is purple and I like technology.
I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
When I was in third grade I learned how to draw them really well. So well that I remember my fellow students surrounding my desk just to see my drawings of them.
I hope the movie is good and not cheezy.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
The cartoons were cheesy though. Horribly. That was one of the things we noticed when we watched as (well, I won't say adults....). But it made it cool too. I liked the cheesiness.
Posted by Jack Bauer (Member # 9182) on :
The first movie pretty closely matched up with several of the first issues of the black and white comics, although it was Leonardo who originally got beat up when they fled to the ranch instead of Raphael.
However, when they came back to New York in the comics, they fought Triceratops-looking aliens in the sewers to get to Shredder, instead of regular foot soldiers.
Posted by akhockey (Member # 8394) on :
quote:Originally posted by Coccinelle: After studying operant conditioning, I found it very amusing that the master, a rat, was named Skinner.
Skinner? Splinter? Wha?
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:However, every once in a while I stop in my tracks and ask...
"teenage...mutant....ninja...turtless???"
Double yew tee eff??
Even worse are the many attempts in the early 90's to play off the popularity of TMNT with more unusual animal combinations, e.g. "Biker Mice from Mars."
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
Oh that's so sad. It is Splinter. For years now I've thought his name was Skinner. Skinner would have been so much more fun.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Long live Lord Krang and the Technodrome!
Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ryuko:
And apparently April was black.
Was that in the Wikipedia article? It says that Baxter was originally black, but nothing about April.
I had no idea the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turutles had recently gotten big again. It's unfortunate that the new movie won't be live action since the special effects would be a lot better now.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Yay, a Mac compatable trailer !
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
I liked that trailer.
Although it made me wonder why they were posing in an alleyway.
Then I berated myself severely for wondering about things that are clearly self-explanatory.
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Kinda like the first time you watch Sesame Street as an adult and realize why Big Bird's teddy bear is named "Radar". ![[Smile]](smile.gif)