Well Ninja Turtles 2 did inspire the designs for Tokka and Rahzar, and even the 87 series had them in an ep together, although much smarter. As for the August date for it, why not? The last "new" ep that came out was Zixxth Sense, and that was October of last year. Why wait for 2009 to have the new season, unless they want to do the same thing with Ninja Turtles that Fox is doing with 24 and ABC's doing with Lost by taking a year off.