Toon Zone Talkback - Nick Acquires Rights for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

In some ways, this is better for the franchise because there will be less companies involved. 4Kids, Mirage and Playmates worked together well for a few years, but then certain quarrels arose on which direction the show should go (hence, the Fast Forward reboot). Now there's only two major parties involved - Nick and Playmates - so the discussion on the direction of the franchise should be less chaotic.

Of course, Playmates was always pushing for the more comedic, juvenile interpretation of the turtles in these past years (Turtle Tots, anyone?), and that seems right up Nick's ally.
 
i'm pretty sure TMNT is the fourth theatrical movie Cubed is talking about.

That and he's talking about things from the past that would be remembered, the new stuff has not happened yet.
 
Dude, that's only 2 years from now. Not that big a deal.

I understand your frustration, but quality products take time. Creators need time to create. It's better to have to wait a couple of years for something good than for the studio to churn out a steady stream of unwatchable garbage. Case in point: all of the video games based on hit movies that were either lame or just plain forgettable because they were rushed through production in order to coincide with the releases of the movies that they were based on.

Trust me, a gap will only wet the viewers appetite for more, and taking the necessary time to craft ultimately makes for a better end product.
 
March 24, 2007 in a marathon to promote the CGI movie.

And as a random trivia fact, the final episode that aired on CN was "The Ultimate Ninja" (though, originally, the CN premiere of "Bishop's Gambit" would've been the final episode aired, but it got replaced at the last second).
 
It's "shark jumping." There are four Turtles, always has been always will be. There are some evil mutant turtles, like Slash or Tokka, but they're different enough from the fab 4 to not make them feel like rehashes.

Besides, why did Venus have boobs? Female turtles don't produce milk.



I said "four theatrical movies," which includes TMNT. As for the new stuff, of course it'll be well-known, but it doesn't exist yet, does it?
 
Turtles don't normally have fingers, eat pizza and practice ninjitsu either. Just sayin'. If you can buy everything else about the TMNT universe, then a female turtle with breasts shouldn't be that much of a stretch. They're mutants, after all; the breasts could've just been part of her mutation.
 
Woah.

I say that this is primarily for the Nicktoons channel to beef up their programming slate. Other than Avatar, Nickelodeon Proper hasn't had too much success with action cartoons (Remember SLAM? Exactly.) Nickelodeon will probably show something TMNT related but I think this is for Nicktoons.
 
Yeah, but I was there the whole way through. I watched the original series consistently all the way through 1996 when it ended. I saw all of the Lord Dregg episodes in their original run. I was just a little kid back in 1996, and I still watched TMNT on CBS every Saturday morning.

I also of course watched all of Next Mutation on Fox in 1997, even though I knew the show was terrible. I tried to enjoy it simply because it was the only TMNT series going on at the time.

Then came 1998...no TMNT...but Pokemon hit the scene as this big new thing so I decided to check it out (since I was a Nintendo fan anyway), and it filled the void of those dead years between 1998-2002 for no TMNT show.

The 2k3 series lasted from 2003-2009...hopefully the DTV movie comes out soon...but now for 2010-2012 there will be nothing till Fall 2012 I imagine. Such a long time. We'll all be so old by 2012 anyway, sometimes I wonder if any of the TMNT fanbase will still be around for its "third major incarnation."
 
You worry too much. You really do.

A break is good for any franchise. Shove something down people's throats for too long and they get sick of it. But make people wait a while for something and you increase your change of success when it does come back. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. It seems to me that nowadays people are far to used to getting what they want, when they want it that they practically fall apart if they have to go without it for even a brief period of time.

As someone who was about 9/10 years old when the original TMNT cartoon and toys were really big and never really warmed up to the 2003 series I'm actually looking forward to seeing what Nick has in store. Some new blood would be nice, at least in my opinion, and I'd welcome any ties to the older series. I'll bet there are lots of people out there who would.

Long story short, people need to stop worrying so much.
 
Well this came out of nowhere (yet not entirely unexpected either). Not sure what to think about the purchase quite yet.

I'm assuming this solves the DVD distribution problem with Turtles Forever?
 
The main problem with Venus was that she was introduced as a "new" character whom viewers were supposed to instantly glom on to and welcome to the main cast with open arms. That rarely works out that way. (Scrappy Doo anyone?) If Venus had been introduced much earlier in TMNT's history, the audience wouldn't have had to adjust to her.

It also didn't help that the character made her TV debut in TMNT: The Next Mutation, a notoriously unpopular series that was quickly gone and forgotten.

I agree with the girl in that comic strip; My issue with Venus wasn't that she existed, but how she existed. If Venus had been around from the get-go as the Turtles' sister, I'd have been perfectly fine with that, but instead, the writers come up with some completely implausible story about Venus living in Japan and then coming to America just so she could be the Turtles' potential love interest. In a word, "Yuck"!
 
You could say the same thing about every cartoon that's in that banner. It's been the same since 2005, possibly earlier, but my memory's not the best.

Personally, I just miss the little animations Matt Wilson made to go along with each click.

Flashback!

*MADE UP TECHNIQUE!*

"Friendship and junk!" ^_^
 
I also imagine Nick or at least Nicktoons will run the 4kids show in the years to come and finally give it a steady weekday rerun slot where it can have many complete runs. This is the TMNT we'll have until 2012 and we might even see the 80s toon air on Nicktoons in that time frame as well. So we may actually have more TMNT on TV than we've had in years between now and 2012. We just wont have new TMNT but for the many kids who may or may not have seen either of those series yet it they would be new to them. And as we all know by now reruns do tend to do rather well on Nickelodeon because kids don't mind seeing the same thing over and over again.
 
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