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

Well Nicktoons will need action shows when they start losing the Marvel Shows. Probably around the same time CW4kids finishes with the Turtles, end of summer start of fall 2010.
 
I don't know, making the series exclusive to Nicktoons would skyrocket that network into mainstream status but from a business standpoint it's hard justifying the amount of money paid to acquire the rights only to make it exclusive to Nicktoons and not Nick proper.

Anyways I think this series can go has far as it wants as long as Nick is willing to put the effort into making this cartoon special. If this is just going to be immature cheesy comedy dreck then it will bomb and the 60 mil would've been for nothing. The fact that it will be in CGI and me knowing what Nick's future animated projects are isn't to reassuring. At least in their live action department Nick is finally making original programs again. If only they put that same effort in their cartoons:sad:
 
Its just that nothing is the same as it was in the 80's and 90's anymore.

Everything about the cartoon business has changed. Disney has bought Marvel, CN airs live-action programming, KidsWB is dead, Foxkids is dead, TMNT is now owned by Nick.

It's like everything I've ever known has been turned upside down.
 
And things in the 80s and 90s were different from the way they were in the 60s and 70s. Different doesn't doesn't always mean bad, you know.

You're overreacting. It's not as if the President declared crime legal or anything that would truly be terrible. Change happens. Sometimes you just have to roll with it.

I, for one, am curious to see why this is going to play out. The new TMNT series can't possibly be worse than Ninja Turtles: the Next Mutation.
 
The Next Mutation villains were just too silly and comical to be used to any great extent. To be fair, some of them might have worked on the 1987 show, but in an edgier universe like that of the '03 show, no.
 
I disagree.

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I need some clarification. I heard before (or at least I believe I heard), that the 2003 was going to be on Nickelodeon this Fall, and then in the recent Dragonball Kai/Voltron thread, heard is would be on Nicktoons.

So is the series going to air on Nick, Nicktoons or both.
 
Which wouldn't be a bad thing, IMHO. The Leo/Raph rivalry can be entertaining if done well, but it can become irritating if overdone. 2007's TMNT is proof of that. I enjoyed the film, but the Raph/Leo thing did drag on a bit.
 
To be honest some of them weren't that out of place. Silver was a mutant ape, Bonesteel was a human bounty hunter, Dragon Lord and his people were from another realm, etc.

Those characters could have fit into either cartoon, but I can see why nothing from Next Mutation is allowed to appear in any other TMNT canon.

I see the Nick series taking some classic 80's cartoon characters, maybe some 2k3 characters like Hun and Bishop, and some comic characters for their villains.
 
I do miss Fox Kids lately.

I'm actually not that surprised that Mirage is selling off TMNT. Laird seemed to me that he had more or less lost interest in the franchise and wanted to wash his hands of it.
 
I didn't say kiddie. I said I figured their TMNT would be like Avatar but potentially not as a serious as that show could get and mind you it could get rather serious. So... not as silly as 80s TMNT by any means... maybe a bit edgier than the pilot season which was as serious as 80s TMNT got or perhaps even as serious as the 4kids show. It's cable too so if they wanted to they could have more violence than the 4kids show but I don't think they'll do that. I don't forsee Nickeoldeon making a PG TMNT show but I wont rule that out entirely either.

No... Forever War? Ah man that freak'n sucks!

And all they can do is make volume releases. Sad... I really wanted more collected books but hopefully Laird will be able to finish the story he intended to tell with his current TMNT comic.
 
Well...depends if they put it on Nick or on Nicktoons. If it's on Nick at a decent slot, of course it'll get more viewers. It's Nickelodeon after all. But if it's on Nicktoons, it probably won't since the number of potential viewers is pretty limited compared to broadcast standards.
 
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