Nick's TMNT

Maybe this one will give 2003 the credit it deserves and not write a bunch of "Turtles in Time stuff" blatantly ignoring it to fawn over '87.

Same opinion as slimcoder and Etheru.

As mentioned in my previous post I have seen better race lift depictions of April via fan art on Tumblr of all places. The design of this character is lackluster (along with the other designs) rather than the fact she is now black. I say lose the glasses and change the hair to similar curls she have in both the Mirage comics AND movie, and we have a good design for April in this show.

You mean the way the 2003 one made a film bashing 87 to prove its own superiority?

No, the one that poked a lot of fun at '87, but ultimately made a point through Splinter that it deserves just as much respect as the '03 turtles, had the '03 turtles themselves being humiliated by the Mirage turtles, and had '87 characters save the day, even if by accident.

I don't think they can legally reference the '03 show and only have distribution rights to it. If so, it would explain why the two characters from there in the '12 show barely resemble themselves. Also, they can't even get the voice actors back because they're non-union, or something.

edited 6th Feb '18 1:46:45 AM by GamerSlyRatchet

I've heard that Usagi Yojimbo is getting an animated adaptation, any truth to this?

I think they can at least get Sam Riegel (Donatello) and Michael Sinterniklaas (Leonardo), since those two have become more relatively mainstream VAs, with the former being a voice director and actor for Ducktales, and the latter still doing some anime voice acting, but also having shown up in OK KO!.

But yeah, I never liked how the series characterized the (I think) two 2003 cartoon characters. While the series always tended to borrow liberally from previous incarnations (such as the Rat King and even Bebop and Rocksteady), it felt like they didn't care much for the 2003 series at all, hence why it got only two representatives who were nothing like their previous incarnation (although to be fair, neither were Mona Lisa or Tokka).

Given that Bishop was a model swap of a basic Norman Kraangenhoffer, I'm almost inclined to believe that Hun was a model swap instead of being a convenient model for past!Oroku Saki.

Wouldn't surprise me if there was at least some interest, thanks to the crossover with the 2012 series.

edited 6th Feb '18 5:01:56 PM by Etheru

One things' for sure: Rob Paulsen is the voice director. So I am looking forward to how the acting sounds anyway.

The boys in Injustice 2 trailer:

Finally a modern TMNT video game design that looks cool!

They're basically just the live action Jim Henson film designs though. :P

Although I like how Michelangelo weaponizes his skateboard. I should steal that if I ever make a TMNT show...

edited 8th Feb '18 5:05:01 PM by Etheru

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I mean, I like what the 2012 series did to make everyone stand out, but these new designs prove...yeah, the Henson models were fine.

Also Turtles vs DC. The crossover no one asked for yet seem surprisingly happy with.

Also yes, Usagi Yojimbo is getting a cartoon.

Personally I would have liked a comic about the 2012 Turtles meeting the 2003 Titans.

Especially for the obligatory gag where Michelangelo and Beast Boy accuse the other of stealing his voice.

edited 9th Feb '18 1:47:22 PM by Etheru

I'm pretty sure the logic was more, "we're not the live action films, so we can do our own thing and our demographic likely won't have even watched the movies anyway".

It has nothing to do with "fixing" anything, it's about not being a slave to nostalgia.

The last show only ended a few months ago. It’s hard to be nostalgic for something that ended that short a time ago.

I was referring to the Henson models that Injustice 2 used not the 2012 show.

Ok.

So this show is gonna be lighter & softer compared to its predecessor?

How dark did the last one get?

I liked tuned out around the second season cause Nick's irregular scheduling of the show prevented me from watching it.

Season 4's penultimate episode ended with Splinter being impaled and thrown off a building, and actually staying dead.

And yes, the impalement is (mostly) on-screen, albeit not that bloody.

It's mostly between the 80's show and the 2003 show in terms of darkness. There are some times where it gets dark as shit though (the mutations, stuff that Shredder does, ...literally anything about the Rat King in this show).

Here's video showing the toy line. It shows some details regarding some heroes and villains, and it also confirms that the show will premiere in September and will have 11 minute episodes.

Wait the leader of the foot is some dude called Baron Dracksom.

Baron Draxum. He's the villain John Cena is voicing.

Though there's also the fact that they said we won't see the Shredder "yet".

Of all the actors, I never would have pegged John Cena as someone who'd voice a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain.

So...Cena finally turned heel?