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News Credits: 1 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:47 am

I loved it. the only thing I hated about it were the commercials and that announcers voice when he kept saying the show was back. Now I just hope they don't do what they said and put it on for 3 more weeks. Too many times in my opinion.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:05 pm

Cheetron wrote:Now I just hope they don't do what they said and put it on for 3 more weeks. Too many times in my opinion.

Some people I know might like that because they missed it the first time around.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:39 pm

Completely missed it as I slept in then sat at my computer and watched desertbus.org.

But after facepalming and looked for "other means" to watch it, got a copy and loved the entire thing. The old school Turtles were done to the way they should have been and the trip to their world was a good laugh. But the trip to Turtle Prime was simply amazing.

The Mirage turtles looked perfect and the whole "monologue" from Leo fit the original comics spot on. The only issue I really had with the whole show was the uselessness of the Mirage Shredder. Yes the 80's Shredder was a doofus (which he was) the way that the original was dispatched so easily was just sad.

And the updated Technodrome was amazingly bad-ass.

News Credits: 487 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:15 pm

Cheetron wrote:Now I just hope they don't do what they said and put it on for 3 more weeks. Too many times in my opinion.

They are, but not in the way you're thinking. They're airing it over the three weeks in three 30 minute parts instead of the whole 90 minute thing all three weekends.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:26 pm

and sometime after that it will be put out on DVD with 12 more minutes. I'll buy it if it's not overpriced.

News Credits: 767 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:57 pm

It was awesome, very awesome and I hope Nick keeps in the tone of the 2003 series or close to it.

I loved how the original Shredder showed up just to fall of the roof and die because of getting trash thrown at him complete with the classical cat scream following his fall.

Looking at it the 2003 Turtles really where the best of both worlds, funny yet still dark and I loved how the 03 Shredder was afraid of the classic Turtles.

The only thing I didn't like was how the classic cartoon Turtle characters where reduced to nothing but slapstick for the most part, the Turtles being nothing but Miky clones, Shredder not having a moment of glory (still better than the original one) I do know that the show was cheesy and kiddy but it wasn't as bad as shown in that show and since when did the Turtles show themselves in public without wearing long coats and hats to conceal themselves. But heck I still loved them.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:56 pm

I agree with Dead Metal about the old toon Turtles being too over the top, but I still loved it. Rockstead and Bepop kind of saving the day made me LOL really hard. I always loved those bumbling idiots

News Credits: 462 · Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:04 pm

Favorite line of the movie:

"This is the lamest vehicle in the history of lame vehicles!" - 2003 Mikey, regarding the Turtle Blimp.

:lol:

News Credits: 2 · Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:08 pm

Mine was...

"Soon, I will bring this world to its knees! And then-!"

"Wait! Stop! Come back here with my command chair! That's an order!"

News Credits: 767 · Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:49 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Favorite line of the movie:

"This is the lamest vehicle in the history of lame vehicles!" - 2003 Mikey, regarding the Turtle Blimp.

But it's true, I always hated it for how stupid it was.

Mine are:

"Sweet! they have initials on their belt buckets, like Superheroes!"

"Haha, I am HERE! Coem and face you-"

*Falls to his death* Wimpiest Shredder ever.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:35 am

Dead Metal wrote:"Haha, I am HERE! Coem and face you-"

*Falls to his death* Wimpiest Shredder ever.

I don't think he fell to his death in that part. But I'm pretty sure that that bit was meant as a joke in regarding the fact that he was killed in the very first issue of the Mirage TMNT Comics.

Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:53 pm

I missed watching. Work obligations. I will be buying the dvd. And they need to release season 9 and 10 and the tv special on dvd as well.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:12 pm

Coughler wrote:I missed watching. Work obligations. I will be buying the dvd. And they need to release season 9 and 10 and the tv special on dvd as well.

It's been put on YouTube.

News Credits: 37 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:52 am

Im not really a TMNT fan anymore, I was when I was in 3rd grade though. But, I saw part of this saturday.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:45 am

As someone who first saw the 80s TMNT on reruns as a kid, then got into the original comics and the RPG, and then skimmed the 2000s series, I really enjoyed Turtles Forever.

I think that the type of person who can enjoy the crossover the most is someone who has exposure to TMNT history. There are in-jokes and times of self-awareness that you can only "get" if you've watched and read a fair bit of TMNT.

True, this wasn't perfect and not everyone was exactly spot on but the tone and treatment of the script seemed to come from the "right" spot. It felt like this wasn't simply a series special given a half-hearted effort in order to try to cash in on the remnants of TMNT fandom and awareness in the mainstream with kids. Even if this was the last of any TMNT cartoon produced, I feel satisfied with considering this as the final chapter of the animated turtles. Turtles felt a bit like a fond retrospective on the broad strokes/big points of TMNT history.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:43 pm

I just read about the TMNT RPG the other day...I want it.

Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:33 pm

I remember watching TMNT back in the 80's and early 90's. It was one of my favorite cartoons.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:29 pm

original sin wrote:I just read about the TMNT RPG the other day...I want it.

I was just thinking I should try to find my old copy of that book, I have it and about 4-5 expansions somewhere boxed up.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:05 pm

Editor wrote:
original sin wrote:I just read about the TMNT RPG the other day...I want it.

I was just thinking I should try to find my old copy of that book, I have it and about 4-5 expansions somewhere boxed up.

I've never really been into RPG's like that, the pen and paper kind. But after reading about it and the post TMNT versions of it, it sounds amazing. Anthromorphic superheroes(and villains)=amazing

News Credits: 3 · Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:34 pm

rpg is my native language :-B

News Credits: 2 · Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:14 am

The TMNT RPG was cool. I remember playing it in the late 90s with friends. At the time, we could find all sorts of older RPGs for low prices at second hand book stores. We bought a box full of Palladium RPG books, including TMNT.

I actually prefer the HERO System over other RPGs because while it is numbers heavy, it's the most adaptive RPG system I've come across. If you want to go into a more traditional hack 'n' slash number crunching D&D route, you can. If you want to go into a more RP heavy direction, you can too. It's a very robust RPG system and you don't need to get a dozen expansion books to feel like you have a complete system.