Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

[Phil_A]

The original movie "How It All Began" rocked my world as a kid. I suspect it wasn't actually a film as it was probably under an hour, but compared to the usual 20 minute episodes it was a madness. Loved it.

EDIT: It's on Youtube, class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py0QpvvJl_s

In retrospect, the theme tune sounds an awful lot like a spoof song made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, doesn't it!

One of the great disappointments of my younger life was finally getting to see the "How It All Began" video, and the crushing realisation that instead of it being the (for some reason unaired in the UK) miniseries that explains the Turtles origins, it was actually a cobbled-together clip show from episodes I'd already seen. What a rip-off.

Didn't the original Turtles cartoon run for a ridiculously long time, as in years after everyone in this country had lost interest? I remember reading about later seasons where they'd dumped Shredder and Krang and were now fighting some rubbish new alien villains, and this somehow went on till 1996!

[BlodwynPig]

It fills me with some sort of melancholy to think that kiddies in Venezuela, poor areas of Russia, Cambodia and Bosnia are still tuning in to that old cartoon with glee and joy.

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I liked that evil pink brain thing. He was a good laugh.

The Real Ghostbusters had one of those, as well.



Very thrilling to look at, I am sure you will agree.

[Sivead]

Didn't the original Turtles cartoon run for a ridiculously long time, as in years after everyone in this country had lost interest? I remember reading about later seasons where they'd dumped Shredder and Krang and were now fighting some rubbish new alien villains, and this somehow went on till 1996!

I don't know about the later seasons but the toys were really straying into any theme they could.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_j_ErNmwok

And I'll just leave this here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjit0hlj04s

[SteveDave]

And I'll just leave this here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjit0hlj04s

I thought that was going to be this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLRBb8jf7PY

VERY NSFW

[small_world]

Turtles Arcade Game here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxiRxcu7xc

I must have really been shit at this as I can remember the very first part with the multi-coloured ninjas and the stairs and stuff, but I can't remember going inside the building April O'Neil was in...

Another one I have quite clear memories of is the Simpson's arcade game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqZ8E-vQCAg
I must have been better at this one as I can remember the Krusty Balloon second level boss. M
Maybe it was the same as the computer version and I had that...

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I've discovered it was the "wacky action" range of Turtle figure that was doing the rounds at my school for the brief time I was aware of them.  I especially remember the one spinning on his back, and I assumed all the Turtles had that feature - actually they all had their own wind-up movement.

Here's the advert:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deBgn1aTfik

I actually had no idea until recently that the Turtle action figure range extended beyond that.  Seems like there were loads.  Including

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[Miasma]

Turtles Arcade Game

I must have really been shit at this

I'm not sure that there was a way to be particularly good at that game was there? Progress on both the turtles and the Simpsons games (and Michael Jackson's moonwalker one too, now I think about it) seemed more down to the amount of pocket money you were prepared to funnel down the slot than leet skillz...

[Phil_A]

I don't know about the later seasons but the toys were really straying into any theme they could.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_j_ErNmwok

And I'll just leave this here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjit0hlj04s

I think this has to be the undisputed highlight of that video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ajychXZVyI

[Spiteface]

I liked it when they teamed up with the Power Rangers that one time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_3vw0umhg

The live-action Turtles series "The Next Mutation" is awful [nb]so bad it's pretty much disowned by one of the original creators, in particular the fifth female turtle introduced in the show.[/nb], so a crossover with Power Rangers In Space is pretty much the only noteworthy thing to come out of it.

[thecuriousorange]

The Real Ghostbusters had one of those, as well.



Very thrilling to look at, I am sure you will agree.

I had that when I was about four!

In hindsight, what the fuck is it even supposed to be?

I liked it though.

[rjd2]

So who was everyone's favorite turtle? Raphael right? Mikey way to annoying, bit of a cock actually.

Not arsed about the other 2, pair of dull cunts.

[Thomas]

So who was everyone's favorite turtle? Raphael right?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-clearly-gamed-which-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtl,35710/

[El Unicornio, mang]

Donatello, just because he had a purple bandana and I like purple (see also: Skywarp from Transformers)

[eluc55]

Anyone but Raphael, who was a rude, hotheaded twat.

Probably Leonardo. He didn't just have the coolest weapon: a katana. He had two times the coolest weapon: two katanas.

[Urinal Cake]

During school and the early part of uni whenever there was some group assignment I used to go to myself, 'So I guess I'm the Donatello/Michelangelo/Leonardo/Raphael (in that order of occurrence) of this shit'.

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In hindsight, what the fuck is it even supposed to be?

A (or the) brain blaster ghost of course.

[Big Jack McBastard]

Bit mad that a couple of bits of wood on chains got censored when there's one with two fuck-off swords and one with two Sai which'll have yer bloody eye out.

You *could* make the argument that a sword or ninja trident thingy would be harder for a kid to get hold of, but then there's one with a bloody staff as well.

What's easier to get hold of: A stick or a set of nunchucks?

Donatello should have been the one getting shitcanned, might have made Michelangelo a bit more bearable if he'd been more violent.

Leonardo was a boot licker, Michelangelo was an annoying tit, Donatello... did science or something. Red lad wins.

[Big Jack McBastard]

I think we can all agree the most disappointing thing about TMNT was that none of them ever got around to shagging April who was, frankly, gagging for it.

Everyone goes for the obvious cartoon redhead of Jessica Rabbit, but dirty April needs peeling out of that yellow number and giving a bloody good wash considering she never changed out of it and spent all that time in the sewer.

Dirty girl. Rawr!

[Consignia]

I think we can all agree the most disappointing thing about TMNT was that none of them ever got around to shagging April who was, frankly, gagging for it.

I'm sure a quick Google search would find some illustrated or written work that would prove that statement wrong. Indeed, I think it may not be beyond impossible to find something that has all of them at it at once.

[Big Jack McBastard]

Ah yes rule 34..

I'm not looking, and I'm guessing April is having a rough time of it.

Even so I'm making a guess their jizz is that glowing pink/white colour of the mutagen, or perhaps the colours of their wrappings.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

So who was everyone's favorite turtle? Raphael right?

No, Rapael is cool, but crude. I'm more sophisticated than his sarcasm.
Leonardo was too earnest and Michaelangelo is always forcing a party atmos', so my most tolerable Turtle was Donatello whose inventive nature showed a commendable work ethic.

[El Unicornio, mang]

So I typed "TMNT porn" into google image search and there's TONS of it. Much of it quite well rendered!

[popcorn]

According to Wikipedia, all the TMNT weapon usage was toned down a bit in the UK cartoon, but it is odd that Michelangelo's nunchaku got the most of it. Nunchaku are apparently pretty useless weapons and were more decorative than deadly. I mean, they are pretty odd, when you think about it. A stick on a thing.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Nunchucks are also harder to get hold of than the other Turtles famous weapons; knives, forks and a stick.

[Consignia]

Nunchuks are more dangerous to people who use them, because a heavy piece of wood attached to something you are holding that can easily swing in your direction rather than an opponent ninja.

[phantom_power]

They are also easier to make yourself. Still bullshit to single them out though

[VegaLA]

The BBFC REALLY had it in for Nunchakus. Wasn't a scene cut from Bruce Lee's 'Enter the dragon' because of this?

[mycroft]

I think we can all agree the most disappointing thing about TMNT was that none of them ever got around to shagging April who was, frankly, gagging for it.

Everyone goes for the obvious cartoon redhead of Jessica Rabbit, but dirty April needs peeling out of that yellow number and giving a bloody good wash considering she never changed out of it and spent all that time in the sewer.

Dirty girl. Rawr!

That Michelangelo had a go, though. Lucky bastard.

[mycroft]

The BBFC REALLY had it in for Nunchakus. Wasn't a scene cut from Bruce Lee's 'Enter the dragon' because of this?

The VHS of 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' had to have them cut, as well. Had there been a spate of nunchuck-related assaults in the mid-80s or what?