- Time
- Post link
Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
Checkout the pictures of the anime version aprils cuter.
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
The series quickly evolved from its roots as a parody of the comic 'Daredevil' to be its own... er... critter. And I always loved that in the comic that the same toxic waste container that blinded Matt Murdoch and made him Daredevil was the one that dropped into the sewers and mutated the turtles.
And on an amusing note- the Turtles had visible tails (as turtles do) in the original comics. I used to do lay-outs for my high school's weekly 'news' paper and a friend and I got busted for drawing a TMNT in one issue- because people who didn't know the characters thought we drew turtles with wangs! Same reason they stopped drawing them in later versions.
On a second amusing note I have a video produced from a comic convention about a year before the animated series debuted in which the creators- Eastman and Laird- are talking about the comic and say something to the effect of "we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere." AHahhaahahaaaaa.... talk about an understatement from guys who within a few years could probably wash their windows using the spare cash they had as rags.
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: greencapt
"we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere."
"we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere."
Wow, talk about underestimating your own profitability.
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Wow, talk about underestimating your own profitability.
Originally posted by: greencapt
"we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere."
"we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere."
Wow, talk about underestimating your own profitability.
It only managed to last 9 years.
- Time
- Post link
- The characterisations are more complex. In the original cartoons Leonardo is the gullible one that points out the obvious, Raphael is the smart-ass with the wisecracks, Donatello is the computer science nerd, and Michelangelo is the party dude. In the new cartoons Leonardo is the spiritual one who enjoys solitude and struggles with his role as leader, Raphael is the brooding, passionate one who struggles with his anger, Donatello is still the intellectual one, but often he excludes Michelangelo from his experiments, even though Michelangelo (while being impulsive and foolhardy) is actually smarter than everyone gives him credit (he has often used his brain to get the whole crew out of dicey situations).
- The drawings and animation are better (IMHO, at least). It looks grittier in a more consistent style.
- The storylines are tighter and better conceived. Sometimes the stories go completely crazy, but no crazier than the old ones, and with more plot-twists. My favourite episodes were probably the earliest ones, but the cool thing with the whole series is that it leaves things for a while, then comes back and builds on them when you least expect it.
- It effectively combines the stories of the old cartoons, the comics, and the movies. I think by 'rebooting' the series (a la DC Comics' Infinite Crisis) they had the chance to marry all the elements coherently.
Having said that, the original series was very cool - I watched it every weekday at 4:30pm after school - and I was pissed when they finally took it off the air. I've got about 50 action figures still as well, complete with all the weapons (though suffering the casualty of April O'Niell, who is missing a leg due to my sister's antics as an infant). I LOVE the TMNT movie (the first one, not the rest), it is a tight, 1hr 20m piece of cinematic gold. It is always in my regular viewing rotation as of a few years ago when I dug it up again (I went over all my friend's houses and showed it to them - we loved it). Has it been released on DVD? My video's sound quality is really starting to suffer...
I'm up for a new TMNT movie, so long as it's as well-done as the first one.
How good was it when Chief Sterns asks the gang members at the end if they knew anything? One of them pipes up and says "Check out the East warehouse over on Lairdman Island, you'll find your answers there..." Did anybody get that reference?
http://www.myspace.com/red_ajax
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
The Mangler Bros. Psycho Dayv Armchaireviews Notes on Suicide
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: greencapt
Anyone read the original TMNT black-and-white comics from Mirage press or play the RPG that came out some time ago? TMNT was one of the first indy comics I ever got into and it was much much grittier than any of the animated or film versions. *And* they all wore the same color masks (blood red!).
The series quickly evolved from its roots as a parody of the comic 'Daredevil' to be its own... er... critter. And I always loved that in the comic that the same toxic waste container that blinded Matt Murdoch and made him Daredevil was the one that dropped into the sewers and mutated the turtles.
And on an amusing note- the Turtles had visible tails (as turtles do) in the original comics. I used to do lay-outs for my high school's weekly 'news' paper and a friend and I got busted for drawing a TMNT in one issue- because people who didn't know the characters thought we drew turtles with wangs! Same reason they stopped drawing them in later versions.
On a second amusing note I have a video produced from a comic convention about a year before the animated series debuted in which the creators- Eastman and Laird- are talking about the comic and say something to the effect of "we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere." AHahhaahahaaaaa.... talk about an understatement from guys who within a few years could probably wash their windows using the spare cash they had as rags.
Anyone read the original TMNT black-and-white comics from Mirage press or play the RPG that came out some time ago? TMNT was one of the first indy comics I ever got into and it was much much grittier than any of the animated or film versions. *And* they all wore the same color masks (blood red!).
The series quickly evolved from its roots as a parody of the comic 'Daredevil' to be its own... er... critter. And I always loved that in the comic that the same toxic waste container that blinded Matt Murdoch and made him Daredevil was the one that dropped into the sewers and mutated the turtles.
And on an amusing note- the Turtles had visible tails (as turtles do) in the original comics. I used to do lay-outs for my high school's weekly 'news' paper and a friend and I got busted for drawing a TMNT in one issue- because people who didn't know the characters thought we drew turtles with wangs! Same reason they stopped drawing them in later versions.
On a second amusing note I have a video produced from a comic convention about a year before the animated series debuted in which the creators- Eastman and Laird- are talking about the comic and say something to the effect of "we just had some group approach us about doing an animated version olf the turtles... but those things are generally crap and never glo anywhere." AHahhaahahaaaaa.... talk about an understatement from guys who within a few years could probably wash their windows using the spare cash they had as rags.
i used to love those comics. fond memories. i read them over and over again, then put it back into my acid free plastic to save for all eternity.
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: theredbaron
Has it been released on DVD? My video's sound quality is really starting to suffer...
Has it been released on DVD? My video's sound quality is really starting to suffer...
The first film has been released on DVD... BUT... It's EXTREMELY bare bones, no menues, no extras, just the film. Or at least that's the case on the disk I got. It might have been released again with more to it, but I don't think so. On the bright side it is flipside widescreen/fullscreen so you only need one disk no mater the size of your television.
- Time
- Post link
And that anime April is very hot.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I don't like that it's supposed to be in CG. The costumes in the original movies were so kickass! And theredbaron, it's so weird, but my April O'Neil also has a severed leg! I still have the leg is the only difference, it just won't go back on.
And that anime April is very hot.
I don't like that it's supposed to be in CG. The costumes in the original movies were so kickass! And theredbaron, it's so weird, but my April O'Neil also has a severed leg! I still have the leg is the only difference, it just won't go back on.
And that anime April is very hot.
Anime girls are always hotter than the american cartoons.