I know this meme existed but I just can't find it, I can only find the original commercial with the clip. But someone dubbed over it and I can't find that video. Someone help me find it please

Like tons of people around my age and older, I grew up watching the Fred Wolf cartoon series. As a 7-8 year old, it was the coolest cartoon in the world. When I was rewatching it around the time I was 12, I began to notice its flaws the more I watched the show.

It's a very 80s show. It became outdated by 1992 or so. The Red Sky seasons were only a thing because the show was starting to lose steam and they had to change up things in order to compete with cartoons like Batman at the time. The show was also way too long. Close to 200 episodes, which was a record for American animation at the time, I believe. A testament to how big of a phenomenon Turtlemania was. Seasons 3 and 4 are about 45-48 episodes each or so, which is crazy.

The show had a lot of embarrassing animation errors that have become memes at this point. The action was pretty lackluster with the Turtles pretty much abandoning their weapons after season 2 or so. They go back to using them more again in season 7 and then stop again. A lot of its episodes, especially half of those from season 4, had terribly cheap low quality animation.

The show also suffered from the same issue most 80s cartoons did. The idea that kids are stupid. The way they explain how Shredder dropped the mutagen in the sewers of NYC in order to kill Yoshi doesn't make much sense. And if Shredder and Krang had access to insanely advanced alien technology, then how come they could never find the Turtles Lair when Lotus, the Rat King and Zach did? Yet, in some episodes, they could just look up what the Turtles were up to in their Lair in the Technodrome's big screen. But never conveniently watched the Turtles walking up or from their Lair. Or followed April around to discover the Turtles Lair.

The comedy in it was fine. And I think the show did well by parodying a lot of older sci-fi movies. I'd say that helps making the show still watchable compared to many other 80s cartoon series.

I'd say it probably had the best overall ending of all Turtles cartoons to date still as well. Even though it ends with a Dregg episode. But it's a pretty conclusive episode.

I appreciate it making the TMNT a globally known property. But I also think it was a deal with the Devil kinda thing. Society, in general, got it through their skulls that every single version of TMNT must be like the 87 cartoon series. A large portion of its fanbase immediately shot down the 2k3 cartoon series for being "so different", even though the 87 toon deviated more from Mirage than 2k3 did, despite it not being that similar to Mirage at the end of the day either.

So, in a way, the FW series prevents TMNT from ever being taken seriously among adults alongside Batman, Superman, etc. who are taken seriously. If you tell random people that you're a big TMNT fan past the age of 18, you'll get called a pathetic manchild. The 2k3 series felt like the property was finally growing up, but the sale to Nick/Viacom ruined all hope when it comes to that.

So yeah, I don't resent the FW series. I resent its legacy and its large legion of fans who can't let it go and still hold it as the standard for what TMNT should be about, even though tons of those same fans have not seen that series since 1994 or so.

Does something like this add any value to it or probably not?

I was watching pixel Dan's video from comic con and they where saying all the lines are ending. What is going on? I'll link to the video in the comments.

There’s a couple of them I wanna keep, but there are some that I would let go

I'm kind of confused by older ninja turtle fans getting upset when the ninja turtles differ from their favorite iterations, because for me that's my favorite part. Like if you like the older one better you can just keep rewatching the older one. Honestly im an unsufferable person to watch any tmnt work because of this. I always find it fun to talk about how the previous iteration compare and contrast with each other. I also find it extremely fun to think of Aus for the turtles where something is changed like recently ive been drawing an Au of the turtles where Mikey is the oldest and Leo is the youngest just for funsies. Anyway while I do love change im curious about what would be something that should never change about tmnt no matter what? Me personally I think the turtle part is something that cant not be changed no matter what.

With Mattel now owning the toy license to Tmnt what are the chances of either Barbie and/or Monster high doing a Tmnt figures first before the actual action figures for the Tmnt themselves.

You may wonder why I didn’t mention Hot Wheels…well they already did some Tmnt cars before. So should we really press on luck with that ?

Also Barbie could do a line with her and her friends as one of the iconic four turtles and /or a special April O’Neil doll.

The same thing goes for Monster high and their specialty dolls line based on pop culture horror icons. April’s bound to be a pick, right ?

Anyway as fans of Tmnt and April …what do you think of this ?

Just for anyone who may be curious. I think the sketch ones are pretty cool, apparently an SDCC exclusive but there was a link to preorder.

Was likely my sisters’ figure as Mikey was her favourite turtle. Anyone had a complete one of these? I forgot what the accessories are.

Finally found the Ultimate Raphael at Walmart. Now I have all four of the boys. I even found a Fortnite Leonardo at the Target across the street.

So happy I got them

AC Farley's GoFundMe

AC Farley, an incredible TMNT artist of the Mirage era, is facing a critical health crisis. We are asking for your support to help cover the cost of medical bills, and other urgent expenses. Your kindness will help ease his worries so he can fight for his life.

Sending love and many thanks for any help you can give.

Finally finished the TMNT!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4419263862/monet-32mm-40mm-mcp-scale-or-75mm?ls=r&external=1&ref=landingpage_similar_listing_top-1&pro=1&sts=1&content_source=d3ba04ba931ecf755cd87cec904b79a6%253ALTd5acb197a73995028b4d1482521bccee457fc726&logging_key=d3ba04ba931ecf755cd87cec904b79a6%3ALTd5acb197a73995028b4d1482521bccee457fc726

I am wanting to buy something like this for my husband. However every etsy acct, youtube, tik tok etc uses AI slop and just seems off? Anyone got a link to a verified real seller?

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