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[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles] Rescue Palooza! New fan game out now.
Ceno
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In 1984, two guys printed a one-shot black and white comic meant to parody the grimdark Frank Miller-esque fare that had recently permeated comic books: Daredevil, Ronin, and New Mutants among them. In the comic, four mutated turtles were trained as ninja by a talking rat in order to avenge his master's death at the hands of a particularly edgy villain named the Shredder. The comic turned out to be surprise success and grew into a regular series. Three years later, a toy company approached the creators and said they wanted to make an action figure line and an animated series based on the franchise. It would have to be tamed down for kids: the turtles were given different colored masks to help differentiate them and an appetite for pizza.
Then the whole world blew up and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were the biggest thing since sliced bread.
The franchise has lived on another 30 years, emerging in various forms; cartoons, live-action movies, video games, comics, and pretty much everything else. In 2009, Nickelodeon purchased the franchise lock, stock, and barrel and revitalized it into (what I consider to be) the best interpretation of the Turtles ever put to film. That CG-animated series has concluded in its fifth season, and a new traditionally animated show - "Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" - debuted in 2018 and is currently running. IDW currently has a pretty great comic book series running as well, which recently broke the record for longest-running TMNT comic.
So let's talk about some T-U-R-T-L-E power. I lived and died by this franchise for pretty much my entire youth and it's still probably the closest franchise to my heart.
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As soon as they announced that April would be a teenager herself for that show I thought of course
Like it's so obvious and a way better fit for April than any other continuity, I can't believe no one has ever thought of it before
I don't think I could go back now, I hope she's young in the new show because a traditionally animated Turtles show sounds really exciting
I do want to go back and get caught up on the current show, I think I fell off around season 2 or 3?
I just don't really watch TV and am not that interested in starting just for this.
I do think it's kind of neat that they're going back to traditional animation.
Raphael loses an eye and then takes on the Shredder mantle to lead the Foot Clan, Donatello falls out of a helicopter and turns into a cyborg, Leo loses a hand, Splinter turns into a bat. This comic was terrible.
Season 4 basically ends the show's story arc. Season 5 is a "Tales Of" collection. I need a blu-ray collection like air, but I doubt they'll ever give it to me.
There were really good jokes in that show. Like this spoof on one of the most recent movies.
Its getting a season of "Tales" but the lastest season closed a bunch of plot holes
Well, more that they didn't bring him back to life at the end, since he'd been thought dead multiple times throughout the series, but still. Surprised.
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I should dig them out sometime
Even the original NES game had some interesting concepts. It was basically a quasi-open world game. But anything that wasn't the arcade game back then was a disappointment.
I'd be kind of cranky if they didn't last way longer than the Arkhangelsk games, though.
Edit: Arkham games. What the hell is that garglemesh up there?
Also, I want a new Power Rangers/TMNT crossover, since they're both on Nick. Hey, if Justice League can do it...
Oh, and for games? Look into Danger of the Ooze if you haven't already. It's really good, and the price seems to be cheap.
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Not that this couldn't be done right, but the last time this happened, it was far and away the worst part of what was otherwise the best season
I imagine it's a sore spot for a lot of fans
(they are neither)
But the controls were just so bad. Some of the combos and moves were just about impossible to pull off if you didn't have seven fingers on one hand.
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The best season of... Power Rangers? I ask, because, to be honest, The Last Mutation was awful from start to finish.
Yeah, In Space makes a LOT of toplists for best Power Rangers seasons, in spite of the fact that it has one of the most dire cross-over episodes in kids shows.
Yeah, I suppose I should have been more clear, forgot we weren't in the PR thread
In Space is terrific except for those two episodes which are about as bad as PR has ever been
I'm assuming, there's a lot of seasons I haven't seen
I absolutely wasn't saying that the show that introduced Venus was good
It had a villain who was a Yeti that was also a mobster crime boss by the name of Silver, and he was voiced by the same VA as Optimus Primal.
I cannot dislike that.
Venus,was such an astounding fucking failure. They literally went out of their way to say the guys werent real brothers so they could ship her!
Im glad they realized making April more prominent was the better route.
I would have kept watching this for years, but there is something to be said for going out after several years of universally quality content without getting stale or bad.
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I think they did the best they could by making that a part of his injuries. Seth grew quite well into the role.
Clearly not, since it's called The Next Mutation.
That show actually had some concepts and designs I really liked. Execution, however, tended to be sorely lacking.
With all the reinvention of things from other parts of the franchise going on in the toons and comics, NM is a sorely untapped gold mine.
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I hear it's quite good.
I need that book.
I've been to New York, and the first time I went, I made a point of getting a slice, because I'd heard for years how great it was -- that and Chicago, the Goku and Vegeta (you decide which is which) of the pizza world.
It was alright. Good even, but hardly the pizza epiphany I was expecting. When it comes to thinking about pizza, it hardly even warranted a footnote.
Maybe I just didn't pick the right place? Or maybe it was hyped to such a degree that nothing could ever meet, much less surpass my expectations?
I don't know, and it kind of bothers me whenever the subject comes up. I still feel like I'm missing something.
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