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MrJacobs posted:It fits as well as a 15 year old mutant super genius able to make technology work on a level only seen by multi-billion dollar technology corporations. Seriously, how the gently caress did Donatello build half those drat things from old newspapers and turds since thats all he would really have to work with? By reverse engineering really advanced alien technology? And losing your family and mutating into an animal with notoriously low life spans has to age a dude quickly.
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bouncyman posted:So when is the next season supposed to start? This Fall! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPBfHlk40xE Friday marks my last day working on Turtles. I'm off to board now at Titmouse for Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja. I feel bad that I haven't been able to say much about the show's inner workings. I can never tell what's under wraps and what's ok to discuss (and then they go and post stuff like this!). That said, I do want to post a little bit about my two years on Turtles soon.
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Recycle Bin posted:I feel bad that I haven't been able to say much about the show's inner workings. I can never tell what's under wraps and what's ok to discuss (and then they go and post stuff like this!). That said, I do want to post a little bit about my two years on Turtles soon. Do you have any idea how the show is doing commercially out of interest? I'm presuming it has to be doing well given that it was renewed for not just one, but two more seasons less than half way through season one, but I've never seen numbers or anything at the same time. Veg posted:Slash is billed as a good guy for next season While that's cool and all, Slash is another turtle and I was specifically asking for another mutant of a different type than a turtle that was a good guy and helpful in fights. Admittedly I had forgotten about Pete and Dr. Monkey, who I do hope come back at some point just for their oddness, but I'm still hoping for something like a mutant elephant or giraffe or something that's just a good guy basically. Also, for Donny to make himself a metal or composite stave because jesus gently caress why is he still using a wooden one that breaks every few episodes?
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Recycle Bin posted:This Fall! Well, at least all that experience with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will help you with what I'm assuming is a non-mutant human teenage ninja.
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tsob posted:Do you have any idea how the show is doing commercially out of interest? I'm presuming it has to be doing well given that it was renewed for not just one, but two more seasons less than half way through season one, but I've never seen numbers or anything at the same time. I can't comment on numbers, but working in a toy store it certainly seems really popular. I get parents and grandparents coming in or calling and asking about it all the time, it seems to move about as much as other major toy lines like Hot Wheels.
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tsob posted:Do you have any idea how the show is doing commercially out of interest? I'm presuming it has to be doing well given that it was renewed for not just one, but two more seasons less than half way through season one, but I've never seen numbers or anything at the same time. If we're calling in random animals I want some Usagi.
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Dr_Amazing posted:If we're calling in random animals I want some Usagi. Hell yea Usagi is my #1 hope for the upcoming season, I was actually kind of surprised he wasn't introducted in the first when you think about all the other mutants they threw in.
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I think Usagi's not a mutant and is from a completely unrelaed comic and now the turtles' liscensing has changed so I don't know about the chances of his appearanceRecycle Bin posted:This Fall! Here's some spoilerly preview sketches of season 2. While back I had teased about them but I did not want to post them until season 1 was finished.
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Dr_Amazing posted:If we're calling in random animals I want some Usagi. The trick with Usagi is that he isn't part of the Turtles franchise proper; he's owned by his original creator, Stan Sakai. So it'd be a matter of whether or not Nick wanted to work something out with Sakai. Of course, if you ever want more Usagi Yojimbo, his own comic has been published over the past 26 years, and is the second longest-running comic under a single creator; it's a fantastic series that I can't recommend enough, especially if you like the tone of the current cartoon. Usagi Yojimbo is a good deal more melodramatic, but also tells a lot of light stories too, and Sakai is probably one of the most gifted cartoonists in the industry.
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Yonic Symbolism posted:I think Usagi's not a mutant and is from a completely unrelaed comic and now the turtles' liscensing has changed so I don't know about the chances of his appearance Ok, I wasn't expecting that Baxter Fly 
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Oh my I love Casey's missing teeth. It looks great, and makes a lot of sense. Poor guy probably got in over his head one or two times.
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It sounds pretty cute hearing a Scottish kid looking forward to "fall" for this show (and others)* A global village. Not a homogenized US-lead war on kids brains like her grandparents say, in a less pleasant way. The kiddo likes a show with a reasonably strong female character, and all they moan about is ninja violence and "awesome" being overused. Some people would have it re branded Hero Turtles again. Twats. *and nature, leaves etc too, but we'll keep that as autumn.
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Would it not behoove the turtles to get ahold of some mutagen, and maybe populate their species a little bit? Hell, just some girls. They're gonna be super lonely. My heart goes out to Donny especially, when April inevitably gets the hots for Casey.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Of course, if you ever want more Usagi Yojimbo, his own comic has been published over the past 26 years, and is the second longest-running comic under a single creator; it's a fantastic series that I can't recommend enough, especially if you like the tone of the current cartoon. Usagi Yojimbo is a good deal more melodramatic, but also tells a lot of light stories too, and Sakai is probably one of the most gifted cartoonists in the industry. Seconded. The series is on a hiatus at the moment but the collections are really good and reasonably priced, It's apparently really historically accurate (talking animals not withstanding) but mainly it is just really good.
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ProfessorLoomis posted:Would it not behoove the turtles to get ahold of some mutagen, and maybe populate their species a little bit? Hell, just some girls. They're gonna be super lonely. My heart goes out to Donny especially, when April inevitably gets the hots for Casey. Beyond the creepy implications and practical issues with your suggestion, I'm just going to point out we've gone down this road before; let's learn from history. Recycle Bin posted:Season 2 premiers Oct. 12 Woooooo ooooooooooo ooooooo 
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Beyond the creepy implications and practical issues with your suggestion, I'm just going to point out we've gone down this road before; let's learn from history. Thanks for reminding me that Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is the only loving thing related to TMNT available on Netflix.
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ProfessorLoomis posted:Would it not behoove the turtles to get ahold of some mutagen, and maybe populate their species a little bit? Hell, just some girls. They're gonna be super lonely. My heart goes out to Donny especially, when April inevitably gets the hots for Casey. Seeing as how the April/Donnie dynamic is nothing but creepy and weird and is probably the worst thing on the show, next to Splinter never helping his sons when the odds are insanely against them. which is actually a testament to how good the program is overall. I hope to god Casey has a cricket bat. I mean sure you have to know what a crumpet is to understand cricket, but I think he can manage.
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MrJacobs posted:Seeing as how the April/Donnie dynamic is nothing but creepy and weird and is probably the worst thing on the show Pretty much. The show is good enough to overlook it, but it's a pretty terrible running gag. And here's a new season 2 preview, on a more positive note.
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MrJacobs posted:Seeing as how the April/Donnie dynamic is nothing but creepy and weird What? I think it's super sweet. It always makes me giggle whenever Donnie does something to impress her.
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A goofball having a crush on a girl is something the target demographic can relate to. That said, the inter-species aspect of it is pretty weird.
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On the other hand it's just plain romantic to lots of people when it's a vampire and a human. Or a werewolf and a human. And aliens and humans are fine in lots of sci-fi. To me it just seems another extension of that so I've never had a problem with it, nor would I if the show actually put them together, though I know that's not going to happen.
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It's not a criminal act or anything, I'm just leaning back and saying "gah!" whenever it comes up.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Pretty much. The show is good enough to overlook it, but it's a pretty terrible running gag. Is Mikey covered in horrible sores and boils at one point when he says "you just got shell shocked son!"? 
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New season just aired.  It'll be interesting to see the hunt for the
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I am really surprised that they'd have the protagonists gently caress up so hard and have such cruel repercussions with April's dad being a mutant. And he'll probably stay that way - Wingnut is a mutant from the 80's franchise. A lot of other shows can't do things like that without the suits stopping them. From the entirety of Transformers Prime to loving Star Trek: Insurrection I've heard the story over and over again. There's so many little things in this show I get such a kick out of, like that loving Game Boy.
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I think Mikey referring to him as Wingnut was just a quick nod to old fart fans like us. I don't think they intend to use the name. I don't watch a lot of TV, and very few cartoons, but this incarnation of TMNT is one of the best written kids' shows I've ever watched. Nick's writers do a good job writing for the kids while throwing in tons of stuff for old fans. It's cool that kids have gotten such an enjoyable version of the turtles to watch. I have very little hope that the new TMNT movie will be anything other than terrible and make the Nick TMNT look like absolute gold by comparison.
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It's a good way to amp up the merchandising potential and give a very strong story beat - it feels like a screwup they'll be dealing with repercussions of for a good long while. The former part may seem negative, but I recognize that merch is the lifeblood of most cartoons these days, and I'm fine with that.
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Of all the references I expected to see in a TMNT episode "dramatic chipmunk" wasn't one of them. Seems like this season is the one where they'll find a cure for the mutagen given the events here. I wonder what Shredder's plan is beside "get more useless foot soldiers."
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Well, the old show had anti-mutagen.
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ProfessorLoomis posted:Well, the old show had anti-mutagen. He'll it even had an anti mutagen gun.
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I wonder why every other person who gets exposed to mutagen is huge and disproportionate? I've been thinking the turtles must have received a low dose when they were babies, so they didn't mutate horrifically. Just my theory.
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ProfessorLoomis posted:I wonder why every other person who gets exposed to mutagen is huge and disproportionate? I've been thinking the turtles must have received a low dose when they were babies, so they didn't mutate horrifically. Just my theory. I'm also curious why the main characters all came out intelligent, while most of the random guys are almost completely feral.
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Ah man, loved how this episode was basically one giant homage to Aliens. "Game over, man!" indeed.
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PureRok posted:Ah man, loved how this episode was basically one giant homage to Aliens. The best was Splinter's inspiring speech about bravery... Only to have the guys use Metalhead. "There has to be some kind of lesson of brains over bravery or something."
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