childhood memories.

[PWDESAI]

these are some of the things i remember as a child loving, and still love to this day:
the tmnt music, during the show they would have different music, i loved all of it. It brings back so many memories.
Tmnt toys box art: mostly the vehicles, i love the box art, specially sewer swimm'n donatello's, and the raph floater thing that was shaped in a donut.
tmnt stickers: like from teh custard pies, o man i still have the mikey sticker on my monitor.
ooze: that stuff just rocked
and particularly the episode cowabunga shredhead i crave pizza no more...
going to the babysitters house, and the older kids not letting me play with their tmnt toys i was about 2 or 3, i can't believe i still remember this, i would cry because they wouldn't let me play with the video games or their toys, so i eventually got them all!
going to target and getting the triceraton figure right after the same babysitters
going to krugers or something, and picking up all the storage shell turtles, it was on a rack being shown off to all, and i remember how far away from me it was, i couldn't reach it, they were all the way up there, just waiting to be bought!
at my house after getting the shredder convertible, that would flip in it's wheels and fly or flip em out and drive
loosing a few accesories behing the couch on the day of moving :cry:
going to venture (now out of business) and getting the party leonardo
going to venture with my dad since my mom was working at the same venture, and really wanting the movie star splinter (w/ fur!) so my dad takes me back there and i was about to get the cowboy don (which i never had, and still don't have) and me saying no! mom has what i want, so we went to mom and sure enough she bought it for me and handed it right to me! man i really want that crazy cowboy don now...
well that's all i can remember at the moment.
what're your tmnt memories
ebay here i come for that crazy cowboy don!

[Raphael]

... going into school in a home-made TMNT costume for Dress Up Day. Man, I was so cool. :twink:

[Machias Banshee]

dreaming i'd grow up, fall in love with Michelangelo, and get married...


...wait, i'm still doing that. :P

[Karpo_007]

Well I grew up with archie and the cartoon... I´really liked it back then, i was 6 i think... But nowdays im more into more mature turtles(with penises :dead:).

[DarthRaphael]

The TMNT was the only set of action figures I played with as a kid. I was right in the target age group at the time. I ate, breathed, and slept TMNT. I still have the theme song in my head. I have all of my original figures. I even tried vanilla ice cream on peperoni pizza - not bad really.

Do any of you remember the commercial for the Footski that had the sewer scenes in it? I made my own sewer playset that could actually hold water!!! I wish my parents took pictures of it. It was so cool.

[PWDESAI]

omigod for a minute there i thought you were talking about vanilla ice! shudder :dead:
anywho can u tell me how you made this tmnt sewer that held water.... i'm very interested. You should do it again and take pics! customizing is soooo cool...

[tekcop]

The TMNT was the only set of action figures I played with as a kid. I was right in the target age group at the time. I ate, breathed, and slept TMNT. I still have the theme song in my head. I have all of my original figures. I even tried vanilla ice cream on peperoni pizza - not bad really.


That pretty much sums up my childhood memories of tmnt, well, except for the ice cream pizza thing. *shudder*

[DarthRaphael]

My home-made sewer playset.

It was mostly made of plywood. I made a large rectangular shaped box about 3ft wide by 2ft deep by 18 inches high (I was about 11 or 12 when I made it, it was big to me). I lined the box with sheets of plastic, the thicker the better. It would fold over in the corners so that the plastic could also cover the sides. I never had to use caulk or anything like that - it always held water.

The next step was to build 3 walls. Those were made of cardboard. I layered the board to strengthen it and it took the total height to about 3 feet. In the center of the back wall I made a sewer pipe out of cardboard that was also lined with plastic. It was about 8 inches in diameter and reallly gave it that sewer feeling. I even made a street top for it with a manhole cover. The Turtle Van could park up there and the boys in green could make it down below through the manhole.

I needed walkway along the water like in the cartoon. The only waterproof building supplies I had were my Construx building set. This completed my sewer playset.

I had hours of enjoyment with that playset and it allowed the TMNT to get their feet wet.

[PWDESAI]

yeah memories, rock, that's a cool idea with the sewer playset, i thought u meant that u took the actualy playset and made it to hold water. Anywho, no other childhood memories here?

[speedracer]

The pizza thrower was one of the best toys ever. It shot those things pretty far. And the laws of physics being as they are, you could get the pizzas to curve if you angled the turret.

[prowler4]

Karpo_007 why are you thinking about the ninja turtles with penises? :teek:

[azure turtle]

LOL!! Karpo was referencing a letter in the back of the newest TMNT comic (issue 5). A lady wrote to Peter Laird stating that the turtle tails looked like something esle. :lol:

[Nturtle]

Karpo_007 why are you thinking about the ninja turtles with penises? :teek:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

I remember getting up around 6:00 every morning to catch the Turtles on TV (that's what time it aired on FOX in my area). I used to hold my Fisher Price recorder near the speaker and record the show on cassettes. Then I would listen to those casssettes at night to put me to sleep. :sleep:

I must have over 50 of those cassettes. They're funny to listen to now because I started when I was really young and did it for years. I would announce the episode into the recorder when it flashed on the screen, and you can really hear the difference. When I was younger, I had a really high girly voice. But the last time I did it, my voice had dropped down to a deep bass. :goofygri:

Sometimes my dad would really annoy me, though. He would always get up a little after 6:00, and then he would be really loud on purpose because he knew it would be on my recorder. Like, for example, he'd sing the theme song in a really high voice and think it was funny. :roll:

It's funny now, but it wasn't then. I hated that! :evil:

Shredder: "Don't you know how to say please?"
Krang: "No. But I do know how to say, 'Nooowwwwww!'"
Shredder: "Close enough."

From "Peking Turtle"

[Karpo_007]

That was funny :wink: But wouldn't it have been smarter to record them on vhs?

[Tinselcat]

i wrote a story about the tmnt in second grade. unfortunately, by the time it was finished, no one else was into tmnt anymore. i refused to read it in front of the class, so i hid my head in my desk while the teacher did. i guess you could say that was my first fanfiction.

[Skeletoncrew]

*pats Tinselcat on the head* There there. I was a little "too old" to be an open TMNT fan. I kept it all pretty quiet.

[Machias Banshee]

Jeez, even when they WERE popular, i had to hide it! Being in a catholic school, any sort of thing like that was considered evil...but my reading group name in second grade was "The Ninja Turtles"...so i guess that was okay...

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

I didn't have a VCR back in those days to record the show on vhs tapes. I only got my first VCR about a year after the show quit airing on network TV. So I had to go with the next best thing -- cassette tapes. I still pop them into the tape deck of my car and listen to them all the time.

Baxter: "So we meet again, Shredder. Prepare to taste my revenge!"
Bebop: "Uh, pretty corny dialogue. Ain't it?"
Rocksteady: "Hey, what do you expect from a guy who washes his face with his elbows?"

From "Return of the Fly"

[azure turtle]

Heh heh... I never thought about including the TMNT in any of my homework assignments. Looking back at that now, I should have. ;) I was (and still am) very open about my fandom. I've got t-shirts, action figures, comic books... And I won't hesitate to tell someone that I'm a TMNT fan. My new rommate knows this (he's a friend from high school) and he even brought a whole box of his old TMNT action figures to put around the room. Our room is gonna be full of turtle goodness. :anime:

[Lanagirl]

Oh yes!When i was a little girl i was dreaming to marry Shredder :roll:
I'm 20 now and i am still dreaming to marry Oroku Saki:-)
I guess you all will be shocked when you read that i'm 20...
yeah,i'm not a kid anymore,but i'm a fan.
I bought 35 cassettes with TMNT, i paid A LOT:-) ALL MY SALARIES
i can't help it... i love turtles and bad guys from the technodrome.
I watched some video clips at this site. Do you have an idea what kind of episode it is.... I don't think it's a clip from the cartoon. turtles are more agressive there and the song is a bit different :-?
by the way: how do you like my avatar :evilgrin:
That's my favourite: The bad and confident Sredder

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

There's nothing wrong with being 20 and still being a Ninja Turtles fan! :) I'm right there in age with ya, and soon to be a little older! :tparty: And your avatar is definitely cool. 8) There have been some good ones popping up lately. :wink: I have a bunch Ninja Turtles videos, too. :nod: There's 48 in all; a little expensive, but well worth it, in my opinion! :goof:

"I think this Toitle's gone soft in the shell." - Rocksteady, from "Four Musketurtles"

[Karpo_007]

I trn 18 in few months but im probably not youngest around here...

[azure turtle]

Heh heh... I'm 19, just one year younger than ya, Lana. ;)

[Machias Banshee]

I'm nineteen too! BUt i dont act my age, that's for sure... :P

[PWDESAI]

I'm 15 and could be y'all up! Anyways thanks for sharing, that is great abotu the cassettes and such. Does anyone ever smell a smell that they smelled when they lliked tmnt, and now when theys smell that smelly smell they think of tmnt? That happens to me a lot :-? sorry i know it's confusing. But smell is the greatest sense in memory! :D

[Machias Banshee]

Pizza... :D

[PWDESAI]

lol, usually when i remember some perfume, that my mom had on like when we were buying tmnt action figures, it reminds me of tmnt, and the ooze smell as well, pizza not as much for me, it reminds me of the tmnt, but no the smell of ti....

[azure turtle]

I agree... The smell of pizza often brings up memories of the TMNT. Geez... Pizza Hut must've made a fortune off of the cartoon.

BTW, I've got a question for you guys. Would you love pizza if it weren't for the TMNT cartoon? I've always wondered this. Pizza is one of my favorite foods, but I think the TMNT played a role in that...

[Machias Banshee]

Oh, it DEFINITELY made a difference... :D :tpizza:

[Karpo_007]

Hmm probably would. Pizza is the best posibble food: Cheap, tastes good and doesnt leave you hungry.

[Tinselcat]

*crashes through the wall* did someone say pizza?!?!? i'm starving!! i've put myself on a nutrition regimen for the school year, and i want grease!! WAAAHAAAA!! :tcry:

[Machias Banshee]

*gives TC a slice of homemade pizza*

Homemade pizza can be some of the best tasting AND nutritious junkfood you'll ever have! YOU control the amount of greases used, the leanness of the ingredients, and fresh veggies and 'shrooms always make a good pizza better... :D


OMG, I sound Like Martha Stewart!!! *hides under her doily tablecloth*

[Karpo_007]

Well A homemade pizza isn't better than a one made by proffesionals...

[Nunchucker]

Lets see Childhood memories

*Rocks back and forth in her rocker*

I can remember coming home for a taxing day at school, dumping my homework on the floor and turning the tv on, just in time to catch TMHT.

I can also remember spending hours trying to complete the turtles game for the NES and I can remember giving up. Where the heck was Splinter anyway? I can remember dancing around my bedroom when I managed to complete the second Turtles game (without cheating). I managed to tape a whole audio cassette of Turtle Power and I used to watch the movies saying them word for word at the same time

[Machias Banshee]

With homemade, you can have WHATEVER you want on it, no matter how strange the ingredients...and you dont get jipped out of ingredients...you want a loaded, you GOT a loaded... :D


Childhood memories, huh...? I can only think of the time i was little and my brother and his firiends threw me in a mud pit. I came out looking like a melted chocolate bunny... *shrug*

[azure turtle]

Mmm... Homemade pizza is delicious. :D You can put anything on it, which makes the possibilities endless!!

Hey! I've got a childhood memory about mud, too (doesn't everybody? :anime: ). My cousins and I got into a major mud fight when we were little kids. We were all covered in mud by the time the parents decided to see how we were doing in the backyard. Boy, weren't they surprised. We got into a little trouble, but they let it slide since we had so much fun.

I used to get up early in the morning just to catch the TMNT cartoon!! I refused to eat breakfast 'til the show was finished. :embarass:

[Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan]

Posted by Azure:

I refused to eat breakfast 'til the show was finished. :embarass:

That's funny. That could appear on a Ninja Turtles Top 10 List.

Top Ten Signs to Show You're Obsessed with the Ninja Turtles:

#1 - You refuse to eat breakfast until you've gotten your daily helping of Ninja Turtles, served with a slice of bacon and scrambled eggs.

"I happen to be a whiz with tools!" - Vernon, from "Too Hot too Handle"

[azure turtle]

LOL!! That reminds me... Have you ever read GW's list of things hardcore TMNT fans do?? Check it out:

http://www.behindthemasks.com/greenwillow/youmaybe.htm

I plead guilty to many of the items on there. :embarass: