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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
He didn't "basically give up." Nickelodeon came at him with 63 million reasons to give it up... to them. So he did. He wasn't shopping TMNT around or anything, they came to him with the offer completely out of left field.
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I do remember reading somewhere from Steve Murphy that after news of the sale broke as a surprise, he couldn't help but think the "25th Anniversary" celebration and publicity tour might have been a calculated way of making the franchise as attractive as possible to potential buyers.