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Not surprisingly, I'd go back in time and stop the Surge Licensing/Playmates/Fred Wolf deal from ever happening. "That's crazy! TMNT would never have been popular then!" you say. We can't know that. If the comic had been allowed to grow for a decade or two, who's to say that any cartoons and/or movies that would've followed wouldn't have been more in line with them (as opposed to something like Fred Wolf, who only had 2 or 3 comics to read at that point, so they just made everything up from scratch)? Plus after X-Men kicked open the door, suddenly comic book properties were being optioned left and right with movie deals... who knows what would have happened. All I know is just about anything is better than the way it is now, or has been for the last decade.
Alternately, I'd let the Fred Wolf show and original "Turtlemania" begin its trajectory with the first TMNT movie and beginning of the cartoon... then make Laird and Eastman veto every sh**ty movie or show or idea from that point forward. No TMNT II (not the one we got, anyway) or TMNT III, no NT:TNM, no Imagi movie, only "Yes"es to good, Mirage-faithful stuff. And sorry, Kevin, no, Laird will NOT buy your half of the rights in 2000, stop losing all of your money in the casino!
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