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Originally Posted by Panda_Kahn_fan
Actually, yes it has been sold that way. One of the show's creators said in an interview 'they aren't full ninjas yet', and 'Leonardo is not quite leader material yet', every comment about this show, and even its' title (RISE of the TMNT), points to this being a turtle story set before this universe's classic battles with the foot clan. And this univere's version seems to have a more mystical version of the foot, so I have a feeling these turtles will be more 'fantasy wuxia' battles with anime -styled attacks when they get to that point; they will never be the realistic street-level fighters from previous versions.
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The turtles not being ninjas yet doesn't sound all that different to previous versions where Splinter tells his sons their training is not complete, they have much to learn, not yet ready to face the Foot etc. You could say the same about Leo growing into his leadership role which was a subplot of the previous cartoon.
I'll take yours and sdp's word that that this is being marketed more as a TMNT - In Training series but it seems odd that 'fantasy wuxia' battles are what Nick has gone with as the basis for for what is being marketed as something to a TMNT prequel series. If the turtles stick with this (as you speculate) even after they get traditional weapons it kinda negates the point of them becoming ninjas and this being a prequel series. They will never be the turtles fans expect them to be.
Not that any of this is bad. Why not do something completely original and out there? This wont be forever and inevitably another TMNT series will follow it. It's just that most of the time TMNT tries this like The Next Mutation, Fast Foward it never seems to work as well as good ol' TMNT. Not that fans hate change (both the above examples have their fans and defenders) but there's something about the core TMNT concept that had a broad appeal and the farther you go from it the less people are going to be interested.