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Originally Posted by Krutch
Probably less of a "new apartment" as much as it was redesigned for the sequel, probably to account for Splinter making his way down the stairs and the turtles and April having a private rooftop without drawing any attention.
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April's apartment
burned down with the shop during the first film. It wasn't redesigned at all. It's literally a different apartment in a completely different part of the city. Also, there would be no need to redesign it for those reasons, considering that April's older apartment didn't exactly look like a neighborhood people would want to walk around at night and they didn't seem to care about showing the Turtles standing in the middle of the street, yelling "
Did she say pizza?"
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Raph actually says at one point: “Hey! Maybe someone’s got something about our fight last night!” while everyone is sitting in April’s apartment watching television.
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They're referring to the fight at the mall, I believe. Isn't that when they're watching April's broadcast with Jordan Perry?
The movie seems to imply that it's right after the first film in the early scenes with Shredder and the foot, but that the April and the Turtles have been at the apartment for a while during
their early scenes. It's definitely implied that April is a regular customers of Keno, that he delivers pizza to her apartment very often, and that he's on a first name basis with her. The Turtles' discussion about Shredder's presumed demise makes it feel like some time has passed and a spy was also placed in April's crew and she seems familiar with him. (
Also, if anyone says they can buy and completely furnish a new apartment in 48 hours, they're either someone of great wealth and importance or completely full of it.) And then there's April's boss, who is a different person altogether.
My best guess? The filmmakers just didn't think things through and/or just did what they wanted. The film came out the year after the first film, which is a very short gap between sequels. They were probably just trying to make it as fast as they could to capitalize on the franchise's popularity and the first film's profitable success.
With the loss of the urban street vibe, many of the first film's characters including Casey), the darker tone, as well as recasting April and entirely upgrading the quality of her surroundings, SOTO isn't a prime example of consistency.