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View Poll Results: Are you glad Viacom/Nick bought TMNT? | |||
I'm glad they did | 40 | 52.63% | |
I'm glad NOW they did, but I wasn't beforehand | 8 | 10.53% | |
No, not glad | 12 | 15.79% | |
I was glad at first, now I'm not glad | 13 | 17.11% | |
It is INFURIATING! | 3 | 3.95% | |
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01-31-2018, 09:39 PM | #21 |
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Nick TMNT is the best version hands down. So of course yeah.
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01-31-2018, 10:04 PM | #22 |
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I don't know yet if I'm ultimately more happy or upset with the sale to Viacom. I think I wonder more about what could have happened if they had never made the Fred Wolf cartoon. What else could've been?
I like to think if somebody had presented me with the original comics and said "make a cartoon out of this" I could have made something better than what we got. Like, the tonal shift was so jarring, wtf?
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01-31-2018, 10:30 PM | #23 |
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I've liked everything other than the Platinum Dunes movies, so I'm a pretty happy camper overall.
I only wish it had happened a year or two later than it did, for a number of reasons. 1. The film they were going to make, with John Fusco, using techniques inspired by Where The Wild Things are, would've been sooo much better than what they replaced it with. 2. We didn't get the big Mirage source guide book that was in development as a result of the sale. 3. A Mirage writer had approached me a little after the buyout to work on something but Pete had already decided to wrap Tales up at that time. Dunno that it would've happened, but hey.
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01-31-2018, 11:00 PM | #24 |
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the PD movies weren't the greatest.
But I am thankful that the Turtles got another shot at the big screen. Seeing Bebop and Rocksteady just made it worth it. And also the threezero stuff from the movies were pretty cool. |
01-31-2018, 11:14 PM | #25 |
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That was already going to happen before the sale.
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02-01-2018, 01:03 AM | #26 |
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I appreciate that it opened TMNT up to a whole new generation of fans and helped cement its place in pop culture. I've had a hard time being interested in the post-sale stuff, but, I suppose I'm glad it happened.
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02-01-2018, 01:21 AM | #27 |
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But... again, that already would have happened, eventually.
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02-01-2018, 06:10 AM | #28 | |
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02-01-2018, 06:23 AM | #29 | |
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02-01-2018, 09:26 AM | #30 |
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Should definitely be bumped with the new reveal.
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02-01-2018, 01:58 PM | #31 | |
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There was no option for indifference so I picked the second option. It's neither been good or bad. Can't say I've really liked the stuff Nick has done with TMNT through films or animation but they gave the franchise a shot in the arm and some financial safety.
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02-01-2018, 02:08 PM | #32 |
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I struggled accepting initially but the more I paid attention to it the more I liked it. It was hard for me to move on from the fw and 2k3, but the 2012 series really did a good job at pleasing the new generation and the old as well.
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02-02-2018, 05:03 AM | #33 |
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No
Don't really like the 2012 series much and the new one looks awful
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02-02-2018, 07:07 AM | #34 | |
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TMNT was just a memory to many of them. If you had saved some videotapes, you were happy. Otherwise, you had to wait for a TV station to air any of the original three films, if you had that channel... So it would probably have been more successful around 2002 than 2007. Last edited by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan; 02-02-2018 at 07:13 AM. |
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02-02-2018, 07:22 AM | #35 |
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I'm glad. New shows, new movies, new comics, new merch: NEW TOYS. Not all of those things are stellar (the 2014 and 2016 films are rather lame, IMO), but enough of them are (I really dig many/most of the toys; even the figures from the 2016 film are pretty neat), and we might not have gotten those things without Nickelodeon's weight behind the TMNT. So... yeah.
Bring on the Rise of the TMNT figures.
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02-02-2018, 07:28 AM | #36 |
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Nick has now created the best and worst of TMNT. It's 50/50.
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02-02-2018, 08:00 AM | #37 |
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Nickelodeon didn't produce the films, Platinum Dunes did. Nickelodeon just approved them (which is why we saw the Nickelodeon logotype).
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02-02-2018, 10:29 AM | #38 |
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THIS. This is biggest reason I'm ok with it, I mean how many IPs out there are being dug up right now by big companies only to be regulated to obscurity again. Even if it's mostly drudging through what most people perceive as mostly crap.....being a forgotten IP is probably worse IMO. More fans = more people discovering or rediscovering the old great original material and more appetite for better content.
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02-02-2018, 12:13 PM | #39 |
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02-02-2018, 12:34 PM | #40 |
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Intellectual property. It's just a complicated way of saying "series".
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