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Didn't like the way Cody was written, didn't like Serling at all. Too much comedy. Would've liked to see it hew closer to Mirage Volume 4, where the Utroms arrived on Earth, Turtles walking around in the daylight, blah blah blah. I liked the idea of Dunn being the evil manipulative uncle, I liked the Dark Turtles... I think I liked most of the villains. Just all of the new supporting characters and the robot cop sucked. Eh. It was what it was.
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04-16-2018, 12:00 PM | #22 |
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Because the series was ending, 4kids was on the verge of going bankrupt (they did completely around 2011-2012 if I recall, only 3 years after 2k3 wrapped in 2009), and having one final season in the present made sense.
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I assumed the TMNT market limped to the finish line, ignobly and forgotten, the same way TMNT always ebbs and flows. Turtlemania, kids get sick of it, limps away. Resurgeance! TMNT is cool again! Cool... and not anymore. Resurgeance! And so on and so forth.
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04-16-2018, 12:45 PM | #24 |
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4kids lost the rights to dub Pokemon back in 2006 and all their shows were failing on 4kidsTV/Fox Box. All they really had to keep them going was Yu-gi-oh and they tried a whole bunch of stuff. TMNT of course had already been airing for over 5+ years so it was bound to end around that point anyway.
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04-16-2018, 01:08 PM | #25 |
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The weird thing about 4Kids is that, while the name is no longer used, it was split up into two different corporate entities. One as sort of a holding company for the old dubs that closed down last year, the other a non-union voice acting studio that only does dubbing for Yu-Gi-Oh. Probably because Konami bought it as an excuse to no hire union actors.
It's a sad shell of it's former self, but I guess it's technically more productive than Fred Wolf? I mean at least it still does something other than leech off Lionsgate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_Media_Inc. |
04-16-2018, 01:19 PM | #26 |
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These days anything that isn't Disney, Nick, or Cartoon Network was bound to die off. In fact they're the only 3 big kids companies left these days besides a few.
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04-16-2018, 02:43 PM | #28 |
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I mean, you've Fred Wolf's website right? It's kind hard to resist making fun of it when you know 4Kids got a better fate, and 4Kids suffered an incredibly pathetic fate.
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04-24-2018, 10:37 PM | #29 |
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Designs changes were unnecessary -funny thing, I don't complaint too much about the new batman adventures, and a story set in the future is ok for like 3 or 5 episodes, not all that episodes
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04-29-2018, 03:00 PM | #30 |
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Maybe a time travel arc could carry an entire season? But I would rather prefer an international arc (on present-day Earth) or a space adventure arc.
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