First Official Nick TMNT Preview Art!

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Roseangelo

I think that's the only way I'd be able to get excited about them. Of course, if anyone can screw it up, it's Playmates.

Playmates Toys: Kids sill dig "big 5" articulation and silly action features...right?

[Avatar Yuffie]

Wow, I like the drawing. I approve.

And wow you people, how on earth can you identify Mikey's kusarigama from that small pic?! I still thought they were chucks.

[Vivi]

It's...not bad. A little bit 2007 movie, a little bit anime but is seems to be work well.

[Spitfire]

Looks alright so far. I could definitely grow to like it. Not sure how I feel about Mike's weapon change but maybe it'll work out. They did say they were going to mix things up and his chucks have always been a problem.

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

If Mike really doesn't have nunchucks, that's just the stupidest thing ever. There's no reason they could not have him use nunchucks..

It's a reboot! relax.

They probably want to give him a more "ninja-esque" weapon

[Luzmagica]

Please can someone confirm if "the thing insert in a red circle" is a blade-weapon or if its a part of the montain draw!!?????

[Krutch]

Hmm.... I like it. I dont hate it at least, which is more what I was afraid of

As for Mikey's weapon I think we should calm down. The pic is so damn small we might just be seeing nunchucks and light reflections at a weird angle.

[chad]

Awesome. I think this is going to be good

[PizzaPower]

yea it is a really really small picture, i cant wait for more, and you know there will be.

[Jester]

Something dawned on me as I was driving home from work: Will this series have Usagi? With Peter no longer involved, would Stan still allow Usagi to be in the series?

[Candy Kappa]

Originally Posted by Luzmagica

Please can someone confirm if "the thing insert in a red circle" is a blade-weapon or if its a part of the montain draw!!?????

It's the blade of his Kama, with a chain and weight it's called a kusarigama.

As for being ninja, it's more suitable then the Nunchucks. Why Raph still have sai, I think we can blame Elektra for that

[A little *too* Raph]

So I missed this whole thread until just now, so I will just sum up my opinions.

1. Awesome. I was expecting far more childish, cartoony nicktoons art. This art is great, I just hope it looks as good in cgi.

2. I will miss the 'chucks, but Mikey's new weapon is sweet. He is my fav so they better not make him a blithering idiot. This is a good sign.

3. I am very excited about this now.

[sdp]

Now that its official, I love the designs I was definitely not expecting that, I thought they would be much more polarizing. I wasn't expecting "kiddy" designs but I thought they'd resemble more the proposed Kids WB! series kid friendly designs than these. I also thought they'd be much more stylized like say the Star Wars Clone Wars CG show. They definitely remind me a lot of the 2007 film and in fact I think the CG will not be too far off from the movie, after all when this show premiers that will be 5 year old CG. Heck I'm sure if nothing contradicts it I'll try to fit the movie in continuity. The turtles have different skin tones too, thats nice.

As far as playmates I'm sure they'll go along the trend of 3" 3/4 figures, they're cheaper to make and everyone is doing them. If they re-tool anything it'd be the comic book turtles they didn't release, but I doubt it since these turtles all have distinct looks, though I do think we'll eventually see the comic book turtles.

As far as the nunchucks it really does suck a lot even if they did soften the blow with an awesome weapon. But lets look back at Mikey's chucks. In the OT he stopped using them in early season 4 which means most of the show he spent with just a grappling hook every turtle had. I don't think the weapons were used much during Archie either so we didn't see Mikey with chucks for a lot of time either. The second and third(?) movies also lacked nunchucks. The Next Mutation had Mikey using some Tonfa looking weapons so no chucks. The 2007 film shafted Donatello and Mikey for the most part so we didn't see much of his weapons there either. So overall only the Mirage comics and the 2k3 show have had Mikey featuring his nunchucks for a decent amount of time. This also doesn't spell the end of nunchucks forever, by the time a new show is made I'm sure attitudes could have relaxed and we could see them I mean if this show lasts 6 years and takes a 4 year break before a new show thats 10 years. Also I don't think this affects the movie in any way so we'll probably see them there. Still its a little bit sad to lose them.

Originally Posted by Jester

Something dawned on me as I was driving home from work: Will this series have Usagi? With Peter no longer involved, would Stan still allow Usagi to be in the series?

I think I've mentioned this before, Laird and Stan did have a good relationship but Nick could still ask Stan and I doubt he'd deny, why would he? Free publicity for his character and he gets paid. As long as the people involved know the history of the turtles and Usagi then they'd ask Nick if they'll do it which I guess if Fred Wolf and 4Kids agreed I don't see why not unless they really don't want to license a non-tmnt character.

[BubblyShell22]

Wow. I really like that design for the guys. It looks really cool. As for Mikey's chucks, it'll be a bit weird at first not to see them, but the weapon he has there looks pretty sweet to me, so I don't mind. This looks pretty promising so far.

[Oniri]

The designs are really awesome! Go Green Machine!

However, I will say that I am a bit confused here. They look both 3D and 2D at the same time in this pic and it's kinda throwing me off a bit. It's really bad with Leo. Parts of his body is more 3D than his head and other parts, so Leo's head seems dismembered to me.

Granted, that most likely won't be a problem when everything is moving in animation. It's just me being nit-picky.

[Volvagia]

Finally some news.
Not too happy about Mikey's chucks but I'll get used to it and damn this looks great.

[Raph]

Wow I haven't been here 3 days, and all of a sudden the Nick design is out..and I like it! Alot! Thanks to Alex.
I hope the designs don't turn out to squary, but I so love the Mirage-esque designs...even love the weapon for Mikey (as long as Raph keeps his Sais, I'm happy )

Can't wait to see more and find out who the other voiceactors will be!
All I can say is: WELCOME BACK TMNT!

[CyberCubed]

I can't believe you people are fine with Michaelangelo not having nunchucks! This is a disgrace!

Kids growing up with TMNT ALWAYS associate Mike with nunchucks, he at least had them through the first 4 seasons of the original cartoon as well.

I can't believe more people aren't complaining. This is what you want them to do to a Turtle's signature weapon?

Assuming production on Season 1 is too far underway, perhaps we can petition for when Season 2 starts for Mike to go back to nunchucks,

[Jephael]

Dude, chillax! It's not that big a deal. Most people are concerned about the character's personality anyway.

[Master Splinter]

I'm happy with what I see... I would think Mikey may be more versatile with different weapons in the series, which would be cool, a master of all the weapons...

-ms