10-28-2017, 06:59 AM | #1 |
Emperor
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 9,461
|
A studio other than Fred Wolf?
I'm just wondering, what would the first ever TMNT show was produced by another studio? It all depends on the studio of course but what would be different about it? Would it have been more accurate to the comics? Even less? Shorter? Longer?
Just to get the ball rolling, here are a few suggestions.
|
10-28-2017, 07:32 AM | #2 |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
DIC Entertainment = Produced Captain Planet, so maybe more environmental-polticial messages?
Filmation = stupid messages after the episodes, like "Don't play with fire". Hanna-Barbera = Stuck in the late-1960's and early-1970's? Turtles, meet the turtles, and have a cowabunga time! Saban Entertainment - Next Mutation 10 years earlier? Last edited by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan; 12-07-2017 at 11:45 AM. |
10-28-2017, 07:50 AM | #3 | |
Jedi Master
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: JLA Satellite Headquarters
Posts: 11,134
|
Quote:
__________________
Michelangelo: This looks like a job for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Raphael: Sheesh, Mikey this ain't a cartoon! |
|
10-28-2017, 11:39 AM | #4 |
Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 41,057
|
All those companies cartoons in the 80's were either horrible or too toned down for kids. Superfriends was produced back then, it is damn near awful.
|
10-28-2017, 11:41 AM | #5 |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
|
10-28-2017, 11:50 AM | #6 |
Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 41,057
|
Yeah, the original cartoon seems tame for today's standards, but at the time it was actually considered the most violent/action packed cartoon of its day...until Batman: TAS came out in 1992 and revolutionized kids cartoons. There are a whole bunch of articles back then about parents complaining about how violent the TMNT show was, and protesters which seems laughable now.
I doubt any other show would have had self-aware humor and characters with personalities that bounce off each other the way the Turtles did, as well as Shredder/Krang and the villains. Plus all the sci-fi plots and parodies carried the show. |
10-28-2017, 11:55 AM | #7 |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
Censors were still tough when Heman debuted in September 1983:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/12-insane-fa...uni-1619470015 Last edited by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan; 11-15-2017 at 05:02 PM. |
10-28-2017, 12:01 PM | #8 |
Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 41,057
|
It's a shame the Christian Soccer Moms ruined kids cartoons for a decade because they thought Little Timmy could not be exposed to characters punching each other in action cartoons.
|
10-28-2017, 02:41 PM | #9 |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
I think much is because by September 1973, when Superfriends started, the USA had just left North Vietnam (starting after the Paris peace treaty in late-January that year). The hippie and flower power movemenst had been big, and the international peace movmenet would remain strong until the early-1990's.
Last edited by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan; 05-18-2021 at 03:10 AM. |
11-02-2017, 10:45 AM | #10 | |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,514
|
Quote:
To be honest the animation would have been too fluid as well. - Sunbow - They eventually went under I think. Probably would have produced it for a few years, cancelled it and then years later spend my three weeks of work experience with Metrodome pleading for them to release the series. - Ruby-Spears - even with a handful of successful animated shows they still went bankrupt. We probably would have got two years with little ambition or inventiveness the Fred Wolf series provided. - Hanna-Barbera - see above. - Filmation - can't see this happening. They may have thought it was a good idea but the animation would have had the usual cheap, limited quality from Filmation's other series. Add to the fact Filmation was more or less gone by the time the FW series premiered. - Saban - the problem here is that back in the 80s Saban wasn't making cartoons so not sure how this would have worked. - Dic - ah now DIC I can see producing TMNT. The show would have been allowed to continue for a good number of years and the animation would have been more consistent. It would have looked like The Real Ghostbusters so yeah this definitely could have worked. I remember reading a rumour that one of the shows to most get attacked by these types of people to the point of cancellation was The Legend of Prince Valiant. The final straw I think was one of the female characters appearing nude in the water. Obviously you only saw her nude shoulders but that apparently got the show cancelled. Last edited by pferreira; 11-09-2017 at 09:42 AM. |
|
11-05-2017, 04:41 PM | #11 | |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
Filmation
Quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation So we would maybe get just two seasons |
|
11-05-2017, 05:03 PM | #12 | |
Foot Soldier
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 156
|
Quote:
|
|
11-05-2017, 05:17 PM | #13 | |
See You Next Mission
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: At my desk drawing something
Posts: 2,364
|
I'd like to see a TMNT series produced by Sunrise or Madhouse.
__________________
Quote:
|
|
11-06-2017, 10:16 AM | #14 | |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
Quote:
|
|
11-09-2017, 09:45 AM | #15 |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,514
|
Unlikely. Star Trek: The Animated Series did pretty well at the time but they didn't have the money to continue making it. I think Filmation would have lost interest if they started making seasons of TMNT, then again the animation would have been quite stilted so probably for the best.
|
11-15-2017, 06:36 AM | #16 |
Mad Scientist
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 1,715
|
I think Sunbow could've done a good job; they handled the Hasbro shows with a decent level of quality, and probably wouldn't have gotten as totally silly as Fred wolf did. I could see the rest of the series staying as serious as season one did under them.
__________________
My TMNT fanfic: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1266176...n-a-Half-Shell IDW is the best version of TMNT If they make a TMNT reboot movie retelling the shredder battle/origin, I won't buy a ticket. |
11-16-2017, 09:19 AM | #17 |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,514
|
I don't see TMNT under Sunbow turning out well as Transformers is a testament to that. Yes I know the show was a phenomenon but it was a worse cartoon than the FW series. We dodged a bullet.
|
11-16-2017, 11:09 AM | #18 |
Big Blue Boy Scout
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: New Bark Town
Posts: 4,484
|
Since the first season of FW tmnt was animated by toei, what if Laird and Eastman decided that they (Toei) could produce the show as well in Japan and have it dubbed in English by Funimation like in the case of the Dragonball TV series so that its exposed to a wider audience.
|
11-16-2017, 02:51 PM | #19 | |
Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
Posts: 10,155
|
Quote:
|
|
11-16-2017, 04:56 PM | #20 | |
Foot Elite
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 2,514
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|