childhood memories.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 09-08-2002, 11:00 AM

these are some of the things i remember as a child loving, and still love to this day:
the tmnt music, during the show they would have different music, i loved all of it. It brings back so many memories.
Tmnt toys box art: mostly the vehicles, i love the box art, specially sewer swimm'n donatello's, and the raph floater thing that was shaped in a donut.
tmnt stickers: like from teh custard pies, o man i still have the mikey sticker on my monitor.
ooze: that stuff just rocked
and particularly the episode cowabunga shredhead i crave pizza no more...
going to the babysitters house, and the older kids not letting me play with their tmnt toys i was about 2 or 3, i can't believe i still remember this, i would cry because they wouldn't let me play with the video games or their toys, so i eventually got them all!
going to target and getting the triceraton figure right after the same babysitters
going to krugers or something, and picking up all the storage shell turtles, it was on a rack being shown off to all, and i remember how far away from me it was, i couldn't reach it, they were all the way up there, just waiting to be bought!
at my house after getting the shredder convertible, that would flip in it's wheels and fly or flip em out and drive
loosing a few accesories behing the couch on the day of moving

going to venture (now out of business) and getting the party leonardo
going to venture with my dad since my mom was working at the same venture, and really wanting the movie star splinter (w/ fur!) so my dad takes me back there and i was about to get the cowboy don (which i never had, and still don't have) and me saying no! mom has what i want, so we went to mom and sure enough she bought it for me and handed it right to me! man i really want that crazy cowboy don now...
well that's all i can remember at the moment.
what're your tmnt memories
ebay here i come for that crazy cowboy don!

Raphael · 09-08-2002, 11:52 AM

... going into school in a home-made TMNT costume for Dress Up Day. Man, I was so cool.

**Machias Banshee** · 09-08-2002, 11:55 AM

dreaming i'd grow up, fall in love with Michelangelo, and get married...

...wait, i'm still doing that.

**Karpo_007** · 09-08-2002, 11:58 AM

Well I grew up with archie and the cartoon... I´really liked it back then, i was 6 i think... But nowdays im more into more mature turtles(with penises

).

**DarthRaphael** · 09-09-2002, 08:55 AM

The TMNT was the only set of action figures I played with as a kid. I was right in the target age group at the time. I ate, breathed, and slept TMNT. I still have the theme song in my head. I have all of my original figures. I even tried vanilla ice cream on peperoni pizza - not bad really.

Do any of you remember the commercial for the Footski that had the sewer scenes in it? I made my own sewer playset that could actually hold water!!! I wish my parents took pictures of it. It was so cool.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 09-09-2002, 02:34 PM

omigod for a minute there i thought you were talking about vanilla ice! shudder

anywho can u tell me how you made this tmnt sewer that held water.... i'm very interested. You should do it again and take pics! customizing is soooo cool...

tekcop · 09-10-2002, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarthRaphael

The TMNT was the only set of action figures I played with as a kid. I was right in the target age group at the time. I ate, breathed, and slept TMNT. I still have the theme song in my head. I have all of my original figures. I even tried vanilla ice cream on peperoni pizza - not bad really.

That pretty much sums up my childhood memories of tmnt, well, except for the ice cream pizza thing. *shudder*

**DarthRaphael** · 09-10-2002, 01:38 PM

My home-made sewer playset.

It was mostly made of plywood. I made a large rectangular shaped box about 3ft wide by 2ft deep by 18 inches high (I was about 11 or 12 when I made it, it was big to me). I lined the box with sheets of plastic, the thicker the better. It would fold over in the corners so that the plastic could also cover the sides. I never had to use caulk or anything like that - it always held water.

The next step was to build 3 walls. Those were made of cardboard. I layered the board to strengthen it and it took the total height to about 3 feet. In the center of the back wall I made a sewer pipe out of cardboard that was also lined with plastic. It was about 8 inches in diameter and reallly gave it that sewer feeling. I even made a street top for it with a manhole cover. The Turtle Van could park up there and the boys in green could make it down below through the manhole.

I needed walkway along the water like in the cartoon. The only waterproof building supplies I had were my Construx building set. This completed my sewer playset.

I had hours of enjoyment with that playset and it allowed the TMNT to get their feet wet.

~~PWDESAI~~ · 09-10-2002, 02:11 PM

yeah memories, rock, that's a cool idea with the sewer playset, i thought u meant that u took the actualy playset and made it to hold water. Anywho, no other childhood memories here?

speedracer · 09-12-2002, 09:13 PM

The pizza thrower was one of the best toys ever. It shot those things pretty far. And the laws of physics being as they are, you could get the pizzas to curve if you angled the turret.

prowler4 · 09-22-2002, 02:20 PM

Karpo_007 why are you thinking about the ninja turtles with penises?

**azure turtle** · 09-22-2002, 07:25 PM

LOL!! Karpo was referencing a letter in the back of the newest TMNT comic (issue 5). A lady wrote to Peter Laird stating that the turtle tails looked like something esle.

**Nturtle** · 09-22-2002, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prowler4

Karpo_007 why are you thinking about the ninja turtles with penises?

Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan · 09-23-2002, 06:01 AM

I remember getting up around 6:00 every morning to catch the Turtles on TV (that's what time it aired on FOX in my area). I used to hold my Fisher Price recorder near the speaker and record the show on cassettes. Then I would listen to those casssettes at night to put me to sleep.

I must have over 50 of those cassettes. They're funny to listen to now because I started when I was really young and did it for years. I would announce the episode into the recorder when it flashed on the screen, and you can really hear the difference. When I was younger, I had a really high girly voice. But the last time I did it, my voice had dropped down to a deep bass.

Sometimes my dad would really annoy me, though. He would always get up a little after 6:00, and then he would be really loud on purpose because he knew it would be on my recorder. Like, for example, he'd sing the theme song in a really high voice and think it was funny.

It's funny now, but it wasn't then. I hated that!

Shredder: "Don't you know how to say please?"
Krang: "No. But I do know how to say, 'Nooowwwwww!'"
Shredder: "Close enough."

From "Peking Turtle"

**Karpo_007** · 09-23-2002, 10:00 AM

That was funny

But wouldn't it have been smarter to record them on vhs?

Tinselcat · 09-23-2002, 10:38 AM

i wrote a story about the tmnt in second grade. unfortunately, by the time it was finished, no one else was into tmnt anymore. i refused to read it in front of the class, so i hid my head in my desk while the teacher did. i guess you could say that was my first fanfiction.

*Skeletoncrew* · 09-23-2002, 10:47 AM

*pats Tinselcat on the head* There there. I was a little "too old" to be an open TMNT fan. I kept it all pretty quiet.

**Machias Banshee** · 09-23-2002, 01:01 PM

Jeez, even when they WERE popular, i had to hide it! Being in a catholic school, any sort of thing like that was considered evil...but my reading group name in second grade was "The Ninja Turtles"...so i guess that was okay...

Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan · 09-23-2002, 01:06 PM

I didn't have a VCR back in those days to record the show on vhs tapes. I only got my first VCR about a year after the show quit airing on network TV. So I had to go with the next best thing -- cassette tapes. I still pop them into the tape deck of my car and listen to them all the time.

Baxter: "So we meet again, Shredder. Prepare to taste my revenge!"
Bebop: "Uh, pretty corny dialogue. Ain't it?"
Rocksteady: "Hey, what do you expect from a guy who washes his face with his elbows?"

From "Return of the Fly"

**azure turtle** · 09-24-2002, 12:06 AM

Heh heh... I never thought about including the TMNT in any of my homework assignments. Looking back at that now, I should have.

I was (and still am) very open about my fandom. I've got t-shirts, action figures, comic books... And I won't hesitate to tell someone that I'm a TMNT fan. My new rommate knows this (he's a friend from high school) and he even brought a whole box of his old TMNT action figures to put around the room. Our room is gonna be full of turtle goodness.

09-08-2002, 11:00 AM	#1
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	childhood memories. these are some of the things i remember as a child loving, and still love to this day: the tmnt music, during the show they would have different music, i loved all of it. It brings back so many memories. Tmnt toys box art: mostly the vehicles, i love the box art, specially sewer swimm'n donatello's, and the raph floater thing that was shaped in a donut. tmnt stickers: like from teh custard pies, o man i still have the mikey sticker on my monitor. ooze: that stuff just rocked and particularly the episode cowabunga shredhead i crave pizza no more... going to the babysitters house, and the older kids not letting me play with their tmnt toys i was about 2 or 3, i can't believe i still remember this, i would cry because they wouldn't let me play with the video games or their toys, so i eventually got them all! going to target and getting the triceraton figure right after the same babysitters going to krugers or something, and picking up all the storage shell turtles, it was on a rack being shown off to all, and i remember how far away from me it was, i couldn't reach it, they were all the way up there, just waiting to be bought! at my house after getting the shredder convertible, that would flip in it's wheels and fly or flip em out and drive loosing a few accesories behing the couch on the day of moving going to venture (now out of business) and getting the party leonardo going to venture with my dad since my mom was working at the same venture, and really wanting the movie star splinter (w/ fur!) so my dad takes me back there and i was about to get the cowboy don (which i never had, and still don't have) and me saying no! mom has what i want, so we went to mom and sure enough she bought it for me and handed it right to me! man i really want that crazy cowboy don now... well that's all i can remember at the moment. what're your tmnt memories ebay here i come for that crazy cowboy don!

09-08-2002, 11:55 AM	#3
Machias Banshee The Ravishing Reptile Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Great Granite State! Posts: 16,254	dreaming i'd grow up, fall in love with Michelangelo, and get married... ...wait, i'm still doing that. __________________ "Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer's job is to use the tools in [their] toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible." ~Stephen King, On Writing FanFiction DeviantArt Official TMNT Episode Discussions: #23 "The Pulverizer Returns!"

09-09-2002, 08:55 AM	#5
DarthRaphael Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Charlotte, NC USA Posts: 672	The TMNT was the only set of action figures I played with as a kid. I was right in the target age group at the time. I ate, breathed, and slept TMNT. I still have the theme song in my head. I have all of my original figures. I even tried vanilla ice cream on peperoni pizza - not bad really. Do any of you remember the commercial for the Footski that had the sewer scenes in it? I made my own sewer playset that could actually hold water!!! I wish my parents took pictures of it. It was so cool. __________________ I edit your posts

09-10-2002, 01:38 PM	#8
DarthRaphael Inactive Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Charlotte, NC USA Posts: 672	My home-made sewer playset. It was mostly made of plywood. I made a large rectangular shaped box about 3ft wide by 2ft deep by 18 inches high (I was about 11 or 12 when I made it, it was big to me). I lined the box with sheets of plastic, the thicker the better. It would fold over in the corners so that the plastic could also cover the sides. I never had to use caulk or anything like that - it always held water. The next step was to build 3 walls. Those were made of cardboard. I layered the board to strengthen it and it took the total height to about 3 feet. In the center of the back wall I made a sewer pipe out of cardboard that was also lined with plastic. It was about 8 inches in diameter and reallly gave it that sewer feeling. I even made a street top for it with a manhole cover. The Turtle Van could park up there and the boys in green could make it down below through the manhole. I needed walkway along the water like in the cartoon. The only waterproof building supplies I had were my Construx building set. This completed my sewer playset. I had hours of enjoyment with that playset and it allowed the TMNT to get their feet wet. __________________ I edit your posts

09-22-2002, 02:20 PM	#11
prowler4 Hench Mutant Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 297	Karpo_007 why are you thinking about the ninja turtles with penises? __________________ GO GREEN MACHINE!

09-08-2002, 11:52 AM	#2
Raphael Foot Soldier Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: England Posts: 143	... going into school in a home-made TMNT costume for Dress Up Day. Man, I was so cool.

09-08-2002, 11:58 AM	#4
Karpo_007 Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 8,798	Well I grew up with archie and the cartoon... I´really liked it back then, i was 6 i think... But nowdays im more into more mature turtles(with penises ).

09-09-2002, 02:34 PM	#6
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	omigod for a minute there i thought you were talking about vanilla ice! shudder anywho can u tell me how you made this tmnt sewer that held water.... i'm very interested. You should do it again and take pics! customizing is soooo cool...

09-10-2002, 02:11 PM	#9
~~PWDESAI~~ Banned Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,873	yeah memories, rock, that's a cool idea with the sewer playset, i thought u meant that u took the actualy playset and made it to hold water. Anywho, no other childhood memories here?

09-12-2002, 09:13 PM	#10
speedracer Foot Soldier Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 117	The pizza thrower was one of the best toys ever. It shot those things pretty far. And the laws of physics being as they are, you could get the pizzas to curve if you angled the turret.

09-22-2002, 07:25 PM	#12
azure turtle Mango Lovin' Mutant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 9,453	LOL!! Karpo was referencing a letter in the back of the newest TMNT comic (issue 5). A lady wrote to Peter Laird stating that the turtle tails looked like something esle. __________________ "God, I love being a turtle!" Want to meet the only blue ninja turtle in existence? Come visit me at my Lair!

09-23-2002, 06:01 AM	#14
Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan Stone Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: USA Posts: 835	I remember getting up around 6:00 every morning to catch the Turtles on TV (that's what time it aired on FOX in my area). I used to hold my Fisher Price recorder near the speaker and record the show on cassettes. Then I would listen to those casssettes at night to put me to sleep. I must have over 50 of those cassettes. They're funny to listen to now because I started when I was really young and did it for years. I would announce the episode into the recorder when it flashed on the screen, and you can really hear the difference. When I was younger, I had a really high girly voice. But the last time I did it, my voice had dropped down to a deep bass. Sometimes my dad would really annoy me, though. He would always get up a little after 6:00, and then he would be really loud on purpose because he knew it would be on my recorder. Like, for example, he'd sing the theme song in a really high voice and think it was funny. It's funny now, but it wasn't then. I hated that! Shredder: "Don't you know how to say please?" Krang: "No. But I do know how to say, 'Nooowwwwww!'" Shredder: "Close enough." From "Peking Turtle"

09-23-2002, 10:00 AM	#15
Karpo_007 Inactive Moderator Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 8,798	That was funny But wouldn't it have been smarter to record them on vhs?

09-23-2002, 10:38 AM	#16
Tinselcat Mad Scientist Join Date: May 2002 Location: uuuuh... off planet. Posts: 1,190	i wrote a story about the tmnt in second grade. unfortunately, by the time it was finished, no one else was into tmnt anymore. i refused to read it in front of the class, so i hid my head in my desk while the teacher did. i guess you could say that was my first fanfiction. __________________

09-23-2002, 10:47 AM	#17
Skeletoncrew Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Bearing in on your spicy brains Posts: 3,275	pats Tinselcat on the head There there. I was a little "too old" to be an open TMNT fan. I kept it all pretty quiet. __________________ Adult TMNT fan art and fiction contest Now accepting entries!

09-23-2002, 01:01 PM	#18
Machias Banshee The Ravishing Reptile Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: The Great Granite State! Posts: 16,254	Jeez, even when they WERE popular, i had to hide it! Being in a catholic school, any sort of thing like that was considered evil...but my reading group name in second grade was "The Ninja Turtles"...so i guess that was okay... __________________ "Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer's job is to use the tools in [their] toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible." ~Stephen King, On Writing FanFiction DeviantArt Official TMNT Episode Discussions: #23 "The Pulverizer Returns!"

09-23-2002, 01:06 PM	#19
Ninja Turtles Cartoon Fan Stone Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: USA Posts: 835	I didn't have a VCR back in those days to record the show on vhs tapes. I only got my first VCR about a year after the show quit airing on network TV. So I had to go with the next best thing -- cassette tapes. I still pop them into the tape deck of my car and listen to them all the time. Baxter: "So we meet again, Shredder. Prepare to taste my revenge!" Bebop: "Uh, pretty corny dialogue. Ain't it?" Rocksteady: "Hey, what do you expect from a guy who washes his face with his elbows?" From "Return of the Fly"

09-24-2002, 12:06 AM	#20
azure turtle Mango Lovin' Mutant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 9,453	Heh heh... I never thought about including the TMNT in any of my homework assignments. Looking back at that now, I should have. I was (and still am) very open about my fandom. I've got t-shirts, action figures, comic books... And I won't hesitate to tell someone that I'm a TMNT fan. My new rommate knows this (he's a friend from high school) and he even brought a whole box of his old TMNT action figures to put around the room. Our room is gonna be full of turtle goodness. __________________ "God, I love being a turtle!" Want to meet the only blue ninja turtle in existence? Come visit me at my Lair!

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