Cool TMNT News

[Turtle Dove]

This was passed on to me from 4Kids TV. I dunno if it was posted yet but here goes...

(compliments of a fellow imdb poster I listened to. It was posted on Sunday.)
"In TMNT Vol. 4 #24 Peter Laird confirms that work is underway on season 6 of the animated series. He promises the show will head in a "new direction" during seasons 5 and 6.
Those who believe our beloved Turtles are going off the air, fat chance. The CEO of 4kids himself says that the franchise is bringing in mucho dinero. Read on.
With more than $1 billion in total retail sales since re-launching in 2003, the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES are a major force in children’s entertainment. The all-new TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES animated TV series is in its fourth season, airing on 4Kids TV™ on Saturday mornings on FOX, as well as Saturdays and Sundays on Cartoon Network. The Turtles have enjoyed tremendous success in both television and at retail, which is expected to be bolstered by an upcoming full-length CG-animated feature film from The Weinstein Co. and Warner Bros. Pictures. The much-anticipated movie is currently in production at Imagi Animation Studios’ state-of-the-art facility in Hong Kong, and slated for a 2007 theatrical release."

Pretty exciting huh guys? See? Everything's going to turn out great! After reading this, I can't believe they're already finished working on Season 5!

[KROW]

This reminds me of the thread about how long we all thought the series would last. Some of us said it would end around the 10th season, others went to the extreme (like me :D) and said it would surpass The Simpsons. :lol: Others thought it would end by season 6. Now I have a feeling we'll be getting up to the 10 season mark with the way things are going.

Awesome.

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

Yeah, that's great! Looks like TMNT pulled off the impossible comeback that all the other '80s cartoons tried to do. :)

[zkarlette]

Im really glad to hear this but I really hope that they have good material for it

[Weapon X]

Looks like TMNT pulled off the impossible comeback that all the other '80s cartoons tried to do. :)
Indeed, they were saying that He-Man was the greatest comeback since sliced bread, the irony is that the show lasted like only two seasons, the toy line was stopped, now the only thing being made are slightly larger then figure scale statues of characters that never made it to the actual figure line.

As a Joe fan I have a bad feeling about this "Sigma Six" junk, didn't they learn anything from "G.I.JOE Extreme".

[AquaParade]

Wow! Awesome news! What do you think he means by "new direction"? Anyone have any ideas on what that new direction could be?

[zkarlette]

I just hope its not the "april cockroach" direction

[Raph's Girl]

I just hope its not the "april cockroach" direction

*stomps on a roach with a red head*....Oops! :evilgrin:

I have a feeling that the direction they're going is forward into 99 years in the future so it'll be the adventures of the TMNT and Cody Jones. :P

[ZariusTwo]

Indeed, they were saying that He-Man was the greatest comeback since sliced bread, the irony is that the show lasted like only two seasons, the toy line was stopped, now the only thing being made are slightly larger then figure scale statues of characters that never made it to the actual figure line.

As a Joe fan I have a bad feeling about this "Sigma Six" junk, didn't they learn anything from "G.I.JOE Extreme".

Sigam Six makes "Extreme" look like a Sunbow season

[OA]

Yes this is great news!!! I cant believe the new show has been on air as long as it has already. Man, how time has flown by. Seems like just yesterday the new show was just starting and now we're talking about season 6!! I just hope it lasts....

[Turtle Dove]

I wish I could create a chatacter (ME) fir the show hee..I'd be Mikey's girl but flirty with the others

[tortugapower]

I have a feeling that the direction they're going is forward into 99 years in the future so it'll be the adventures of the TMNT and Cody Jones. :P

"TMNT: 2104?????? "

:lol: THAT'S REDICULOUS!!!!!!:lol: Why would they do that? At least round it off to 2105.

heh.

I'm going to say you have more then just a feeling Raph's girl.

[Turtle Dove]

hmmmm.. a new direction.......

Possible SPOILER:::--






Splinter is going to die......and that will leave the turtles on their own. (That's what splinter meant in that episode, "before I leave this world..") And it is possible Leo & Raph will fight over who is the better leader

[Masked Ninja]

That's indeed possible...

Aw, but I would be near inconsolable if they had Splinter die. *snif* He's one of my favorites...

[Turtle Dove]

he's my fav too but unless he's hit by a mutation that makes him eternal

[cormano]

i hope they go in a new direction soon, cuz this season is starting to bore me…

[Sage Ninja]

I really hope that don't fast foward the series into the future. That tactic sucked in the final seasons of Xena Warrior Princess when the fast foward 25 years into the future and just killed it for me. I hope they don't do that with the TMNT.

[MasterMole]

i hope they go in a new direction soon, cuz this season is starting to bore me… Bore You!? Not trying to be mean, but You must not be too interested in this show. I love this season, except "Wing and a Prayer". Last episode of "Aliens Among Us" was great, with more focus on Bishop and NY.

[Ryona]

This reminds me of the thread about how long we all thought the series would last.

Oh, yes... I remember that. It was ridiculous how so many were whining and claiming that the series was going to end by fifth season just because it was going to get shifted to new time slot. I was like, where the Hell are you getting this feeling from?

*shakes her head* Ludicrous.


I do hope that those individuals now have some comfort after reading the first post in this thread.




Bore You!? Not trying to be mean, but You must not be too interested in this show.

My thoughts exactly. Anyone who's getting bored doesn't really have much passion for the series.

[Jo269976]

Great, hope they have some good new material

Season 3 is just airing in the UK lol :(

[Buslady]

Yeah, that's great! Looks like TMNT pulled off the impossible comeback that all the other '80s cartoons tried to do. :)

yeah transformers wasn't as big as come back, HeMan...that's gone already....TMNT simply is one of hte highest quality franchises out there right now. Best freaking show on 4Kids. It's not mindless violence, it teaches a bit of family importance. They dont fight unless they have to. Unless it's the huge climax to a major story arc, there's no fight just for the hec of it...there's always a reason. I'm glad parents today aren't all freaking out over the fighting part like they did way back when.

[Raph's Girl]

yeah transformers wasn't as big as come back

Come back??? Transformers never left! There's been so many versions of Transformers over the years. In Japan at least it's never left tv....not all incarnations have made it to the U.S.

G1 Forever!!!

Another show making a big comeback tho is Care Bears. There's 2 new movies now plus all the plushies and stuff. I just wish there'd be a movie that focuses on Love-a-lot!! She's just mostly background! It's not fair!! *hugs her Love-a-lot plushies*

[Whitewolf89]

*stomps on a roach with a red head*....Oops! :evilgrin:

I have a feeling that the direction they're going is forward into 99 years in the future so it'll be the adventures of the TMNT and Cody Jones. :P

This MAY have something to do with the new "future-set" TMNT series that's supposed to debut in September 2006. Leoardo15 sent me the addy for the page that had the info, but you have to subscribe to it to get to any info on ANYTHING there now! Drat it! Anyway, it was on the www.brandweek.com site. But, like we BOTH found out, you have to be a subscriber to even GET to anything there. Bummer.:( :cry: :evil: :dead: :sick:

Although I DID manage to print off the page with that info BEFORE they went to the "subscribers only" mode. If anybody around here WANTS to see the pertinent paragraphs from that article, I've got 'em, and I'd be MORE than happy to post 'em here. Just say the word.

Anyway, peace.

[Jo269976]

i wonder if there is going to be a future series what it will be like, maybe someone has died... hopefully not :cry:

[iris]

If the show is being renewed, that's fantastic!

Yeah, that's great! Looks like TMNT pulled off the impossible comeback that all the other '80s cartoons tried to do. :)
That is pretty amazing, isn't it? I think you can throw some '70s cartoons in that mix too. The thing about TMNT is there is so much potential depth. You don't see that very much with cartoons.

*stomps on a roach with a red head*....Oops! :evilgrin:

I have a feeling that the direction they're going is forward into 99 years in the future so it'll be the adventures of the TMNT and Cody Jones. :PI really hope that don't fast foward the series into the future. That tactic sucked in the final seasons of Xena Warrior Princess when the fast foward 25 years into the future and just killed it for me. I hope they don't do that with the TMNT.

Several sci-fi and fantasy shows and series have taken the 'time leap' route in trying to bring back newness and vitality when they feel they've exhausted all the good stories. This tactic is doomed to failure because 1) you're killing off most of the fictional universe that you've built and that the fans loved, and 2) you really can't do anything in the new "reset" universe that you couldn't do in the original universe, so you're just dragging your writing problems along with you.

"Xena" was a great show... until the time leap, which the writers deemed necessary to rid Xena of the burden of a toddler, who they thought was cramping her Warrior Princess style. By the end, they decided that the most dignified thing to do was kill off Xena, permanently, with a mess of arrows and decapitation. I guess you could write it off as a "greek tragedy," if you really wanted to, but the real tragedy is the death of a show due to shortsightedness.

"seaQuest DSV" did the time leap too, and that was pretty much the end of that.

However, TMNT is different... well I would hope anyway. The franchise has already gone in so many directions-- forward, backward, away from the home planet, etc-- that maybe they know more about what they're doing. Maybe they've got a plan. That's all they really need to keep it going; it's what those who failed in the 'time leap' were lacking. Anyway, how can you write Leo for years and not understand the value of a plan?! :P

[Mutant_Power]

Man, season three hasn´t even started in my country. Darn latinamerican Jetix

[Turtle Dove]

yeah transformers wasn't as big as come back, HeMan...that's gone already....TMNT simply is one of hte highest quality franchises out there right now. Best freaking show on 4Kids. It's not mindless violence, it teaches a bit of family importance. They dont fight unless they have to. Unless it's the huge climax to a major story arc, there's no fight just for the hec of it...there's always a reason. I'm glad parents today aren't all freaking out over the fighting part like they did way back when.

whoa wat now.transformers is huge! wit comics, toys and shows....it makes a ton of money! Heman and the soon to be Shera would still be here if parents hadn't complained about the voilence......Thundercats is coming soon to the WB (OMG why?)..everything 80's will return to TV and the orignsls will be on DVD. So lets celebrate:D

[iris]

Man, season three hasn´t even started in my country. Darn latinamerican JetixBut now you've got even more to look forward to. :thyper: :goof:

[Turtle Dove]

DAng you must hate the spoilers here dude!!

[Coola Yagami]

But now you've got even more to look forward to. :thyper: :goof:
Jetix still shows TMNT? Cause the LatinAmerican Jetix I have cancelled the show and replaced it with WINX and back-to-back episodes of Totally Spies...

[iris]

:x what!? Well that bites! WINX! I can't believe that. If that's true y'all need to tell Jetix Latin America (http://www.jetixtv.com/Comentarios/index.html) what's important! :P

(jetix l.a. tmnt (http://www.jetixtv.com/Series/Las_Tortugas_Ninja/index.html))

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

If they move to the future...

...It might be based on Volume 4!!!

[IceFlash78]

I'm really glad that TMNT is going to be renewed for two more seasons, and possibly longer than that!

Yet, I don't really like the idea of TMNT 99 years from now. The concept just doesn't sit with me. If it can be done well, fine, but I just don't see how the transition could be made. All i can think of is cheesy methods (OMG, THE TURTLES WERE FROZEN! OMG, THEY FOUND THE SPECTOR OF TIME! OMG THE SHOW JUST JUMPED WITH NO EXPLAINATION!). It might be cool as a sort of "Bad Day" type of thing, where the TMNT are thrust in this wierd timeline and they're not sure how to get out, only to find that its Lord Simlaneteous or Renet or Romeo Savanti's fault... but I won't like it if it was a permanent change to the show.

I think Mikey's Girl's prediction makes more sense. It would be a logical step for the show to take--explore the family dyamics if Splinter, their father and mentor, died. Hmm.. perhaps that will be the season finale? Leo snaps out of it when Splinter dies or something liek that?

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

Maybe it will be based on "After The Bomb".

[Fledermaus]

Interesting what has been said of Splinter possibly getting killed--or maybe seriously injured due to Leo. Oh man, I think that would be way too sad. And the writers had really better make it worth it. Never ever kill off a main character unless there is 1)justification and 2) payoff. Otherwise, it'll feel excessively heavy, like one of those tragic fanfictions or asian soap-operas. Tho, much as I adore the radical rat, that possibility is not totally out of question. Because that would certainly make things more poignant and would provide definite meat for future seasons. Hoy.:( That would sure make the series very dark. Perhaps uncomfortably so.

[Jester]

Indeed, although how much has Sensi's death affected Vol. 4? I mean he's gone, but where's ther remorse. They've just moved on....:( I think they'd all especially Leo, and maybe Raph (I'm using the poinent scene from TMNT 1 as the guide for that statement) would feel some lose....heck in retrospect Donnie and Mikey'd feel it too, have the moarned thew loss of Splinter in the comics? I hope or wish they had more. If Splinter died, it'd really shake the boys and they'd all probably go after his killer like Leo is now against all who would harm his family. If it was natural, maybe they'd take it easier, like vol. 4...*shrugs* The closest person to me that died that i even remotly rember is my Great grandfather and Uncle Bill, and to be honset they weren't that close. I have no real frame of refrence.

[Masked Ninja]

Interesting what has been said of Splinter possibly getting killed--or maybe seriously injured due to Leo. Oh man, I think that would be way too sad. And the writers had really better make it worth it. Never ever kill off a main character unless there is 1)justification and 2) payoff. Otherwise, it'll feel excessively heavy, like one of those tragic fanfictions or asian soap-operas. Tho, much as I adore the radical rat, that possibility is not totally out of question. Because that would certainly make things more poignant and would provide definite meat for future seasons. Hoy.:( That would sure make the series very dark. Perhaps uncomfortably so.That's the truth. I like the darkness and seriousness of this show, but I DON'T want it to become depressing. Keep the lightheartedness in there. And frankly, if snapping Leo out of it is what we need, a seriously injured Splinter should be sufficient. He worries enough that his imagination can fill in the "ho crap, what could have happened..."

[Katie]

Indeed, although how much has Sensi's death affected Vol. 4? I mean he's gone, but where's ther remorse. They've just moved on....:( I think they'd all especially Leo, and maybe Raph (I'm using the poinent scene from TMNT 1 as the guide for that statement) would feel some lose....heck in retrospect Donnie and Mikey'd feel it too, have the moarned thew loss of Splinter in the comics? I hope or wish they had more. If Splinter died, it'd really shake the boys and they'd all probably go after his killer like Leo is now against all who would harm his family. If it was natural, maybe they'd take it easier, like vol. 4...*shrugs* The closest person to me that died that i even remotly rember is my Great grandfather and Uncle Bill, and to be honset they weren't that close. I have no real frame of refrence.


I have been through the awful reality of losing someone VERY close to me. Going on three years later I still cannot regain who and what I was before things happened. 'specially since it was partially my fault.

As much as the writers in this show like to keep to psychological and emotional realism....killing off Splinter right now would kill the show. They are too young. They are in their thirties right now in the comics...you don't wanna loose a parent in your teens. They'd have to change the name of the show to Teenage Mutant Dispondent Turtles...it'd be too sad.

[Turtle Dove]

I have been through the awful reality of losing someone VERY close to me. Going on three years later I still cannot regain who and what I was before things happened. 'specially since it was partially my fault.

As much as the writers in this show like to keep to psychological and emotional realism....killing off Splinter right now would kill the show. They are too young. They are in their thirties right now in the comics...you don't wanna loose a parent in your teens. They'd have to change the name of the show to Teenage Mutant Dispondent Turtles...it'd be too sad.

Well that sounds so sad :-(

Well I agree killing Splinter would MAYBE but maybe a seroius injury or where he fell in a coma. That make 1. Leo vs Raph for leadership the way things should be handled or the way Splinter woulda handled things. 2. I think MIkey shows some emotion or depends too much on his brothers. 3. Don......well Don just make more machines But I think Raph would try to take over for leadership beliving his ways are better while Leo stands his ground making himself the true leader

[U2WaTCHer]

has this whole future thing been confirmed or is it just rumor? If so when do we expect it to start? I hope not thats so lame :-?

[DIrishB]

has this whole future thing been confirmed or is it just rumor? If so when do we expect it to start? I hope not thats so lame :-?

I don't even think its a rumor, just someone mentioning a possible avenue the show could go.

Personally I don't want that to happen. I'd merely like to see the show continue as it has, stay in the relative present, and hopefully with a slow progression of time and the character development and expansion associated with it.

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

I'd have to agree.