Earliest TMNT memory?

[Stone Ill]

What is your earliest TMNT memory? In other words, what happend, when did it happen, and why did it happen? I was 3 switching through the channels with my older brother(6). Then we switched and it was the intro to the cartoon. My brother and I really enjoyed that show and told my other brother(7) about it. We then kept on watching it, got merch, and bought the movies and watched them countless times.

[Jephael]

I'd have to say my earliest memory would have to be when I first caught the tail end of "The Old Switcheroo." It had to be the very first time I ever saw the TMNT on television. I was into Duck Tales and Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers at the time, but I started growing outta them. I finally became a full-time fan around late '89 right before the first movie debuted.

[That Matt Guy]

I have a lot of memories connected to TMNT. I remember the first time I ever heard about it was from some kid it school who told me to go to Toys R Us and buy the toys, I would have been five years old in 1988. I also have a lot of memories of buying the action figures themselves. My memory of getting the Leatherhead figure is really clear, I remember it like it was yesterday. I also remember getting the Ace Duck figure, the same day the first TMNT movie came out in theaters. 8)

[Deathknight]

I remember my friends tell me how great tmnt was and then I watched it for myself, ironicly enough the first episode i saw was turtle tracks and this was in like '89.

[Reznorite420]

First episode I ever saw was "Splinter No More". The kid who lived next door to us was a friend of mine of my sister's, and he was into TMNT before we were. Actually, I'd heard of TMNT beforehand, but I didn't know anything near the amount he knew. At least this guy knew more than just Shredder, the Turtles, and Splinter. I didn't even know who Bebop and Rocksteady were until the next year!

Oh yeah, when it happened...since I was about 3 or 4 at the time, it was during the second season, and I was living in the mobile home I first lived in when I moved to the city I lived in now, it was definitely sometime in late 1988. I think I might have seen Invasion of the Punk Frogs some time before that, but I might be wrong...it's only a vague memory.

That was the first ACTUAL time I saw TMNT on TV, but my fandom officially started in mid to late 1989 when my mom rented the Heroes In A Half-Shell VHS for me. She then recorded it to a Beta tape (Beta has better quality recording, but less length). I was 4 then (5 in October) and totally enjoyed it! I don't remember if it was before or after that year that I got my Metalhead figure (I believe it was Xmas that year I got it), but all I can tell you is that's how I got on the road of TMNT!

[Donatello02]

I can't even remember how old I was...maybe 2 or 3. Anyway, I loved TMNT since the series started. I got pretty much every figure back then...of course now they are long gone and missing. I juist got back into TMNT again after findind out they were redoing the cartoon. It's been like a trip back in time for me...I'm startin my collection with the figures, Series 1-3 all carded. Hopefully, I'll get a few also just to mess around with. For old times sake.

[raphael90]

Even before I got into the Turtles, I remember the kids in second grade playing the characters at recess. They made me Casey Jones one time I think, although I had no idea who he was at the time. :lol:

[DarthRaphael]

The earliest and most vivid TMNT memory I have is when I bought my first two figures, Leonardo and Bebop at a Hills department store in a Buffalo NY suburb.

I also remember trying vanilla ice cream on peperoni pizza with my cousin. Lets just say it was, um..., interesting. :trazz:

[azure turtle]

I first heard of the turtles when other kids were talking about them during recess. I tuned into the show and was instantly hooked. I think the first episode I saw was "The Shredder is Splintered."

[Turtle X]

When i was 6 years old i used to have a Ninja Turtle BIKE!! well one day i was riding it and my leg got cought in the middle and the bike flipped the wrong way, and snapped my femmer bone in half, i was in the hostipital for 3 monthes.


(Feemer Bone is the biggest bone in the human body)

[Supermik]

I remeber
that Michelangelo (in Italy) says always: COWABUNGA, MONDOPIZZA, SUPERMEGATUBOLOSO, MONDODISASTRO.

in USA i don't know but i can translate them: COWABUNGA, PIZZAWORLD,SUPERMEGAINCREDIBLE,DISASTERWORLD...

Michelangelo since it became my favourite Turtle

[Snailman]

Lemme see...my earliest TMNT memory. That'd have to be one Christmas (must have been either 88' or 89' depending on when the toyline came out, which could mean I was either 9 or 10 years old.) were I got a Splinter figure & a Raphael figure from my cousin, Aunt & Uncle. I had NO clue who the heck these toys were, but I sure did learn to love them. I still have those two figures & they were the squishy headed Raph & Splinter, so I guess I got them in 88' then? I lost all of their weapons, except for Splinter's bow. Raph's Sai's broke so they were tossed, but I think I still have his other assorted ninja weaponry.

When I got the new figures, I bought Raph & Splinter first to sorta start the cycle all over again. :D Ahh memories....

-Snailman

[Kameko]

Can't remember when I originally got into Ninja turtles.

I do remember being in after-school day care in first or second grade and playing Ninja Turtles on the playground. At some point, the pretend bad-guy had captured me and my playmate (we were the turtles, obviously, but I have no earthly clue which turtles we were).
Obviously, this was a time before we understood biology, or that fact that most beings that have a spine sort of need thier spine to survive. I say this because for whatever evil purpose he had in mind, the badguy (presumably Shredder) took our shells, but we were still alive and kicking. :teek: And, apparently, naked to the world :toops: , but that's beside the point. How a turtle can survive without a shell is beyond me. (Cyborg Donny aside). But it made sense in our little minds. What can I say? Kids are weird. :roll: :P

[Karpo_007]

My first memory... I saw and ad of Archie TMNT in the back cover of My superman...

[Dontebell]

i remember was whacting them on video and on usa. :)

[Reznorite420]

Even before I got into the Turtles, I remember the kids in second grade playing the characters at recess. They made me Casey Jones one time I think, although I had no idea who he was at the time. :lol:That almost brought a tear to my eye! I remember all the way back to KINDERGARTEN that I played TMNT every day at recess with my best friend at the time. There was a small drainage ditch next to the slide, and well called that the "sewer"; the slide itself was the "sewer tunnel"; a place near one of the sets of slides was the "pizza parlor"; and the gym right next to the playground, which on the outside very much reminded me so of it, we called the "Technodrome".

Now I see why people want to be a kid again...

[themaxonline]

My first memory, I think, was when my cousin and his friends, who were all two or three years older than me played it outside one time and I forget who I was, Michaelangelo, probably, because of the name similarity (my name is michael) and that was probably the first time I took notice in them. Later on I started to watch them and I remember my Dad got me a mirror with Michaelangelo and some balloons on it, hehehehe! I forget what the first episode was I ever saw but I think it might have been one of the ones from Season 4.

[Wingnut]

My earliest memory is me and my friend Alex playing with his party wagon when i was five

[Mouse]

first memory was watching Case of the Killer Pizza, seemed like the very first one that was ever shown in my area...go fig :roll:

[Kali]

I have vauge memories of watching the cartoon and playing with the toys, but I haven't the foggiest clue how old I was at the time. I also remember running home to catch TNM, but that was way later, my semi-revival. However, I do remember my full revival vividly. It was December 2000, and I had been directed to Fanfiction.net from a Gargoyles site, saw the catagory for Ninja Turtles, said "Hey, I remember them," and the rest is history.

[Cascadia]

My earliest TMNT memory is that the show occurred on Sunday mornings when I was 8. I would beg my mom to let me stay home and do homework. However, I would do some science and math homework during the show. She never knew about it. :lol: The following year, it started to occur every weekday, which was my break between school and homework.