Favorite ninja turtle rip-off [Archive]

SHREDDER-X

08-18-2008, 08:57 PM

Which of the following is your favorite comic/cartoon inspired by TMNT ?

- ADOLESCENT RADIOACTIVE BLACKBELT HAMSTERS

- PRE-TEEN DIRTY GENE KUNG FU KANGAROOS

- COLD BLOODED CHAMELEON COMMANDOS

- BIKER MICE FROM MARS

- C.O.W.BOYS OF MOO MESA

- STREET SHARKS

- EXTREME DINOSAURS

- BATTLE TOADS

Jester

08-18-2008, 08:58 PM

What about Samuari Pizza Cats?

And would Disney's Mighty Ducks count?

Darth Shredder

08-18-2008, 09:02 PM

I liked Biker Mice From Mars as a kid.

SHREDDER-X

08-18-2008, 09:20 PM

Oh yeah, I forgot about Mighty Ducks and Samurai Cats. Road Rovers count too.

Mr._Mutant_Man

08-18-2008, 09:40 PM

I guess Battle Toads.

I forgot how many Turtles ripoffs there were.

Would Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers count? I know the footage was taken from the Sentai series, but keep in mind the American additions like making the heroes teenagers (instead of warriors that had been frozen in time) and the title of the series, which seems to have been influenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

SHREDDER-X

08-18-2008, 09:52 PM

Nah, the Power Rangers were a rip off of Voltron.

I guess Disney's Gargoyles would also be considered a turtle rip off too, at least with the name scheme. The turtles were all named after reinassance artists, the Gargoyles, cities in New York.

Darth Shredder

08-18-2008, 09:56 PM

I've talked to Greg Weisman on his blog a few times, and read about every entry there. He was more inspired by classic fantasy tales (Shakespeare and Arthurian for instance) than anything. So I don't really think TMNT had an influence on Gargoyles.

The naming might have been an homage. Impossible to know for sure; but the series is definitely not to be considered a Turtle rip-off.

shuriken

08-18-2008, 09:57 PM

I guess Disney's Gargoyles would also be considered a turtle rip off too, at least with the name scheme. The turtles were all named after reinassance artists, the Gargoyles, cities in New York.

I would have to disagree with the Gargoyles because I never saw or felt they were ripping off the TMNT. Plus it was too serious of a show to be ripping off the TMNT of the time. I would have to say street sharks. Dr. pirahna head was awesome.

Ninjinister

08-18-2008, 10:15 PM

Can C.O.W.Boys really be considered a "rip-off" considering it was created by a prominent TMNT artist who also created some of the series' most popular characters such as Leatherhead?

Darth Shredder

08-18-2008, 10:23 PM

Can C.O.W.Boys really be considered a "rip-off" considering it was created by a prominent TMNT artist who also created some of the series' most popular characters such as Leatherhead?

Technically, but I see where you're coming from.

SHREDDER-X

08-18-2008, 11:22 PM

Okay, maybe not the Gargoyles. BUT to a lesser extent, I think the Toxic Crusaders were a rip off of the Turtles. Now Don't get me wrong, I loved the Crusaders and the ultra-violent Troma Toxic Avenger movies they were loosely based on. But I guess since the same animation company that made the OT TMNT also made TC, you can't help but see the similarities;

DR. KILLEMOFF = SHREDDER
CZAR ZOSTER = KRANG
PYSCHO & BONE HEAD = BEBOP & ROCKSTEADY
RADIATION RANGERS = FOOT SOLDIERS

I even remember Toxie even saying in one episode " Just because we're mutants, doesn't mean we have to live in the sewers."

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

08-19-2008, 05:27 AM

Remember that the TMNT istelf when debuting in 1984 originally is a parody of those hero comics about teenagers, mutant and ninjas who popular in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Now it looks like the TMNT is the originaly...

Evenstar227

08-19-2008, 08:47 AM

Battletoads. Only ever played it as a video game/arcade game, though. According to Wikipedia, it's not a rip of TMNT, it's

a video game by Rare Ltd. created to rival the Big Bad Beetleborgs television series.

ToTheNines

08-19-2008, 10:33 AM

Street Sharks. By a long shot.

Revan

08-19-2008, 11:27 AM

According to Wikipedia

Anytime you can start an argument with this statement, you should probably not say anything.

Evenstar227

08-19-2008, 11:32 AM

I wasn't trying to start an argument.

Revan

08-19-2008, 11:49 AM

And the point remains, wiki is not a reliable source

cowabunga14

08-19-2008, 12:09 PM

Probably Street Sharks.

And then there's this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/TMNTguy/Boris_the_bear01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_the_Bear

Blade Raider

08-19-2008, 04:51 PM

Nah, the Power Rangers were a rip off of Voltron.
Always wanted to see someone use that exact phrase on a forum as there is so many things wrong with that statement.

1) The source footage for Power Rangers is Super Sentai. The source footage for Voltron is GoLion. Super Sentai predates GoLion by at least 4 years.
2) Both are made by Toei and Bandai, so neither is ripping off the other. Toei and Bandai are just doing what they know best which is big gaint robots.
3) Spider-Man had a gaint transforming robot before either show :P

Back on subject, I always enjoyed Biker Mice, though I don't remember much of it.

SHREDDER-X

08-19-2008, 04:55 PM

Always wanted to see someone use that exact phrase on a forum as there is so many things wrong with that statement.

1) The source footage for Power Rangers is Super Sentai. The source footage for Voltron is GoLion. Super Sentai predates GoLion by at least 4 years.
2) Both are made by Toei and Bandai, so neither is ripping off the other. Toei and Bandai are just doing what they know best which is big gaint robots.
3) Spider-Man had a gaint transforming robot before either show :P

Back on subject, I always enjoyed Biker Mice, though I don't remember much of it.

Wow Blade Raider. I didn't know that. Thanks for the info kid.

Darth Shredder

08-19-2008, 04:57 PM

And the point remains, wiki is not a reliable source

According to Wikipedia, a study proves otherwise.

syk_skillz

08-19-2008, 04:57 PM

Street sharks

SHREDDER-X

08-19-2008, 05:03 PM

Probably Street Sharks.

And then there's this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/TMNTguy/Boris_the_bear01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_the_Bear

I don't think Boris was a rip off of TMNT. It did spoof and parody all of the other rip off's of TMNT at the time of the B&W comic book explosion and implosion. I think the greatest collection of TMNT spoofs ever collected in comic book form was a 1986 comic book from Blackthorne Publishing called Laffin Gas that featured the following ( trust me, I didn't make any of this up ) ;

- MILDLY MIRCRO-WAVED PRE-PUBESCENT KUNG-FU GOPHERS

- NAIVE INTERDIMENSIONAL KOALAS

- ADOLESCENT MANIACAL SAMURAI HARES

- COLOSSAL NUCLEAR BAMBINO SAMURAI SNAILS

- GUERILLA GOPHERS

-

Mr._Mutant_Man

08-19-2008, 06:49 PM

Battletoads. Only ever played it as a video game/arcade game, though. According to Wikipedia, it's not a rip of TMNT, it's

Wasn't Battletoads around at least 5 years before Beetleborgs?

Jester

08-19-2008, 06:54 PM

What abour SWAT Kats?

CudleyCowlick

08-19-2008, 07:22 PM

Ditto Cowabunga14 on the Boris the Bear appearances, though I agree that that it's certainly more of a parody of, rather than a inspired by the TMNT.

Really, I'm a huge fan of Street Sharks & Dino Vengers (or Extreme Dinosaurs if you wanna go with the crappy name they ended up going with. The animation was pretty darn good for the time and it doesn't matter what you call them, those were like the sweetest toys around back then and they are still really fun. I'm a diehard MOC collector and those are toys I actually prefer to have loose. Killamari & Spike look so good on my desk!

ToTheNines

08-19-2008, 07:38 PM

those were like the sweetest toys around back then and they are still really fun. I'm a diehard MOC collector and those are toys I actually prefer to have loose. Killamari & Spike look so good on my desk!

Yeah, Street Sharks were easily my favorite toys as a kid (well, I guess I liked Megazords better). I still have mine at my grandmas house, me and my cousins bust them out all the time.

Darth Shredder

08-19-2008, 08:39 PM

I'm currently watching Extreme Dinosaurs on YouTube. "Out of Time", the origin episode.

Raph's Girl

08-19-2008, 09:00 PM

Samurai Pizza Cats is more or less a parody altho the TMNT are mentioned in the theme song. :lol:

Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters is my fave. I have every issue thanks to Wowio. Altho I don't like that they added a female to the group in the new stuff. Meh.

The Kung Fu Kangaroos is a kinda a parody BUT Donatello appears in the first issue.

Boris the Bear is not as much a parody as well somebody who hates everything. He kills off the TMNT (along with Woody Woodpecker, Gummi Bears, Care Bears, and well everyone else) in the 1st issue. But they all seemingly come back to life and get their revenge on him in an issue of Samurai Penguin (which is more or less a Usagi Yojimbo parody). I have yet to read any of the new Boris the Bear stuff. But I totally want to.

Wild West C.O.WBoys of Moo Mesa is not a parody per say since they've teamed up with the TMNT in the comics and appeared in an ep of Fast Forward. It's more or less a spin-off of sorts.

Now the Street Sharks...definatly a parody.

Swat Cats is not. They're not mutants. They're on an alternate earth and they fly jets....:P

Blade Raider

08-19-2008, 10:58 PM

Wasn't Battletoads around at least 5 years before Beetleborgs?
At least 4 years before Beetleborgs. Hell, Battletoads came out before Power Rangers. So yeah, that wiki intry is wrong unless there proof otherwise.

Archon_Turtle

08-20-2008, 01:58 AM

SNAILIENS!

http://www.diehardstudio.com/page31/files/page31_1.jpg

Darth Shredder

08-20-2008, 02:41 AM

Oy. Alien snails... :S

Evenstar227

08-20-2008, 08:05 AM

SNAILIENS!

http://www.diehardstudio.com/page31/files/page31_1.jpg

I've officially seen it all.

cowabunga14

08-20-2008, 12:18 PM

I don't think Boris was a rip off of TMNT. It did spoof and parody all of the other rip off's of TMNT at the time of the B&W comic book explosion and implosion.
Yes, but he basicaly fought characters that were rip-offs of the Turtles, I guess.

SHREDDER-X

08-20-2008, 10:16 PM

SNAILIENS!

http://www.diehardstudio.com/page31/files/page31_1.jpg

Damn, forgot all about Snailiens ( created by the same dude that did Hamster Vice and Captain Africa). Yeah, they were a rip off too. And all of them were named after presidents.

cMac44111

08-20-2008, 11:08 PM

does this count?

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Raph's Girl

08-21-2008, 01:09 AM

does this count?

xUKOu_fl2pg

Having never heard of this show, I of course looked it up.

The Adventures of T-Rex was an animated series that aired in syndication from 1992 to 1993 in North America. The show featured five musical Tyrannosaurus brothers who played to sold-out crowds as a vaudeville group while also secretly fighting crime as "T-REX," masterminded by Professor Edison. The show lasted only one season.

Set in a world of anthropomophic dinosaurs, brothers Bernie (blue), Bruno (pink), Bubba (green), Buck (yellow) and Bugsy (purple) were born with special powers to help fight crime. Each brother's special power was related to a specific part of their anatomy; Bernie's legs, Bruno's arms, Bubba's tail, Buck's mouth and teeth, and Bugsy's telekinetic eyes. The group rode out on their Rexmobile to battle “Big Boss” Graves, crime kingpin of Rep City (the show's setting), and his evil organization, The Corporation. Kid sister Ginger was part of the singing group, but didn’t know about her brothers’ secret identities.

So if you combined TMNT with Jem and the Holograms you'd get The Adventures of T-Rex. :lol:

But seriously....telekenetic eyes???

The voice cast for this series features 2 people from Next Mutation, Scott McNeil (Bonesteel) and Michael Dobson (Leonardo).

Gary Chalk along with Scott McNeil, Brian Dobson, and Kathleen Barr also worked with Cam Clarke in the 2002 He-Man series.

SHREDDER-X

08-21-2008, 05:06 PM

Yeah T-Rex counts too. But they were so LAME !!!

Drtooth

08-24-2008, 11:18 AM

What about Samuari Pizza Cats?

And would Disney's Mighty Ducks count?

A) Not really. The show is more of a satirical Sentai show, and I feel it was more a "rip off" of Power Rangers than anything. The dub dilliberately was intended as both a Power Ranger knock off (as Saban dubbed it, and they had a good relationship with Tatsunoko) and a TMNT knock off. The theme song (American one, of course) stated "They've got more fur than any Turtle ever had." The Pizza thing is kinda a tip off, though. But then again, they work at a place called "Pizza Cat" a Japanese phonetic play on Pizza Hut... mainly since a lot of times the short U sound is translated as an "Ah" sound.

B) Yes and no.... by that logic you could also count Road Rovers. Personally, I thought it was just a dumb idea, and the biggest stretch of Disney's cartoon from movie shows.

Ninjinister

08-24-2008, 02:20 PM

If we're going by that logic, Road Rovers would be my favourite.

"You're all good, good dogs...."

Drtooth

08-24-2008, 07:55 PM

I, however DO count Battle Toads as a direct knock off. I don't know if it actually was to have 4 members (I somehow remember reading an early concept used in Nintendo Power saying there were 4... or at least one of the names was changed.

It also didn't help that the unsold cartoon series had a slacker that talked almost exactly like Mikey, and that one was a technogeek. I have to say, there was some potential in a cartoon series for Battle Toads, but other than the obvious cloning of the Turtle character personalities (at least with 2 of them) the series suffered terrible animation and drekky dialogue.

odupianist

08-25-2008, 07:21 AM

I can't believe you all are forgetting the most important of them all...

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Jon

08-25-2008, 07:54 AM

Well, that was a show-within-a-show. So was basically parodying the concept as a series watched in that 'universe'.

On a similar note could say the same of one in Fairly OddParent's Movie "Channel Chasers", when Timmy goes by the credits for a cow-related series that is obviously parodying TMNT.

SHREDDER-X

08-25-2008, 08:20 PM

Like Jon said, that was a show within a show. I'm only counting original comic books, cartoons , or video games based on or inspired by the turtles.

Ninjafromanotherseries

10-26-2008, 02:50 PM

When I was a kid Biker mice from Mars was my favorite show and it is still great at least with finnish dub where they have really funny stuff to say sometimes even dirty stuff.

Oh and one episode had TMNT parody where Carbunkle had a machine where he could make comicbook/tv characters real and Limburg started to look what villains would powerful enough to beat the Biker Mice and first he watched show with two normal turtles who had orange and red bandanas and Michelangelo : " "licorice pizza yummy" Raphael: "Yuck"

Limburg stated: "too slow"

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

10-26-2008, 03:06 PM

Ninjafromanotherseries

10-26-2008, 03:46 PM

You mean the original "Biker Mice from Mars" show?

Yes the original.

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

10-27-2008, 10:44 AM

Yes the original.

They're called "Prätkähiiret" in Finland http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4tk%C3%A4hiiret.

Venom

10-28-2008, 05:55 PM

Don't forget

- MIAMI MICE
- HAMSTER VICE
- GNAT RAT
- GERIATRIC GANGRENE JUJITSU GERBILS
- CYBORG GERBILS
- NAIVE INTER-DIMENSIONAL COMMANDO KOALAS
- BUCKY O' HARE (always seemed more like Space Usagi parody to me)

And the Snaliens rocked! I still have those toys in my toyboxes with my Turtles! I got them on my birthday in '93 along with all the TMNT III figures at KayBee. It also snowed that day, rather deeply, so it was special.

Also, this pic reminded me of the Snaliens:
http://brendanmccarthy.co.uk/uploaded_images/TURTLES3-739997.jpg

drasgow

10-28-2008, 08:06 PM

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

10-29-2008, 07:18 AM

Even the Punk Frogs is like a TMNT rip-off (even if it's in the same series).

Drtooth

10-29-2008, 07:30 AM

Oh and one episode had TMNT parody where Carbunkle had a machine where he could make comicbook/tv characters real and Limburg started to look what villains would powerful enough to beat the Biker Mice and first he watched show with two normal turtles who had orange and red bandanas and Michelangelo : " "licorice pizza yummy" Raphael: "Yuck"

Limburg stated: "too slow"

The new series still manages to get away with turtle references... my favorite:

VINNIE: Don't call us dudes! Call us Bros. "Dudes" is for slimey reptiles.

Francis The Lost Turtle

11-02-2008, 03:35 PM

The Genetically Altered Adolescent Karate Cows from The Fairly Odd Parents TV movie Channel Chasers.

Drtooth

11-02-2008, 03:45 PM

The Genetically Altered Adolescent Karate Cows from The Fairly Odd Parents TV movie Channel Chasers.

I was too disappointed they didn't actually do anything but show the credits on that one. There was some real potential for something funny. I guess they didn't have enough time to do anything with it.

Ryona

11-03-2008, 06:12 AM

I never liked any of the TMNT rip-offs. They were all rubbish.

The only series I enjoyed that was anything like TMNT was ThunderCats. And it's not a rip-off because ThunderCats first aired on 1985 where as TMNT aired on 1987.

Mutated Turtle

11-13-2008, 06:41 PM

does the koopa bros from mario count as a tmnt knockoff!

sdp

11-13-2008, 11:31 PM

Well a few of those aren't real rip-offs.

I mean TMNT started the anthropomorphic superheroes and most shows had them but many were totally different and only similarity is that they are

Oh and my favorite parody is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Cavemen from Dinosaurs :D

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/thumb/1/14/Ninjacavemen.jpg/120px-Ninjacavemen.jpg

Wingnut

11-14-2008, 01:07 AM

Battletoads no doubt. That game gives me near-aneurysms and I still love it!

Then again, I ran into a brick wall when I was in 3rd grade :ohwell:

Drtooth

11-14-2008, 10:38 AM

Oh and my favorite parody is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Cavemen from Dinosaurs :D

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/thumb/1/14/Ninjacavemen.jpg/120px-Ninjacavemen.jpg

A double joke, since Dinosaurs was founded on the exact same type of animatronics that was used in the movie.

CudleyCowlick

11-14-2008, 11:22 AM

Oh and my favorite parody is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Cavemen from Dinosaurs :D

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/thumb/1/14/Ninjacavemen.jpg/120px-Ninjacavemen.jpg

Probably too much to hope for - but to anyone's knowledge, has this poster ever been reproduced and made available for sale at any time, even in small quantities?

I've wanted one of those since Dinosaurs first started airing.

ZariusTwo

11-14-2008, 04:18 PM

The Tiny Toons parody was pretty weak...mainly because the original series actually IS a funny show and has much better self-deprecating humour. It actually proves the writers didnt watch the show at all.

But The Animaniacs parody of Power Rangers? Oh yeah, they HAD to have watched the series...

I never liked any of the TMNT rip-offs. They were all rubbish.

Hardly.

Samurai Pizza Cats was one of the best anime dubs in history for the sheer fact they actually wrote their own script and ad-libbed without following the story of the Japanese material.

Biker Mice From Mars is probably the closest they got to emulating aspects of TMNT, but otherwise it was still a great show, and the Vinnie/Charlie relationship actually gave that series an advantage over TMNT refusing to dip into that kind of territory

The only series I enjoyed that was anything like TMNT was ThunderCats. And it's not a rip-off because ThunderCats first aired on 1985 where as TMNT aired on 1987.

Thundercats had NOTHING in common with TMNT and wasnt like it at all.

Daniel Orduna

01-05-2009, 01:11 AM

does this count?

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Daniel Orduna

01-05-2009, 01:14 AM

I can't believe you all are forgetting the most important of them all...

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Candy Kappa

01-05-2009, 01:23 AM

Biker mice from mars where awesome

MrPliggins

01-05-2009, 05:24 AM

Drtooth

01-05-2009, 03:24 PM

The Tiny Toons parody was pretty weak...mainly because the original series actually IS a funny show and has much better self-deprecating humour. It actually proves the writers didnt watch the show at all.

But The Animaniacs parody of Power Rangers? Oh yeah, they HAD to have watched the series...[quote]

Which is a real shame, since given the right material, they could have really slaughtered the show... Seems like the TTA parody was basically a "Gads, this is annoying and we gotta make fun of it somehow" type deal. Of course, I still wish to find the unused Histeria! script "Middle-aged Mutant Renaissance Artists" I once read about... I still wonder if that one was even real to begin with.

[quote]

Samurai Pizza Cats was one of the best anime dubs in history for the sheer fact they actually wrote their own script and ad-libbed without following the story of the Japanese material.

And unlike shows of the 1960's, it actually improved the show (go to a dollar store and check out a crappy 1 dollar disk called "Tobor the 8th Man"- that dub left me in stitches, but not on purpose). I've seen one in the original Japanese and while it had its moments, it wasn't even the same iota as clever as the dub.

Mr._Mutant_Man

01-05-2009, 09:12 PM

I found an old issue of Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters in the quarter box a couple months ago from 1986..I read it the other day and I have to say the art is just atrocious and the story wasn't much better.

I did see there's a new series out for these guys...the art looks better at least..

I think I got halfway through the first issue and stopped reading it. It was far dumber and more brain-rotting than the comics it was satirizing.

Drtooth

01-06-2009, 08:48 AM

I think I got halfway through the first issue and stopped reading it. It was far dumber and more brain-rotting than the comics it was satirizing.
Ah, the old 1980's "Anyone with a small enough comic business can get published mooching off a popular concept, and pretending it's satire so they they can fool themselves into thinking they're original" trick.

oldmanwinters

01-06-2009, 10:20 AM

Anybody heard of the show, "Walter Melon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Melon_(TV_show))?" It was a redubbed French cartoon that parodied a lot of pop culture items. Melon and his sidekick would fill in as "temp" heroes for crimefighters who had to miss work for the day. They did a whole episode on the Ninja Turtles, although I never saw that episode in its entirety. I'm guessing it was the episode named "New Age Pizza" in which "the evil schlepper kidnaps two of the tortoises to brainwash them." (http://www.locatetv.com/tv/walter-melon/1635006)