tmnt your life and now your kids

[lilraph]

Hopefully this hasnt been discussed before but i wanted to share my opinion on the 25 great years.

In fifth grade my girlfriend gave me a set of turtles trading cards for my birthday. I said what the hell is this? Everyone told me when they were on so i took a gander. Since then i was sold, as were all of you :D. 20 someide years, a raph tattoo, and thousands of dollars worth of memorabillia later i still got love for em.
My son who is on his way to being 3 recently found a dvd set i had (still in the wrappers , the new cartoon series) Now needless to say i've gotten a bit away from turtles during the whole "fast forward" crap, but he's been watching them and becoming quite the little turtle freak him self. Several words he still cant say but he can say, mikey, erma (<- wtf is what i thought too, trust me), donny, leo, and dooodooos (turtles, that is) :lol: They tend to make him a little ram rowdy, and aggressive but he enjoys them and i love spreading the turtles to a new generation.
Tonight i went to put him to bed and he begged for doodooos, so i threw in the city at war dvd, sat down with him, and we watched four episodes in a row together. All i could say to myself was "wow". I never thought this would happen. never thought i'd be sitting with my son, watching the same type of cartoon i grew up on. I have a deep love for the turtles as they have always been a huge part of my life. Just found it a great feeling to pass them on to the next generation. Maybeone day my son will be on here talking about him and his son. :o

[Candy Kappa]

my father hated the turtles (he-man batman ect ect ect)

when they came back I saw it as my duty as a big brother to introduce my 2 kid brothers to the green team. When the wrapped up their present and saw their new heroes for the first time I could see a tear in my father eye corner

[Hero]

Been spreading TMNT gospel within friends and family whenever possible.

[Jester]

I have a TMNT beanie my GF bought for herself, and then gave to me and a TMNT wallet, as a way of spredding the TMNT lovin' to the world at large....since I have no kids.

[Raph's Girl]

My family has always encouraged my love for the turtles (mostly cuz TMNT braught out a love for artwork in me). I grew up in a rather strict household but TMNT was one of the few shows I was allowed to watch. My grandparents sent me several TMHT items when they were living in England. My mom is a major big Mikey fan, My dad is a Leo fan (he even met Leo and Raph when he was on TDY in Vegas around 1990. They were at the grand opening of a TRU). My step-dad considers Donatello to be his hero.

Over the years I've encouraged the next generation to gain a love of turtles. I had this neighborkid who at 2 years old could never remember my name. Instead he simply called me Ninja Turtle. His sister (who was 8 ) kept on telling everyone that Raphael was my BF...course she had a crush on Donatello (of which I did at that age as well). Her aunt was also a fan.

All my cousins are also fans (Mostly Raph and Leo...or as my cousin Bryce calls him, The blue dude) and my cousin Jason's 2 step-sons are fans as well. So it's indeed generation after generation of fans in my family.

[Ninjinister]

Haven't procreated yet, but if I ate a lot of Indian food, I'd be able to reproduce by mitosis. Then TMNT would have a few more adult fans in the world.

[Jester]

Say what??

[lilraph]

I try to spread the word wherever i am but it dont always take off :ohwell:
http://www.chargerforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94143&highlight=tmnt

I've been known as raphy, or turtle, by tons of friends since mid high school. It just is what it is. Took some grief for it in high school but i took it with stride. Everyone connects with one turtle or another for some reason. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Its great to see others who have the same passion and feelings without them being 7 years old.

There was nothing greater then the smile on my 2 1/2 year olds face when he opened up his first raph figure for christmas.
:evilgrin:

[KROW]

Haven't procreated yet, but if I ate a lot of Indian food, I'd be able to reproduce by mitosis.

Or spontaneously combust, whichever comes first.

I'm the only one in my family who's a fan. My son couldn't get into the 2K3 show, though he likes to watch the old toon and dug the movies, CGI included. Go figure. His favorite's Mikey.

[lilraph]

my son likes donny but thats kinda been subconciously put on him :lol:

My sons name is dominic, short we call him dommy. When he was born a friend made some turtles signs for his room> a cross between car signs with turtles on them. He had donny with a yellow bandana which we always joked as dommytello. Haha, get it. :lol: So anyways, my son likes donny. :evilgrin:

[Buslady]

when my son was younger he liked it for a little while then got bored with it, i got all his toys.

for the record, i have another nickname "Tortuga"

[Ninjinister]

Or spontaneously combust, whichever comes first.


Either way, it'll make someone happy.

[Samhain]

im always talking bout tmnt around everybody. i think no awdays its kinda cool to like something like it even though most think its dorky. whatever tmnt rules!!!

[Chrissie Terrapin]

think 'm the only one in my family that likes tmnt.
I cried when I got a barbie instead of Leo for my birthday^_~

[Evenstar227]

I don't have any kids yet, but my best friend has two. Recently I bought OT season 6 as a birthday prezzie for her son. My friend also grew up loving TMNT, and encourages that in her children. :tthumbsu:

[discordiatookie]

I, at the ripe old age of twenty-five, have but none kids.

My sister, two years younger that me, has a nearly-two-year-old-girl. Goes by the name of Kennedy.

When they visit, she normally plays with whatever turtle stuff is lying around my flat (I got a fair bit...)

"Tuh-Tell" is what she calls 'em. so cute...

And tonight, whilst making my regular visit to my sisters', soon as I came in the door, she came running up to me, a wee DVD in her hand (one've these free with The Sun newspaper jobs that I got and forgot about, left in the house when I moved out, that my sister came across...) She was yelling "Mee-Mee! Mee-Mee!Tuh-Tell!" (My name being Uncle Mikey to her, she calls me Mee-Mee...) It was so cute!


We never watched it together, she being a bit to young for all the ninja action, but I can't wait to sit down with her and watch the DVDs when she's a bit older...

(Right now she's alll for Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Handy Manny, Jo Jo's Circus...)

[lilraph]

guess my ex wife camcorded my son yelling tootoo power and making weapons sounds as he beat the crap out of her. :lol: Guess i'll post that when i get ahold of it.

[Ryona]

Wait... People are still having kids these days? Get with the times, people. Kids have gone out of fashion long ago. They're lowsy accessories. Kids are just not cool anymore.

Dangit, you people are failing... FAILING!


*ahem*
Now that what needed to be said has been said, I ofcourse am still a TMNT fan, and I'm passing that love of TMNT to my kickass robot I got recently!

[Machias Banshee]

I've always loved the turtles, and tried to share that enjoyment with my nieces.. they prefer writing yaoi porn and their aunt's religious cult... :sweatdro:

My parents weren't too keen on my enjoyment of the fandom until I got brave enough a couple years back to show some of my drawings I've done for folks. Now my mom (and sometimes brother) watches tmnt with me on Saturdays when we have a new episode. I hate to see the show end, cuz that was a weird lil thing me and Mom were able to enjoy on saturdays, other than watching strange scandinavian cooking shows on public TV...

If I ever have kids of my own, I'll definitely share the joys of TMNT with them. But I gotta get a guy who likes them as well first...

[XERO]

Heh, a Ryobot.:P

No kids, but plenty of nieces and nephews who watch the show whenever they can.

Surprisingly, I had nothing to do with that. They decided to like them on their own.

You'd never have to worry about me not being a fan. Even though times are rough and I can't afford to get DVDs and the likes of TMNT merchandise, I'll always be there to support them wherever they end up.

In otherwords, I'll ride this Turtle Van until the wheels fall off.