What was your worst TMNT-related experience?

[Krutch]

Any interesting stories out there? Anybody ever give you a hard time for wearing a Ninja Turtle t-shirt? Or maybe for some of you it was just watching Venus for the first time?

My worst experience is merchandise related. I owned the Playmates Leo and Mikey statues for a few months now, and they had been sitting on my shelf for about two months. A shelf I barely have anything else on, and a shelf I barely touch. I went to bed at 11:00pm one night, and was woken at 3:33am(i remember) when the shelf gave out and came crashing down, destroying the statues in the process. 500 bucks out the window. I punched the **** out of my matress and went back to sleep a very angry, bitter person.

I'm good now though :) I found someone selling all 4 unopened on Ebay, so I picked them up. Good stuff :)

[Candy Kappa]

I was often picked at school for liking ninja turtles when it was no longer popular among my class. ended up in a couple of fights over it

[ToTheNines]

Hmm, this is a hard one...

Well, in 2001 I was 10 years old and had gotten rid of pretty much all of my Turtles sh*t. I don't remember what I was into at the time (probably Gundam Wing, or NBA basketball) but for some reason I got bored one day and decided to watch the old cartoons mom had recorded for me. I don't remember what all I had other than Street Sharks, but the TMNT episodes sure stood out.

Any ways, it turned out that I had the first movie recorded and I was loving it even though I hadn't even given TMNT a passing thought in years. So right when Shredder gets his bad-ass full introduction... the fuc*ing tape jumps to some day time talk show. It wasn't even Oprah, just some ****** show I can't even remember.

So mom inadvertently delayed my TMNT obsession, if only by two years lol.

[BoggleKng]

Oh, I hate when parents taped over stuff. grrr... My dad would always tape the news..

[Canadian Turtle]

Oh, I hate when parents taped over stuff. grrr... My dad would always tape the news..

Why on earth would he tape the news? That seems really strange to me, I don't know why hahaha, like one would need to remember what happened in the news a few days ago or a year from now... hahaha I can understand like a special moment or a story they were in??

[BoggleKng]

He taped it cause it was on when we ate dinner as I recall and he never stayed up for the late news..

[Roseangelo]

This story still really bothers me to this day...

Back in 1991 the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour was coming to town and I *REALLY* wanted to go. Unfortunately, my family didn't have much money and so we couldn't afford to go... much sadness, but the kind of thing I was used to. However, there was a local kids' radio station that constantly gave away prizes and I had a knack for winning. One night, the week before the show would be in town, I'm listening and OMG, they're giving away tickets to a private pizza party at a Pizza Hut where Michaelangelo from the tour would be appearing. Not only that, but at the party they would be giving away tickets to see the show that coming Sunday!! I mean, seriously - OMG! The contest was to be the first caller to call in with the correct answer to the question, "What is Spider-Man's real name?" I freaked out, because I didn't know the answer (I know, I lose tons of geek points on that one). I yelled to my mom and asked her and by some miracle she tells me Peter Parker. So I call and get through and OMG, I WIN! Winning that contest probably beat out all of my previous Christmases and Birthdays combined at that point in my life. UNTIL!

So the pizza party was going to be on that Thursday night. I'm going back and forth with the radio guy on the phone and my mom and my mom is telling me that we CAN'T GO because Thursday is her BOWLING NIGHT. She proceeds to get on the phone with the radio guy and GIVE UP the prize because she can't miss bowling night. I was devastated and at the same time pissed off that she couldn't give up ONE bowling night for something that was REALLY important to me. We always worked around her bowling night and had for years, was it really that much to ask to miss this one? Was there really no alternative way to get us to freakin' Pizza Hut? (My dad wasn't an option, because he worked nights, but I still had grandparents and aunts.) Thanks a lot, mom. :tcry:

So, yeah, still a bit bitter about that one.

[Spitfire]

TMNT has usually been good experiences for me. I have had some awkward times with them though. Both my bad experiences involved the movies and drugs.

The first was when I was in high school. My friend came over high as kite after taking some E and brought two friends with her. They wanted to see Turtles 2 and knew I had it. I didn't even know the other two people. One guy fell asleep and drooled all over my pillow. The other guy kept trying to grab my friends boobs, which was hilarious because she's a full blown lesbian and quite open about it. So I had 3 high people wrestling for space on my twin sized mattress getting emotionally invested in Turtles 2. The one guy almost pissed himself when Shredder came from under the dock.

The second time was a few years ago. I was visiting a friend of mine and he wanted to see TMNT. This would have been the 4th time I'd see it but I said "**** it why not?". Another friend was with us as well and we were the only 3 in the theater. So my other friend runs a few rows away from us and starts smoking pot in the top of the theater. This old guy walks in while he's doing it and sits down. He sits there for a few minutes and then gets up and walks out after saying "My what is that smell?". We thought we were going to get kicked out. It was neat watching the movie with just friends in a huge place like that though.

Maybe not horrible experiences, kinda funny, but the worst I got. I probably have some from when I was a kid but I don't remember off the top of my head. No one ever picked on me for liking turtles I had several friends who did and we stuck together.

[Lordmylar06]

Hang tight, I might have a doozy of a "worst experience" in the near future I think.
But for right now, I think the worst was when I was reading the Archie series, and expecting the next issue to NOT be "The Early Years" or "Year of the Turtle". I was ultra pissed to not see Clarrain and Allan in the credits as well.

[Powder]

Took me a while to think of it.


I was fairly young, maybe 10 or 11. I was a bad kid. Used to break alot of stuff out of spite, wyle out on people etc. My mom had really pissed me off about something, I don't recall what... but I know that I took a hammer to her dinner plate, with food on it. Anyhow, I'm on the toilet hours later, she busts in with my next mutation elite gaurd figure & a hedge cutter. I watched his decaptiation. It was HORRIBLE. I'm still pissed to this day as hes fairly irreplacable. Not to mention, from the shows debut to that point on, he was my favorite figure. I still give her **** about it when the occurance crosses my mind. I'm actually getting aggravated right now. Anyone have a loose next mutation elite gaurd they'd wanna sell? Lol.... Not laughing...


I ought to go smash more dinners.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

The general interest decline in the world in the mid 1990's. 1987 cartoon and Archie comics over, no more movies...

[Krutch]

I was a bad kid.

You? No...

:D

[Candy Kappa]

most of my class mates got over the turtles when the fab started to vanish in Norway, seems like things don't last long here. and to be honest I felt very much alone until I had internet access and knew there where more people liking tmnt.

[discordiatookie]

Took me a while to think of it.


I was fairly young, maybe 10 or 11. I was a bad kid. Used to break alot of stuff out of spite, wyle out on people etc. My mom had really pissed me off about something, I don't recall what... but I know that I took a hammer to her dinner plate, with food on it. Anyhow, I'm on the toilet hours later, she busts in with my next mutation elite gaurd figure & a hedge cutter. I watched his decaptiation. It was HORRIBLE. I'm still pissed to this day as hes fairly irreplacable. Not to mention, from the shows debut to that point on, he was my favorite figure. I still give her **** about it when the occurance crosses my mind. I'm actually getting aggravated right now. Anyone have a loose next mutation elite gaurd they'd wanna sell? Lol.... Not laughing...


I ought to go smash more dinners.

Heh, guess that's what you get for being a little s**te. :P

Don't think i've got any, perhaps losing out on auctions on ebay for original art? Oh, I know - I used to have so much neat stuff, from metre high tin buckets, to the blimp, and cards and coin collections and so much more stuff. When my parents split up, me and my sister took most of our stuff to live with our mum, but left behind alot of things that we couldn't manage in the initial move, thinking it safe with my dad. Anyway, my dad moved out of the place without letting us know, leaving behind a bunch of our stuff and I have no idea what happened to any of it. Probably went to the council, as it was a rented property. It wasn't just TMNT stuff, there was a ton of books, comics, (hell I had a heap of 2000ADs, Beanos, Dandys, Hero Turtle UK comics) baby toys, clothes. (like I said, we did get ALOT of our things, but not all). Just one of the reasons I dislike my father as a person...

[Mutagen Mutant]

I was often picked at school for liking ninja turtles when it was no longer popular among my class. ended up in a couple of fights over it

Well I hoped you kicked the crap out of them with that jujitsu you learned from our good friends the Turtles. My worst experience - when I was 12 or 13, my mom forced me to give away ALL of my toys to Goodwill - Turtles, Transformers, and He-Man. I mean it wasn't like she paid for it! My dad was the one who bought me toys, even though he was working at Denny's and Taco Bell (we immigrated to the U.S. from Eastern Europe and this was his first job in the U.S. and he barely understood English). So yeah, my mom thought I shouldn't have the toys because I had the luxury of food, a bed, and clothes (which were bought at Goodwill). The toys probably signified that my dad cared for my upbringing, so my mom felt threatened by it (she made me give them away after they divorced).

[Candy Kappa]

oh i did, I was notable bigger than most in my class and i had quite a temper as a kid.

But I never used my martial arts training on anyone in any scenarios I've been in, expect for one. But he was a drunk karate practitioner that deserved some whooping

[Sage Ninja]

This story still really bothers me to this day...

Back in 1991 the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour was coming to town and I *REALLY* wanted to go. Unfortunately, my family didn't have much money and so we couldn't afford to go... much sadness, but the kind of thing I was used to. However, there was a local kids' radio station that constantly gave away prizes and I had a knack for winning. One night, the week before the show would be in town, I'm listening and OMG, they're giving away tickets to a private pizza party at a Pizza Hut where Michaelangelo from the tour would be appearing. Not only that, but at the party they would be giving away tickets to see the show that coming Sunday!! I mean, seriously - OMG! The contest was to be the first caller to call in with the correct answer to the question, "What is Spider-Man's real name?" I freaked out, because I didn't know the answer (I know, I lose tons of geek points on that one). I yelled to my mom and asked her and by some miracle she tells me Peter Parker. So I call and get through and OMG, I WIN! Winning that contest probably beat out all of my previous Christmases and Birthdays combined at that point in my life. UNTIL!

So the pizza party was going to be on that Thursday night. I'm going back and forth with the radio guy on the phone and my mom and my mom is telling me that we CAN'T GO because Thursday is her BOWLING NIGHT. She proceeds to get on the phone with the radio guy and GIVE UP the prize because she can't miss bowling night. I was devastated and at the same time pissed off that she couldn't give up ONE bowling night for something that was REALLY important to me. We always worked around her bowling night and had for years, was it really that much to ask to miss this one? Was there really no alternative way to get us to freakin' Pizza Hut? (My dad wasn't an option, because he worked nights, but I still had grandparents and aunts.) Thanks a lot, mom. :tcry:

So, yeah, still a bit bitter about that one.

unforgivable. I think you need to put your mother in a home when she gets old enough.

[Nelson]

This story still really bothers me to this day...

Back in 1991 the Coming Out of Their Shells Tour was coming to town and I *REALLY* wanted to go. Unfortunately, my family didn't have much money and so we couldn't afford to go... much sadness, but the kind of thing I was used to. However, there was a local kids' radio station that constantly gave away prizes and I had a knack for winning. One night, the week before the show would be in town, I'm listening and OMG, they're giving away tickets to a private pizza party at a Pizza Hut where Michaelangelo from the tour would be appearing. Not only that, but at the party they would be giving away tickets to see the show that coming Sunday!! I mean, seriously - OMG! The contest was to be the first caller to call in with the correct answer to the question, "What is Spider-Man's real name?" I freaked out, because I didn't know the answer (I know, I lose tons of geek points on that one). I yelled to my mom and asked her and by some miracle she tells me Peter Parker. So I call and get through and OMG, I WIN! Winning that contest probably beat out all of my previous Christmases and Birthdays combined at that point in my life. UNTIL!

So the pizza party was going to be on that Thursday night. I'm going back and forth with the radio guy on the phone and my mom and my mom is telling me that we CAN'T GO because Thursday is her BOWLING NIGHT. She proceeds to get on the phone with the radio guy and GIVE UP the prize because she can't miss bowling night. I was devastated and at the same time pissed off that she couldn't give up ONE bowling night for something that was REALLY important to me. We always worked around her bowling night and had for years, was it really that much to ask to miss this one? Was there really no alternative way to get us to freakin' Pizza Hut? (My dad wasn't an option, because he worked nights, but I still had grandparents and aunts.) Thanks a lot, mom. :tcry:

So, yeah, still a bit bitter about that one.

I'm sorry to hear that. It sounds really bad.

Sacrifices are an important part in every relationship. It's very important that each person in a family group do their part to ensure that the rest get to do what he/she wants or needs to, and that way everyone's happy.

We shouldn't forget this kind of negative experiences with our fathers, because if we do, it's very likely that we repeat them with our own children in the future.

[Ninjinister]

My worst experience is a bunch of elitist nerds trying to convince people that their ideal visions of the Turtles are the only ones that should be allowed to exist.

[VaughnMichael]

My worst experience is a bunch of elitist nerds trying to convince people that their ideal visions of the Turtles are the only ones that should be allowed to exist.
lol!!!
& I think mine was Gary was a jerk to me in NYC and also a few times on Ebay.

[ToTheNines]

lol!!!
& I think mine was Gary was a jerk to me in NYC and also a few times on Ebay.

Really? What happened?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Well I hoped you kicked the crap out of them with that jujitsu you learned from our good friends the Turtles. My worst experience - when I was 12 or 13, my mom forced me to give away ALL of my toys to Goodwill - Turtles, Transformers, and He-Man. I mean it wasn't like she paid for it! My dad was the one who bought me toys, even though he was working at Denny's and Taco Bell (we immigrated to the U.S. from Eastern Europe and this was his first job in the U.S. and he barely understood English). So yeah, my mom thought I shouldn't have the toys because I had the luxury of food, a bed, and clothes (which were bought at Goodwill). The toys probably signified that my dad cared for my upbringing, so my mom felt threatened by it (she made me give them away after they divorced).

DId you wanted to save them? Many throw them in the dustbin at that age (I didn't, buy many do).

[Mutagen Mutant]

Yes, I wanted to save them.

[shuriken]

I have quite a few...
My worst is when i had my drawing folder out during recess(I was about 9 at the time) and I had all mytmnt, ghostbusters, batman, extreme dinosaur drawings out and some bastard kid slaps it out of my hand and all of my drawings go flying due to a strong wind. i am all angry and spazzing out that i go running after them for like a block, all dirty and wet and some i could not catch. I come back crying and the douche keeps making fun of me, so i spear him and start punching until someone pulls me off of the bloody prick. That was really bad cuz all of my classmates after that thought I would snap and kill somebody one day...

[TuЯco]

When i was young im not sure what michaelangello toy it was but i had this mike and it was the year 1999. i only had 5 turtles at the time. i was telling my friends in my kindergartin class about the ninja turtles and how they looked like. they didnt beleive me. then my friend (girl companion) suggested i brought in a toy to show everyone what they looked like. so i brought in a the mikey ninja turtle and show them. i didnt have it out for long because i was affraid if i was seen with the toy my teacher would take it away. But she didnt see it and i felt satisfied that my friends new what they were.:tcool:Then the sad part comes. I go on the bus and my "friend" ki'shawn was there. we didnt really like each other that much. we would always get into fights, then two days after we would be friends. And he asked "can i see the turtle again?" me being a nice person let him see it. then he asked "can i borow it" I said no. Then he said if i didnt let him borrow it he would tell the bus driver and i would get in trouble. i dint want to get in trouble but i didnt want him to "borrow" it:tcry: so i let him borrow it. and i never saw it again.:tcry:

Of cource theres way more to the story than that but i dont want to take anymore of your time.

[Samhain]

Ahh my worst experience had to be when I wa about 7 or 8. I had just started to get my Tmnt hand-me-downs from my uncle who was heavily into the Tmnt. I got the Van, technodrome, a bunch of foot, 3 of the Turtles( missing Leo), and of course a million weapons. Some that didnt even go with the Tmnt line. lmao. Thats everyone tho I bet. So like I said I was missing Leo, and he was my favorite when I was a kid. Well, my friend had Leo , I begged him for months to trade me. Always the same answer, ''hell no''!

So then, out of the blue, he came over one day. I had c3po fig My mom had just bought. Little did I know he wanted it really bad. He said ''Ill trade ya for it''. I was like ''yes''! So, I got my Leo! Finally. Then my grams came over. And brought her dog....ugh. I had Leo on the coffee table. The dog was barking, asusual, for no reason. Got up to get some juice, didnt hear any barking. I thought of the worst, which came to be true. The dog got ahold of my precious Leonardo! :x The figure I had wanted so bad for so long. Now, it was all chewed up, limbs everywhere. No a pretty scene. I cried and cried. It was horrible. I went another 4 years without a Leo figure.We didnt have money so it wasnt as simple as going to the store and buying one. But yeah, still haunts me to this day.

Thats must be why I try to buy everything in doubles. Just in case a dog breaks into my house and eats all my figures.:D

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Ahh my worst experience had to be when I wa about 7 or 8. I had just started to get my Tmnt hand-me-downs from my uncle who was heavily into the Tmnt. I got the Van, technodrome, a bunch of foot, 3 of the Turtles( missing Leo), and of course a million weapons. Some that didnt even go with the Tmnt line. lmao. Thats everyone tho I bet. So like I said I was missing Leo, and he was my favorite when I was a kid. Well, my friend had Leo , I begged him for months to trade me. Always the same answer, ''hell no''!

So then, out of the blue, he came over one day. I had c3po fig My mom had just bought. Little did I know he wanted it really bad. He said ''Ill trade ya for it''. I was like ''yes''! So, I got my Leo! Finally. Then my grams came over. And brought her dog....ugh. I had Leo on the coffee table. The dog was barking, asusual, for no reason. Got up to get some juice, didnt hear any barking. I thought of the worst, which came to be true. The dog got ahold of my precious Leonardo! :x The figure I had wanted so bad for so long. Now, it was all chewed up, limbs everywhere. No a pretty scene. I cried and cried. It was horrible. I went another 4 years without a Leo figure.We didnt have money so it wasnt as simple as going to the store and buying one. But yeah, still haunts me to this day.

Thats must be why I try to buy everything in doubles. Just in case a dog breaks into my house and eats all my figures.:D

My friend's Shredder action figure was destroyed by a dog back in 1992-1993 or something.

[Powder]

In kindegarten a kid BEGGED me to borrow super shredder. I caved. Got it back like 2 months later with all of the armor ripped off. "Sorry my little brother broke it". Okay pal, you yourself are like 5 years old, why the f*** would you let a brother (presumably aged 2 years old) get his grubby little maggot hands on my BORROWED toy?! That was 1994 I believe. I didn't get to replace that figure until summer 09. Later, in high school, I jumped him in the hallway for 'talking behind my back" but really it was becuase I still had bitter feelings about the toy.

[Samhain]

My friend's Shredder action figure was destroyed by a dog back in 1992-1993 or something.
Maybe it was the same dog! haha :lol:
In kindegarten a kid BEGGED me to borrow super shredder. I caved. Got it back like 2 months later with all of the armor ripped off. "Sorry my little brother broke it". Okay pal, you yourself are like 5 years old, why the f*** would you let a brother (presumably aged 2 years old) get his grubby little maggot hands on my BORROWED toy?! That was 1994 I believe. I didn't get to replace that figure until summer 09. Later, in high school, I jumped him in the hallway for 'talking behind my back" but really it was becuase I still had bitter feelings about the toy.

Oh, the drama of high school...:roll:

[ToTheNines]

In kindegarten a kid BEGGED me to borrow super shredder. I caved. Got it back like 2 months later with all of the armor ripped off. "Sorry my little brother broke it". Okay pal, you yourself are like 5 years old, why the f*** would you let a brother (presumably aged 2 years old) get his grubby little maggot hands on my BORROWED toy?! That was 1994 I believe. I didn't get to replace that figure until summer 09. Later, in high school, I jumped him in the hallway for 'talking behind my back" but really it was becuase I still had bitter feelings about the toy.

I thought you said Leo was your role model, that was very Raph of you lol

[Samhain]

I thought you said Leo was your role model, that was very Raph of you lol

Theres a little Raph in all of us.:P

[TuЯco]

Theres a little Raph in all of us.:P

except for mikey :lol:

[Spacebabie]

I feel a little bad reading some of these cause my only bad experiance involved the Pizza Shooter.

The toy was my brother's and he loved using me as target practice.

[CyberCubed]

I can't think of any really bad TMNT experience.

I guess the closest thing would be when I lost my mutating Raphael figure and Tattoo figure as a kid, but that's it.

I re-bought them as an adult anyway. ;)

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Maybe it was the same dog! haha :lol:




I saw on http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/member.php?u=4344 that it looks like you live in the UK, so maybe it jumped on a boat travelling between Sweden to the UK across the Skagerrak and North Sea. :)

[Samhain]

I saw on http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/member.php?u=4344 that it looks like you live in the UK, so maybe it jumped on a boat travelling between Sweden to the UK across the Skagerrak and North Sea. :)

Nah, I live in the U.S. My family is from the U.K but I was born here. Thats just me representing.:D

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Nah, I live in the U.S. My family is from the U.K but I was born here. Thats just me representing.:D

OK. The dog probably went into an aeroplane or a boat travelling between Sweden and the USA. :)

[ToTheNines]

Not necessarily a bad experience, but my buddies always ask me simple TMNT questions when we drink and I'll go on forever and they just laugh. That's nothing, but when we go to bigger parties they do the same sh*t and all these people I don't even know think I'm insane lol

[Powder]

Not necessarily a bad experience, but my buddies always ask me simple TMNT questions when we drink and I'll go on forever and they just laugh. That's nothing, but when we go to bigger parties they do the same sh*t and all these people I don't even know think I'm insane lol



Story of my life.

[Samhain]

Not necessarily a bad experience, but my buddies always ask me simple TMNT questions when we drink and I'll go on forever and they just laugh. That's nothing, but when we go to bigger parties they do the same sh*t and all these people I don't even know think I'm insane lol

Luckily everyone I hang out with loves the turtles! When we drink we tend to act out the first movie Haha.

[Cipher]

Theres a little Raph in all of us.:PA little too Raph.

That ... that's it really. I can't think of a story. I just had to make that comment, even a month late.

[METALHEAD]

When i was young im not sure what michaelangello toy it was but i had this mike and it was the year 1999. i only had 5 turtles at the time. i was telling my friends in my kindergartin class about the ninja turtles and how they looked like. they didnt beleive me. then my friend (girl companion) suggested i brought in a toy to show everyone what they looked like. so i brought in a the mikey ninja turtle and show them. i didnt have it out for long because i was affraid if i was seen with the toy my teacher would take it away. But she didnt see it and i felt satisfied that my friends new what they were.:tcool:Then the sad part comes. I go on the bus and my "friend" ki'shawn was there. we didnt really like each other that much. we would always get into fights, then two days after we would be friends. And he asked "can i see the turtle again?" me being a nice person let him see it. then he asked "can i borow it" I said no. Then he said if i didnt let him borrow it he would tell the bus driver and i would get in trouble. i dint want to get in trouble but i didnt want him to "borrow" it:tcry: so i let him borrow it. and i never saw it again.:tcry:

Of cource theres way more to the story than that but i dont want to take anymore of your time.

>.> its stories like that...that make me realize i was too nice and nieve (did i spell that right?) reasons why i became an asshole during highschool XD got tired of being screwed over.

i...i dont even have a bad memory of tmnt...but i do have one...but it has to do witha TRANSFORMER.

so... tell me do you all wanna hear it?

[dontplaydead27]

My worst TMNT experience? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 the movie. Even as a kid, I knew this movie was a steaming turd. I've probably only sat through it MAYBE 3 times my whole life, counting the time in the theater. Seeing the "coming out of their shells" tour in person was more entertaining than that movie.

The suits in 3 were so crappy, they all looked like they were from the same mold! And they probably were. And Casey Jones returns...after being where? Where the hell were you in 2? Oh, you needed a paycheck so you came back. The ONLY, and I mean the ONLY thing 3 had that wasn't complete ass was Feldman back as Donny. Even that couldn't save this movie. Because of my OCD, I had to buy this turd on DVD a couple years back, because I have to own all the turtle movies.