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DrSpengler
08-24-2010, 05:11 PM
Among other sections.

It's been removed from the sidebar and the site map (http://www.ninjaturtles.com/frames/map.htm).

That's... interesting.

oldmanwinters
08-24-2010, 05:14 PM
©2010 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved
Nick.com

Doh!
Looks like Nick is starting to get the ball rollin'!

VaughnMichael
08-24-2010, 06:07 PM
Wow all of the toys are gone also.
All that work that Dan, myself, and many others did down the drain.:ohwell:

oldmanwinters
08-24-2010, 06:34 PM
Wow all of the toys are gone also.
All that work that Dan, myself, and many others did down the drain.:ohwell:

Yeah, it's a shame. At least the comic listing is mostly preserved over at MirageLicensing.com.
Maybe you could work with Krang to start a new toy repository on TheTechnodrome main page?

Roseangelo
08-24-2010, 06:42 PM
If you want to save any of that info, now is the time to go dig it out of Google's cache.

Spitfire
08-24-2010, 06:57 PM
That info should be placed on another site. I used to reference that all the time, such a shame. If I had the HTML docs I could recode it and upload it somewhere. The green and yellow never worked me me anyways.

oldmanwinters
08-24-2010, 06:57 PM
If you want to save any of that info, now is the time to go dig it out of Google's cache.

Fortunately, Master Splinter (http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/member.php?u=4722) has preserved much of the listings into a downloadable zip file if anyone is interested.

Hopefully, it will all be back up at MutantOoze.org at some point.

Master Splinter
08-24-2010, 06:59 PM
Yeah, it's a shame. At least the comic listing is mostly preserved over at MirageLicensing.com.
Maybe you could work with Krang to start a new toy repository on TheTechnodrome main page?

If you want to save any of that info, now is the time to go dig it out of Google's cache.

Wow all of the toys are gone also.
All that work that Dan, myself, and many others did down the drain.:ohwell:

I saved everything a few months ago and am working on getting it all on my site mutantooze.org, what I create could easily be duplicated for the Technodrome. No sense doing it twice ya know...

-ms

Toon
08-24-2010, 07:10 PM
I grabbed the TMNT25 site before it vanished, too. Not sure why, but thought it might be worthwhile at some point, for posterity if nothing else.

Master Splinter
08-24-2010, 07:15 PM
Fortunately, Master Splinter (http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/member.php?u=4722) has preserved much of the listings into a downloadable zip file if anyone is interested.

Hopefully, it will all be back up at MutantOoze.org at some point.

Sounds like the sooner the better now... 8)

-ms

bedbugjones
08-24-2010, 07:47 PM
Viacom Blows....

CyberCubed
08-24-2010, 07:58 PM
So far Nick isn't doing TMNT fans any favors:

1. Releasing an edited crappy version of Turtles Forever on a bare-bones DVD.

2. Destroying Ninjaturtles.com

Samhain
08-24-2010, 08:09 PM
Discovered this today. Sucks because I used it as reference alot of the time.

Venom
08-24-2010, 08:09 PM
NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm SO glad Master Splinter saved the site, because I was just thinking the other day that the comic section needed to be saved on the TMNTWikia or somewhere else to chronicle the printed adventures of the Turtles for future fans to discover.

I keep having a feeling that in a few years people are going to forget the Turtles really were comic book characters...moreso than now!

Rise1184
08-24-2010, 08:10 PM
Oh no!! I was always there.. This is very sad.

EDIT: Wait, It's saved? Bless you Master Splinter!! ;)

Venom
08-24-2010, 08:11 PM
Discovered this today. Sucks because I used it as reference alot of the time.

Yeah me too, especially this year since I massively built up my collection (thanks to Ms. Katie!) it really came in handy to use as a cross-reference and checklist of sorts.

CyberCubed
08-24-2010, 08:12 PM
Anyone notice they removed the 2k3 DVD page, yet left the original cartoon DVD page up?

hmmmm...

Rise1184
08-24-2010, 08:14 PM
Yeah me too, especially this year since I massively built up my collection (thanks to Ms. Katie!) it really came in handy to use as a cross-reference and checklist of sorts.

Exactly, same here. I'm so shocked, I was just on there the other night.

Xav
08-24-2010, 08:23 PM
Maybe we should wait after they're finished redesigning the website before we freak out. Besides there is always http://www.archive.org/.

Venom
08-24-2010, 09:17 PM
I'd rather start freaking out now, because the site will be completely unrecognizable when they get through with it.

jaymq
08-24-2010, 09:32 PM
They'll probably turn it into a crappy flash site too. Meh.

Krang
08-24-2010, 09:45 PM
The reason NinjaTurtles.com has been pared down is that the DNS has been updated to point to Viacom's servers rather than Mirage's, so they're now in full control of the site. Now that Viacom is hosting it, I'm somewhat surprised they kept Mirage's design rather than waiting until they came up with a new one before moving, but that will probably be changed soon, too.

Of course, this also means that the old site still exists, although it may not be around for much longer. Luckily, Mirage has Apache set up so that it's the default site for their IP, so it's nice and easy to visit in case there's something you'd still like to save from there: http://75.150.71.241/
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the images are working by default due to their hotlinking script, but they can be viewed or saved individually.

Edit: Oh, here's one that works better, but will probably be taken down even sooner: http://mail.ninjaturtles.com/

Maybe you could work with Krang to start a new toy repository on TheTechnodrome main page?
Sure, I'd be glad to! That's a section that we've been hoping to find someone to help us maintain (or at least contribute to) since Shredder and I don't have access to the majority of the figures.

CyberCubed
08-24-2010, 09:50 PM
Why not just upload all of ninjaturtle.com's content to TheTechnodrome? Everything from the episode summaries, toy pics, comic summaries, etc.

I doubt Dan Berger will have a problem with it. In fact he'd probably be happy his hard work would be archived somewhere.

Why not rehaul the entire TheTechnodrome.com's site with all of ninjaturtles.com information?

Krang
08-24-2010, 10:16 PM
Sorry, but we refuse to add anything to The Technodrome unless we first have full permission from whoever created the content. If Dan Berger gives us permission, we'd be happy to add anything he is willing to allow us to use, but he probably can't do that since Mirage most likely still owns the content.

CyberCubed
08-24-2010, 11:04 PM
Did anyone ask him? He can be easily contacted over at the miragelicensing site.

Besides, I think he'd rather all his hard work still be up somewhere than deleted/removed forever.

The thing is ninjaturtles.com was an archive of all TMNT related material, complete with episode summaries, pictures, DVD listings, comic summaries, etc.

It was a huge help to anyone new to TMNT and had no idea what all this stuff is. Its a shame if it is lost.

sdp
08-24-2010, 11:42 PM
ninjaturtles.com will soon enough just re-direct to http://www.nick.com/shows/tmnt, I don't see why its much of a shock, we all knew this since they bought the turtles. Yes, the new site will be about the show and a "crappy flash site" for kids, you know their target demographic. Theres archive.org and plenty of people were archiving the website last year, its really a surprise it lasted that long but Nick likely didn't have anything to do with it until now since they are going to begin re-running the 2k3 show and they need to point new fans to their website.

Yeah ninjaturtles.com was a great resource for information, but hey the info will still be out there and we all knew this was going to happen eventually, and no Nick getting rid of the old site doesn't mean they don't respect the turtles or whatever, they just can't maintain it, they likely have one guy who does all of Nick.com and they aren't going to have a separate site for tmnt when all their other shows don't. Mirage could do it because well its the only property they had that was worth anything. This is really the opportunity for thetechnodrome to become THE resource for TMNT.

Personally I'm glad Nick is finally showing signs of doing stuff with the property and we'll see more once the re-runs start and more in 2011 when we start getting info about the movie and new show. If you want to know what the new website will look like just go to nick.com and check the websites for their other shows, thats what it'll look like so start complaining now. IMO it gets the job done, also the TMNT will finally have an official board though I'm guessing it'll be as moronic as the 4kids website board.

Redeemer
08-25-2010, 01:16 AM
Wow all of the toys are gone also.
All that work that Dan, myself, and many others did down the drain.:ohwell:

U were apart of the admin on the site? I wana say thank u bc I discovered and read the TMNT comics on there I waited actously for them to come out with the next one every month. Thank u.
If u know the other people please give them my thanks.

Buffy
08-25-2010, 03:28 AM
I noticed it this morning when I wanted to look something up. I'll truly miss that website...

ToTheNines
08-25-2010, 06:51 AM
This has been a really sad week for me, and now I finally have to delete ninjaturtles.com as my homepage after like 8 years... depressing.

Life at best is bittersweet?

Master Splinter
08-25-2010, 08:42 AM
As much as a good reference ninjaturtles.com was it is horribly put together on the back end... If you are a web developer you would understand... Some files link to each other in very odd ways, some sloppy code, etc... there isn't a standard on some it.. I have been cleaning up alot of the code and I hope to have everything done within the next month... If there are any ideas of improvements that any of you would like to see I can add those as well.

-ms

TheCanadiandrome
08-25-2010, 10:54 AM
wow so the official site is going down the crapper, nice.

Venom
08-25-2010, 08:45 PM
U were apart of the admin on the site? I wana say thank u bc I discovered and read the TMNT comics on there I waited actously for them to come out with the next one every month. Thank u.
If u know the other people please give them my thanks.

Not wanting to put words in Vaughn's mouth, but no he wasn't an admin; rather, he had provided the pics and information for a vast majority of the action figures.

Powder
08-25-2010, 09:45 PM
Not that this change was unexpected or anything... still sucks. As alot of you have in the past, I too would check the site when I needed to referance something. Oh well.

Alex
08-26-2010, 03:19 AM
Personally I'm glad Nick is finally showing signs of doing stuff with the property and we'll see more once the re-runs start and more in 2011 when we start getting info about the movie and new show.Just what I thought when I saw it! I'm glad that Nick is doing something with it.

Xav
08-26-2010, 04:50 AM
I emailed Dan Berger about this. He said when they are not busy with mail orders they plan to add the rest of the comic archive including the full issues of the comics at www.miragelicensing.com.

Eiko
08-26-2010, 05:32 AM
It was a good site it will be missed:cry: but we all must move on. Change is always good.:)

Rise1184
08-26-2010, 06:42 PM
I'm just glad the database was saved!! Thanks Splinter!! :)

Purrpull
06-24-2011, 09:15 AM
Sorry for the necrobump, but I went onto the site yesterday and noticed the utter blasphemy. Googled and got here. Saw this post I'm about to quote, which frustrated me.

ninjaturtles.com will soon enough just re-direct to http://www.nick.com/shows/tmnt, I don't see why its much of a shock, we all knew this since they bought the turtles. Yes, the new site will be about the show and a "crappy flash site" for kids, you know their target demographic. Theres archive.org and plenty of people were archiving the website last year, its really a surprise it lasted that long but Nick likely didn't have anything to do with it until now since they are going to begin re-running the 2k3 show and they need to point new fans to their website.

Yeah ninjaturtles.com was a great resource for information, but hey the info will still be out there and we all knew this was going to happen eventually, and no Nick getting rid of the old site doesn't mean they don't respect the turtles or whatever, they just can't maintain it, they likely have one guy who does all of Nick.com and they aren't going to have a separate site for tmnt when all their other shows don't. Mirage could do it because well its the only property they had that was worth anything. This is really the opportunity for thetechnodrome to become THE resource for TMNT.

Personally I'm glad Nick is finally showing signs of doing stuff with the property and we'll see more once the re-runs start and more in 2011 when we start getting info about the movie and new show. If you want to know what the new website will look like just go to nick.com and check the websites for their other shows, thats what it'll look like so start complaining now. IMO it gets the job done, also the TMNT will finally have an official board though I'm guessing it'll be as moronic as the 4kids website board.

But the Turtles are more than just one freakin' show! D: They should just have made the ninjaturtles.com site unofficial and have their freakin' show page on Nick.com. I loved ninjaturtles.com. It felt... personal, somehow. I also liked the comic listings and that you could actually read some of them on there. Very nice.

This is bloody awful. But at least we have archive.com, indeed. But way to garner hate from me, Nick. Never did like you, but this certainly changes nothing.

Venom
06-24-2011, 11:13 AM
If you read through this topic you'll notice Master Splinter has the comics, as well as a large portion of Mirage's old content, listed on his site's TMNT Database section on http://www.mutantooze.org . He even has an ooze canister progress bar showing how much of the content has been uploaded to its respective section.

AcidBurn30
06-24-2011, 11:46 AM
your late, its been gone like a year ago. there a lot of other stuff that gone off that site.. That is the best site ever :(

PizzaPower
06-24-2011, 01:48 PM
yea its sad this site and nick did that to a GREAT site, but DAN could have saved it before he left or have back up files thats their fault for that.

ChetTurtle
06-24-2011, 04:35 PM
U were apart of the admin on the site? I wana say thank u bc I discovered and read the TMNT comics on there I waited actously for them to come out with the next one every month. Thank u.
If u know the other people please give them my thanks.

My thanks as well (even if you weren't admin):D

I emailed Dan Berger about this. He said when they are not busy with mail orders they plan to add the rest of the comic archive including the full issues of the comics at www.miragelicensing.com.
Yes! Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Thankyouuuuuuuuu!:D:D:D