Do Kids Know there is a new TMNT movie in August?

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

Ok before we get started and i get called a Hater, a whiney fan boy,not a true fan, saying i hate this movie and i want it to fail..stop it right now people have different opinions and experiences and this is something that came to my attention recently..be adults and don't attack each other if someone posts something you are against just walk away


Ok, so i was going to write this yesterday, since it actually happened yesterday, but i wanted to let my words be thought out before i posted

as most of you know i am "The Boston Ninja Turtle" well yesterday i did one of my Events at a local McDonalds..Kids loved it,glowing eyes.happy moments blah blah blah.

Kids ages ranged from infant to 13 id say maybe 150 kids came

now this time around i had a handler who talked for me since in the mask i have a hard time speaking, and she would ask the Kids "Are you excited for the New Movie?" and a good chunk of them would look at her like a deer in headlights, id say 4 out of 6 didn't know what she was talking about, neither did some parents..and remember these werent babies...now some kids did know and said yes or maybe (maybe ones where more excited donnie was in front of them)

now this is where the question comes..Do kids know this movie is coming? is Nick not airing trailers during the show?..i admit i don't watch TMNT when it airs i usually stream it or download it so commercials are gone.

and almost every kid said the same thing "We watch you and the others every week"..so again i ask do kids know about this movie?

[MrTMNT2012]

I guess we'll find out when the Box Office results release seeing how the majority watching this movie would be kids.

Nick hasn't really promoted the movie to that extent (there's no where near the hype Spongebob: The Movie garnered due to the trailers after an episode) but I do know a lot of kids definitely know about the movie.

The Transformers crowd went nuts after the TMNT trailer in the cinema so there's that...

[Candy Kappa]

Maybe not now, but a week or two before the movie is out. I'm sure it'll be more public that a TMNT movie is in the theaters. I know where I live, that's the time period trailers go in TV.

[UGHShellshocked]

It sucks that you have to write a disclaimer to begin your statement Boston. I like when there are people who can freely state an opinion even if its for or against the film. That is how it should be and people should respect that and there should be none of that true fan, not a true fan nonsense. We all are here for one reason and that's The Turtles.

As for if kids know about this movie or not. I'm thinking this is going to be more for the children of the 80s and 90s while bringing new fans in on the Turtles. I hope there is stuff directed for the adults in the audience that will go over the kids heads.

I think kids know about it or will know about it look at where they have been showing these tv spots at, on Nick and Sporting Events

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Is this movie really directed towards kids? I doubt it.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

Is this movie really directed towards kids? I doubt it.

getting slightly off topic

ive learned over the years..especially local to me..parents dont care when it comes to the rating or even content....my super local theater (like i can open my window and touch it local)

they have a no kids after 8pm on weeknights, and a "please refrain from bringing kids after 7 pm to rated r movies" now they do what they can to enforce them but they dont want to ruin peoples days


just some parents dont care...when i saw Wanted it was full of kids

[Lou 500]

Is this movie really directed towards kids? I doubt it.

From what we've seen, I'm pretty sure kids aged 8 - 13 are the main demographic. Plus, it's got "Nickelodeon movies" in the opening credits of the adverts.

[UGHShellshocked]

getting slightly off topic

ive learned over the years..especially local to me..parents dont care when it comes to the rating or even content....my super local theater (like i can open my window and touch it local)

they have a no kids after 8pm on weeknights, and a "please refrain from bringing kids after 7 pm to rated r movies" now they do what they can to enforce them but they dont want to ruin peoples days


just some parents dont care...when i saw Wanted it was full of kids

When I was a kid (I feel super old for saying that :ohwell:) the television was the babysitter and a generation of latchkey kids were born and while I hate when kids interrupt movies its better for the parent and kids to be seeing movies together. If a movie can be written with this in mind and its able to speak to the adults while keeping the kids entertained I consider it a well rounded film.

I imagine the premiere will be at 7 the night before instead of the usual midnight premiere time of 12:01 with kids in mind.

[pingclang]

I live in the middle of nowhere and my nephews (6 and 7) are begging me to take them since I'm the only one who goes to movies in the family. So at least here kids seem to know, lol.

[graphic_content]

Ok before we get started and i get called a Hater, a whiney fan boy,not a true fan, saying i hate this movie and i want it to fail..

dude, you are such a hater - clearly you want this movie to fail. :lol::D

i couldnt resist.

but seriously tho - im surprised to hear that this was the case at the establishment you performed at seeing as how a majority of the promos that leaked came straight from the NICK channel.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

I live in the middle of nowhere and my nephews (6 and 7) are begging me to take them since I'm the only one who goes to movies in the family. So at least here kids seem to know, lol.

i wonder if maybe the trailers only play by region?..i mean i admit i live close to boston but i am not in the heart of it (a hop skip and a jump and im there but far enough to make a difference in city's )



dude, you are such a hater - clearly you want this movie to fail. :lol::D

i couldnt resist.

but seriously tho - im surprised to hear that this was the case at the establishment you performed at seeing as how a majority of the promos that leaked came straight from the NICK channel.

haha oh you


thats why i was surprised..again i don't watch the NICK show when it airs or watch NICK in general so i can't speak from experience seeing the promos or not on TV..the rare cable TV i do watch never really shows anything turtle wise but i see a lot of Apes recently

[pingclang]

i wonder if maybe the trailers only play by region?..i mean i admit i live close to boston but i am not in the hear of it (a hop skip and a jump and im there but far enough)

That is odd. There have been several short trailers on TV here. Maybe it is by region but I figured us hicks in the South got stuff last. I was wrong.

[IndigoErth]

is Nick not airing trailers during the show?
Never, which is the most ridiculous part about their lack/style of so-called "marketing" if you ask me. If this movie is kid friendly you would THINK it would have been airing in breaks of the episodes. I always catch the new ones... never seen a single commercial on Nick, let alone during the show's time block.

Personally with the level of action and steroids they seem to be aiming for, it makes me wonder if the network owner (Viacom?) is putting it on channels like Spike or something instead.

I've not personally seen it air, granted I don't watch a whole lot of tv, but it's not like I haven't run across the Apes, Transformers, and other trailers at least a little.


Where region is concerned, my tv service is shared with Philadelphia, I would think that should have been an easy one...

[Metropoliskid41]

I don't watch all that tv, especially on the weekends when they should be running the crap out of the trailers, but I can honestly say that I have yet to see a commercial or trailer for the movie on tv while I was watching. That's pretty sad, GotG has a trailer play around once an hour on the tv channels I watch.

[chrisdude]

I haven't seen ads during the cartoon, either. But they might just wait until the last couple weeks. As much as we rag on their promotion, it really is the heaviest in the last two weeks or so.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I'd say at this point, the parents are more likely to know than the kids- at least the stay-at-home moms. I say this because I've seen more mention of it on shows like Access Hollywood, TMZ, and Dish Nation (which just had Robbie Rist on today!!) than anywhere else, and all of them air during mid-day. I've seen NO trailers yet in my area, aside from what we have on you-tube and other video-streaming sites, even though Apes has had trailers several times a day especially in the evenings. Guardians is also ramping up on the trailers, but still no TMNT ones. The most I've seen is Megan Fox on a couple of shows and in Cosmo and a couple of other mags with just a brief mention of the movie itself.

[IndigoErth]

I haven't seen ads during the cartoon, either. But they might just wait until the last couple weeks. As much as we rag on their promotion, it really is the heaviest in the last two weeks or so.
If the series season is holding off on it's last episodes until then and show it during breaks, then good move on their part. If the series season doesn't come back until after the movie premiers... stupid stupid fail of a lost opportunity.

[TurtleTitan97]

I overheard some kids from my youth group talking about it last Thursday. They seemed excited for it.

[Warhorse]

Kids know. When I went to see Transformers about 2 weeks ago, there were kids that were waiting for the TMNT trailer to show.

[zodiac brave]

i remember that i didn't know there was a movie coming out back in '90.

my mom actually told me about it and took me on a saturday or sunday afternoon.

i would think a lot of the younger kids might not be aware of the movie, but doesn't mean they wont get a chance to see it.

especially since this flick is getting so much attention from older people who remember the older show n movies, it wouldn't surprise me if some of them took their kids without much prompting.

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

Kids know...the trailers have been all over Nickelodeon

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

i can see some people are posting without reading anything i wrote besides the title...

so i will specify..


i am not saying all Kids..i know some know..i said it in my very post at the beginning..i was surprised to what extent some know and dont know


which is why i asked is Nick showing trailers which some have confirmed they arnt

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

i can see some people are posting without reading anything i wrote besides the title...

so i will specify..


i am not saying all Kids..i know some know..i said it in my very post at the beginning..i was surprised to what extent some know and dont know


which is why i asked is Nick showing trailers which some have confirmed they arnt

The way I see it....is kids are gonna see the trailers on Nick, the go and tell their friends, and then they will tell other kids and so on and so forth....word of mouth with kids is a strong thing

[terrorblade]

Maybe not yet. I think its normal though, if you asked if they knew about Guardian of the Galaxy or any other film that will be released on August, I bet they will say the same.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

id also like the add i have not seen and Trailers attached to movies

and im talking the heavy hitters of summer. nothing yet

and every person i ask who has seen a movie says the same thing, even those who have seen transformers

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

id also like the add i have not seen and Trailers attached to movies

and im talking the heavy hitters of summer. nothing yet

and every person i ask who has seen a movie says the same thing, even those who have seen transformers

I also haven't seen a single TMNT trailer in theaters...

[zodiac brave]

id also like the add i have not seen and Trailers attached to movies

and im talking the heavy hitters of summer. nothing yet

and every person i ask who has seen a movie says the same thing, even those who have seen transformers

I also haven't seen a single TMNT trailer in theaters...

i saw it in front of transformers.

so, there's that.

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

i saw it in front of transformers.

so, there's that.

I haven't seen that yet...hopefully tomorrow. But I'd expect it to be in front of that movie. If not then something is nuts!

[Chris_a_Bunga]

Haha my girlfriends 10 year old cousin, who is a girl, asked me if I knew it was coming out and if I was for sure going haha, trust me, kids know

[pennydreadful]

i saw it in front of transformers.

so, there's that.

Just to weigh in, one of my coworkers went to see Transformers at the cinema here and he said he saw a Turtles trailer (couldn't tell me which one as he's not a fan and so hasn't been following all of the spots)... but yeah. I don't know where else the trailer's popping up in terms of people outside of the US and Canada.

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

Haha my girlfriends 10 year old cousin, who is a girl, asked me if I knew it was coming out and if I was for sure going haha, trust me, kids know

oh absolutely

[chrisdude]

I still haven't seen any of the trailers in theaters. I've seen Captain America twice at different theaters, Godzilla twice at different theaters, X-Men, and Spider-Man... It's getting on my nerves. I've only got one more movie to watch before it actually comes out.

[CyberCubed]

Kids know, kids don't care.

[Xiewin]

Kids know, kids don't care.

Oh Believe me, most kids do care.

[Warhorse]

Oh Believe me, most kids do care.

We'll see. The kids that I've seen, are excited and jumping for joy before the trailer starts, and then afterwards, they get eerily quiet and look confused.

[Xiewin]

We'll see. The kids that I've seen, are excited and jumping for joy before the trailer starts, and then afterwards, they get eerily quiet and look confused.

Depends, some kids will like it some won't. I already know not all of them are gonna share the same opinions.

[graphic_content]

We'll see. The kids that I've seen, are excited and jumping for joy before the trailer starts, and then afterwards, they get eerily quiet and look confused.

I'm guessing bc all they know is the NICK iteration. And because this is such a drastic departure, mainly based on the OT, I can see why this may turn off some kids.

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

Kids know, kids don't care.

of course you would say that

[Warhorse]

of course you would say that

Well, it probably doesn't mean much, but I've noticed over at nickelodeon, they have forums for the kids, and they are not talking too much about the movie. There might be someone new who might create a thread asking if anyone is excited for the new movie, and they often either get ignored, or the kids respond that they aren't sure yet. Hilarious thing though, most of the forum talks about which Turtle is hotter. I would not be surprised if more girls than boys watch the show now.

[A_Little_Too_Raph.9859]

Well, it probably doesn't mean much, but I've noticed over at nickelodeon, they have forums for the kids, and they are not talking too much about the movie. There might be someone new who might create a thread asking if anyone is excited for the new movie, and they often either get ignored, or the kids respond that they aren't sure yet. Hilarious thing though, most of the forum talks about which Turtle is hotter. I would not be surprised if more girls than boys watch the show now.

That's a bit strange...the which turtle is hotter thing I mean hahaha

[samxsteal]

id also like the add i have not seen and Trailers attached to movies

and im talking the heavy hitters of summer. nothing yet

and every person i ask who has seen a movie says the same thing, even those who have seen transformers
that comes down the the choice of the theater My local theater did play any of the trailers to the movie i went to but One of the same movie i saw at a later date i found out played the trailer, So it a mater of timing and what the theater wants to do.
Well, it probably doesn't mean much, but I've noticed over at nickelodeon, they have forums for the kids, and they are not talking too much about the movie. There might be someone new who might create a thread asking if anyone is excited for the new movie, and they often either get ignored, or the kids respond that they aren't sure yet. Hilarious thing though, most of the forum talks about which Turtle is hotter. I would not be surprised if more girls than boys watch the show now.

But there forums SUCK for being a kids forum it not User friendly at all, And they traffic for there forums is Very minimal, it a terrible set up

[Warhorse]

But there forums SUCK for being a kids forum it not User friendly at all, And they traffic for there forums is Very minimal, it a terrible set up

Like I said, it probably doesn't mean much. But it is strange that I have now gone back 20 pages on that site and no mention of the movie, even though there is an ad for it on the right side of the web page.

[Galactus]

Maybe like the old folktale it's only the children than can see the emperor is not wearing any clothes.

[zodiac brave]

I still haven't seen any of the trailers in theaters. I've seen Captain America twice at different theaters, Godzilla twice at different theaters, X-Men, and Spider-Man... It's getting on my nerves. I've only got one more movie to watch before it actually comes out.

i thought the trailer was released for in-theater showing after all those movies had already premiered.

Kids know, kids don't care.

you don't speak for kids. you just act like them.

I'm guessing bc all they know is the NICK iteration. And because this is such a drastic departure, mainly based on the OT, I can see why this may turn off some kids.

that's much like it was in '90. granted times are different and young kids are a lot more savvy about things now than back then. i dunno if that means they're more discerning or not, but i hope it kinda ends up the same as it was for us that were around for the first flick.

Maybe like the old folktale it's only the children than can see the emperor is not wearing any clothes.

off-topic, i guess, but i thought it was everyone who could see the emperor was naked (not just kids) and they all just went along with it, because the emperor believed it.

[Galactus]

off-topic, i guess, but i thought it was everyone who could see the emperor was naked (not just kids) and they all just went along with it, because the emperor believed it.

I've heard that version too and to be honest I wouldn't say that's not going on here either. I do believe both sides are have become so entrenched that they are unwilling to back down. I'm so more than a few "I'm stoked" crowd have some fears they'll just never say it.

[The Boston Ninja Turtle]

i will confess and admit that starting today i have started to see the TMNT pizza Bites commercial but its sadly all i have seen on TV for promos...channels like USA and TNT

that comes down the the choice of the theater My local theater did play any of the trailers to the movie i went to but One of the same movie i saw at a later date i found out played the trailer, So it a mater of timing and what the theater wants to do.

not all the time, some trailers are attached to certain movies and are forced to play with it..usually studio to studio movies...i think thor 2 came with cap trailer attached or something


im not saying that its the case here just that i and many in my area havent seen anything in theaters

[chrisdude]

i thought the trailer was released for in-theater showing after all those movies had already premiered.The new trailer came out after all of that, with How to Train Your Dragon 2. The first trailer really did start when Captain America came out on April 4.