Who owns the Technodrome in the original cartoon, Krang or Shredder?

[1987]

who is the actual owner of the technodrome, krang or shredder? i cant remember them saying anything about it in the first season. but in season 2's "shredder returns", shredder asks krang "where is my army, and MY technodrome, and all my weapons?" suggesting that perhaps shredder was the original owner but krang took over once he got the android body. did shredder shoot himself in the foot by making krangs android body?


i wonder if they are 50/50 co-owners of the technodrome. and how did the technodrome come to be, who built it? im guessing maybe the foot robots helped built it? definitely not a 1 man job.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Actually, it was Krang's. Although Shredder liked to CLAIM it as his, 9because he helped build it with his resources from all the Ninja businesses) it was Krang's tech and blueprints, etc. At one point, Shredder calls it his, and Krang explicitly corrects him on it. And there's the scene in the first season where Krang is ranting about how Shredder is using HIS Technodrome, while not making good on his end of the deal to provide the body Krang requested. So it's clearly Krang's.

[oldmanwinters]

Who owns the Technodrome, Krang or Shredder?

I own action figures of both and the vintage Technodrome playset.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I was wondering who would be the first to make that joke....

[Groovy]

I don't have it anymore, but it was a badass Christmas in my youth when I got the Technodrome. :D

[1987]

Actually, it was Krang's. Although Shredder liked to CLAIM it as his, 9because he helped build it with his resources from all the Ninja businesses) it was Krang's tech and blueprints, etc. At one point, Shredder calls it his, and Krang explicitly corrects him on it. And there's the scene in the first season where Krang is ranting about how Shredder is using HIS Technodrome, while not making good on his end of the deal to provide the body Krang requested. So it's clearly Krang's.

ah i somehow dont remember that ill have to watch the first season again. i remember krang saying he provides shredder with technical knowledge in exchange for a body but cant remember him saying that its his technodrome. was there ever a story as to how krang and shredder met for the first time?

edit: i changed the thread title to avoid confusion with the toys. i didn't specify that at first since this isnt the toys section but apparently some misinterpreted the ? :lol:

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Sadly, no, they never DID go into how they met. I've always thought that was a missed opportunity, and have my own head-canon that Shredder was there when Krang got exiled to Earth, and was the first person to encounter him. It makes sense, considering their relationship. Krang feels somewhat indebted to him for aiding him when he was helpless, and Shredder feels bound to him for the technology and resources he can provide once the Technodrome was built. I guess since Shredder mostly built it (or had it built) one COULD say it's "his", but it was built FOR Krang and to his specifications.

[MikeandRaph87]

It was designed by and presumably built by Drakus/ Beserko for Krang. Krang once done with Drakus left him for dead instead of payment. It is unclear if the Technodrome was exiled with Krang or if Shredder used Drakus's blueprints and provided technology. Beserko would have made a great replacement villain with ties to Krang instead of Dregg coming in out of nowhere.
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[TigerClaw]

Well the Technodrome would belong to Krang, He supplied all the tech and weapons for the Shredder.

[cammy85]

From "The Big Blowout"

Krang: You may take the credit, but it'll be MY Technodrome that does it for you!!

[Yabuturtle]

It was designed by and presumably built by Drakus/ Beserko for Krang. Krang once done with Drakus left him for dead instead of payment. It is unclear if the Technodrome was exiled with Krang or if Shredder used Drakus's blueprints and provided technology. Beserko would have made a great replacement villain with ties to Krang instead of Dregg coming in out of nowhere.
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I figured Krang and Beserko worked on it. Krang overall seems to be more knowledgeable than Beserko is in certain areas as Berserko couldn't fix his Annihilator without Krang. I remember him saying he helped Krang build the Technodrome and I always thought the Technodrome was exiled. Otherwise if it wasn't and was still in Dimension X and Shredder build a new one using blue prints, that would mean there would be TWO Technodromes and if I recall, I believe there's only one with the exception of the Technodrom Mach 2, which is a mini Technodrome that Chrome Dome helped build.

Beserko really should have had more screen time. He could have shown up more than once and has connections with Krang. I actually don't mind Dregg as being a villain, but I didn't think it was good to see him replace Krang and Shredder as the main villains.

[MikeandRaph87]

I figured Krang and Beserko worked on it. Krang overall seems to be more knowledgeable than Beserko is in certain areas as Berserko couldn't fix his Annihilator without Krang. I remember him saying he helped Krang build the Technodrome and I always thought the Technodrome was exiled. Otherwise if it wasn't and was still in Dimension X and Shredder build a new one using blue prints, that would mean there would be TWO Technodromes and if I recall, I believe there's only one with the exception of the Technodrom Mach 2, which is a mini Technodrome that Chrome Dome helped build.

Beserko really should have had more screen time. He could have shown up more than once and has connections with Krang. I actually don't mind Dregg as being a villain, but I didn't think it was good to see him replace Krang and Shredder as the main villains.

There is only one actual Techndrome. Yes, there were two smaller ones. Krang built one quickly using foot soldiers in Turtles At The Earth's Core. A second miniature one as you mentioned was build in Planet of The Turtles by foot soldiers as well but this time directed by Chrome Dome and in New York City opposed to the Earth's core. The only time it could have been mentioned would have been in the first few episodes. Krang references to Tragg and Granitor that his body was taken from him when he was banished to "this miserable mud ball". So I guess we could assume either way. I just don't understand when the Neutrinos or whomever banished Krang why let him keep the Technodrome in the other dimension? That is like saying" don't blow up our home blow up this other person's home!". It does not sit well with me. With that logic right or wrong it is Beserko designing the Technodrome instead of building it makes sense.

[Yabuturtle]

There is only one actual Techndrome. Yes, there were two smaller ones. Krang built one quickly using foot soldiers in Turtles At The Earth's Core. A second miniature one as you mentioned was build in Planet of The Turtles by foot soldiers as well but this time directed by Chrome Dome and in New York City opposed to the Earth's core. The only time it could have been mentioned would have been in the first few episodes. Krang references to Tragg and Granitor that his body was taken from him when he was banished to "this miserable mud ball". So I guess we could assume either way. I just don't understand when the Neutrinos or whomever banished Krang why let him keep the Technodrome in the other dimension? That is like saying" don't blow up our home blow up this other person's home!". It does not sit well with me. With that logic right or wrong it is Beserko designing the Technodrome instead of building it makes sense.

I guess that maybe since he didn't have a body, he wasn't really going to be doing much anyway. Or Krang has some kind of mechanism that allowed the Technodrome to open a portal and follow him in case he got separated by it.

I kind of wondered how Krang destroyed Beserko's home world. Is the Technodrome capable of destroying entire planets? Or did he meant that all life on the planet was killed off?

[Shark_Blade]

Of course its Krang's. I doubt Oroku Saki knows advance technology, even to build a giant golf ball roaming NYC's underground.

[1987]

oh ya i completely forgot about berserko since i havent watched the redsky seasons as much as the rest of the series. i have to watch those episodes again to find out more of the backstory. strange they would wait until so late into the series to reveal the bakstory of the technodrome.

so i guess krang and berserko were the original co-owners of the technodrome since they built it than krang backstabbed him, took over, then got banished from dimension x and teamed up with shredder, does that pretty much sum it up?

[Jester]

The 1st Bank of Dimension X holds the title. I hear Krang is behind a couple payments. They may be forced to foreclose.

[oldmanwinters]

The 1st Bank of Dimension X holds the title. I hear Krang is behind a couple payments. They may be forced to foreclose.

*Imagines an episode of the old show with a Dukes of Hazzard plot where Krang is Uncle Jesse and Berserko is Boss Hogg*

[neatoman]

The 1st Bank of Dimension X holds the title. I hear Krang is behind a couple payments. They may be forced to foreclose.

Don't Shredder and Krang share the mortgage or do you have to be married for that? It's a damn shame two dudes could not get married in the 90's, although I guess interspecies or interdimensional marriage still isn't legal.

[billbot85]

Krang totally owned the Technodrome, Shredder just acted like he owned it since Krang basically let him run the show in the first season, all while waiting for Shredder to build his android body.

In seasons 3 and onward, it's hilarious how much they act like a married couple, but it's pretty clear Krang wears the pants in the relationship. :tlol:

[Jester]

it's pretty clear Krang wears the pants in the relationship. :tlol:
But the android body sure didn't!!!

HEY-OH!!!

[TheCanadiandrome]

But the android body sure didn't!!!

HEY-OH!!!

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[MsMarvelDuckie]

Maybe that's because Shredder never did any laundry. I mean, why ELSE were they always wearing the SAME clothes?! (I sure hope the Technodrome had a good air-filtration/purification system. The stench in there must've been RANK!)

[Cryomancer]

There is only one actual Techndrome. Yes, there were two smaller ones. Krang built one quickly using foot soldiers in Turtles At The Earth's Core. A second miniature one as you mentioned was build in Planet of The Turtles by foot soldiers as well but this time directed by Chrome Dome and in New York City opposed to the Earth's core. The only time it could have been mentioned would have been in the first few episodes. Krang references to Tragg and Granitor that his body was taken from him when he was banished to "this miserable mud ball". So I guess we could assume either way. I just don't understand when the Neutrinos or whomever banished Krang why let him keep the Technodrome in the other dimension? That is like saying" don't blow up our home blow up this other person's home!". It does not sit well with me. With that logic right or wrong it is Beserko designing the Technodrome instead of building it makes sense.

The turtles do the same thing though, they make the portal invert or whatever then gtfo and the Technodrome sucks into itself into some other space time. Presumably, some Neutrinos or someone did the same thing to Krang and sent him to Earth, and during that destroyed his body somehow. I guess it depends on if his banishment was like a ceremony at the end of a warcrimes trial or a TMNT-style "do what we gotta do to get him the hell out of here" mission.

I guess we're supposed to assume the technodrome shows up underground in new york and Shredder finds it somehow (maybe it was under his Ninja Business block?) and works out a deal to get tech from Krang. You'd think Shredder would just kill him then and take it, Krang must have made a good argument that it would be useless without him / that he knew how to get more stuff for him.

[ABrown]

I assume that Berzerko/Drakus designed the Technodrome. Krang apparently either stole or memorized the designs. After Krang was exiled to Earth, he met Shredder. Combing Krang's knowledge and Shredder's resources, they built the Technodrome. So I kind of consider it to be both of theirs.

[Yabuturtle]

The turtles do the same thing though, they make the portal invert or whatever then gtfo and the Technodrome sucks into itself into some other space time. Presumably, some Neutrinos or someone did the same thing to Krang and sent him to Earth, and during that destroyed his body somehow. I guess it depends on if his banishment was like a ceremony at the end of a warcrimes trial or a TMNT-style "do what we gotta do to get him the hell out of here" mission.

I guess we're supposed to assume the technodrome shows up underground in new york and Shredder finds it somehow (maybe it was under his Ninja Business block?) and works out a deal to get tech from Krang. You'd think Shredder would just kill him then and take it, Krang must have made a good argument that it would be useless without him / that he knew how to get more stuff for him.

I assume the Neutrinos banished him through the same way the Turtles did. They never really went into detail about him losing his body. Did they strip him of his body? I don't recall him saying they did. When Tragg asked him he said. "It's a long story...I lost it when the banished me to this miserable mudball." Perhaps he lost his body through other means.

[billbot85]

But the android body sure didn't!!!

HEY-OH!!!

LOL I did not see this until now. Well done, Jester. :tlol::tlol::lol:

[TurtleFan2012]

You guys ever wonder what Shredder's room looks like? We know he has a collection of porcelain so he must live in the technodrome with Krang.

I'm picturing a dart board with the turtles' faces on it.

[DarkFell]

You guys ever wonder what Shredder's room looks like? We know he has a collection of porcelain so he must live in the technodrome with Krang.

I'm picturing a dart board with the turtles' faces on it.
Okay, that last sentence made me laugh.
As far as I know, the only time that we see anything that might have resembled Shred's quarters was in an episode Mr. Ogg Goes to Town, although Shredder made a snarky comment to Krang in which he said "What does it look like..my apartment?" in Venice in a Half Shell.
So honestly, who really knows?

[KRANGANDMIKEYFAN]

It's Krang's.

[neatoman]

So disregarding my joke post from eight years ago, it's clearly Krang. Early on you could assume the Technodrome was merely built with the technological advancements Krang gave Shredder, but over time it became more clear that Krang brought it over from Dimension X. How or why he had it when he was supposed to be banished to earth for crimes he supposedly committed using the Technodrome is it's own can of worms.

[Prowler]

Doesn't really matter who owns it, does it? I seriously doubt they pay property or vehicle taxes for it. The city of New York could have made a lot of money by taxing Shredder and Krang.

[DarkFell]

Doesn't really matter who owns it, does it? I seriously doubt they pay property or vehicle taxes for it. The city of New York could have made a lot of money by taxing Shredder and Krang.
But, that would require those two dolts to go out and find legit jobs to pay for those taxes. I doubt that either one of them could hold a job down for very long. One is halfway volatile and the other would rather enslave humanity than help it for the better..

Bebop and Rocksteady could -maybe(?)- get a job, but my faith in them is about slim-to-nil as well.

[Prowler]

But, that would require those two dolts to go out and find legit jobs to pay for those taxes. I doubt that either one of them could hold a job down for very long. One is halfway volatile and the other would rather enslave humanity than help it for the better..

Bebop and Rocksteady could -maybe(?)- get a job, but my faith in them is about slim-to-nil as well.

Bebop and Rocksteady got jobs at Channel 6 that one time and even got promoted by Burne though :lol:

[CyberCubed]

Krang owns it, how is this a question. The backstory of the show just shows Shredder growing up in Japan and then takes control of the Foot Clan. Where would he have the resources to build the Technodrome from? It's Krang's battlestation from Dimension X.

[mikey22]

I'd say Krang all the way

[DarkFell]

Bebop and Rocksteady got jobs at Channel 6 that one time and even got promoted by Burne though :lol:

I honestly forgot about that episode. It was the one when they were visually changed to their former human appearances, but it wasn't an all-day effect.