How it all began

[neatoman]

So is this the real "How it all began"? I just thought it was the first season VHS, not some hour long clip show.

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If it is the real thing, it sure is a strange feature.

[Candy Kappa]

I was pretty certain that How it all Began was the first season cut into one special, as the episode with Baxter was cut, yet he's mentioned as they make the Turtlevan. But it's a while since I've seen it.

[Meow]

Yup according to wikipedia and other references on the web it happened like that.

[MikeandRaph87]

I always wondered, was it ever stated why A Thing About Rats was cut out of the serialized cut? Was Shredder's hit on Baxter too mature? Not relevant to the overall story aside from the Turtles taking Baxter's van?

[Candy Kappa]

my DVD lists it as 74 minutes long, so something had to be cut I suppose.

[Meow]

DVD? Now that's interesting...

From what I know this "episode" seems to have never made it for the german audience. Couldn't find any reference for a german version on the web and my dvd set doesn't list it either as it starts right off with the e01 "Turtle Tracks" and goes up to episode 169 to end season 7 with. So it seems there was no such episode as shown above in german, definately not on dvd, but ...

Now here's the most interesting part: The german title "Wie alles begann" does ring a couple of bells and it does refer to something from way back associated with the turtles I just can't get a clear relation. I already thought of the Panini sticker album if it had sections in there titled like that but for this I'd need the sticker album from back then, not sure if mine is still somewhere in the attic of my mum's home.

[Candy Kappa]

yeah, I got some FW DVDs as a gift, but it's the Scandinavian release, so no English dub. And to put it nicely, the Scandinavian dubs are... terrible, absolutely garbage. Especially the Norwegian ones where 2 of the Turtles have helium pitched voices.

So, I've only opened a couple of them when I showed them to my kid brothers years ago and not opened them since.

I got randomly 4 out of the 7 of the DVD releases, the episodes are not in any order, and is just dollar bin type DVDs. the first DVD have the How it all Began.

[Meow]

And to put it nicely, the Scandinavian dubs are... terrible, absolutely garbage. Especially the Norwegian ones where 2 of the Turtles have helium pitched voices.
Haha! I hear what you say :tgrin:

What's "FW" mean by the way? And looking at the last line of your previous post it seems those are more of bootlegs, could this be true? No idea of the covers and the entire presentation in general of course, just trying to count one and one together based on what I'm reading here without the intention of making something or someone look bad.

[Candy Kappa]

FW = Fred Wolf.

nah, they aren't bootlegs, just the usual crappy FHE/Lions Gate single DVD release.

https://www.laserdisken.dk/billeder/forsidealm/11309563441383372.jpg
https://www.laserdisken.dk/html/billede3.dna?ID=11309563441383372&vareid=11309563441383372

[Meow]

Thank you so much for this credible information :tgrin:

[neatoman]

the Scandinavian dubs are... terrible, absolutely garbage.

I haven't watched much of the Swedish dub but I know there's an episode where Leo calls April "Slyna" which roughly translates to "bitch".

[CyberCubed]

Foreign dubs of American cartoons should just not exist. They should just be broadcast in english.

[ToTheNines]

Can you go back to wherever you had been? I liked this place a lot better without the bile that is your post content the past few days.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I haven't watched much of the Swedish dub but I know there's an episode where Leo calls April "Slyna" which roughly translates to "bitch".

There are two dubs into Swedish. One's for TV from 1990 by Mediadubb AB, and while using the "Hero Turtles" signature, the voices were popular. The other one is from 1991 for video by Sun Studio AS.

http://www.dubbningshemsidan.se/credits/turtles/

As you can see on Candy Kappa's picture, the "How it All Began" is in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. I had it in Swedish on video, it was just from season 1 without "A Thing About Rats". (got "A Thing About Rats" on video later)

[neatoman]

There are two dubs into Swedish. One's for TV from 1990 by Mediadubb AB, and while using the "Hero Turtles" signature, the voices were popular. The other one is from 1991 for video by Sun Studio AS.

http://www.dubbningshemsidan.se/credits/turtles/

As you can see on Candy Kappa's picture, the "How it All Began" is in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. I had it in Swedish on video, it was just from season 1 without "A Thing About Rats". (got "A Thing About Rats" on video later)

I can only see up to season 3, how much of the series was dubbed into Swedish? Also, how much of the 2003 series was dubbed? I distinctly remember seeing the season 3 finale in Swedish and I think I might have seen some season 4 episodes on Swedish TV.

[Candy Kappa]

Foreign dubs of American cartoons should just not exist. They should just be broadcast in english.

especially to kids that don't know English yet. :roll:

[MikeandRaph87]

especially to kids that don't know English yet. :roll:

Foreign dubs of American cartoons should just not exist. They should just be broadcast in english.

Cubism at its finest.

It goes both eays as you recall anime.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I can only see up to season 3, how much of the series was dubbed into Swedish? Also, how much of the 2003 series was dubbed? I distinctly remember seeing the season 3 finale in Swedish and I think I might have seen some season 4 episodes on Swedish TV.

1987 cartoon:
*TV 3 Sweden ared season 1-3 dubbed into Swedish by Mediadubb AB. Circa 20 episodes from seasons 1-3 were also released to video, dubbed into Swedish.
*TV 1000 aired seasons 4-5 in English, with subtitles (text) in Swedish. TV 1000 also aired the Vacation in Europe episodes, dubbed into Swedish by Mediadubb AB. By daytime, when the Sun was shining upon beautiful landscapes of the idyllic wellfare state of Sweden and the children were awake playing, TV1000 was a children and family-friendly TV channel, airing TMNT cartoon episodes and film and TV-series versions of Astrid Lindgren books like the Bråkmakargatan children and the Bullerby Children. By night, TV 1000 somehow got more adult... :)

2003 cartoon:
*Dubbed into Swedish by KM Studio, it was released to DVD-video starting in 2003. Starting on 17 January 2005, it began to air over Swedish Cartoon Network (where I watched season 1 in early 2005). I've never seen anything past-season 3 in Swedish (which is sad for children who liked the series, at least season 4 should be dubbed).

*2012 cartoon
*Began to air over Nickelodeon Sweden on 4 November 2012. Has also been released to DVD.

read more here

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_p%C3%A5_svenska

This website

http://smdb.kb.se/

allos you to read about audio-visual media released in Sweden throughout the years.

[Leo656]

Ahem, it's called "Galactic Basic", and if it's a good enough language for every single sentient being in the Star Wars universe from Hutts to Wookies and everyone in between to learn it, then there's no excuse for anyone on Earth not to be fluent in it as well. We're one planet. C'mon.

[sdp]

Anime should be broadcast in Japanese.

[CyberCubed]

A lot of foreign language dubs of American cartoons are poorly done, and that's why the cartoons bomb over there and get canceled. They can be broadcast in english with subtitles (like how people watch anime with english subtitles), for young kids if they don't know english yet.

English is taught everywhere in the world, I'm sure most kids learn it in grade school even in foreign lands.

[sdp]

A lot of foreign language dubs of American cartoons are poorly done, and that's why the cartoons bomb over there and get canceled. They can be broadcast in english with subtitles (like how people watch anime with english subtitles), for young kids if they don't know english yet.

English is taught everywhere in the world, I'm sure most kids learn it in grade school even in foreign lands.

You couldn't be more wrong about everything. English is taught in some countries not all and even then only a fraction of that learn English. Kids aren't going to read subtitles and neither would you as a kid that's why things are dubbed. Hell the US adults don't even like to read subtitles outside of a minority. And where do you get the information that cartoons bomb over there? And where exactly is "over there"? you mean the rest of the world? Some cartoons that bombed in the US like Top Cat, Undergrads, Cybersix were actually quite successful in other countries and they were dubbed.

That was some Donald Trump level sh-t you wrote right there.

[Meow]

The interesting thing here is that actually the both of you are right :)

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

A lot of foreign language dubs of American cartoons are poorly done, and that's why the cartoons bomb over there and get canceled. They can be broadcast in english with subtitles (like how people watch anime with english subtitles), for young kids if they don't know english yet.

English is taught everywhere in the world, I'm sure most kids learn it in grade school even in foreign lands.

Children don't care much for the dubs, especially not if they hadn't heard it in the original language.

Franchise-based cartoons are usually cancelled in many countries because the market is smaller. For example, the rules for children's advertising are stricter and there has historical been lesser TV channels. In Sweden there were two TV channels and three radio channels, all of them government-operated, up to the late 1980s-early 1990s. Children's advertising is banned in Sweden (but they can air from the UK instead).

[Candy Kappa]

A lot of foreign language dubs of American cartoons are poorly done, and that's why the cartoons bomb over there and get canceled. They can be broadcast in english with subtitles (like how people watch anime with english subtitles), for young kids if they don't know english yet.

English is taught everywhere in the world, I'm sure most kids learn it in grade school even in foreign lands.

so... Kids that can't read yet nor understand a foreign language shouldn't enjoy cartoons?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Some countries dub non-animated series, that's worse...

[Sumac]

"How it all began" was the first "episode" of TMNT that was shown on out TV. Though, they've interrupted it (somewhere at the end of 4th episode) for news broadcast and then never resumed.
After that, this channel started showing cartoon starting with the 3rd season.

Foreign dubs of American cartoons should just not exist. They should just be broadcast in english.
Post and posters like this shouldn't exist as they lower IQ of everyone on the forum.

[Meow]

Post and posters like this shouldn't exist as they lower IQ of everyone on the forum.
Take it easy. You know that's not too fair, regardless of the individual background. Some see it this way, some see it differently. Being a non-native speaker I know what it's like and I'm not having a hard time relating to both opinions at all since I enjoy a lot of animations in their original language as well as their dubbed ones.

In example - and for those who are familiar with it - the second saw movie comes up with a situation in the early beginning saying "your son is in a safe place" while a safe is right next to the jigsaw character literally meaning it. In the german version you don't get this hint all as it is translated in a way like the conversation partner don't need to worry about his son. Maybe this hint of mine benefits all of the readers and posters in this thread :)

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

[QUOTE=Sumac;1534321]"How it all began" was the first "episode" of TMNT that was shown on out TV. Though, they've interrupted it (somewhere at the end of 4th episode) for news broadcast and then never resumed.
After that, this channel started showing cartoon starting with the 3rd season.

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In the UK?

[ToTheNines]

What the **** is up with all the people defending cubed's buffoonery and bigotry lately? Weird forum.

Shout out to you Sumac, wise words.

[Leo656]

Because CyberCubed is the heart and soul of this place, and without him it would have shut down ages ago.

As I've said multiple times: He's the hero this cesspool deserves. You all created him, now you have to deal with him.

[ToTheNines]

Right, right. Much as it sickens me, I have to admit his heel act spices this place up and makes it less boring from time to time.

I'm just perplexed by the two cases within a week of each other where mofos defended him and WITH (apparent) STRAIGHT FACES, tried to say he wasn't a chauvinist.

Truly the apex of internet weirdness.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Because CyberCubed is the heart and soul of this place, and without him it would have shut down ages ago.

As I've said multiple times: He's the hero this cesspool deserves. You all created him, now you have to deal with him.

He's not a hero. He's our god. An angry and capricious god, one who lusts after Supergirl and one who will smite you all with holy fire. Tremble, mortals, when you whisper his divine name.

[ToTheNines]

Ha.

CyberCubed is to Supergirl as Thanos is to Death.

[Leo656]

I will say with a straight face that CyberCubed is nowhere near as big a chauvinist as I am.

[Sumac]

In the UK?
No, Russia.
What's interesting, it seems channel that showed "How it's all begun" and seasons 3-7, never got around to dub seasons 1-2 and they were shown later, on different channel with different team behind translation.

Take it easy. You know that's not too fair, regardless of the individual background.
Ignoring ignorance and stupidity is the sure way to allow them to spread and infect others. Especially since certain poster spouts almost nothing, but such questionable stuff.
And no, "but he has different background" has nothing to do with the lack of common sense and logic.

I will say with a straight face that CyberCubed is nowhere near as big a chauvinist as I am.
It's nothing to brag about or to be proud about.

[Sage Ninja]

you know the best way to get rid of trolling is to ignore it right? damned hard to do at times especially with Cyber cubed since he is basically the text book definition of an internet troll...

[Meow]

Ignoring ignorance and stupidity is the sure way to allow them to spread and infect others. Especially since certain poster spouts almost nothing, but such questionable stuff.
And no, "but he has different background" has nothing to do with the lack of common sense and logic.
See, I do not mean to offend you at all, that said beforehand. And yes of course I see your point as well as another ones, hence the "regardless of individual background". It is us all together setting sails for a course of common interests based on working together, not against each other. It is difficult I hear you say? It is but what does "difficult" mean when it doesn't mean "impossible"? On the other hand would you have someone talk like that about you? Let that sink in first and do not take it personally because that's not what I'm here for at all :)

Yes I went offtopic so please forgive me dear other readers and posters as I hope that you all see the greater good and the heart being put in with such a post leaving all the best for all of you :tsmile:

PS: Ignoring is never a way, only a step back for a single being but no solution at all, no way to make peace with one another or yourself

[Leo656]

It's nothing to brag about or to be proud about.

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[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

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Next up...

#leo656thesexist tags in all the threads. You heard it here first.

[Leo656]

Next up...

#leo656thesexist tags in all the threads. You heard it here first.


What? Women are things.

[pferreira]

So is this the real "How it all began"? I just thought it was the first season VHS, not some hour long clip show.

Py0QpvvJl_s

If it is the real thing, it sure is a strange feature.You found a UK edit of Blast From the Past with a couple of Season 2 episodes thrown in. This has already been discussed in another thread a couple of months ago. Can't be bothered to find it now. I still have my copy of the video somewhere I think. BBC never showed the first season, only Season 2 onwards through to Season 3. Sky One eventually showed the entire series, one of the few important reasons to own satellite.

[pferreira]

I was pretty certain that How it all Began was the first season cut into one special, as the episode with Baxter was cut, yet he's mentioned as they make the Turtlevan. But it's a while since I've seen it.Neatoman's post refers to the UK VHS release of the TMNT. Mystery solved. Has nothing to do with German specials or dubs. You guys are turning this into a bigger unsolved mystery than it actually is. :lol:

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

What? Women are things.

I'm astonished my prediction has not yet come to pass. :tlol:

[Candy Kappa]

Neatoman's post refers to the UK VHS release of the TMNT. Mystery solved. Has nothing to do with German specials or dubs. You guys are turning this into a bigger unsolved mystery than it actually is. :lol:

Well, yeah. That is what How it All Began is. Not sure where you get "german specials or dubs" from.

[Sumac]

See, I do not mean to offend you at all, that said beforehand. And yes of course I see your point as well as another ones, hence the "regardless of individual background". It is us all together setting sails for a course of common interests based on working together, not against each other. It is difficult I hear you say? It is but what does "difficult" mean when it doesn't mean "impossible"? On the other hand would you have someone talk like that about you? Let that sink in first and do not take it personally because that's not what I'm here for at all :)
I wouldn't allow such person to be my friend or anything else, yes.
And the fact that we are all together here, doesn't mean that all of us should demonstrate acceptance for outdated bigoted ans stupid buffoonery born out of ignorance and lack of awareness about the world, history and people in general.
No matter how much sugar you pour on the issue.

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Depending on what kind of chauvinism we talking here.
But if that's the one I suspect, ain't nothing good about being a troll or a closeminded clown.

Sorry for the offtop.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I was pretty certain that How it all Began was the first season cut into one special, as the episode with Baxter was cut, yet he's mentioned as they make the Turtlevan. But it's a while since I've seen it.

In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, it is ("Så började det hela"). That video is s called "The Epic Begins" in the UK and the USA. But yes, it's confusing.

[Candy Kappa]

In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, it is ("Så började det hela"). That video is s called "The Epic Begins" in the UK and the USA. But yes, it's confusing.

You don't say...

Ganske sikker på at vi ikke brukte den svenske tittelen men fornorska den, samme gjelder sikker den danske versjonen. Skjønt, DVD coveret har bare den engelske tittelen på.

my DVD lists it as 74 minutes long, so something had to be cut I suppose.

yeah, I got some FW DVDs as a gift, but it's the Scandinavian release, so no English dub. And to put it nicely, the Scandinavian dubs are... terrible, absolutely garbage. Especially the Norwegian ones where 2 of the Turtles have helium pitched voices.

So, I've only opened a couple of them when I showed them to my kid brothers years ago and not opened them since.

I got randomly 4 out of the 7 of the DVD releases, the episodes are not in any order, and is just dollar bin type DVDs. the first DVD have the How it all Began.

FW = Fred Wolf.

nah, they aren't bootlegs, just the usual crappy FHE/Lions Gate single DVD release.

https://www.laserdisken.dk/billeder/forsidealm/11309563441383372.jpg
https://www.laserdisken.dk/html/billede3.dna?ID=11309563441383372&vareid=11309563441383372

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Are you from Norway, Candy Kappa? Didn't the cartoon air over TV 3 Norway with voices in Swedish? And was Skurt dubbed into Norwegian? (since Ingamay Hörnberg comes from Sweden)

[Candy Kappa]

Of course we didn't air the Swedish dub, why would we do that?

[Leo656]

I'm astonished my prediction has not yet come to pass. :tlol:

I guess I haven't yet reached CyberCubed levels of notoriety. I promise to try harder.


Depending on what kind of chauvinism we talking here.
But if that's the one I suspect, ain't nothing good about being a troll or a closeminded clown.

Sorry for the offtop.

Of course there is. C'mon now. You knew what this place was when you registered. At least I'd hope. :trazz:

This is turning into a whole Thing, which I wasn't expecting. We can do it, if we have to, but I'm kinda not into it right now. So I might be a little slow to reply, if we are, indeed, doing a Thing. Feel free to start without me and I'll catch up. :tsmile:

[mikey22]

i thought there was one that said the epic begins

[Leo656]

I'm astonished my prediction has not yet come to pass. :tlol:

Looks like you jumped the gun. :lol:

I don't recall if I've ever been tagged before. Don't I get a cake, or something? Anything? I demand a big huge deal be made out of this.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Of course we didn't air the Swedish dub, why would we do that?

We had access to TV 3 Norway, and I recall seing it in Swedish around 1992-1993.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Looks like you jumped the gun. :lol:

I don't recall if I've ever been tagged before. Don't I get a cake, or something? Anything? I demand a big huge deal be made out of this.

YESSSSS!!!! I have seen the future! I am a prophet!!!

[Candy Kappa]

We had access to TV 3 Norway, and I recall seing it in Swedish around 1992-1993.

okay, sounds fake but okay.

Most likely you're remembering wrong, or your family's cable/satellite switches over the language when available. Like Norwegian/Danish/Swedish Cartoon Network is the same channel and you can change the language in the settings.

i thought there was one that said the epic begins

The Epic begins is season 1 edited into a movie special.

How it all Began is season 1 + season 3 episode Blast from the Past, edited into a movie special.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

okay, sounds fake but okay.

most likely you're remembering wrong, or your family's cable/satellite switches over the language when available. Like Norwegian/Danish/Swedish Cartoon Network is the same channel and you can change the language in the settings.

We used a parabollic antenna placed our single-family house, located deep within Sweden. I don't know, but I know TV 3 was ust one channel originally, airing from the UK towards Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It was started by Jan Stenbeck, who was from Sweden.

By 1995-1996-1997, I recall watching soccer (international games and UEFA Champions League) and ice hockey games (international games and IIHF Ice Hockey World Championshi) over TV3. Sometimes I would swtich channel to see different games on different channels. Sometimes I could see the same game, in different languages on different channels. Sometimes it was funnier to watch in Norwegian because the Norwegian sports commentator would yell and scream much more and louder when goals were scored. :)

Are the voices in Norwegian same on TV as on video (1987 TMNT cartoon)? I have some Nordic DVD's (not the first) where I could switch between Danish, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

[Candy Kappa]

Are the voices in Norwegian same on TV as on video (1987 TMNT cartoon)? I have some Nordic DVD's (not the first) where I could switch between Danish, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

I think we only had 1 dub in Norwegian, so they would be the same from broadcast TV to DVD.

[CyberCubed]

Who is adding those tags to this thread.

[Meow]

Who is adding those tags to this thread.
Ok, although I have no idea what you actually mean, I admit it was me, although I don't know what mean to say, you know. Don't touch me - I'm famous! Although I'm not. Eerrrrr I mean call up a moderator or someone else in charge to handle the tags :tgrin:

[Wesley]

I remember first watching the How It All Began video when I was 7 or 8. I thought it was good at the time, as I didn't pay much attention to what was going on in tv shows when I was around that age. I started paying more attention when I was 9. I watched the early seasons on rte two in 1995 and I realised that a lot of stuff had been cut from the video's episodes. I think it covered most of season one and part of season two. It ended with the episode The Mean Machines which I thought was anti climatic.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

All we can say when reading this is:

Be happy we live in the age of DVD and Bluray!

[pferreira]

The Epic begins is season 1 edited into a movie special.

How it all Began is season 1 + season 3 episode Blast from the Past, edited into a movie special.Correct! :)

[Prowler]

A lot of foreign language dubs of American cartoons are poorly done, and that's why the cartoons bomb over there and get canceled. They can be broadcast in english with subtitles (like how people watch anime with english subtitles), for young kids if they don't know english yet.

English is taught everywhere in the world, I'm sure most kids learn it in grade school even in foreign lands.

Except for the last paragraph I kinda agree with you for the most part.

F*ck dubs. I still remember when American and Japanese cartoons got subbed here and kids who grew up in the 80s/early 90s didn't have any trouble keeping up with the plot of said shows. Besides, listening to foreign languages when you're younger helps a lot learning them. I grew up playing games such as Ocarina of Tine, Pokemon Red, Star Fox 64, etc. in English as a kid as did tons of people from my generation and it paid off on a long term.

What's worse really is dubbing live action flicks. Main reason I could never live in a place like France/Germany/Italy/Spain. Every damn thing is dubbed in those places :lol:

[Meow]

My portugal friend, see how the brand/origin thread of yours is tightly linked together with this post? Of course there is a lot of stuff being provided to you the easy way but isn't it up to you to choose? Yes, I absolutely hear you saying that sometimes you don't get much of a choice or that availability is a matter as well making it difficult.

But yet again I'd like to mention that "difficult" does not imply "impossible" while on the other hand let people do their thing and what they prefer to go for. I couldn't force people watching 8 mile in its original language and neither would I want to back then so why have a hard time yourself and not have people making their own experiences?

I'm not even sure if we're still on topic anymore lmao :lol:

[Prowler]

My portugal friend, see how the brand/origin thread of yours is tightly linked together with this post? Of course there is a lot of stuff being provided to you the easy way but isn't it up to you to choose? Yes, I absolutely hear you saying that sometimes you don't get much of a choice or that availability is a matter as well making it difficult.

But yet again I'd like to mention that "difficult" does not imply "impossible" while on the other hand let people do their thing and what they prefer to go for. I couldn't force people watching 8 mile in its original language and neither would I want to back then so why have a hard time yourself and not have people making their own experiences?

I'm not even sure if we're still on topic anymore lmao :lol:
Well, you got me there, brosef. :lol:

But I don't think it's really the same thing, tbh. I mean, sure dubbing technically creates more jobs, but lots of times the VAs we use for dubbing here are celebrities that are known for doing other stuff, like actual acting in tv shows or stand up comedy. Thus, it ends up creating a circle/clique of people. Pretty much every dubbed cartoon/anime I've seen here had voices I've heard before. It's not exactly a big industry here like it is in places like the USA or other European countries where dubbing is a tradition.

Don't wanna force anyone to do anything since nowadays I can just find stuff online in the original language. Funnily enough, nowadays games are starting to get translated into Portuguese. Especially Nintendo ones since the distribution changed to Iberian Nintendo. It's kinda odd for me since I grew up playing games in English you know? So I can't help but change the language into English. I mean sure, most games are originally in Japanese, so technically I'm playing a dub, but I can't understand Japanese and won't learn it just to play games, screw that, man :lol:

Plus, being from a small country without much international projection, we gotta learn a foreign language or two in order to increase our job prospects. If we were a more "desirable" and profitable market, we could just stick to our own language and tell others to learn it, but that's not case. Although, that's not holding countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands back, now is it? ;)

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

To get even more confusing: Swedish Mediadatabse lists "Så började det hela", which is "The Epic Begins", as originally titled "How it all Began". I had that videofilm and also recall reading that on the cover.

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/000120141

So maybe also "The Epic Begins" has been released to video in the UK or the USA as "How it all Began"!

[Jukka]

So maybe also "The Epic Begins" has been released to video in the UK or the USA as "How it all Began"!

That would be way in Finland it was handled. (Possibly scandinavia?)

The DVD (and VHS) cover with Leo holding sewer cover and rest behind him. And title "How it All Began" is the finnish version "Kuinka Kaikki Alkoi".

From the finnish name, it translates into "How it all began" but apparently its actually "The Epic Begins" for others?


I really thought for all these years that "How It All Began" meant the same for everyone. First five episodes from season 1 just in truncated fashion.


I have never seen the video-clip attached to the start of this thread. It was not released here as far as I can tell. And I actually thought it was a fan-made edit.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

That would be way in Finland it was handled. (Possibly scandinavia?)

The DVD (and VHS) cover with Leo holding sewer cover and rest behind him. And title "How it All Began" is the finnish version "Kuinka Kaikki Alkoi".

From the finnish name, it translates into "How it all began" but apparently its actually "The Epic Begins" for others?


I really thought for all these years that "How It All Began" meant the same for everyone. First five episodes from season 1 just in truncated fashion.


I have never seen the video-clip attached to the start of this thread. It was not released here as far as I can tell. And I actually thought it was a fan-made edit.

It's the same in Sweden. "Så började det hela" in Swedish means "How It All Began" but is "The Epic Begins".

[Meow]

I knew I could rely on my stomach feeling once more and here it is, the "Wie alles begann" german version of "How it all began" I mentioned in one of my posts here in this thread, after recovering the stickeralbum from my mums attic :)

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I knew I could rely on my stomach feeling once more and here it is, the "Wie alles begann" german version of "How it all began" I mentioned in one of my posts here in this thread, after recovering the stickeralbum from my mums attic :)

But is "Wie alles begann" really "How it all Began" or "The Epic Begins" (we've discussed the differences here)?

[Meow]

But is "Wie alles begann" really "How it all Began" or "The Epic Begins" (we've discussed the differences here)?
Since the stickeralbum is in sections showing off several of the main characters (villians not included) and introduces the story, you'll get about the first 5 minutes of the video from the original post in this thread covered in the first section of the sticker album.

The only "How it all began" occurence for german fans is the one in the sticker album. There is no comic, no comic tv show episode or similar showing the exact same and entire content or even containing that same name as the video does. That said I'd also say the same about "The epic begins" which is absolutely inexistent in the german area.

[Halfshell81]

I remember it....

[ZariusTwo]

I've brought this "gem" up a couple of times on here in the past. The censoring is absolutely staggering in it.

[Sumac]

Of course there is. C'mon now. You knew what this place was when you registered. At least I'd hope. :trazz:
No, I didn't. Or at least I had a different idea of what this place is.
Maybe it was false nostalgia, since I visited this forum for the first time 13 years ago.