Splatoon 2/Rise of the TMNT collab

[Ninjinister]

https://www.facebook.com/NintendoSwitch/posts/1667786863317365

"Squids and Turtles collide! A special tournament-styled Splatoon 2 Splatfest will take place over 3 weeks to determine which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brother is the most bodacious!

The first of three Splatfest tournaments will pit Raph against Leo on 5/4-5/5, with the second on 5/11-5/12, featuring Mikey vs. Donnie, and the final match between the winners takes place on 5/18-5/19.

Log in to Splatoon 2 the evening of 4/27 to make your round one pick, and be sure to check out the upcoming “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” animated series, coming soon to Nickelodeon!"

[Powder]

Boy, that's outta left field, huh? Cool, though. I'm not a Splatoon fan so I'm not excited about this specifically, but it sets a pretty interesting precedent in a general sense. Nintendo being open to the TMNT crossing over in any capacity whatsoever with their original stuff is really neat.

[Ninjinister]

Boy, that's outta left field, huh? Cool, though. I'm not a Splatoon fan so I'm not excited about this specifically, but it sets a pretty interesting precedent in a general sense. Nintendo being open to the TMNT crossing over in any capacity whatsoever with their original stuff is really neat.

I feel the same way.

[Shark_Blade]

I love this song.

Anyone wanna play Splatoon 2? :trazz:

[TheBlueTurtle1]

Sure, I play Splatoon every day, it's my most played switch game.

Friend code is, SW-7871-7983-6878, all are welcome to add and play some Splatoon, mario Kart, Bomerman, or whatever:)

[sdp]

I'll throw mine in as well:
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Mario Kart or Splatoon


I wish the Splatfest gear was forever and not only for the event, I'd rock out my Leo shirt all year.


What's so fun about the splatfests is the creativity of the community over something as dumb as hotdogs vs hamburgers. It'll be great to have it be about a franchise I love and see all the fun memes that come out of it.

[I Crave Pizza No More]

I haven't been able to register for it yet. Has anyone else been able to?

[sdp]

I think it just went live:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db1cGSTUQAADAZp.jpg


I'll be #teamLeo for the first round #teamdonnie for the second and let's see who makes it to the final round but if Donnie makes it I'm choosing him. I'm definitely never choosing Hulk Raph even if Raph has always been my fav.

[Xiewin]

I think you're underestimating Leo's popularity. He's winning by 24 votes or so?

[The Deadman]

When I saw the title, I thought they meant TMNT was going to be added in game. Kinda misleading lol.

[Ninjinister]

When I saw the title, I thought they meant TMNT was going to be added in game. Kinda misleading lol.

I don't know how. I worded the title that way specifically so nobody would think they'd be straight up added as playable characters or whatever.

[sdp]

So far based on my findings at inkopolis there's definitely some shade being thrown at the Rise of TMNT designs but it's a very small minority, there's more people just mentioning they don't like TMNT in general, and many messages just having fun even if they might not be fans of TMNT. I do see mostly Leonardo t-shirts too so I think most are choosing him.

My message was #teamVenusdeMilo :lol:, things are already fairly awesome with the TMNT theme, I've been taking a lot of screenshots to remember the occasion.

[Xiewin]

Hope they are choosing him for the character rather than "I like the color blue" lmao.

[I Crave Pizza No More]

Hope they are choosing him for the character rather than "I like the color blue" lmao.

Isn't Leo's character changing for this new show, though? But I picked him based on the Leo I've know for the past 30 years.

[sdp]

Raph is my fav. but his Hulk design sucks so I chose Leo whose design I actually like.

Most people are not fans and are choosing on character design or color.

Raphael is usually the most popular turtle, they really messed his chances in Rise with such a design.

[Xiewin]

Raph looks kind of cool in animation, but those shots don't really look so good.

I'm so tired of them making Raph this gigantic beast.
Like wtf were they thinking.
One of the splatoon characters said he was 6ft, and I dear hope to God that isn't true. Gives me even more PD vibes.
I miss 1990's Raph.

[Xiewin]

Raphael is usually the most popular turtle, they really messed his chances in Rise with such a design.

Hmm I don't think it's the design, I think mainly because of nick's depiction. I found his character there to be uselessly bad. Leo is the most popular nowadays. He was the only one to have a character arc in the nick show, so it was easier for people to cling on the him as their favorite.

[Shark_Blade]

Pics from the TMNT Splatfest.

https://i.imgur.com/SY3uVRa.jpg
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[Shark_Blade]

https://i.imgur.com/yCZCftH.jpg
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[Ninjinister]

Hootant Mootant Nootant Tootant cracks me up for some reason.

[oldmanwinters]

Thanks for the screencaps! I thought Nintendo killed Miiverse, so what is the comment bubble feature called that's seen in those images?

[Shark_Blade]

It’s a feature only available in Splatoon 2 in Inkopolis. Yeah I miss Miiverse too but this is kinda a good substitute too.

[Papenbrook]

Just when you think it couldn't ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcNCR9QX4AA6uH2.jpg:large

IT JUST DID! (https://mobile.twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/991709239801536513)

[Shark_Blade]

That’s pretty snazzy tbh. :D They took the time and effort to create turtle theme for Marina and Pearl.

[Ninjinister]

Just when you think it couldn't ...


Couldn't what?

[Papenbrook]

Couldn't what?

... get any weirder.

[sdp]

The splatfest plaza is so awesome with the neon colors and TMNT theme and random drawings.

It's definitely one sided with Leo being most of the teams, and the few Raph teams that exist are horrible so it's likely Leo will be winning both the popularity and skill rounds.

[Shark_Blade]

Oh that’s odd, when I was in the plaza I only see Team Raph. I’m Team Leo obviously.

Interesting to see who would win but bear in mind popularity is not only the criteria. There’s also Team contribution points so go and earn points in the online battles! :D

[sdp]

Oh, I did my part, I'm already on the max level and early in the morning I encountered some good raph teams that beat me but so far the rest of the day the only teams that beat us were other fellow Leo teams so I think Leo has this one won. Hope Leo wins so they realize the design sucks and people want Leo as leader.

Visiting inkopolis is so cool with the neon red/blue raph/leo drawings and memes all over the place. Even the "I don't like TMNT ones" :lol: this is good marketing, it might raise interest in this niche that might not care about the turtles. I've seen drawings of OT/Nick/Rise turtles but none of 2k3 ;(

I wonder if this means that Rise is releasing soon or why else would they have the TMNT splatfest so many months before the show releases? It's also a big deal since it's a 3 round splatfest which doesn't normally happen.

[Shark_Blade]

I don’t think it ever happened, this 3 rounds Splatfest is unprecedented.

Nick must have a lot of faith in this new tmnt series to be splashing so much money to promote it. I mean even the toys - have you seen the HUGE lair and varieties of toys.

[sdp]

Well Team Leo won the popularity vote with nearly 60%, sadly Leo lost in battle points/games apparently so Raph won the splatfest. The splat dj's called him Leo-Nerdo :lol:

Now it's going to be Donnie vs Mikey, I'm guessing Mikey will be the most popular but I gotta represent the nerd.

[Xiewin]

I’m not surprised honestly. As soon as I heard that most Leo teams had a younger audience I knew this was going to be the result. I thought most were choosing for color rather than character anyway and Marina gets more popularity votes than pearl on average.

But in all honestly, I'm really interested in the game now.

[Papenbrook]

Here's another promotional image. (https://mobile.twitter.com/NintendoVS/status/993180859652915201?p=v)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dch47ZFUwAAjvl8.jpg:large

[Shark_Blade]

Leo no.... :tlol:

Ah well, next one I’m Team Mikey.

[sdp]

official art of
Marina and pearl of Splatoon 2 cosplaying as the turtles:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcNCR9QX4AA6uH2.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcxS40JVMAE65sB.jpg

[sdp]

Mikey won the popularity vote but the battles were won by Donatello so Donatello passes to the final round. Or Smell-a-tello as the DJ Pearl called him :lol:

So Raph v Donnie for the finals, I guess I'll be team Donnie once again, or might switch to Raph to have fought for 3 of the 4 turtles.

[Shark_Blade]

Damn, popularity really ain’t ****. Now for the final stretch I have to go with Raph. :tlol:

[HotJuicyBurgers]

I was going to try to play this this past weekend but I got God of War and legitimately could not pull myself away from it.

[Papenbrook]

The final round starts TONIGHT!

I wonder, who will win? :D

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Team Raph all the way!

[Papenbrook]

If either one of them wins, are we going to get character trailer?

That would be neat! :D

[Shark_Blade]

Team Donnie wins, oh wow. :tlol:

[Papenbrook]

Yep.

The "infamously ugly" Dork-a-smello wins.
* sarcasm *

[sdp]

I wrote about Nick & Nintendo collaboration Ninja Turtles Splatoon Splatfest crossover (https://miscrave.com/articles/splatoon-tmnt/) a long while ago and sadly it seems most people forgot. I got a bit nostalgic because of the upcoming Splatoon Raiders game. This was still early in the Switch 1's life so not many people had the console and well Rise wasn't a hit, but it's still crazy Nintendo had a collaboration with TMNT, this was also before TMNT collaborated with any IP that exists.