"Fast Forward" Description Released
 

The following is taken from the official site:


4Kids Entertainment issued the following press release regarding season five of the TMNT cartoon:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Fast Forward catapults Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael 99 years into the future where they emerge from the sewers and no longer have to hid. The year is 2105 and the action heroes sport a whole new look as they face amazing adventures and square off against foes in an exciting world of cutting-edge technology.

4Kids Entertainment will support the series with an extensive licensing and marketing campaign to launch in July 2006 with a new toy line, featuring a full spectrum of toys including action figures and role playing products from master toy licensee Playmates Toys.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Fast Forward promises more fun and exciting journeys from our favorite ninja characters," said Alfred R. Kahn, Chairman and CEO of 4Kids Entertainment. "The evolution of the Turtles moving out of the sewers and living among humans is a story arc that provides the right combination of intrigue and comedic material to capture a wider television audience and extend the brand. We believe our fresh approach to this successful series will continue to entertain the legions of Turtles fans as well as appeal to new viewers of 4Kids TV."

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Aw man...

Wait... are they sent 99 years in the future via time travel or are they simply just 99 years older?? :-?

I hope they are not 99 years older I mean they wont be as athletic...

I guess the story would be like in vol 4 of the current comic , after the utroms came to earth or something like that....

I honestly don't know what to think of it just yet....

That's a good sign, I think, that this is just an arc, or maybe a season, and not a totally new direction for the whole series.

Lol, I Doubt They'll Be 99 Years Old.

Yeah, I Dont Know What To Think. It Seems Pretty Drastic. I Wonder If This Was Lairds Idea. This Will Also Mean A Whole New Cast Of Bad Guys.

Hmmm, Turtles And Time Travel....i Dont Know. I'm Not A Huge Time Travel To The Future Fan.

Hey, The Turtles Never Fail. All I Need To Know Is That Laird Is Still Involved. I'm Pretty Sure They'll Satisfy.

So looks like this will be somewhat based on Volume 4 of the comics. I wonder if the Styracticons(I hope I spelled that right), will appear.

And do you guys think Bishop will still be around. That guy might be imortal or something.

Wow, I actually think that this sounds really cool. I know everyone is going to bitch and moan about this, but if it does badly, then they will certainly change it back. They are going to change it back anyways for season six it seems, because they said that it is a story arc. The fact that they are taking an entire season to tell one story arc (with smaller arcs inside of it I imagine) is the main reason why I think that this will be pretty cool. This story will be very extensive, and hopefully very detailed as well, because they have so much time and space to tell it in. Also, it says the turtles will be getting new costumes or something of the like. While this could be pretty potentially crappy, it could also be pretty kickass. Also, a completely new set of characters, and villians, which should be pretty cool. I am very interested in this, and I can't wait to see how it turns out.

volume 4 here we come....I'm betting this is when we will see the new mutated donatello also...
-Putrescent

BUT....The change takes place in season 4. They mentioned it in the goofy Season 4 preview song.

If it's being set 99 years into the future, Any chance we'll see future decendants of April and Casey? Since on the series, They were becoming somewhat of an item, So it would make sense if the decendants are decendants of there own children. Which I would assume would have the last name Jones.

So are the teen turtles sent into the future or do we simply get a glimpse of the future turtles? The former could be cool, the latter sounds kind of lame. Would be weird to just switch the focus to a whole different set of turtles.

Either way, assuming this is just a temporary thing, it could be very interesting.

Yep! They team up with Casey and April's great-grandson. His name is Cody Jones.

And how do you know this?, Was this ever in the comics?

Fast Foward was announced several months ago on the official site with a list of the action figures coming out with the line (the Dark turtles and Future Turtles). In the description of Fast Forward it mentions they team up with Casey and April's great grandson, Cody Jones.

This is from the official TMNT site:

TMNT: "Fast Forward" - The Turtles are accidentally thrust 99 years into the future where Manhattan Island is a settling point for numerous alien species from all over the galaxy. When the TMNT find themselves thrust into a "dark" future, they must team up with Cody Jones, descendant of the Turtles’ former ally.

Fall action figure releases:

Future Mike, Raph, Leo, Don and Splinter
Dark Mike, Raph, Leo and Don
Serling

I have no idea who Serling is. Perhaps he's somebody they meet in the future?

And supposadly there's also an article from Peter Laird somewhere which states that the turtles will also be training some kids.

Oh crud... Flippin bull crud... this doesn't sound good at all. They're doing an entire revamp of the series, by the sounds of it -- and it seems like the motives are: Laird wants more sci-fi, we need cooler toys, and we need a "new audience." *blinks* What audience has the series not been reaching? Sub-10 year olds, that's who. Money. They just want to make more money. And Larid wants to get out his nano-bot alien ya-yas.

The show is probably too serious, to dark, too violent for little ones. It's always been kind of in-between -- not mature enough for every adult to enjoy, not dumb enough for 7 year olds to drool in front of. I had always hoped the series would grow more mature over the seasons, not less. If the humor was bad, it's because jokes were corny. They could make the jokes a little smarter, not dumber. Just don't fix what ain't broke.:x

But... I guess that's the world of children's entertainment. Look at Loonatics Unleashed for your example of bastardization of a classic franchise.

Maybe they know what they're doing. Maybe this won't be so bad.

I'll keep telling myself that until I see the new season...

I totally agree with you Fledermaus ... I guess we don't have anything left bt to try and convince ourselves that maybe change is good.....

but I really hope it is only for a few Eps....

That makes the target auidence Teenagers and that's exactly who watches it. Atleast in my area, kids only seem to play with the toys. But I don't go to middle school so I don't know what they do, think, or like. I do however have a little cousin but he's a horrible example of how kids act. He's afraid to watch things with any violence in them -_- But he will play with the toys.

I looked forward to this, But I wonder if this is going to happen right after this week's episode, Any chance of this happening the following week? :)

"and square off against foes in an exciting world of cutting-edge technology."

Anybody think the technodrome will make an appearance with that utrom Krang leading the charge? or maybe bishop . . .

either way if they are doing something this drastic to the series, why not throw in the technodrome too.

You guys seem to always forget Laird saying he doesn't want anything from the old show in the new seires. Anything he has currently added are jokes mocking the old show, or refrences. He didn't care for the old show so any hopes of anything from the old show being in the new seires are hopeless. The cloest you will ever get to Krang is "Secert Orgins Part 3"

If were lucky, Maybe appearances by other mutant characters of the past?

I don't know why people are complaining so much about this. I don't think it's all that bad of an idea. However, I assume that the same thing that sends the turtles back in time (Paleo series) will be the same thing sending them forward in time.

I'll bet money that after the "Prodgial Son..." episode, Karai will do something to send the turtles back in time. This is where they're going to do battle with Savanti Romero (again) and after they defeat him, or they lose, they will be sent away into their future. The beginning of this Fast Forward thing will be the end of this season, since it's already been said it will take up most of next season. (Kinda like how they did the first 5 eps of season two "Turtles in Space" after leaving the clincher at the end of season 1 them being teleported out of the galaxy.)

I don't know why people are so worried, Laird and the crew are smart people, they know what theyr'e doing. They wouldn't mess up the best elements of TMNT (action, humor, and sci-fi). Besides, this new story arc sounds like it'll be more darker than the previous(maybe it'll blow SAINW out of the water.

In my opinion "I'Monster" already blew "Same As It Never Was" out of the water. Anyways I adgree with ShowStoppa. Anyone read "Masks"? I assume a story arc similar to that will be how the TMNT get zapped into the future.

Stop putting words in his mouth, he DOES care about the original series, it did after all put his and Kevins' franchise on the map, as for the references being exclusive only to the Krang cameo, are you BLIND or something? Gen as Rocksteady was the most recent joke reference, heck Shredder as a Utrom is the most in-denial use of a badass Krang I've ever seen in the show.

Thanks, Rat King.

My first impressions:

1. What, no Splinter?! Or is he just not mentioned because it's just PR?
2. I don't think that "cutting edge technology" sounds exciting at all. Never have, even when I was "target audience" material (less than 12 years old). But maybe that's just me. I'm a girl.
3. Living above ground could be fun, although part of the good-guy mystique of the turtles is their willingness to help a society that would reject them.
4. So, um, are they gonna like, finally get off their lazy ninja butts and get jobs? :lol:
5. A "new look" cook be fun. Play dress up, but please don't mess with their weapons.
6. Extensive marketing! Hurray? *scratches head*
7. Good news: it says "story arc" so maybe it will be easy for them to go back, especially if things aren't working out. Bad news: the person who said "story arc" was a business CEO, and business CEOs tend to like using buzz words like "story arc" even if they don't apply them properly.
8. That last couple lines read like, "this show's a big success, but it's just not commercial enough!" But hopefully that's just because a business CEO said it. I'd really like to see Laird say something about this; I seriously doubt he'd give the same justification for the change.

So basically, we don't know much more than we did before. The way this is written, I don't like it, but that's probably just because it's PR. I'm very fussy about PR. But I think TPTB have been churning out some good stories, so I expect something fun. And I expect Raphael to wear shades and flaunt his skillz like a rock star.

They need to change the theme song to "The Power Of Love"

Then have the TMNT discover Splinters' grave in the future

Leo: This is hell

Don: no, this is New York, although I can't imagine hell being much worse

Then they need to find their way back and prevent Karai Shredder get her hands on a sports almanac.

Don't put words in my mouth I said refrences not just the Krang one.

Are you sure your'e not just in denial.

Are you sure you can post something constructive?

:roll:

Kids.

then they need to come vist los angeles hahahaha and it would be even wierder for splinter to see his own grave it will really mess with him...hell it could even lead him to meet the rat kings ghost like in comic book...but I think this is going to happen before next season when this next episode happens...

splinter will be there he's listed a future series figure...

I seriously doubt making Shredder an Utrom was a some kind of sub concious use of Krang in this show. Making Shredder an Utrom was just a way to give him more backstory since in the comics he was killed in the first issue.

Seaon six? I doubt they'll go that far.

I'm curious about another thing, Since this will be dealing with Time Travel in such a way, I think the world would be affected after the Turtles were teleported thru time, From a scientific standpoint, Anyone who travels into the future via some Time Travel method, They would be declared missing in the present day and thru out the years until the future when they arrived, Therefore, The Turtles would have been missing for 100 years. So they would arrive 100 years into the future and see how the world is like when they been gone for 100 years, Theres no telling what it might look like if the Turtles weren't around to stop the Foot Clan and any other Badguys durring the present time and the years after that. In other words. There might have been a catastrophic event that the Turtles could've prevent have they been in the present times.

TigerClaw, that seems like a probable plot device.

Thanks, Putrescent. Yeah I figured I'll take this "official" description with a few grains of salt.

Based on what, precisely?

Uhh no offense, but Gennosuke was already an official Usagi Yojinbo comic character, for all we know, he coulda been created before Rocksteady.

I kinda hope the series doesn't end like this... They better not pull a '90's Spiderman' and just end the last episode with the TMNT jumping into a portal to return to their own time period.

I'm probably just in a positive mood today, but I think this has the chance to be really cool. Not season long cool, but story arc cool.

A lot of people's favorite episodes were the same as it never was episodes, this might be sorta similar.

I can't wait for action figures of the future turtles. Give em guns! :evilgrin: