what's everyone's favourite 'part/genre/thingy' of TMNT?
 

sorry, just cant think of the right word...

that is to say, do you prefer the old cartoon? new cartoon? comics? mirage or archie? a toy collector? if so, vintage? strictly new? whaddabout the games? just wondering!

y'see i'm mad for the comics first and foremost! especially the mirage, but i'll take it all! bring on the archie and image too! its all good!

then its the toy collecting! being over here in scotland, it gets kinda hard trying to find the figures, so i just get what i can, when i can! cant afford to be buying stuff off the net all the time too... i love it all, old and new! oh and i prefer it MOC! (i'll buy 2 of the ones i really like, open one and, y'know, not open the other!!)

the cartoon's great, but i hardly ever see it, what with the times i work, etc, and the DVDs over stopped at the end of season one :(
old cartoon, love it but no DVD collections over here either, just my old videos!

also gotta bunch of the video games, although i suck at em!

so that's me, a proper TMNTurtlephile! in pretty much any format! (is that the word??) but especially the comics. and the toys. oh the cartoons not bad either! hehe

My only exposure to TMNT is Classic cartoon, New Cartoon, and Movies. ANd I have to say that I love them all pretty much equally on diffrent levels.

Now as far as genre or story type elements that I liked best in each universe Il ike best, it goes like this:

New Toon: I like mostly the urban based stroy-lines where they are in the city and are battleing thugs and crimes. i wish they had gone more into the whole street gang aspect of the story, Like with Angel and her problems.

I'll get into more later.

Hmmm...hard to say

The original cartoon got me into tmnt, so i have a very fond appreciation of that.

The cartoon led to toys, and since I somehow managed to hold on to good part of my original collection, as an adult I became a serious collector (thnx wholly to ebay...:) ). First toys and then everything else, inlcuding all volumes of the comics.

And now I love the new show as well as the new toys. Its just hard to $$$ keep up with everything cuz I have limited funds and I want soo much!!

But its fun...and thats all that matters...

My favorite is the Mirage comics (Vol 1). I'm so glad I decided to get into comics and collect this series.

Next would be the first movie, I have always loved it...it was just perfect!

Then, comes the new toon (the 2003 series, NOT Fast Forward!). I love it, but not as much as I did when I first started watching. Season 4, while great, was kinda sloppy in some places and really disappointed me with how they handled Karai. That, and ever since I started reading the comics...the show doesn't seem as good as I once thought.

Don't get me wrong, I still love it! It was one of the best toons out there, but I'm not that crazy for it anymore since I got the comics. (I'm going nuts waiting for the Lost Season!).

The old toon I've had a love/hate thing for. I loved it when I was a kid, hated it when I watched it again a few years ago...then tried watching it again with an open mind and enjoyed it.

I like it, it's funny and wacky, but it's no big deal if I never see it again.

for me it would go like this.
1.) Archie tmnt
2.) Mirage tmnt
3.) old toon tmnt
4.) 80's - 90's and next mutation toy lines tmnt
5.) movie(1,2, & new cgi) tmnt
6.) image comics tmnt
7.) Fast Forwards Toys
8.) 2k3 cartoon tmnt
9.) fast forward (thus far)
10.) next mutation tmnt
11.) 2k3's toy line (booo..hiss)

I'm a Newbie. I love the New TMNT. Followed Closley by the Mirage comics TMNT, and 3rd would be the Old Series TMNT.

The 80's cartoon is what introduced me to the Turtles, so i hold that dear to me moreso than anything else could. The toys helped a lot too, because as a little boy Turtles were THE toys to have. My fondest memory of getting toys was at a 3 for $10 deal that Target was having. As ive aged, i like the new toon and can easily say that it is superior to the one i grew up watching. But, i dont look back on the old toon with any sort of disdain, as cartoons back in that time werent expected to have serious plots and whatnot. Got to keep that in mind when judging toons of that age. Nowadays, im a big fan of the toys, as im able to pick up whatever figures i want compared to back then, when i could only dream about having every single one.

I likes The old Toon the best because thats what got me into it, then the 2k3 series, the mirage comics, Next Mutation and Fast Forward, yup.

I remember getting into the older cartoons after school. I read a few of the comics from friends, but I dont recall what series they were, and today, I can't find none at all.

But my favorite was seeing them in live action on the big screen. I still have what I was able to collect of the trading cards of the first movie. Does anyone here have their collections, if they even started any?

Going to go with old cartoon since that is what got me interested as a kid.

If they started reprinting the Mirage comics trade paperbacks, I would probably choose the original comics.

easily the early cartoon series. They were what launched the TMNT to the world. I dont care about the cheesy jokes and corny scripts, i love the show and even in my old age i would never turn down an offer to watch the show.

My fav part of the classic cartoon series would be the first season, which i think is very similar to the red sky season in some aspects (serious, less crappy jokes, bebop and rocksteady were men and not morons, and better scripts). I love the red sky also. I totally support the new series however.

The Early Series (the first TMNT stuff I saw)
Movies (my fav is the 1st one)

Comics, movies, 2K3 cartoon. In no particular order.

Perhaps "incarnation" would be a better term?

I have to go with the movies. The cartoons just dont impress me.

Old toon, 2k3 toon, movies 1 and 2, comics and toy collecting.

Comics, first movie, and the 2K3 series (at least until FF).

To me it seems everything is my favorite from the movies to the action figures, to the cartoons, to the comics, its all part of being a fan, I love it all:D :D

Having just bought myself the entire 4 seasons of the 2K3 cartoon and watching them in fairly close succession, that's what I'm passionate and obsesssed with at the moment. However the orginal toon will always be special to me since that's what I watched as a kid. So I'd have to say I like the two toons equally, but the 2K3 series is obviously vastly more accomplished.

The only other franchise exposure I've had are the movies, which were okay but I'm not fussed on. Having said that I'm looking forward to the CGI one next year... are they even releasing it in Australia???

I would imagine so, perhaps not on the day it comes out in the USA, but probably some point soon afterwards. Is it common for movies not to be shown in Australia?

It has to be the Mirage comics first, then the first four seasons of the new cartoon, and the first movie.
I still have a fondness for the old cartoon, but it's probably more of a nostalgia thing.

Hey Tookie!
Get yourself a multi-region DVD player, you can can get some good quality ones for less than 50 quid(less than 80 Euro's in my case)
That's what I did, I now have the complete collection of the First four seasons which I orded over the last couple of years from amazon.
It was the only way I could get hold of the series, where there's a will there's a way.

Hmmm good question. I dont know if i can put them in order, but my favorite...incarnations?...of the tmnt would have to be The first TMNT movie, The mirage comics, and the old toon because of the fact that it introduced me to the tmnt along with the comics(sadly every time i go back to watch old toon tmnt i appreciate it less and less..but still watch it for nostalgic reasons...im sure a lot of you can relate) Lastly, while i really enjoy tmnt2k3, for some reason
i just cant find the charm in it that i find in other tmnt incarnations.

underoath rules

yah i've been meaning to do something like that for ages, but something else normally comes up and whatnot to be paid for etc. the wallet's pretty tied up til after xmas, so perhaps then! i'm kinda glad i'm outta the loop just now cos i really dont fancy this 'fast forward' stuff, everyone keeps going on about. right now its all about the comics, the movie and picking up toys whenever i see em!

I don't like the fast forward series either, I won't be buying any of that series on DVD, but I highly recommend the first four seasons.

1987 TMNT cartoon
 

I like the 1987 TMNT cartoon best.

they are entertaining in their own ways. The one that I do not care for was the Image series that was released in the mid-1990s.

First of all, hi everyone (first post).

For me, the 1987 cartoon series, despite its deviation from the comics, is the accepted standard by which most people remember the show. I liked it because it was well-written, the jokes were good, and the human side (the hilarious Krang excepted for his inhumanity!) of the villains were well conveyed. It also was the catalyst for the 'craze' of the show, which lasted a good couple of years.

My criticism of it was the rushing out of over 80 episodes over a two year spell, which killed the franchise due to the expiration of ideas. Some cartoon series, which were equally as big in the early 90s (I think you will know which one I am talking about specifically) has survived by 1. not changing the basic design of the characters for nearly 20 years (except to improve the graphics) 2. retaining the same nemesis characters, and 3. producing around a dozen episodes annually. Had TMNT been scripted and produced in this manner, I believe my favourite incarnation of this show will be alive and well today, albeit slightly matured.

I watched a couple of the new series, and enjoyed it to an extent, but couldn't accept the show up against the original.