Favorite ninja turtle rip-off
 

Which of the following is your favorite comic/cartoon inspired by TMNT ?

- ADOLESCENT RADIOACTIVE BLACKBELT HAMSTERS

- PRE-TEEN DIRTY GENE KUNG FU KANGAROOS

- COLD BLOODED CHAMELEON COMMANDOS

- BIKER MICE FROM MARS

- C.O.W.BOYS OF MOO MESA

- STREET SHARKS

- EXTREME DINOSAURS

- BATTLE TOADS

What about Samuari Pizza Cats?

And would Disney's Mighty Ducks count?

I liked Biker Mice From Mars as a kid.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Mighty Ducks and Samurai Cats. Road Rovers count too.

I guess Battle Toads.

I forgot how many Turtles ripoffs there were.


Would Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers count? I know the footage was taken from the Sentai series, but keep in mind the American additions like making the heroes teenagers (instead of warriors that had been frozen in time) and the title of the series, which seems to have been influenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Nah, the Power Rangers were a rip off of Voltron.

I guess Disney's Gargoyles would also be considered a turtle rip off too, at least with the name scheme. The turtles were all named after reinassance artists, the Gargoyles, cities in New York.

I've talked to Greg Weisman on his blog a few times, and read about every entry there. He was more inspired by classic fantasy tales (Shakespeare and Arthurian for instance) than anything. So I don't really think TMNT had an influence on Gargoyles.

The naming might have been an homage. Impossible to know for sure; but the series is definitely not to be considered a Turtle rip-off.

Can C.O.W.Boys really be considered a "rip-off" considering it was created by a prominent TMNT artist who also created some of the series' most popular characters such as Leatherhead?

Technically, but I see where you're coming from.

Okay, maybe not the Gargoyles. BUT to a lesser extent, I think the Toxic Crusaders were a rip off of the Turtles. Now Don't get me wrong, I loved the Crusaders and the ultra-violent Troma Toxic Avenger movies they were loosely based on. But I guess since the same animation company that made the OT TMNT also made TC, you can't help but see the similarities;

DR. KILLEMOFF = SHREDDER
CZAR ZOSTER = KRANG
PYSCHO & BONE HEAD = BEBOP & ROCKSTEADY
RADIATION RANGERS = FOOT SOLDIERS

I even remember Toxie even saying in one episode " Just because we're mutants, doesn't mean we have to live in the sewers."

Remember
 

Remember that the TMNT istelf when debuting in 1984 originally is a parody of those hero comics about teenagers, mutant and ninjas who popular in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Now it looks like the TMNT is the originaly...

Battletoads. Only ever played it as a video game/arcade game, though. According to Wikipedia, it's not a rip of TMNT, it's

Street Sharks. By a long shot.

Anytime you can start an argument with this statement, you should probably not say anything.

I wasn't trying to start an argument.

And the point remains, wiki is not a reliable source

Probably Street Sharks.

And then there's this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...the_bear01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_the_Bear

Always wanted to see someone use that exact phrase on a forum as there is so many things wrong with that statement.

1) The source footage for Power Rangers is Super Sentai. The source footage for Voltron is GoLion. Super Sentai predates GoLion by at least 4 years.
2) Both are made by Toei and Bandai, so neither is ripping off the other. Toei and Bandai are just doing what they know best which is big gaint robots.
3) Spider-Man had a gaint transforming robot before either show :P


Back on subject, I always enjoyed Biker Mice, though I don't remember much of it.

Wow Blade Raider. I didn't know that. Thanks for the info kid.

According to Wikipedia, a study proves otherwise.

Street sharks

I don't think Boris was a rip off of TMNT. It did spoof and parody all of the other rip off's of TMNT at the time of the B&W comic book explosion and implosion. I think the greatest collection of TMNT spoofs ever collected in comic book form was a 1986 comic book from Blackthorne Publishing called Laffin Gas that featured the following ( trust me, I didn't make any of this up ) ;

- MILDLY MIRCRO-WAVED PRE-PUBESCENT KUNG-FU GOPHERS

- NAIVE INTERDIMENSIONAL KOALAS

- ADOLESCENT MANIACAL SAMURAI HARES

- COLOSSAL NUCLEAR BAMBINO SAMURAI SNAILS

- GUERILLA GOPHERS

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Wasn't Battletoads around at least 5 years before Beetleborgs?

What abour SWAT Kats?

Ditto Cowabunga14 on the Boris the Bear appearances, though I agree that that it's certainly more of a parody of, rather than a inspired by the TMNT.

Really, I'm a huge fan of Street Sharks & Dino Vengers (or Extreme Dinosaurs if you wanna go with the crappy name they ended up going with. The animation was pretty darn good for the time and it doesn't matter what you call them, those were like the sweetest toys around back then and they are still really fun. I'm a diehard MOC collector and those are toys I actually prefer to have loose. Killamari & Spike look so good on my desk!

Yeah, Street Sharks were easily my favorite toys as a kid (well, I guess I liked Megazords better). I still have mine at my grandmas house, me and my cousins bust them out all the time.

I'm currently watching Extreme Dinosaurs on YouTube. "Out of Time", the origin episode.

Samurai Pizza Cats is more or less a parody altho the TMNT are mentioned in the theme song. :lol:

Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters is my fave. I have every issue thanks to Wowio. Altho I don't like that they added a female to the group in the new stuff. Meh.

The Kung Fu Kangaroos is a kinda a parody BUT Donatello appears in the first issue.

Boris the Bear is not as much a parody as well somebody who hates everything. He kills off the TMNT (along with Woody Woodpecker, Gummi Bears, Care Bears, and well everyone else) in the 1st issue. But they all seemingly come back to life and get their revenge on him in an issue of Samurai Penguin (which is more or less a Usagi Yojimbo parody). I have yet to read any of the new Boris the Bear stuff. But I totally want to.

Wild West C.O.WBoys of Moo Mesa is not a parody per say since they've teamed up with the TMNT in the comics and appeared in an ep of Fast Forward. It's more or less a spin-off of sorts.

Now the Street Sharks...definatly a parody.

Swat Cats is not. They're not mutants. They're on an alternate earth and they fly jets....:P

At least 4 years before Beetleborgs. Hell, Battletoads came out before Power Rangers. So yeah, that wiki intry is wrong unless there proof otherwise.

SNAILIENS!

http://www.diehardstudio.com/page31/files/page31_1.jpg

Oy. Alien snails... :S

I've officially seen it all.

Damn, forgot all about Snailiens ( created by the same dude that did Hamster Vice and Captain Africa). Yeah, they were a rip off too. And all of them were named after presidents.

does this count?

Having never heard of this show, I of course looked it up.

So if you combined TMNT with Jem and the Holograms you'd get The Adventures of T-Rex. :lol:

But seriously....telekenetic eyes???

The voice cast for this series features 2 people from Next Mutation, Scott McNeil (Bonesteel) and Michael Dobson (Leonardo).

Gary Chalk along with Scott McNeil, Brian Dobson, and Kathleen Barr also worked with Cam Clarke in the 2002 He-Man series.

Yeah T-Rex counts too. But they were so LAME !!!

A) Not really. The show is more of a satirical Sentai show, and I feel it was more a "rip off" of Power Rangers than anything. The dub dilliberately was intended as both a Power Ranger knock off (as Saban dubbed it, and they had a good relationship with Tatsunoko) and a TMNT knock off. The theme song (American one, of course) stated "They've got more fur than any Turtle ever had." The Pizza thing is kinda a tip off, though. But then again, they work at a place called "Pizza Cat" a Japanese phonetic play on Pizza Hut... mainly since a lot of times the short U sound is translated as an "Ah" sound.

B) Yes and no.... by that logic you could also count Road Rovers. Personally, I thought it was just a dumb idea, and the biggest stretch of Disney's cartoon from movie shows.

If we're going by that logic, Road Rovers would be my favourite.

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