TMNT25 e-mail
 

Did anyone else get an e-mail from TMNT25.com today?

I did, and I was quite disturbed by it.

I did. Scrolled through it, deleted it. Very amateurish, boring, childish (N"ooze"? Come ON!), and f***ing long.

I got it. Annoying.

Yeah, "fail" is the word here... :roll:

EDIT: All that said, I did have fun scrolling down... thinking the whole time "what could possibly be at the bottom?" And then I got all confused and disappointed by the video link. Surreal.... and not in a good way.

I just laughed about how stupid it is.

But it's sad considering Mirage could have used that $1 million for something actually good. That's what bothers me more, the fact that the money put aside for this is being wasted.

Got mine. They should have just given me a million dollars to make lame YouTube rants....:P

Edit: Heck, I plan on completing the TMNT movies in May with MCubed video reviews of Secret of the Ooze, TMNT III, and TMNT '07.

Wow the turtles just symbolically jerked off the Empire State Building, my life is complete.

POW

Quote of the year, and it's only March. Give this man a hand.

Aside from that image encapsulating pretty much everything that's wrong and toxic with the general public's view of TMNT I didn't see too much off there.

I got it and it freaked my email out. Then it freaked me out a bit Yikes!

They could have put a lot more effort into that image instead of them having their arms crossed or in a standing position. No one can possibly stand still while falling with a smile on their face. The "Turtle Van" looks like a taxi to me but, couldn't they make the tires a different color than the road? :roll:

I'm all about TPTB putting some effort -- any effort, even if lame -- into somehow promoting the 25th anniversary of TMNT. But what amounts to apparently hiring a bunch of hacks to go around promoting and spreading word about the TMNT in the form of the worst possible, imaginable aspect of the TMNT as a franchise, and even then making a caricature of that... yeah, this is pretty much the very last thing TMNT needs right now.

by the gods that was awful

I love how people like myself who would be happy to do promotion for tmnt for free get a big fat no! from mirage but these hacks get a **** load of money and produce rubbish.

I cannot believe Mirage seriously paid this company $1 million just to f*** its fans over. I haven't seen money wasted this bad since Sony developed and released the PS3.

Either way, I remember getting this email, reading all the way to the bottom, and deleting it immediately. I didn't even bother to click that button at the bottom with the video. Holy s***, it would've just contributed even more to my extreme disappointment in this 25th Anniversary campaign.

Geez, Ike and Tina Turner probably had better anniversaries than the Turtles at this point. I've never been more saddened to be a TMNT fan.

I also got the e-mail, and scrolled all the way down. I deleted it after that (I didn't even know there was a video). I really don't like the images of the turtles they used, yech :(.

I didn't get it, only because every time I try to sign up on the site it never works. Guess i'm not missing much though :ohwell:

Yeah, I got it yesterday too. I agree, it was fairly lame. WOOHA!!! FSSSSH!!! "WHAT'S IN THE N"OOZE" DUDES! Did Mirage really pay $1 million dollars for....this?!? Haha, and I also agree the turtle van overall is pathetic.

Am I the only one that didn't link the last picture with phallic imagery?

Got it. Was not very surprised. I had hated the TMNT25 website when it was gone public too. Most ppl love it very much and i fully respect that, but i really hate the original cartoon and images or characters reminding me that style.
That mail was really like a joke. If you are a lover of original cartoon, seeing the crappy thing will make your heart ache even much more , i am sure.
I do not know what Mirage is trying to do. I mean , which medium of TMNT are they using to advertise on. They wanna use the TV turtles which are ofc much more popular. But tbh i do not know any children around me who will go crazy or even will feel anything at all over those images or video or that TMNT25 celebration acts we see nowadays.
I hope summer and afterwards will be better with the coming of comic collections.

Summary : I would not want any friend of mine who just knew about the cartoon side of TMNT and knew that i liked and collected Mirage Comics to see that mail.
I sometimes even feel sad that we are at anniversary 25 cause of such failed attempts. Will those help the Mirage survive and go on to publish the Mirage comics?... I hope they will survive but not with any help of such stuff.

We can always count on Rose for the laugh and the truth. I thought that the Turtles where getting a little too friendly with the State Building myself. Can't they even get a SMOOTH downward motion done right? I mean, $1million's they can at least hire someone who knows what the hell they are doing..


If Pete didn't have his savings, or be close t retirement, I wonder if things would be in better shape. Gary and his family have got to be taken out of the franchise first and fore most before anything is to succeed. Otherwise, we get no quality control and things worse than peppercom coming out of all this money invested.

I did not see this till now.

"N'ooze" is very OOC for Leo, though it would have worked for Mikey.

Why did they use the OT Turtles? Is it because they have been the most popular incarnation so far?

It was a rather pointless email.. very sad..

Heh, I forwarded the blog post off to Murphy. Hope he got a laugh out of it :).

http://www.tmnt25.com/road_trip.html

Check out the video there. I swear to god, if I saw those guys pulling that act in those suits, I'd kick their asses myself.

I hear you. The funny part is, TMNT fans ( which in fact are not TMNT fans, but unaware of that ) are maybe having "real" fun with such things.

This would all be more relatable if I got this email. I signed up forever ago. How they lost my registration is beyond me...

Terrible. F!!!

I too never liked the TMNT25.com site. It really steers towards the old cartoon TMNT and that just wasn't the TMNT I read. I'm an original TMNT fan before the old toon came on. Yet the site is always about these TMNT. I just don't understand the point of the website. Everything is for the kids, juvenile, childish. Yet you hardly see the other TMNT incarnations, B&W Mirage, 2K3 toons TMNT, movie Turtles, getting any focus on the site.
So what the hell is the point of all this? This site should've been a sublink page through the official Mirage site instead of its own URL. The site alone isn't worth crap! Who is the site adhering to? Only the old TMNT toon fans? Because the kids of today don't know about the old toon unless their parents got the dvd sets for them to watch. The kids of now would be alot more aware of the 2K3 TMNT toon. $1,000,000 for this? Mirage sure looks stupid. That money could've funded the direct to dvd TMNT 25th anniversary "lost" CGI TMNT #1 adaptation, not **** like this. Anything TMNT 25 years, could've all been on the Mirage page instead. Glad I never subscribed to the email.

Completely agreed. This isn't the 25th anniversary of the '80s cartoon. If it was, this sort of campaign (albeit more professionally presented) would be acceptable.

But this is the 25th anniversary of the TMNT, period. The TMNT who began in the pages of Mirage comics. They're dissapointed that they have under three-thousand readers? They seem to be doing f*ck all to change that. This is a wasted chance to promote the real version of the Turtles.

The adults who grew up and remember the old toon won't be interested in this child pandering rubbish, and new children fans won't recognize this incarnation of the characters. But you know what? Older fans may have been passively interested in a (major) campaign that introduced the original, darker characters. Oh well. It's not infuriating. It's just dissapointing. And a little confusing.

Same here gobo.

lol...ookaaayyy then :P guess TMNT isnt taken seriously..... is my sig too big by the way? hmm...perhaps i should change it to something smaller....

When i first saw the logo pic, i mean the B&W comic art is evolved to OT , then 2k3 animated show and then finally to 2007 CGI movie. I had hated to see this. This is accepting that they find the comic part of TMNT important JUST because it is the medium that started the franchise, but nowadays TMNT is depending on not comic but tv shows or movies. When i think of it, yeah it is probably true. There are still tons of ppl unaware of Mirage Comics who say : "Oh I used to love the OT when i was a kid, he he he".. BANG!

But again, this logo pic design always bugged me.

Why not making a site ( or even a link in that "God Almighty" TMNT25 site) that is telling about the real TMNT... I guess they think that would damage the greatness of the site.

...I think something inside of me just died when I saw the final panel of that comic.

EDIT

And something else died when I saw that video.

This whole thing smells of fail.

At first I expected this to be another overreaction to something not being perfect about the 25th anniversary (okay, so the Shredder figure and the April costume don't look perfect), but that really stank. Anyone with any enthusiasm for the turtles would have probably put in at least a little more effort. The lack of effort in that is really disappointing.

Though I grew up with the Old Toon, I was able to read the old school comics recently... (Vol.1 issues 1-13) and I got to say, damn! The comics are awesome... They should have a lot more exposure, being the source material and all... words can't describe the feelings caused by that e-mail... and not in a good way.
Teenage Mutant Pole Dancing Turtles...

A big WOOHA!!! to that, dude!

I've gotten very good at not getting rawled up about TMNT25. I find it is much easier to treat things they do that I don't like as if it doesn't exist rather than spending my time effort and energy hating it and yelling.

At the end of the day, they aren't really HURTING anything, even with some of the more awkward things theyve done. And if they get a handful of new fans, then great!

If not, then I doubt they'll be removing anyone from the already esablished fanbase. I mean, if anyone is going to say "I'm not going to be a turtles fan anymore because of PepperCom." Then they probably should get the hell out of our fandom anyway.

At the end of the day...let then spend their money on whatever they like, and let them send out lame emails and videos. Occassionally they might do something good...and the lame stuff...really isn't worth freaking out over. I'm sure we've all got bigger problems in our lives then "pole dancing turtles".

Of course, because you have to kiss their butts in order to get yourself on their blog so that you can continue to promote yourself at ever possible instance. But that's all fine and good. I'm not interested in promoting myself, so I'll stick to saying what I think.

Yozza lady, put away the claws.