I feel old...
 

Every year I re-watch the series from start to finish. Part of a tradition that started in school.

I'm up to the dregg episodes....and it just hit me. I was thinking how good these shows should look on DVD since their not that old, and then I got into doing some addition. 1995-2009 is 14 years....

I STILL remember being pissed at the premier of 'New Mutations', episode 4 of 1995 season. The Pope was in NY and they pre-empted the show for that. Ugh. I'm just lucky that CBS re-ran it, which at that point in time, they often didn't.

I can't believe its been 13 years since the original cartoon ended. I still remember waking up saturday mornings and watching CBS to see new TMNT episodes.

Hopefully the rest of the show gets out on DVD soon, its almost like I re-live my childhood everytime I watch through those old episodes again.

Same with the original 3 movies, and to a lesser extent the Archie series since I had that as a kid.

I wonder how I'll feel about the 2k3 series a number of years from now, and if I'll get nostalgia from that too once it becomes fairly old. I didn't get into the Mirage comics until I was a teen, so that's more recent for me as well.

lots of things are weirding me out about my age these days... I'm 27, my friends are having babies everywhere, and while I think I'll make a good father someday...today is not that day.

The thing that really threw me for a loop the other day was the realization that my nephew is about to turn 13. I held that kid in my arms the day he was born...WEEEEEEEEEIRD!

1980's
 

Here http://www.inthe80s.com/feelold.shtml is a list of reasons for children of the 1980's to feel old. It looks like it started in 1995.

Ugh... I'm gonna be 26 in June, and my neices and nephew are 19, 18 and 17...

I figure the way things will be is me and my brother still living at home with the parents, taking care of each other into old age. The possibility of finding that someone and doing the baby-making seems very minute at this point in life...

Teenagers born in 1996
 

We now have teenagers born in 1996, the same year that the 1987 TMNT cartoon ended.

Hey all you youngsters startin' to feel old. Welcome to my world!! I was 25years old when the TMNT toys were released in '88. Go ahead do the math, I can take it. Some of my friends have also recently become parents .......grandparents. I really don't want to sound like an old fool, but take it from someone who's been where you guys are now. Cherish everyday, they go by real fast! And take life seriously..... just not too seriously!

Jerry

i'll be 26 in August. but i don't feel that old, but remembering the old TMNT show, the one 'True' TMNT show, i don't know, just makes me nostalgic. my friend joked with me one day about how his Mom told him she thinks i'm in my second childhood, i told him, hell man, i ain't done with the first one yet! :D :lol:

<--- 22
I wasn't even born when tmnt was created lol.... grew up watching a few of the 80s toons

least i aint the only old fart here lol

i was in high school when i first saw tmnt in 1989...junior year

Hey kids!

I was an arcade game repairman when the Turtles cartoon came out, already a graduate of the DeVry Institute of Technology.

April
 

Do you always re-watch it in April or something?

Since I'm not sure if that's a smart ass reply :), I'll answer it..


Actually, in September. Around the time School used to start. It was a way to make the school year seem to go by faster..I'd listen to one episode a day.

After new year
 

Then you will have to watch a long time even after new year if you watch one episode every day from September.

I'll take that as a compliment!! We're not old farts.... we're life experienced. :tthumbsu:

rofl! exactly right jwiz

approaching 25 next month and i still watch the live action ninja turtles movie. as for the cartoon old toon, i might get back into the "delorean" and re-live the series again. as for the new series, im occasionally watching the TMNT: Back to the Sewers series and its not too bad.

Tmnt
 

You're as old as the TMNT franchise itself. And I'm born in 1982, two years earlier.

well nevertheless, the ninja turtle dream will stay alive! :D

well, i'm a year older, born in 83

1983
 

1983 was the year the concept was created. But it was first released in 1984.

so, then would it not make sense to say tmnt is 26 years old?! rofl, just a thought! :lol: :D

Why not?
 

Why not? We can say the TMNT concept was born in 1983, the Mirage comics in 1984, the first TMNT cartoon in 1987, the Archie comics in 1988, the movies in 1990 and so on.

LOL! I'll be 35 this year in November! I'm right up there with the other "life experienced" people. :D


Good for you, girl! I know I could care less what people think of me, their opinion of me is none of my business anyway. :)

amen to that

wow I just turned 25 (shut-up I know I'm getting old!) and I don't even remember the turtles when they first came out. In fact I didn't get into the turtles till I was older and they had them on the USA cartoon Express line up during the 90's. In fact if it wheren't for the USA Cartoon Express I wouldn't be a turtles fan because I wouldn't have gotten into it with out them.

Same goes for alot of other 80's shows, like Jem, And the Real Ghostbusters and J.I Joe, ect. I owe it all to USA Cartoon Express...but yeah what where we talking about...? Oh yeah we people born in the 80's are getting old that's for sure.

speak for yourself! rofl! :D :lol: :P

I think one interesting thing about this is we were all fans of TMNT as kids or teens, and we're still fans of TMNT now as adults.

It really puts into perspective that most of us became fans of this property for life. I have interest in other shows/movies/comics too of course, but TMNT really is my #1 that I got into as a little kid.

I musta been only 4 years old when I watched the original cartoon on TV. Man, its really something.

Internet
 

And it's thanks to the Internet and the 1980's revival (with the 2003 TMNT cartoon) we can re-discover it.

amen to that brotha

35?? Did you say 35? Why you're still a youngster too. Add ten to that and then come talk to me. I'd give a MOC Shogun Triceraton to be 35 again!

Jerry

so are like the oldest member of this site, or are there older?

I'm pretty sure there are a few regulars here in their 50's.

damn, hard to believe folks that old to be into the tmnt, but hey, stranger things happen

25
 

I don't know if they are around here, but they were 25 when TMNT started back in 1984.

Can"t speak for anyone else. But I'll be 45 in a few weeks. I was lucky enough to be alittle older when the toys were released. I bought almost my entire collection right off the shelf. If you guys could have seen the toy stores then. Nothing but rows and rows of TMNT figures.

Most of you had and played with these toys as children. I think that is fantastic that you want to remember your youth with the toys of your childhood. I do the same thing with the toy line I grew up playing with. Has anyone here ever heard of Mego's. Great toyline from the 70's. Tough to say which I like more, the toys I played with as a kid or the toyline that turned me into a die hard toy collector.

1970's
 

You mean this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mego_Corporation?

well, i do remember the good ole days with the rows and rows of TMNT figures, not like these days where it's hard to find anything TMNT. and i can't speak for everyone here, but i'm not just remembering my youth with toys, cause that TMNT show was freakin' amazing, so i've been remembering my youth (hell, i'm not in a second childhood, i never left the first!) by trying to collect my old fav shows on dvd

Yup, That would be them. It was just a great toy line. No good pictures in that article though. Megos were also the last time Marvel and DC superheros were produced together under the same toyline.