Expect a new website soon!
 

Kinda bittersweet, but www.ninjaturtles.com as we knew it is gone.

It's under maintenance as we speak, and I can confirm it was working early this morning.

I'm excited to see what they do with it... great time to be a Turtles fan.

Quick, to the Wayback Machine!

Thanks for sharing. This is great news.

More of a kick in the butt for me to get going on my site even more... There's just so much info!

-ms

Make me .

wow, yeah, i checked this just this morning...

here's hoping for something cool soon!

I'm excited about it, but I think I'm probably more upset. Mirage, how I miss it already (don't get me wrong, I can't wait to see what's coming).

Wow...well, to be expected I suppose. I'm pretty confident they will do something pretty cool with it - let's hope! It would be awesome for them to have lots of info on past incarnations of the TMNT as well as plenty of media/links, etc, so new fans are able to get to know everything the TMNT are and have been (and not have the site be 100% devoted to being a current show marketing channel).

The site will likely only be about the Nick cartoon.

I seriously doubt any info on the Mirage comics, old cartoons, or even the IDW comics will be there.

I could see them having a section for the IDW comic... maybe. And possibly a brief overview of TMNT history, but nothing too in-depth.

Its a shame the old site was trashed. I loved how it had summaries for all the comics and cartoon episodes, as well as pictures of all the toys.

Before I actually bought all the comics I used to read the summaries of them on the site just to see what happened in them. It was a great reference when I was younger.

I actually had been visiting the site since 1997. I remember back then they were hyping up the Next Mutation...lol.

I remember those days. When I was 12 or so, I spent like a whole Saturday going through each comic synopsis. I thought they were the sh*t, but had no way of getting them.

I started to buy the comics around 2001/2002 when Volume 4 was starting, so I decided to go backwards.

First I got all the Image series, then Volume 2, then I went back and tried to get all of Volume 1. Additionally I had some Archie issues from my childhood but there was a large chunk I never had.

Luckily back in the early 2000's almost every comic was available to buy on ninjaturtles.com. I actually bought the entire Image series from them, which I am glad I did as they were all sold out sometime after.

I'm waiting. Chicken? O_o <== thug-face

I am glad that I have the site's content mostly saved to my hard-drive.

However, it was convenient to still have the old site around to pull up quick references of episode listings and descriptions.

But... it IS time for a new, revamped website. Let's hope Nick creates some nice for the long haul.

That's probably a safe bet. When it comes to business and marketing it's pretty much all about "The Now," without much regard for the past.

well, isn't that a little bit contraproductive then?viacom owns EVERYTHING that is ninja turtles from comics to socks with their pictures on them...I don't think they are drectly making money with comics but links would be helping them...correct me it Im wrong..

Nick L. Odeon sent me an e-mail saying so.

They also still sell the hell out of OT related merchandise.....so, why not promote it all?

As a side note, I think it's kinda humorous when people assume they know all about promotion/marketing when they don't necessarily work in that industry. :twink:

The site is to promote the new Nick show.

Nick doesn't even own the original series, Lionsgate still holds the rights.

They might own it, but they definitely don't have exclusive distribution rights.

Thank goodness for sites and archive.org (hopefully the Foot Soldiers won't give that robots.txt prohibition) that we've provided since it's the best way to understand classic TMNT. I knew it was just a matter of time. The old site was pretty "old school" in style by the time it was taken down (no social media and in-site video). But the new site will show that it isn't your papa's turtles.

very cool news

I think its the same case as Mirage. Nick owns any of the characters that were created for the original cartoon, but they don't own the actual episodes or the theme song.

Same reason the original theme song wasn't used in Turtles Forever, they simply don't own the rights to it.

I'm actually pretty mad about this tbh, knowing I probably won't get to see episode descriptions of the previous shows anymore...Especially since I lost a little of....Drako..*sigh*..

Huh, never noticed that I'm a Random Punk instead of a Mouser...

Ya still ain't convincing me, sonny-boy.

The new website will likely re-direct to Nick.com/ninjaturtles sadly..and even if it doesn't it will strictly be aimed at kids. TMNT fan sites need to step up their game now that the wonderful resource of the original site is gone. No excuses now.

Yeah, hehe, funny thing about that was they really weren't, the stock was just extremely low. I actually bought the last (incomplete) set back in '09 (I had to find #10 elsewhere).

@#$%#&%+@$

The old site seems to be back.

Interesting, but probably temporary.

A Google Search titles the site as:
"Maintenance on www.ninjaturtles.com"

I wish they'd update that damn banner on the front. Nothing fancy. Just a banner link to something related to IDW's TMNT and maybe the text from a recent Nick press release.

We can wish

I really miss the old website, but I'm looking forward to what it's going to look like in the fall.

What exactly is the point in posting this?

I still refuse to expect a new website soon, and ToTheNines is too lilly-livered to make me. What a weenie... :evilgrin:

Not trying to be an ass here, but what is the point in posting THIS?

Of course, someone could say the same about my post...

Anyone else just think the site is going to go live in the Summer?

Hey, check it out.

There's a video loading, but the site turns white before you can see it.

Great find! The site still seems to be loading incorrectly but I was able to get a screenshot before it blinked out.. Looks like a video will be placed on the billboard..

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7383/screentmnt.png

Must. Hear. AstinBiggsCipesPaulsenWhitmanLeeRichardson!

Damn cockteases... fix that ish.

Hey, could you get a screen grab from this link please? http://www.nick.com/shows/turtles-dev/characters/.

This too: http://www.nick.com/shows/turtles-dev/about/

You can see a new pic of Shredder! You can also see Splinter, he looks WAAAAAY better than the toy. Nothing to fear.

Man, that is cool! Can't wait to see what that video is!