Discussion: Half-Shelled Heroes: Blast to the Past
 

This episode officially doesn't air until 11/22/15, but Nick has the show up early on their site. Please discuss this animated special here, but be courteous to people who can't visit the nick site or are waiting to see it on it's official air date.

Well, that was both hysterical and adorable. XD

Anybody noticed that Bebop and Rocksteady dressed as prehistoric versions of their 87 counterparts?

Here's the link to the Special.
http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/half...l-episode.html

Oh my god that was adorable and funny. it was such a cute little story. :D

Due to that ending, I hope they make a sequel.

What is this exactly? Does it take place after season 3?

It has nothing to do with the main series, it's a separate special show aimed for little kids.

Um how do I use spoiler tags?

I like this. :D

The ending is open for a sequel. If there will be a sequel I'd love to see it.

Maybe we're going to see this if we have a sequel:

Kate Mulgrew cameo as . :o :teek: :D

So we've had Kate, Michael Dorn... can we get some Sir Patrick Stewart?

Although he was in the 2007 film with Nolan and Kevin.

Was any one else bothered by the scientific inaccuracies of the dinosaurs ( such as a lack of feathers on T Rex and Raptors and Raptors being smart when they weren't intelligent animals). I know it's a special for pre school kids but I was still kinda bothered by the fact that they used Jurassic Park as a reference for science, although I really liked how Donnie mentioned the T-Rex had good vision. I still enjoyed it though and can't wait to see more.

I thought I recognized her voice so we have another voice actor from Gargoyles in TMNT :D

Until someone manages to recreate a dinosaur, all information we have about dinosaurs is speculative. Yes we can look at currently existing animals and their traits and estimate what dinosaurs were like, but it's still guesswork at the end of the day, as it is with a lot of things.

Seeing as we had a load of horror actors in for season three, maybe they're getting all the sci-fi actors in for Half Shell and season 4?

Michael Dorn, David Tennant, Kate Mulgrew.

Anyone from Blake Seven or StarGate popping in? :D

Maybe we’ll just have to wait and see.

Took the words right out of my mouth... cant decide what my favorite quote will be!

Does it take place in another universe? Like the 2003 and 1987 series?

No, it's just TMNT special 2D cartoon, aimed for little kids to promote the Half Shell Heroes Toy Line.

[QUOTE=kelligrafie;1514893]Until someone manages to recreate a dinosaur, all information we have about dinosaurs is speculative. Yes we can look at currently existing animals and their traits and estimate what dinosaurs were like, but it's still guesswork at the end of the day, as it is with a lot of things.


We know Raptors had feathers as they have quill nobs, and we've found raptors with feathers preserved on their fossils. Raptors having feathers isn't a guess it's a fact. We could also tell that they aren't intelligent by looking at their skull and while they were intelligent for their size at the time , they weren't super intelligent creatures who were perfectly evolved. Also T-Rex had a lot of feathered ancestors so it's extremely unlikely that T-Rex wasn't feathered .

Yeah, it's really annoying. Especially when franchises like Jurrasic Park did use at the time knowledge and information we had. But the general audiences mindset still sees Dinosaurs as we thought they looked like 20-30 years ago, and challenging that mindset isn't profitable, as Jurrasic World have just given up, and continues to use naked monster birds. But they did try to use prototype-feathers in JP3.

But, Jurrasic Park could easily use the books excuse and explain why the park's animals don't look like real-life Dinos. Something time travel stories can do...

Uh, what? This most certainly was written to take place in canon. It likely takes place later in Season 4 when the Turtles return to Earth.

I liked that in Jurassic World the scientist pointed out that the dinosaurs don't look like actual dinosaurs, they are designed to look that way because that's what people think they look like.

Zera? Should've called her Zura after the unused Sophie Campbell character.

It's like Teen Titans go when compared to Teen Titans. Similar Universe, but alternate reality.

I finally watched it, and I thought it was great, I have a feeling we will see more of this in the future, it ends on a cliffhanger.

Raph *seeing the Stego*: "Is that a Spike-O-Don??"
Don: "It's a Stegosaur...."
Note: Rob Paulsen voices Spike the Stegosaur in the Land Before Time stuff :D

I really hope this becomes a thing, I really enjoyed what they did with Half-Shell Heroes, and I think many of you would agree, That this should become its own series?

But this wasn't an alternate reality. All the characters had the same personality, the episode had the same tone as the normal show, and it contributed to the plot. Only difference was the Turtles in chibi forms.

I really enjoyed this. Had a bunch of laugh out loud moments, some really fluid animation sequences, couple of quick references, lots of charm & personality, I'm all for a sequel. Involving B&R + The Triceratons was a great call, they were great additions.

Something bugs me about this special. Don said they were in the Cretacious. Stegosaur are NOT Cretacious era dinos. They're Jurrasic! :ohwell:

Also, other dinosaurs that weren't around 100 million (middle Cretacious) years ago were Velociraptors (the raptors seen were probably Utahraptors) as Velociraptors and heck even T-Rex were late Crecatious (68 million years ago)... and then there was that Trilobite Leo fished out of the water and used as a shield millions of years after Trilobites became extinct...

Other then that it was a cute and cool special...which will no doubt have a sequel considering the ending.

I thought it was ... meh... couldn't get much invested into it after the halfway point.

I heard that not all of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are from the Jurassic era though.

Doesn't make it any less of a film, or this any less of an episode. Sure it might annoy the dinosaur purists but that's their problem :D

That's because Jurassic is a cooler name then Cretaceous

Funny, I was invested more after the halfway point.

I also like the way TigerClaw, Bebop, and Rocksteady looked in this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSwsUauWIAIbzwP.jpg:large

Well...not really. I mean, the T-Rex was purple, buddy. How accurate did you think it was going to be?:lol:
But, yeah I really enjoyed it. Got a real good laugh:D
They were toooooo cute!!!

I thought this special was a lot of fun. The chemistry between the turtles and their new pet dinosaurs was just perfect. I especially loved the animation because you don't see cartoons like these anymore.

i really enjoyed it not to mention i think this is the first time ever that we've seen a female Triceraton in any tmnt universe.