Upcoming Anniversary/Thoughts
 

So...February 8th, 2018 will mark the 15th anniversary of this series.

With the 2012 show completed and the new series not airing until next fall, do you think we are in for any surprises?

Still waiting for Viacom to give us proper DVD boxsets of the series. The wait shall continue.

Either way I've been marathoning the 2k3 series myself rewatching it all. I started on November 6th, and now only a month later I'm already 8 episodes into Fast Forward. I'll be finished with the whole series in about another week or so. The first four seasons are the best bar some of the duller filler eps, but I really like both Ninja Tribunal and Fast Forward for different reasons. It was a nice way to shake up the series given all the old plotpoints were pretty much wrapped up. The final season is the weakest but there are a few decent eps there.

I think I've watched the 2k3 series in full about 5-6 times. This is probably my 6th rewatch of the series. Amazing how a series I watched as a teenager can still be enjoyed as a 30 year old.

Wow this series is nearly 15 years old already? Jesus.

I don't really expect anything to be done in celebration of it tbh.

It would be nice to see proper DVD boxsets of this series, though I don’t think it’s gonna happen.

I'm constantly taken back how "old" everything is from the early 2000's now. No joke, every time people bring up a show, videogame, or movie from the early 2000's I think of it as "recent" but then you realize this stuff is like 15 years old now.

The 2003 Teen Titans cartoon is also 15 years old. Dragonball Z finished the dub at the height of its popularity in 2005. The PS2/Gamecube/Xbox and GBA era was on its height of its popularity by 2003. The Hoenn generation of Pokemon with the Ruby/Sapphire games was 2003. The Star Wars prequels are now 15 years old.

Goddamn. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to the years 2001-2006 or so. That was a glorious time period. The age of the early 2000's when all this stuff was coming out for the first time but there was very little to no social media and people posted on message boards. People still used VHS tapes and were just transitioning to DVDs.

I still have trouble thinking of the 2010's as a "new decade" which is why I feel the early 2000's aren't that old.

Maybe some retro action figures based on the series could be released.

TMNT has started to acknowledge it in their social media posts (a lot, actually), but I don't expect anything. Anything new, merch or otherwise, would be welcomed, though.

I noticed that as well. I didn't want to jinx it though. I just make sure that every time they mention the 4Kids series on social media, to let them know that we want a dvd release.

Which twitter is this? Link?

Here's a few of the recent posts:

https://twitter.com/TMNT/status/937365939133218816

https://twitter.com/TMNT/status/937003559878524928

https://twitter.com/TMNT/status/933017237933445121

In that last one they incorrectly state that the Turtles Forever dvd came out eight years ago, instead of correctly stating that the movie premiered on the television that day eight years earlier.

Even though that's an official twitter, it does seem to be run by a guy in his 20's. Not exactly someone high on the food chain over at Nick. Probably a College intern.

How do you even discern that? If anything, I think an older person using the Internet is more likely to make errors.

If you read his replies and everything, sounds just like someone who would post here. I imagine he's probably in mid 20's. That's still fairly "old" to be running a official twitter for Nick.

I feel you, man... but this is like the 23rd time you say this.

I doubt that. And if they made some they'd be limited or something. They did those for the FW Turtles because that show was huge in its prime and thus had an immens legion of fans. 2k3? Not even close.

Yeah he has his own views but he does have to post things on behalf of Nick too (obviously)

Great artworks at least.

Are they his/hers?

Some seem to be, others not.

All art is credited to the original creator except for stock stuff done by in-house talent.

I had no idea this series existed when it started airing.

We aren't going to get anything and I"ll take literally anything they throw fans, 2k3 might be my favorite adaptation even with all the flaws it has. I realized this just the other day, it's the interpretation where I feel all of them really are a family since they developed that many times in the show and that's something no other media of TMNT I've consumed has made it as clear.


The TMNT twitter constantly has 2k3 stuff but that's more of a "we don't have the rights to the OT and can't only tweet Nick stuff. You can see from their twitter they'd die to be able to reference the OT turtles more often, when they do they only show footage of the "promotional artwork" or from Turtles Forever/Nick Crossovers. If not, 2k3 would likely not get as much love on the twitter page.

2k3 deserves so much better, especially since without Laird we'll likely never get anything like it again.

2015
 

For a while during 2015, it seemed we would get a compete DVD release. But now, nothing has happened since mid-October 2015:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Te...a-Turtles/6245

Here's another post featuring the 4Kids series:

https://twitter.com/TMNT/status/939902604154494976

It's just really weird that they would be doing all of the posts featuring the 4Kids series if they weren't promoting something. Where are they going with all of these posts?

Don't get your hopes up. They're just trying to cleanse palettes until Rise comes out, & the 4kids footage is readily available for use as they own it outright.

It's kind of ironic, all 156 episodes of the 4kids series are uploaded on youtube, by multiple people even, and none of these eps are taken down for copyright infringement. Viacom just allows them.

I suppose if we start seeing these videos taken down, it might be a sign Viacom is planning DVD releases, but until then probably not. Either way as said, it's not like the 4kids series is locked away in some vault and nobody can watch it. There's still the old 4kids DVDs from 2003-2009, plus as I said everything is up on youtube and other sites.

Being the uploaded of the entire 2003 series on my channel “Ninja Turtles,” formally known as XxsargeslapahoexX for an OG Youtubers... I cannot believe that Viacom has allowed all of my 2003 episode uploads to stay. They charge 1.99 per episode on YouTube of the series. So I can’t believe they don’t take down my videos and the rest on YouTube. Mine are uploaded at full length, good quality and widescreen, so I am sure they will take them down one day....

So, by mid-2018 or so when all Nickelodeon DVD's have been released, maybe Nickelodeon episodes will not be removed.

I'd assume this is just because they don't have rights to the FW toon. If they had that, that'd be all they posted

I've never seen the 4 Kids series marketed as "old school" before.

The series is now 15 years old. How old does something have to be before its considered "retro" or "old school." The original cartoon was a little over 15 years old when 2k3 started in 2003.

It's still the first time I've seen such a statement.

I don't know about you guys, but knowing the 4Kids show has the advantage of being under the legal umbrella of modern TMNT over the FW show, gives me a raging boner. I like to think this means Viacom will eventually try to blindly connect the franchise's marketing to the FW show, and eventually focus on the parts they do control.

Cowabunga Christmas
 

I think that happened when refering to this as

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases...-Release/15877

Cowabunga Christmas, despite the fact that the turtles rarely used the word "Cowabunga" in that series.

As someone who just finished rewatching the 2k3 series, Cowabunga is used far more often in the series than people think. Michaelangelo shouts it in quite a few episodes.

Usually until Raphael holds his hands before Michelangelo's mouth.

Is it usually Mikey who uses it most?

And the rats guided by a turtle in the sewers of Peblak on D'Hoonnib.

He yells it quite often. He yells it in two of the Notes of the Underground eps, one from Season 1 and the other during the Season 2 or 3 return. He also says it in the Christmas episode from Season 3. It comes up twice in Fast Forward as well.

Agreed! They're my turtles as well! Happy Anniversary to them! They made my childhood years great!

Sadly, the only series to have a Christmas episode.