How did you get back into the TMNT
 

The reason I got back into the tmnt was when I was reading a issue of toyfare in sep 2002 and they said the turtle toys would be back alongside a new cartoon. They showed one of the cell drawing for raph and I like how he was cutting edge, muscular and looked like he could kick ass, he also had the brown pads which I always liked more because its a throwback to the movie and it is just more realistic. Then the next month I found this and the official site and I couldnt help but stare at the proto figs for the new line b/c they looked the exact way the cartoon cells were drawn. I stayed around the web site listening to the old school guys then I decided to join on the 1st of Dec. I had many cool discussions w/ the kats here and I read the preview of each of the characters for the cartoon and I was pshyced. Another reason I got back into the tmnt was because Collcting the line gave me a bit of nostalgia and I kinda felt like a kid again. Well anyways thats just my personal story on how I got back into the tmnt in the 2k3. How did you get back into it?

It was like two years ago when I found a leonardo magnet on my fridge and realized how cool the tmnt used to be...then I found a copy of the first movie and watched it. it brought back so many memories and I loved it. so i looked online and figured out they were making a new show. It was great, tmnt were coming back as soon as i started to like them again.

Yeah thats bad ass man, the same thing happened to me when I saw that mag b/c I watched the movie the day before fr the first time in like 7 years.

i got back when i remembered they existed, started checking on the net for pics and stuff, it inspired me a lot!, then i just, then i went to the official site, which inspired me even more, then i found this place, then i joined

Saw the Collected Books for sale. Thought "Hey, why not? I read somewhere that the original comics was pretty good". Bought them.

The color reprint GNS or the Collected Ones that are in black and white? If the latter then where did you get them?

I read about TMNT coming back in a magazine and it caught my interest. I had also seen the toys. Then I watched the first new episode. I liked it a lot, but still not as much as the original.

I got back in when one day I was looking for my old figures, and decided to search online for pics of them, so then I can upon the TMNT's official site and after looking at almost EVERY toy ever made, I went to the TV section and saw an odd looking logo, clicked it and come to find out A NEW SHOW WAS STARTING IN FEBRUARY! I looked at character pics, and waited till the day they would return to ma life.

I never stopped being a turtle fan, even when most my friends stopped liking them, but I'm different than most people :D

I never gave up on the turtles...even when the series went off the air in the eighties. :D

I was always into it until 3rd grade... where i thought i was too "cool" for everything...
I got back into it in 5th grade, then got out.
I got back into it in 7th grade, bt the video games and all other cool stuff.
Then i got almost everyone i know to remember the tmnt and also remember how cool the 80's was!

Ps now im in 9th grade

i was so confused, i thought the cute lil punk was still in kinder garden.....i'm just kidding!!! :lol: :lol: :D

Between 1998-2001 was when TMNT seem to be old school.

I went to Blockbuster and when I found the first TMNT movie I deside to rent it. Note: I never seen the movie before I was too young when it came out in theaters. I watched it and liked it. Around 2002 I bought the other 2 sequal on video and it was my first time watching the sequals.

I did web searches on TMNt when I found the offical Website. I learned more about the TMNT. In Oct. 2002 news about a new TMNT coming in Feb. 2003. I started watching the new series and today I'm a more true TMNT fan then I was before.

So yep I'm going to be a supporter of TMNT for now on.

Pojo.com had a news piece on how there was gonna be a new TMNT 'toon, so I cracked out the old movies and realized that TMNT 1 wasn't really just for kids.

Found out there was a comic series that stared it all, redeucated my self about the turtles, and so on.

also the day the 1st DVD came out i waited like 2 hours in line... it was worth it...

Why was there such a big line? was this for the new dvd's or the movies dvd's?

Movie DVD's.
And i was WAY overexadgerating(sp?) it was only like 10 mins, because there was about 50 people (it was a a huge business) so it took about 10 mins... and i bet 1/2 the people were probably buying other DVDs they sold.

The only time I ever stopped thinking about the TMNT was in highschool when I started getting into The Simpsons. I got back into them about a month after I gratuated in 1999 when I started going online.

Ready for an essay?

Like whoever already said it, in truth I never really stopped being a TMNT fan, there was just a short period of "dormancy" for about 2-3 years. I call it that because even though I THOUGHT I'd lost interest in it, something always kept bringing me back to the games and other lost media. It was also during this time that I had the wildest idea ever...it was for a new TMNT video game called "TMNT 2000" (since it was around '98 or '99 when I thought this up), which only recently turned into a fanfic idea. What I have in mind is pretty earth-shattering in terms of story and outcome, but no spoilers yet as I still have yet to begin writing it. I just hope it's so good that someone will want to commit to making a CGI fan movie out of it, with my directorial supervision, that is ;)

I had gradually began to regain interest in TMNT starting around the middle to end of my junior year in high school (about a year and a half ago) when one of my friends informed me of the official site and the CGI pilot for the proposed show. You have no idea how many times I kept watching it over and over again! This was, of course, while I was still a bit ignorant of the original Mirage series, but I thought it was awesome nonetheless, and, to be honest, I thought it would blow the original cartoon away since it was more "mature" in its content.

Anybody who's been here for a while knows that during one time I planned on making a TMNT mod for DOOM 2 since a while before I joined the Technodrome. Before that project was aborted, I needed sound clips and a general idea for this mod to take ground. With the discovery of MAME and the TMNT arcade ROMs, the idea was taken care of, all that was left were the sound clips. This was also before I learned how to use my sound card to cap sound clips off episodes, so I had to depend on clips found online. During the search, I stumbled upon the sound clips page on this site, but was a bit dissatisfied with the quality of the clips (nobody can beat my 1337 capping 5|<i11z ;) ), but figured they had to make do for the time being.

Lo and behold, what do I notice on the side menu bar? A link to a forum! I decided to check it out and, after seeing the contents, decided to join. Usually I don't join forums since most of the time I won't end up posting due to lack of real interest, but this I knew I could keep coming back to since it was something I DEFINITELY had real interest in! The rest, as they say, is history on here ;)

All of the above in conjunction with discovering episodes on Kazaa (before I learned how to use IRC) and keeping up with TMNT news from the official site and other sources are what re-kindled my interest and passion for TMNT, and since discovering both the original and new Mirage comics, I have a much wider and better taste in it than I ever did before...you could say I'm MORE of a TMNT fan today than I was when I was 5, heh.

i can't believe i just read that :o my first long long post *writtes in note pad, count long long post read:1, ignored: 7.653.215*

why did you abort the making btw?

I lost interest in about 4th - 5th grade and never thought I would come back to them again. I got rid of all my toys :( and almost got rid of all my VHS, but ended up being too lazy to do so. But then about a year ago (freshman year) I got really bored and thought to myself 'Why not? It'll waste some time and bring back memories' so I spent maybe an hour searching on the internet and found the official site and a few others. Then didn't do anymore.

Then several months later, would have been about December, I did the same thing and realized that on the official site when it said TMNT 2003 that meant that it was coming out again - that got my interest. But then I moved onto other things.

Then, in Febuary, I suppose, after 2 or 3 of the eps and come out I decided to search again and managed to find a really cool site that got my interest for good - especially because I had access to the eps from that site :D So now I've been a fan ever since.

I never really fell out of it, I always read the few comics I had and would watch the movie every now and then, and I still play Turtles in Time to this day. After I first got the internet in 2000 I was bored one day and started doing searches on stuff that interested me, and I ended up at the official site and then Under Manhattan after that. Browsing the forums at UM was what made me realize that there were other people out there who were still big TMNT fans like I was, and I saw a few of them had taken to writing stories and fanfics of their own to deal with the "drought" of TMNT stuff. I had had a story in the back of my head for a while and decided to adapt it to a TMNT story, joined the UM forums to hype it up, and just hung around. Then I found out about the new TMNT coming out and that was pretty much what clinched it. I eventually landed here when UM shut down.

ahem *takes out note pad long posts read:2, ignored: 6.000.000.+*

The graphics I ripped from the arcade ROMs were mostly incompatible with DOOM 2's color palette, although if I can figure out how to change it (and I KNOW it's possible now), the project will be reborn!

How'd I get back into it, I wouldn't say I ever got out of it. I was on hiatus until something cool came out again. I tried TNM...saw it once and wondered who was smokin the dope. so that put me back in hiatus....

The new series got me back into it, it's great. So I watched the movies over & over and over...etc. Well except for 3, just a few times. 1s the best. It reminds me of my fun high school days with me and my fellow weird friends. we were all immature, we ran around campus playing drwho and talked TMNT, transformers, trek and other cool junk. (i still know my buds too...we're all still weird but real life's caught up)

And just like way back in '90...I STILL LOVE RAPHIE! hahahahahaaaaa
and about died when I saw Josh Pais was on TREK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (he was a ferengi with Raph's voice, that's was scary)

I never really lost interest, but when I decided that art was what I wanted to do with my life, I remembered how much the TMNT had inspired me to draw when I was younger. I started drawing a few pictures of them (along with lots of other stuff), and rediscovered all my old toys. I started reading a few of my old comics and I watched the 1st movie for the first time in a while. This was about 3 years ago, and when I was searching the net last year for information on the old toys and tmnt art, i found out about the new show and toys. I also stumbled upon this site, and here I am now :D

BTW, Rez your fanfic sounds awsome, can't wait to read it. I'm starting to write my own too, It's incorporating the Mutanimals and a very different shredder. It's gonna take a while, but I'll post it (and some artwork) when I'm done.

I never left.

I've never left the Turtles. They're always my #1. I adore them. :)

I always loved the TMNT, but I got into the fandom a little over a year ago. I lurked on the NTML for 6 months or so, and then, somehow I found the 'drome through someone's fansite, and the rest is history.

i got back into the turtles
 

I lost interest real quick it seems when I was nine, I had over sixty figures and some vehicles and sold them all off. I miss the technodrome and alot of those figures :cry:

I guess I got back into them when I found my original Raphael. It had been the first figure I'd gotten and he hadn't gotten sold because I'd left him at my grandparents house (lost him). There he was about 2 years later in the toy box for my younger cousins. Quickly snagged him, even though he was beltless and weaponless. I stashed him away with my other remaining Turtle I had kept for personal reasons. I played with Raphael and the other remaining figures off and on, didn't get back into the Turtles until about four or five years back when I started buying back all the old figures from the 80's. I'm not as big a Turtle addict as before, but I still think they're the best! :D

I've never stopped liking the turtles either. I didn't think they'd come back, but I kept wishing...and...obviously it finally worked.

I have to say I kinda lost interest whenever it was that they weren't on TV. After the old cartoon ended, then after TNM (which I always hurried home to watch :P ) I kinda got into other things, mostly Disney's Gargoyles.

In late 2000, I was searching for Gargoyles fan fiction when I came across FF.net, and their listing for TMNT. I was like, "I remember them..." and after a few stories I was hooked. (Remember, this was way back before the "story a day" writers took over the section.)

Searched for more stuff, found the official site, several fan sites, and everything. Signed up here... whenever that date under my name says. Signed up for a couple mailing lists and was officially part of the "fandom", something I'd never done with any other interest.

And now with the new show, I think I'm stuck here. :D

I got back into the turtles again last year when I started to seriously build my action figure collections. In addition to my Star Wars and other collections I decided to collect the loose vintage TMNT Figures.

I didn't buy them back in the late 80's/early 90's because by the time the cartoon came out, I was no longer interested in collecting action figures. I still hit myself over the head on that one - I could have gotten TMNT , G.I. Joe and Star Wars Figures for a steal on clearance back then.

I enjoyed the cartoon and both movies, but it wasn't until the late 90's that I started to sporatically picking up action figures again. Then last year, I went all out and purchased several large lots of action figures on Ebay and have been seriously collecting ever since.

I really don't think I ever lost interest in the TMNT, really. At least not like I had with the shows from the 80's, like the Transformers.

I did fade away between 1994-1996, cause the Mirage comics and the cartoons fizzled out, and collage really kept me busy. But after I graduated, I noticed this Image comic kicking around. Then I started talking to some fans in the Letters section, and found my way into the online TMNT community. Haven't lost touch ever since! :D

The seven that are in b&w. I was looking at a site for a comic shop I had bought some stuff from, and had all their avaliable comics and TPBs listed on their homepage. It only said "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TPB 1-7", and after some "detective work" on the net, I learned what was reprinted in them :)

I lost interest back in my sophomore year in high school and I stayed away from it until the summer year of my junior year in college. I was having fun reading fanfiction on the internet.

Let's see...
 

Although I can't remember exactly what year, or how old I was when I lost interests in the Turtles. It's not like I totally forgot about them, they were a big part of my childhood, so they were always in my heart. But my dad, when I got to a certain age, sat down, and decided for me what I was or wasn't too old for. He thought I was too old for the Turtles, so the things I didn't have already in storage, were either thrown away or sold.

After that, when I would go rent movies, I would pass by the kid section, and smile when I saw their faces on their old VHS. But I didn't get back into them til about maybe 4 months ago.

I was sitting in my "Entreprenuership" class, being bored as usual, when all of a sudden, this one guy starts humming the old theme song. I immediately recognized it, although it wouldn't fully process in my head. So, for that moment, they were in my mind. Then, two hours later, in my next class, a guy behind me was drawing pics from the old series "and it was an awesome picture." And from that moment on, I decided to look them up, for old time sake.

I went to a magazine store like two months after that, (after searching through our storage trying to find my old Turtles stuff I had in storage), and saw Leonardo on the cover of a game magazine. I loved how fresh and bolder they looked, so I picked it up, read the article and all and found out they had a new cartoon series. And the rest is history.

I have done a little "memory lane" type deal. I rented as many of the old series as I could, and watched them, immediately rememebering the cartoon and my feelings towards it. And I also purchased the 3 movies on DVD and got hooked, like old times.

Nowadays, since my old Turtles collection got trashed (yes, even the stuff I had in storage), I have been trying to recollect the old items, along with the new. I'm doing this for my kids. Because I'm the type of person that wants to give something to my kids, that I loved and enjoyed, and I feel they're going to love and enjoy the Turtles almost as much as I did. But also, the big reason why I've gotten into the Turtles again is for the art and plots and all that I missed when I was younger. I love to color, I hope to become a colorist and a writer, so something like the Turtles, could give me a fresh and promising career. At least, that's what I wish, I would love to work for Peter and Kevin!

So that's my story. Sry for my essay, and sry if you guys keep reading about my old collections and all. Funny thing also, my father almost told me off for getting into the Turtles again the other day. I guess he'll never change. LOL, later everyone!

well a fwe years ago I was on the computer and got bored. I went to my movies to type in web address. That is how I got back into it. Check out my website to!!

TMNT 2003. When I first saw a new turtles show on tv, I realized that it was something worth watching and worth getting back into turtle fandom for. In fact, I'd venture to say that a lot of the old school fans would have been drawn back to the TMNT idea even sooner, had New Mutation not failed so miserably. That show actually repulsed people from TMNT.