TMNT series dubbed into other languages
 

I'm creating a thread where we can talk about TMNT series dubbed into other languages. Which ones do you know? Which are good and bad? (English is not included here, it's the original, not a dub).

I remember having a VHS that contained 3 episodes of FW TMNT in Brazilian Portuguese. Leonardo's voice in particular was grating.

The episodes where of the Eye of Sarnoth saga, for the record. But I vaguely recall one of them being Return of the Shredder as well.

As for other dubs, well I've only heard their openings really. I think I've watched a couple of FW and 2k3 TMNT in German in order to practice my German. The 2k3 German dub was quite alright, iirc.

Here's the into in German

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iMf-YkEies

The intro for the Hungarian one is classic,

"They are really heartbreakers!" :lol:

Hungarian
 

I can't find it at Youtube.

Yeah I tried to find it today. Seems to have been taken down but you can still here a short soundbite here at 0:50:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5DXGDZ5644

Great to see so many languages.

Oh man the Hungarian opening sounds funny as hell. There's a laugh in it that sounds like it comes from an old witch.

I like the Japanese and Bulgarian OPs for the FW series. And also the French one. It has a long version even.

Here's the 1987-1996 series into in hebrew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STidxiHEfho

Do you have a link to it? I have scoured YT but it evades me.

No, I don't. But I remember seeing it some years ago on youtube. It also had some episodes of the FW series in Hungarian.

Apparently there's only TMNT stuff in Hungarian from the 2k3 series on YT these days.

That's a shame. I hope someone one day uploads the intro again.

I have not seen any tmnt show in another language, but I love the Japanese intro.

I would also like to watch the first season of the 80s show in Japanese someday, the Toei animation really adds that extra layer of authencity.

I don't know if tmnt has ever been dubbed in my native languages (Urdu and Hindi).

Russian series had 2 dubs and one translation.

The thing is that when TMNT was first broadcasted in Russia, third channel have bought only Epic Begins and seasons 4-7. They never dubbed seasons 1-3 and they have started broadcasting show right from the season 4, after Epic Begins movie. Also they made two dubs - one for seasons 4-6 and another for the season 7.
Dub for seasons 4-6 was good, voices were appropriate, Krang sounded good.
Dub for season 7 was horrible and had all hallmarks of the bad dub - almost all voice actors were replaced and newcomers were much worse, sound quality also dropped - voices were much louder than music, which could have been only barely heard in the background.

Rights for the seasons 1-3 were bought in 1996 by fourth channel and instead of dub, they've opted to do a simple translation, so you could hear original voices in the background. Its actually was very very good. Voice actors made an outstanding job, especially with Krang. The same team of actors also translated seasons 8-9.

Season 10, as far as I know, was never broadcasted in Russia, at least in the end of the 90-s and beginning of 2000-s.

Title song was dubbed to Russian in seasons 4-7 and it was left in English for seasons without dub.

I searched Worldcat, but I didn't find anything

https://www.worldcat.org/

Mexican dub is pretty good, most Mexican Spanish dubs of cartoons from the 80s-90s were great. Since the 00s Latin American dubs are done in South America with mixed results. Castellan Spanish dubs are usually bad.

Wouldn't it be easier to just dub the series into Spanish once.

Not a dub as such, but here's the UKs Hero Turtles theme

https://youtu.be/H3x0a8xU1jc

Why were so many intro scenes changed, not just those with nunchuks.

Good question. Probably introduces the characters better.

I also noticed that the UK actually had episode clips. Were they shown as intro even during season 1?

I caught a few episodes in Japanese. Apparently there are two Japanese dubs. I think the ones I stumbled across were from the second attempt. The voices were pretty good and I found it interesting that the dub had the turtles all using “chan” with one another and shortening their names (Leo-Chan, Don-Chan, Raph-Chan and Michel-Chan) though that may have had to do with matching lip flaps. They also use brother more often than the original though they still don’t specify an older or younger.

Not sure of your question? BBC never showed Season 1. Sky One showed Season 1 and most of those clips I believe were shown either as part of Season 1 or Season 2. A couple of those clips come from The Incredible Shrinking Turtles.

Sky 1
 

I'm sure Sky 1 also aired season 2.

The Hero turtles intro is not my favourite but I will give it credit for showing Krang which the American intro didn't do until season 8.

They showed the entire show. I said the BBC never showed Season 1. Those clips are from specific episodes, one I have been able to identify. I always liked the Hero Turtles logo better. The morphing Turtles logo of the US version looks ugly in comparison and I dislike the colours used.

I like the British ending better, when the turtles are just about to jump into the water and then the theme song ends.

Yeah as I said the end of that theme clips hands down looks better at the end than the US one along with the logo.

Here's a live-action attempt to recreate the original intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnfzV26secM

Europeans prefer to have their own dubs, it happens the same with Canadian French and French French. LatinAmerica usually shares the same dub which is usually the Mexican one since it can have the most "neutral" accent. As far as Spanish the latinamerican dubs are usually better than the Spanish ones.

Not so much a recreation as surrealism. :lol: