Random TMNT thoughts.
 

I'm not sure if there's a thread like this. If there isn't, I'm gonna start one.
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I would be a stone cold killer for Shredder.

Their tails kinda look like dicks.

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Fun fact!
https://urbanfishkeeping.com/do-turtles-have-tails/

I hate it when Mikey's nunchaku get drawn with really long chains/cord.

The way I used to see them drawn always reminded me more like compacted turds. Like, as if Michelin Man-ed into the concrete and then they stood up?

There seems to be an ongoing misunderstanding about how nunchaku are supposed to function.

Whenever I eat pork rinds I end up quoting the movie at least once.

Since FW April and 4Kids April aren't technically the same person, how weird would it be if they started making out? A little, a lot, or not at all?

I'm sure that can't be too hard to find on the internet. Once you find it, I bet it's not that weird.

Oh I've seen it. I'm asking others what their impression of the moral/ethical dilemma inherent to the situation would be.

I mean, part of me would wanna see it cause I'm a perv and would gladly **** both while they're ****ing each other... but the fan part of me would be put off by the fact that neither have ever expressed any interest in women and suddenly, LESBIANS OUTTA NOWHERE.

It would also be interesting if there was some sort of reality warping or whatever, like the universe gets ****ed up if two versions of the same person from different realities have sex or something. Like someone has to stop them before they cum or all reality goes whack.


Irma would be disappointed her doppelganger is a robot though.

Is Mikey actually the best skateboarder?

Sex between two consenting adults does not present any moral/ethical dilemma.

I can't decide if I like round or square tsuba on Leo's katana better.

Technically there is a thread like this, but has been buried for a while and had to use Google to dig it up. (Personally, I don't have an issue with a fresh start.)


Speaking of Leo's katanas, I will forever reject some people's insistence that they aren't actually katana based on a nitpic over simple art style choices sometimes having them straight. If the source of that art calls it a katana, then it's a katana... :tconfuse:


On the subject of his tsuba, I really want a replica of the one on his 2014 sword.


edit: Acting all thirsty in here over cartoon characters. Don't make me go digging up and posting pics of 2016 Leo's tightly clothed, toned butt for you to enjoy to help balance that out. lol I'll do it dammit, I can make it awkward here too and not afraid to use it. :trazz:

A forum mod could merge these two threads, but I'm not sure I've ever seen any mods really do anything around here.

I don't think I've ever seen ninjas with elbow and knee pads outside of the TMNT.

I can sort of see how some versions of Leo might be sexually attractive to some women but I don't see it with BayTurtles Leo at all.

My wife is very much attracted to 1990 movie Leo and 4Kids Leo and that I can actually kinda see. BayTurtles Leo, not so much.

Eh, 2016 gave me a bit of a soft spot for him and I guess I came to see him a little better than previously. That version is like that guy who isn't too photogenic, but the right light and angles work out okay now and then.

Though I'm not sure if the following those Turtles do have is about that at all, or if it's mostly the other more...lets say live action "human coded"(?) assets? :tlol: I mean, there's the old "butterface" thing and not like it doesn't work with men and male characters too. Nice biceps look good in any color, no matter what the rest of the designs look like. lol

Now, 4Kids Leo is no contest, he'd probably win most votes in general and is a top fave for sure. :tcool: Though his profile and PD Leo's are very, very similar and I've wondered if 4Kids was looked at for face shape reference.

FW Shredder is pretty persistent and never gives up. Even if he runs away when his plan fails rather than fight, he is always back for another round.

He is also out on the field most of the time often fighting alongside Bebop and Rocksteady rather than watching soap operas in the technodrome like Krang. Not to mention, he keeps himself in good shape unlike his minions.

Honestly, those are some pretty admirable qualities in a guy.

I guess, maybe, I'll never actually see that movie. :lol:

i can see leo and koya having a relationship in the idw comic

Maybe this is better suited to the general "random thought" thread but...

Finally after all these years I was able to check out that Sims Freeplay mobile game (that they replaced my little FB Sims game with years ago and I had no access to this one)...so now 80% of the characters are named after a growing list tof TMNT characters. Even managed a legit looking 87 human Yoshi. Klunk is gray, but he's there, too. :)

Imagine how awkward (and possibly painful) it would be trying to kiss someone with a bird beak.

Given his history of the sorts he's gone for across the franchisee...Koya is just too off in left field to me (though I assume that was the point). Of course now Carmen showed up to make people speculate (and possibly freak out) on that angle.

I, uh... I have no idea who Koya is. :ohwell:

Indigo, remind me to send you my novel once it's done. I think you'd dig it the most. :tgrin: I know you saw a tiny bit.

Yes, please do. What I've seen of it was well done.

Admittedly I know I have a staunch resistance to tampering with a longtime character's pattern of behavior/interests, but yours is decent enough to let slide.

Awwwwwwwww. "And The Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day." :lol: You're sweet. Thank you!

...And I swear Leo's not THAT "out-of-character" in-context, there's just certain moments that all make a lot more sense through the lens of the completed Whole. :) But I HAVE heard that before, or similar... "It's not QUITE familiar/expected but it makes sense in these circumstances." And that is indeed the point! So it's nice to be understood, sincerely.

I am almost-almost done. I swear! :lol: We'll make tea and make small talk, it'll be like a book club. Fun!

...But then you gotta give me something to read too or else it isn't faaaaaair. :tgrin:

lol :D You've got a whole lot more dedication than I do to stick to writing a complete and solid piece. Been long enough since I've even opened my old version of Word that the paper clip character will probably judge me for it.

:lol::lol::lol:

I was just saying to someone else, by default it might be the TMNT story with the most "TLC" ever put into it because no other TMNT story is likely a 30-ish Chapter f*cking novel full of Stephen King-length Chapters that took 20 years to f*cking write.*

For a story that on purpose only about 5 exclusively handpicked people are ever going to even see.

Call me a madman and I will not disagree. :lol: There is no point to this beyond self-amusement. Yet I simply cannot do anything with less than my absolute sincere and full effort. Not even This. It is lunacy. BUT, in some ways it's also the most "important" thing I've ever really done, artistically.

Hopefully it'll be worth the wait. I am ALMOST finished. Honest! :tgrin:

* And that's a bit of an embellishment... I did start it in 2003 but there was a whole huge chunk of years where I thought it was abandoned because I lost everything I'd ever written until GreenWillow found my original rough drafts on one of her hard drives. So yeah, it might only have legit taken... ten years to write? :lol:

I like to think if I were being paid to write it, it'd be a different story. Then again... knowing me... if I were getting paid to write it I'd find a way to make it take even longer, just out of spite. :lol:

That's commendable dedication right there. Lunacy? Nah... Just therapeutic, imo, if a person can get in that comfortable mental zone and let the story almost write itself.

I do keep contemplating picking up some ideas again. Also while brushing my teeth the other morning randomly had an idea for maybe a (non-TMNT) kids book. Don't know that anything will come of that thought, but wrote it down at least so I don't forget.

Yeah, you gotta keep notes. Ideas have a habit of trying to escape the yard.

Sometimes I go weeks without working on it though, that's another reason it's taken so long. But in the end it'll be better for it. The 2003 stuff needed a ton of work and I'm a much better writer now. In the end it'll all be for the best.

I'm shooting for the end of this year at the latest but we'll see.

in the idw comic line shredder has a female felcon named koya and he mutates it, and its dedicated to him her and leo have some great battles in the comic

The first 5 episodes of the OT are so good. If things would have kept going with the same direction and quality as those first 5, TMNT would be in a much better place today.

I feel that season 7 of the OT (not counting European vacation) is pretty close to the tone and quality of season 1.

A version of TMNT that is some kind of combo of the Original Toon and Image (Vol. 3), would be wildly successful.

Started a Paramount+ trial to check it out. Why is 2k3 and Rise on there, but no 2k12?

Really? Huh, that's odd. I'm guessing it got licensed off to some other streaming service before the Viacom/CBS merger and this contract is still in effect, while the 2003 show wasn't. Though unless someone can say where the show is streaming, if at all, then this should just be dismissed as an hypothesis. If that is not the reason, I'm guessing there is some other contractual problem, that's usually the reason if there is no logic behind it from an outsider's perspective. What that would be, I have no idea.

The only alternative I can think of, which I seriously doubt is the case, is that Paramount prefers the 2003 show to be more accessible to the public... For some reason. I don't quite understand why that would be the case, they never bother with a proper DVD release despite buying it in 2009 or even did merch of it. Most of their "retro" TMNT merch is based on the FW show, which makes some sense but they don't the FW show... So if they changed their mind and wanted the 2003 show to be in the spotlight, my best guess is that they realised they don't own the FW show and probably never will, thus it makes sense to make the "retro" show they do own to be seen more? I don't know, the only way to know for sure is to get behind the scenes.

And... Don't take this the wrong way and I hope it isn't too biased, but I think it's probably for the best if the 2003 show is more accessible than the 2012 show.

That is bizarre considering it doesn't appear to even be on Nicktoons anymore either. Looked around and looks like it was pulled from Hulu a couple months ago, so what is their holdup.

Sure. 2k3 is awesome. But 2k12 is good too, I think it gets way too much hate on this forum.

Who remember the old Ninja turtles official website, where you could email each turtle and they would actually write you back in character as them?

Good times.

Yeah I actually thought that was kinda cute.

You got to admire the dedication. They wrote journal updates for each of the four of them. Leo had one in which he talked about the impact of 9/11 and stated they still light candles in the sewer every year on that day. I thought that was such a nice touch and a great commitment to making them seem real.