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CyberCubed 01-24-2026 11:59 AM

What if every mutant in the Playmates toyline for at least 1 episode in the cartoon?
 
I'm talking about all the guys who never appeared in the original show.

Wyrm = very easy to do, have him be mutated in the sewers and write him similar to the toy commercial

Half Court = Make him some black basketball player that got mutated, he would become one of the Turtles friends

Sergeant Bananas = he's a war vet from Vietnam who came back to the states, the Turtles have to help him come back to peace with his inner self

Hothead = Do something where an ancient dragon consumes him but make him evil

Monty Moose = Turtles go to Canada for an episode.

Pizza face= Mikey sees a new pizza place opened in NYC, he decided to order pizza and finds out the pizza hypnotises anyone who eats it to rob bank and steal from stores. Later Pizzaface is found to be the mastermind using mind control ingredients on the pizza

Scumbug also deserved his own intro ep, make him a human exterminator who blames the Turtles for accidentally getting mutated.

ToTheNines 01-24-2026 12:05 PM

Do Scratch.

CyberCubed 01-24-2026 02:12 PM

Well assuming he's still in his cat burglar set-up, originally he was just some guy arrested and escaped from jail which is why he's wearing prison clothes. In the original show mutants never went to jail, so having him start off as a regular cat doesn't fit for me. So I'd have him just as a human, gets mutated into a cat, and the Turtles come across him. I wouldn't have any connection with Splinter because there'd be no point then.

ToTheNines 01-24-2026 02:26 PM

Do Hot Spot.

CyberCubed 01-24-2026 02:38 PM

Hot Spot was the dalmatian dog of a famous mad scientist who wanted to replace all the fire hydrants in the city with sludge machines to get revenge on the fire department who "fired" him. Hot Spot accidentally got mutated and decided to revolt against his master and help the Turtles bring him to justice.

ToTheNines 01-24-2026 02:51 PM

Do Scale Tail.

sdp 01-24-2026 02:53 PM

Thanks ChatGPT, do Doctor El

neatoman 01-24-2026 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2022605)
Do Scratch.

Oh, OK! How about this:
He's a regular cat who got mutated by the same exact ooze spill as the turtles and then lost his eye in a fight with Splinter, so now he wants revenge. Because that's totally the backstory of Scratch and certainly no other character, how could anyone dare to say I am pointlessly using Scratch when I could have easily just used a different character?

CyberCubed 01-24-2026 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sdp (Post 2022619)
Thanks ChatGPT, do Doctor El

Doctor El is a voodoo african jamaican who mutated himself with an elephant in the african safari, he going to voodoo up NYC!

sdp 01-24-2026 05:09 PM

What if every Turtles Variant in the Playmates toyline appeared for at least 1 scene in an episode in the cartoon?

We saw some of them like The Dark Turtle, but can you imagine seeing Sewer Surfer Mike, how about Chief Leo, farmer don, Bodacious birthdya raph

ToTheNines 01-24-2026 05:10 PM

Do Fugitoid.

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Originally Posted by neatoman (Post 2022626)
Oh, OK! How about this:
He's a regular cat who got mutated by the same exact ooze spill as the turtles and then lost his eye in a fight with Splinter, so now he wants revenge. Because that's totally the backstory of Scratch and certainly no other character, how could anyone dare to say I am pointlessly using Scratch when I could have easily just used a different character?

lol, well done.

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Originally Posted by sdp (Post 2022634)
What if every Turtles Variant in the Playmates toyline appeared for at least 1 scene in an episode in the cartoon?

We saw some of them like The Dark Turtle, but can you imagine seeing Sewer Surfer Mike, how about Chief Leo, farmer don, Bodacious birthdya raph

Farmer Mike in the Northampton episode.

CyberCubed 01-24-2026 08:08 PM

It's weird Fugitoid never appeared at all, they could easily do a second Triceraton ep with it involved in space loosely adapting the Mirage story into a single episode.

sdp 01-24-2026 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 2022643)
It's weird Fugitoid never appeared at all, they could easily do a second Triceraton ep with it involved in space loosely adapting the Mirage story into a single episode.

There were 2 different robots that appeared in the show that could've easily just been renamed "Fugitoid" with a "close enough" story that it could've worked.

neatoman 01-24-2026 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2022635)
Do Fugitoid.

The Fugitoid is pretty easy, the Space arc would have been pretty easy to adapt for that show regardless. Just swap TCRI out for the Technodrome and there won't be a problem.

CyberCubed 01-25-2026 12:33 AM

Also would have been funny if the real Man Ray/Ray Fillet showed up, not that random bastardized "Ray" fish mutant they used in that one episode.

Powder 01-26-2026 03:37 AM

I've always felt the European Tour season was a huge wasted opportunity to do just that, considering many of the TMNT characters in question have sort of a cultural slant to them. Shoulda just been a world tour, & you'd have the likes of Lionheart in England, Hot-Head in China, Monty Moose in Canada, etc. It's also insane that there's an episode where Baxter Stockman turns half the city into mutant insects & it's all just original characters + the Channel Six crew. Imagine if that had included the likes of Antrax, Scumbug, Needlenose, Killer Bee, Flyboy, etc.

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 2022604)

Pizza face= Mikey sees a new pizza place opened in NYC, he decided to order pizza and finds out the pizza hypnotises anyone who eats it to rob bank and steal from stores. Later Pizzaface is found to be the mastermind using mind control ingredients on the pizza

That one already exists.

https://i.ibb.co/JW0DF5hb/pizzaface.png

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan 01-26-2026 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed (Post 2022611)
In the original show mutants never went to jail.

Bebop and Rocksteady are arrested by the New York City Police in Superhero for a Day before Shredder saved them.

neatoman 01-26-2026 09:44 AM

I'm looking through a list of toys now and a disappointing amount of those old action figures are not their own characters, but rather the turtles and a few other major ones in different outfits. It's making me realise the line was less like it had a billion characters like MotU or Transformers and more like Barbie where it's basically just one character with countless outfits... Though I guess with Barbie you can at least mix-up the outfits and basically create your own if you have a lot of the dolls, Punk Rock Turtles have the outfits molded in, so it's not like you can put them on another figure.

Anyway, here's what I can imagine for the few action figures that didn't make it into the show and aren't just the Turtles in different outfits:
  • Sergeant Bananas I can sort of imagine a Frank Horrigan scenario, where he is an experimental mutant soldier used to fight mutants. If you've played Fallout 2 you know what I'm talking about.
  • Wyrm can be a lot like the IDW depiction, with him being a collective of worms.
  • Doctor El can be like a cryptic from Africa, a mysterious monster inspired by the real life problem of elephants being a pest for farmers.
  • King Lionheart can rule over an Island of Dr. Moreau type place.

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Originally Posted by Powder (Post 2022717)

What the hell? Did Pizza Face make out with Leo?

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan 01-29-2026 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by neatoman (Post 2022722)
What the hell? Did Pizza Face make out with Leo?

That's AI-generated. The scenes are from Tower of Power.

TigerClaw 01-29-2026 08:39 AM

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There's a bunch of figures we have to see get adapted in other TMNT media.
The one I want to see adapted the most is King Lionheart. Its a shame that character was never brought into the IDW comics given how we have mutant town. So many miss opportunities.

oldmanwinters 01-29-2026 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan (Post 2022962)
That's AI-generated. The scenes are from Tower of Power.

Nope, that was totally human generated!

CyberCubed 01-29-2026 12:39 PM

It's scary that now human drawn art is being mis-identified as AI art. I've seen actual artists drawing stuff for decades have their newest art be accused of being AI. I feel bad for fanartists. It's only going to get worse for them from here.

sdp 01-29-2026 12:54 PM

I mean we'll be able to literally prompt new episodes of the 1987 show before the end of the decade that actually look like episodes from the show with the actual voices of the VAs. Zariustwo and Tigerclaw will likely be the first ones to give those to us. Clearly each episode will have influences of their own biases :tlol:

End of the decade is not even that far off, it's literally less than 4 years away.

TigerClaw 01-29-2026 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by sdp (Post 2022979)
I mean we'll be able to literally prompt new episodes of the 1987 show before the end of the decade that actually look like episodes from the show with the actual voices of the VAs. Zariustwo and Tigerclaw will likely be the first ones to give those to us. Clearly each episode will have influences of their own biases :tlol:

End of the decade is not even that far off, it's literally less than 4 years away.

The only issue is Sora limits videos from 10 to 15 seconds.

But someone could spend hours generating clips, and then splicing them together with editing software to make a full episode.

Speaking of biases, Its something everyone has in regards to TMNT. Everyone has there own headcanon on how things should go.

sdp 01-29-2026 03:07 PM

Right now even if you splice together an episode it's very noticeable that it's AI. In just a few years it'll be undistinguishable and even free tiers will have less limits like the 15 second one you mentioned. Besides AI voice cloning would need to be done in a different app.

ToTheNines 01-29-2026 03:15 PM

Maybe AI can make my timelines for me and my autism will be cured!

sdp 01-29-2026 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2022997)
Maybe AI can make my timelines for me and my autism will be cured!

You might be joking but that's actually what I was thinking with the other thread. Granted you wouldn't just be able to use the actual generic model and ask it to make a timeline. For best results you'd need to upload the scripts of every episode, and also upload every episode as well since there would be visual queues that could help determine where they go. So I mean it would take some dedication to do it and it'd cost money, manually might still be the best way to do it.

The thing is anything fiction or geek related it seems to hallucinate a lot. I don't know what the sources the models are all using but they're all trash. It has gotten better over the years but you still get easy to find information wrong. Perhaps it only scraped some tumblr accounts for their information which would explain things.

TigerClaw 01-29-2026 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by sdp (Post 2022994)
Right now even if you splice together an episode it's very noticeable that it's AI. In just a few years it'll be undistinguishable and even free tiers will have less limits like the 15 second one you mentioned. Besides AI voice cloning would need to be done in a different app.

The problem right now, Is Sora won't generate videos with any of the Turtles, You just get a third party violation when you tried to generate anything with them, So you can only make videos with the supporting characters.

sdp 01-29-2026 04:13 PM

Sure but there are ways around it. People are running their own models or using the non mainstream apps. I'm pretty sure Jenna Ortega getting Yahood in her hoffahoffa by Beetlejuice would also violate the TOS and yet you can easily find 20 minutes of that online.

Powder 01-29-2026 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan (Post 2022962)
That's AI-generated. The scenes are from Tower of Power.

No, you fiend, I drew Pizzaface into a pre-existing frame of the cartoon & edited it to look authentic. It's from like 2017 or something.

Flattered you think I'm machine-perfect though. :lol:

oldmanwinters 01-31-2026 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by sdp (Post 2022979)
I mean we'll be able to literally prompt new episodes of the 1987 show before the end of the decade that actually look like episodes from the show with the actual voices of the VAs. Zariustwo and Tigerclaw will likely be the first ones to give those to us. Clearly each episode will have influences of their own biases :tlol:

End of the decade is not even that far off, it's literally less than 4 years away.

Closer than we think:

ToTheNines 01-31-2026 10:14 AM

Atrocious.

sdp 01-31-2026 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by ToTheNines (Post 2023140)
Atrocious.

It's also never going to look worse than this. Give it time.


Here we have images of Turtles in Time with a 1990 movie skin
https://www.facebook.com/10004701244...4435810133487/

Original TMNT Cartoon Fan 02-03-2026 01:21 PM

Where are Walkabout and Panda Khan?


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