Teeny Mutant Ninja Turtles - TMNT preschool show on the way!
 

Looks like TMNT is joining Marvel, DC, Looney Tunes, Star Wars, and Star Trek in the realm of preschool-targeted shows later this year. Kinda funny that the last attempt at a TMNT preschool offering, Half-Shell Heroes, was around for multiple years mostly in toy form, yet this is announced as a series before toys were even confirmed.

Is this set in the Mutant Mayhem universe? Would fit with those scenes of Splinter and the Turtle tots seen in the flashbacks of the movie.

It’s probably either the MM turtles or the 2012 ones.

Given they say it's CG shorts and the new movie is coming out in 2027, I would assume they would use the Mutant Mayhem designs.

One can hope this isn't indicative of the new management/ownership over at Paramount/Nickelodeon... but it probably is.

Baby ronin
So cute. It'll sell tons of merch

Spidey and his Amazing Friends was a huge brainrot hit for Disney+, little surprise Paramount want a piece of that.

It's just 4 minute shorts, there's no reason for anyone to be reasonably bothered by this.

Sure it does. This isn't the 80s. If the rights holders are allowing TMNT to be pasteurized for pre-schoolers then that gives some idea of the limits of how far they will let the brand go in other directions.

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One the one hand, I'm looking forward to my kid having TMNT aimed at his age group.

On the other hand, that Variety article reads like we've hit full-blown Disney level Nostalgia Content-Over Story.

If you read the article it doesn't inspire much confidence. They are trying to frame it as this huge marketing push at every demographic but they don't have much. Just random things that some shouldn't even be there.

The few themed restaurants? Why is that even there? You're catering the the older audience through a Last Ronin book? a book for pre-teens? It's like they're throwing things at the ceiling to see what sticks. The only real plan there is the Teeny Turtles shorts, many brands have done this, it's like those forgetabble Spider Man shorts with chibi characters in really basic premises. I've seen it done a couple of times, unsure how successful they actually end up being. Clearly it isn't usually covered by fandoms unless to make fun of them but none of them are the target audience so perhaps there is a margin of profit there.

The mattel news might be the biggest news there really, but if they're stuck making MM2 and new live action movie figures I don't think those lines will be extremely successful.

Which wasn't even from the latest regime at the top of Paramount/Nick. That was from the LAST one that, like or not, almost gave us a Last Ronin movie. And one of the first things this new regime is doing and announcing is pre-teen stuff with TMNT?

Had hoped they would not, hoped past speculation was just jokes. Was a matter of time, I suppose, but this came along sooner than I'd have figured.

I’ve been saying they should do something like this for a while. Probably a smart move. And I have a 3 year old so I can check it out without being a weirdo lol. Hopefully it’s semi enjoyable and not pure brainrot.

But of course it’s disappointing that there’s not anything for us announced. They should be putting out G, PG and PG-13 content and cover all their bases. Unfortunately the market research is probably telling them that dudes in their 40s will just consume the baby crap and buy all the merch anyway.

That guy posted 4 unrelated screenshots, the top left is from Turtles Forever.

Stop being such a cowaboomer.

But I’m a millennial…

If you were born in 199X or before you're a boomer. I don't make the rules.

Whoever coined the term "cowa-boomer" to describe us older TMNT fans deserves Raphael style smack upside the head!

The depressing part is that I can easily imagine what this show is going to be like based on how other comic book characters got turned into preschool shows.

I predict the following:

• It will have a Super Deformed art style (that means even adult characters will have oversized heads).
• The Turtles will be voiced by actual children.
• The Turtles will directly address the audience and "ask them for help".
• The sewer lair will look more like playground than a home or dojo, and so will the Technodrome.
• The villains will be more like benign pranksters than villains.

That's exactly what a cowaboomer would say.

Don't worry about sdp. Like most leftists, he has an ongoing love affair with owning/manipulating language and words to his own ends.

Back in my day, we spent our Pizza Points on TMNT calculators and we liked it! Kids these days are spending $50 on a credit card for Black April action figures!

If you were a furry in the 90’s, you could only jerk off to Ninjara. Now Sophie Campbell draws a whole town of em? These kids are weak!

This won’t hurt the Turtles whatsoever. As mentioned plenty of franchises have baby/kid shows.

I’ll check it out but I doubt I’d watch. Depending on the designs I would definitely buy some of the toys. There’s already a lot of cute TMNT merchandise around. Plushies, certain toy lines and collectibles.

I’ve actually been thinking about how a lot of popular characters were redesigned to be cuter as time went on and settled into their iconic look.

TMNT, FW anyway. Rounder friendly faces
Garfield, originally way fatter and exaggerated
Woody Woodpecker, started out all zany looking
Tom and Jerry, Tom used to be more realistically drawn
Looney Tunes, early designs were more goofy and not cohesive

Honestly I love the cuter style they turned into. I still like some more “grown up” TMNT too of course...90s movies and 4Kids.

Probably won't be any worse than:
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Ahh, the reckless gamblers themselves.

Hey, that special was great! We actually just watched it over the weekend. It's pretty action heavy and my kid cracks up at the jokes. Shame it never took off. Would have been fun to see them follow up on that cliffhanger ending.

I do not expect this "Teeny" show to be anything like Half-Shell Heroes, outside of having cutesy designs.

:lol: maybe they'll explain that in #5.

I still maintain it was super creepy the amount of older dudes strongly advocating for cutesy, pre-teen Half-Shell Heroes and stuff like that left and right a while back. There's something going on there and it's not good.

Projecting much?

Struck a nerve, did I? We should check your post history around that time, come to think of it.

Get a room, you two! We’re trying to discuss a preschooler cartoon show that hasn't aired yet like normal adults!

Andres, you're the one who made at least 2 different threads of teenage girls doing sports in revealing outfits, one got locked and you made another. IndigoEarth even called you out and gave you their birthdays which confirmed most were underaged
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Embarrasing!

It got locked because weirdos like you started posting pr0n. For no other reason.

You can check the thread, I don't have one post in it, in fact you kept bumping the threads despite other users being creeped out by them. You got called out a few times, and yes you got audited by Indigo herself who checked and verified they had not reached the right age of the videos you kept posting. Sad!

... Didn't you contribute to this?