Favourite "Technodrome-moving" episode
 

My favourite episodes while I was younger typically were the ones in which the Technodrome was moving. They also seemed much more catastrophic and dire and, as I later learned, also typically were season finales.

I grouped them as the following:

- Return of the Technodrome
from the end of Season 2 when the Technodrome returns to earth but winds up at the earth's core.

- The Big Trilogy (The Big Rip-Off, The Big Break In and The Big Blow Out)
finishes off Season 3 when the Technodrome finally (after what seems like forever) returns to the surface but is banished to an asteroid in Dimension X again.

- My Brother, The Bad Guy
At the beginning of Season 5, returning to earth once again but ends up in the Arctic.

- Rock Around The Block
Krang gets the Technodrome free at the beginning of Season 6 but due to a stroke of luck on behalf of the turtles, sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

Shredder Triumphant
- After two seasons at the bottom of the ocean (which seemed to me more of a choice than anything), the Technodrome finally rolls back into the city (smaller than ever, I might add) before being whisked away one last time.

Turtle Trek (even though the Technodrome doesn't move far, it is still dramatic and intense)
- finishing off Season 8, Krang and Shredder find the Technodrome and get it moving in Dimension X before being finished off for good.

"Return to the Technodrome" might be my favorite because of what it did. Until I got back into the fandom recently, I had always remembered the Technodrome being in the center of the Earth.

Its like choosing between your kids! I like each of them. May "Return of The Technodrome" despite the red Krang. Each of them have their own merits that make me think well of each of them. Usually in episode polls there is at least one or two that lacks in some way,but this poll I can't say that.

The "Big" trilogy holds a special bit of history in my heart, it was the last "new" TMNT shown on terrestrial channels in the UK (the later seasons only aired on Sattelite channels like BRAVO, Fox Kids, and ironicly, Nickolodeon) and if it werent for a TMNT sticker album out at the same time (which focused on season five), I'd never have known the series had continued past that.

That trilogy also marks the last time The Technodrome was a truely formiddable threat, it's despatched way too easily in later seasons

My favorite is Shredder Triumphant. I thought it was kinda scary how Shredder and Krang were left homeless with the Technodrome going to Dimension X without them.

I also liked the big trilogy a lot.

5th Turtle
 

The "5th Turtle" episode also has a moving Technodrome (which falls back).

agreed, that's why I like it also!

Also, love the "Return of the Technodrome" as well!

I did think about that one but it seemed almost too minor. To me, it doesn't fit in to the other episodes.

This is one poll that I can't vote in just yet. I think each of the above episodes might be among, if not my top choice, the favourites from their respective seasons. And as Icebot mentioned, Shredder Triumphant almost has that finale feeling to it, like they actually were able to defeat Shredder and Krang. Except they got away in a pickup truck, which was kind of amusing in its own way.

I'll be voting soon enough but I am leaning towards the first two.

The "Big" trilogy, specifically the second two episodes, since the Technodrome doesn't actually move in "The Big Rip-Off". In "the Big Break-in" itself, the two commercial breaks are among the best placed in the whole series: the first right as it encounters the Turtles not that far underground and the second right as it emerges from the ground onto the surface as it threatens to kill April. It makes you see why commercial breaks served good cliff hangers (even commercials were better back then instead of this infomercial/home shopping-style crap), it made you cry for a couple minutes that the good guys may perhaps be seeing their end. And the "Big Blow Out" is the only episode where the Technodrome is squarely a threat above ground in the city, causing all of the armed services to flee, leaving the Turtles as the only hope to save the world!

Don't forget a couple other episodes, such as one in Season 7 where the Technodrome briefly emerges from the ocean before being forced back underneath.

Season 1
 

Don't forget season 1. I think it counts, as the Technodrome is moving in the Earth's underground, as a big threat.

I was going to include it as an option but I figured it would immediately get most of the votes because it provides the basis for the rest of the series. I opted to not include it because it doesn't feel the same type of "threat" that the later ones did, if that makes any sense at all...:tconfuse:

oh!? didn't know that one

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Your referring to Super Irma and Attack of The Neutrinos.

I remember how the Technodrome got shrunk down in the "Big trilogy" at one point. Shredder and Krang were so vulnerable at that point. If the turtles had caught them and squashed them, it would have all been over. Would have been pretty dark for a kid's cartoon though.:)

I also remember April almost getting shrunk, and saying that wasn't the way she wanted to lose weight. Had the Technodrome gotten to her, she definitely would have been a lot thinner.

The scene where the Turtles flush Shredder down the funnel in "The Big Blow-Out" was, whilst not violent, quite dark. As a kid I thought Shredder was going to die from that fall , but then they showed him making a safe landing.

Cancelled
 

If so, the show would have been cancelled.

Plenty of shows have went on without their lead villains.

Yeah, and TMNT had Dregg after Shredder and Krang were defeated. Mind you, he probably means that after a dark scene like that it wouldn't be allowed to continue.

In "Return of the Technodrome", thanks to that hole in the hull (heh) the Turtles used to enter the Technodrome, it was assumed when the Technorome sank into the lava that everyone was killed by it.

Other small but perhaps notable episodes were "Return of the Fly", "The Fifth Turtle", "The Ice Creature Cometh", "Attack of the Neutrinos", "Atlantis Awakes" and "Turtle Trek".

it certainly would have gotten my vote. I love season one's technodrome. When it actually worked and had more threatening deatyh machines and foot soldiers.

Killing
 

Yep, but not for being without a lead villains, but for killing a main character on screen like that.