What is one thing about the OT that you don't know that you'd still like to see?
 

Now that the entire series is onto DVD and now that this forum has contributed pretty much every detail possible and feel that there is nothing more to watch unless for a nostalgic curiosity, many of you feel that you are ready to just leave the OT behind for the generations to come. We've seen episode scripts including some original drafts, we've seen a few storyboards, we've seen most of the voice actors discuss about the series. But there are still a few mysteries with regards to the nature of the original cartoon that I would like to see explained, such as certain animation studios that worked on certain episodes, certain characters in which we still don't know who voiced them, such as Mondo Gecko; a release of the entire soundtrack for this series in which who knows where the tapes to these recordings are, and certain voice actors such as Jennifer Darling, Bill Martin, Hal Rayle, and Bumper Robinson with regards to their work on the show. If that Turtle Documentary ever gets released, we may have some of those mysteries solved.

I'd like to know what the writers were restricted from doing sometimes. The lack of fighting in some episodes over others is notable, as if the complaining parents in the early 90's influenced Fred Wolf to pressure the writers for less violent scenes in the show.

I'd also like to know if David Wise had bigger plans for the show before it became a commercialized success.

I'd like to hear more about April and the Channel 6 News crew and what brought about their creation.

I'd like to see the origin of The Technodrome.

I think being able to read the Show's Bible, if it has one, would be interesting. Especially reading the first drafts and outlines of the 1st season.

Did they actually ever show the kid at the store buying the Turtles?

i would like to see the tank where they were..

I wonder if there was much resistance to having to make Mike dump the nunchucks for the grappling hook. Were there arguments or was it just 'change his weapon? eh, whatever'.

Definitely want to know more about the multiple animation studios that worked on the show. Perhaps even in-house with Fred Wolf studios, would be nice to see them go into more detail about their processes, storyboarding, maybe even drop some names of outstanding animators.

One of the biggest unanswered questions, for me, is how did Krang and Shredder first meet.

^ This. Also find out what happened to the human Foot Clan.

Yeah, I always assumed Krang just fell out of a dimensional portal into Shredder's lap in Japan or something.

And was the Technodrome built on Earth? Or was it built in Dimension X and then moved to Earth?

I was just thinking of this today. Would love the hear where the idea for the Technodrome came from, as well as how Krang and Shredder first met.

I wanna know why there were so many sh*tty characters that were used in place of action figures who really could've used their own episode.

Same here, I always imagined that Shredder saved Krang (for some reason) because he didn't had a body and in exchange Krang gave him acces to his technology. Besides Krang needed someone who knew about earths culture.

Another thing that bothered me so much was the fact that people from Europe thought that a Nun chuck was more violent than a Sai or a Katana, maybe you guys already know the answer since you have more time in the forums.

I assume that means Krang got banished from Dimension X to NYC Airport's baggage claim. :P
And, that's how the plot of the proposed Krang vs Predators was supposed to go.

True... but that was all the way til Red Sky... way before the creators even knew if their show was gonna surpass the first 5 episodes. I wonder what their thoughts on how Shredder met Krang and how they created the Technodrome were back then.

And why did England bully them into changing Mike's weapon? It's an AMERICAN cartoon... sure it was shown in England too, but we should have had first priority. It's like Japan suddenly censoring anime (and I mean in Japan itself) because America said so.

I have not gone back and rewatched all the OT cartoons. Mikey's nunchucks got censored out of the American cartoon as well?

Kinda....in an attempt to make the shows work in the European market with out heavy edits, Mikey's chucks were eventually replaced with a grappling hook. It was a kind of self censorship.

Very interesting, thanks for the reply

Krang's engineer, Drakkus/Berserko, built the technodrome. Krang tried to kill him as payment. I assume it was built in dimension X.