Was Chris Bradford named for the Young Samurai author?
 

I hope Nickelodeon doesn't get in trouble for using the name Chris Bradford, as that author also happens to be a black belt martial artist who trains in Judo, Karate, Aikdo, and Taijutsu. Disney also holds the publishing rights to the series.

I brought that up in the episode#4 thread. I pondered if he would call them out about that if he heard,but if Viacom got permission from either Disney or Bradford himself. One may assume they did it knowing the name usage was in the clear. Too bad an elite guard isn't named Jason Frank.

This is rocky ground.

Anyone else familiar with the Spawn lawsuits? Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn, named several of the important characters in the series after his favorite hockey players. Turns out he got sued over this, lost and had to pay out a big sum of money. In the case they claimed character defamation because one of the characters was a villain, as is true in this situation as well. The real life people did not even look remotely similar to the comic book versions.

And currently that isn't the end of Spawn's naming woes. In the comics, Spawn was originally a man named Al Simmons, this name was taken from one of McFarlane's real-life close friends. Or... former friend. Al came out with a book titled "The Art of Being Spawn" and now all hell's broken loose.

Potentially a bad idea on Nick's part.

Well let's remember this is VIACOM in command here, not an indie comics guy.

The names "Chris Bradford" and "Xever" probably won't be used after they become Dogpound and Fishface, so its not going to be a potential issue for long.

I wish Bradford would stay human, that CG model looks tons better then Dogpound.

I want a Chris Bradford action figure!

Huh that's funny I never thought about that. When they said he was a martial arts actor who has a chain of martial arts schools I thought they were parodying someone else who's associated with TMNT.

This was probably one of my favorite episodes of any incarnation of the Turtles though. I like the character Chris Bradford I think they should keep him around and develop his story.

So Chris Bradford is a real person?! Hmm... I need to find his albums....

But when Mikey said he had a series of Dojo's all over my main reaction was "Oh so he's Jason David Frank...." *lol*

You think like me!:P He has four in his home state of Texas that he operates.



Kind of an old one.


I wonder if Chris "Dogpound" Bradford did MMA? :D

JDF also has a bunch in California and at least one in New Jersey. Rising Sun Academy FTW! :D Plus he's started to have online classes via Skype (no way I can afford a lesson tho *sighs*). He posts on Facebook all the time :D

Right. Plus I heard a rumor that his schools are backed by the Yakuza. But that's just a rumor.

Who I actually thought of was either him or the actor who played Keno. Ernie Reyes Jr who actually has something to do with TMNT.

His dad has a chain of schools much larger than JDF. There's like 40 something. Plus if go to there website they use the yakuza symbol "Kyokuryu Kai" as their logo.
http://www.erniereyes.com/images/logos/wcma_logo.jpg weird.

I would really like to see a figure of him in his foot gear.

That would have been cool.

I wish Tatsu would show up in this series. He was always one of my favorite Foot Clan characters.

In the meantime you can take an old Chuck Norris action figure and take the head off and put it on a 4kids Shredder.

I agree with this. I never liked Hun,but Tatsu had possibilities. As much as Khan perhaps was tried to remind us of Tatsu Bradford I think was pulled off nicely and has more possiblities as a human than a bulldog. He was built up with his being a well known high ranking martial artist with a secret bad side. Only to be mutated. He was built up better than Tastu or Hun.