When you were a kid, did you think Usagi Yojimbo was a TMNT character?
 

When I was a kid I thought Usagi Yojimbo was a TMNT character. I didn't know any better, between his two episodes and his two toys (Usagi and Space Usagi), in the toyline I simply thought he was another TMNT character.

I did not discover he had his own comic series until sometime in late 1999 I believe, when I started to seriously research the Mirage comics as I was then old enough to start buying them myself.

What about you?

It wasn't until last year, like a lot of deep TMNT knowledge that I saw that Usagi wasn't a TMNT character. I barely noticed him as a kid though, and just saw him as another character of the day, and I never had his figure.

I did, but not for long.

I guess so...I didn't think of Usagi often. :P

pretty much, same story. i found out about stan sakai.

usagi yojimbo was one of my fave non-turtle figures.

sidenote: NO IDEA about space usagi UNTIL NOW.

research mode: ACTIVATE! :tmad:

I got into TMNT before I learned about comic books so yeah, I thought Usagi was just a TMNT character.

Yes
 

Yes. I knew he had an own comic book, but I thought it was a TMNT spinoff.

I just found out while reading this post. I even have one of his comics, but I thought it was a turtles spin off too.

It's sort of the other way around for me. We had TMNT on VHS, but I was big on comics, so I already knew Usagi Yojimbo was a separate series. In fact, UY was what made me realize that turtles were also comic book characters.

lol i actually found out a couple months ago ON THIS WEBSITE :teek:

Nah dude, I thought he was a Power Rangers character.

The first time I saw him was on a comic book cover at a flea market, Usagi Yojimbo #10. Leonardo was also on the cover, so I thought it was some foreign TMNT comic. After reading the issue, I realized otherwise. This was probably around 1988.
I remember hoping they would release a Cerebus figure in the OT line, since they released Usagi, which was creator-owned too.

Of course... but shortly after my friends and I found out from one of their older brothers.

I definitely thought he was a TMNT character. I was only 10. So sue me.

I can't really remember much about my youth, so it wouldn't be fair to answer.

I'm pretty sure you had one, Jepherson. :D

To be honest, I honestly can't remember if I did or not. I did know about the Usagi Yojimbo comic for quite a long time, but I honestly have no idea what my earliest memories of the Miyamoto Usagi character are, if they relate to TMNT, or even if I had thought he was a TMNT character.

I first heard of Usagi through the "Samurai Warrior" game on my Amstrad CPC - I had no idea Usagi was a comics character at the time (and this would have been before I was aware of TMNT at all). I was pretty surprised when he showed up in the TMNT cartoon a couple of years later...

The first indication that he was something more came for me personally when I happened upon the Usagi Yojimbo video game for the Commodore 64 computer that had absolutely nothing to do with TMNT:

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I do remember being very excited about adding his character to my collection that same year though. He was first non-turtle (aside from Splinter of course) that I absolutely had to have on my "good guys" team.

TMNT fandom
 

Really. You have a fansite with a lot of your TMNT fandom.