Have you ever taken a break from the TMNT?
 

It's been said you can't have too much of a good thing, but sometimes it's nice to take a little breather every now and then. I just got done watching the entire original Ninja Turtles cartoon, as well as all four movies, so I'm a little burnt out on the green machine. At the moment I'm putting them on the backburner and getting reaquainted with some of my favorite DC heroes like Superman and the Teen Titans. Has anyone ever gone through this?

Not really. I'm not constantly watching the cartoons or reading the comics every day, but that's not what I consider a break.

A break would be going cold turkey period and avoiding the franchise at all costs for 6 months to a year.

That sounds a little extreme in my opinion, dude. My break from the TMNT started after my birthday last month, and soon as Nickelodeon starts airing new episodes next month I'll be ready to get back into it. I wouldn't go an entire year without the TMNT.

I kinda lost interest when I was about 14 and just starting high school. I was ate up with baseball mostly. But the 2007 movie got me really excited about the property again and I started collecting the comics shortly after, so I've been in top gear ever since pretty much.

The only other lapse I can think of was May/June of last year. I had just started a new really busy job, while still working my old one part-time. I'd been hearing bad things about the Nick show and the bastards wouldn't release a freakin' trailer to the public. The IDW series was kind of letting me down (Leo Micro, and #10), and Platinum Dunes Alien Turtles was still scaring me. Plus people here were making it less fun to post, Mr.Turtle being a huge culprit lol.

But by late June I had gotten used to my job, and within two days we finally got our first Nick trailer (which was awesome) and IDW put out the Splinter Micro which made sense of a lot of things in the series and pretty much sold me on the new universe.

My "break" from the francise was probably around the time I started Middle School until the 2007 movie. So roughly 13 years if my math is correct. I lost interest once the cartoon was over and moved onto other stuff like hip-hop, sports, and technology. I kinda knew about the 2k3 series but never got into it as I had other things going on in my life that at the time I felt were more important. After 2007 my interest had been renewed but I wasn't as active as I am today, I give credit to the 25th anniversary and having a good job for that...

-ms

Sure, a break every now and then is just healthy i suppose.

I've rarely taken a break from franchises I'm addicted to. I tried a break from Power Rangers once and it only lasted a fortnight. The only time I ever take a vacation from Turtles is simply when there isnt a television show or movie, so the gap from 2009 to 2012 would probably count, but even then I was on here every day...

the tmnt have always been a constant in my life. maybe not day-to-day, but it was definitely always there. i think in middle school, i got into power rangers and star wars, so maybe that was the longest time where it wasnt as important, but i still watched the movies often. in high school, i discovered the mirage comics. as i left high school, 80's nostalgia was just gearing up and a few years outta high school, the 2k3 series started. from then til around september or october of 2012, the franchise was always on my mind, if not immediately on the forefront of everything i was doing. i bought vol 4 comics, tshirts from hot topic, the occasional trinkets, things like that, and i was super hyped about the movie in 07. i actually found out about the viacom buyout by reading up on "what's up with the tmnt" one day. then the news about the nick show started surfacing and...yeah...in sep or oct, i started seriously jonesing for some fresh tmnt stuff and signed up here. id known about this place for years and would occasionally lurk, but now it hit me and i wanted to sign up and talk with other fans. the passion took me over now, lol!

i guess, the longest break i took was in middle school for something like 2 years, 15-17 years ago. 8)

Yeah, of course.
My break was pretty much the years between 1996 and sometime in 2005. I had no interest in Next Mutation, and limited interest in the Image books at the time. Though, in my defense I was in college or had just graduated and was pretty strapped for cash at the time. Plus there was the whole no-time-for-pleasure-reading thing going on.

Um, I've never felt that I needed to take a break from shows. I don't take voluntary breaks from shows. I just watch shows until I lose interest, and it's a bit rare when that happens. I just fell off at some point when TMNT started showing on CBS. I thought I was done with Ninja Turtles, and I never even bothered with The Next Mutation. I got back into TMNT full swing though, when the 2003 series started.

Yes. Confession time: the worse things are going, the more I'm here. Well, usually.

Between like the 6th-8th grade I was out of TMNT. To be fair, I thought the Fred Wolf series died before then, and I only came back with the Next Mutation figures and VHS of East Meets West.

Yes, in the late 90s I became "too cool" for Ninja Turtles and stopped watching the show and collecting the toys. Thankfully, I just put everything in storage so I still have all my stuff! Never again!!! :tgrin:

After Next Mutation came out, I gave up on TMNT and didn't get back into it until the 2003 show came out. Then I became a fan again, got introduced to this board and fan fiction, and came back.

I was out for some years, puberty, other interests ... but I came back, one day I joined Ebay, when it was already a big name. Discovering the huge variety of things from the past, I found some Turtle figures ... and was entering again !

Yes, I have. It was like between the last seasons of the old toon and some time after the next mutation. Funny thing, I sold all mi g.i.joes and motu figures but not the turtles.

Thanks to the official site by dan berger, I met the Mirage Comics, I started collecting the comics and years later the 2K3 came out, I started collecting the old and 2k3 figures, sounsdtracks, movies...

I took a break starting in the summer of 1993, I was tired of watching the same episodes. I got more into baseball and football at the time. Then in the spring of 1994, I found out the show was on USA Cartoon Express and I started watching it again and remembered how awesome the show was.

Unfortunately for me, because of this, I rarely got a chance to watch season 7 of the old toon back in the day. I used to dream of seeing season 7 episodes after the red sky ones came on. After this, I never gave up watching ninja turtles again.

Yes, when the CBS affiliate changed and I didn't see the first two red sky seasons. Also, I wasn't around for lot of the 2003 series but I'm making up for it now. :)

Took a very long break between the late 90's to 2007.