What started your love for Ninja Turtles?
 

Interested in finding out what started everyone's love for the Ninja Turtles? For me the 80's Cartoon started my addiction then the first live action film took it to the next level.

Definitely the 80's cartoon. I grew up with that and that's what started my obsession. I haven't looked back since.

The 80s cartoon moved me into this world...

I liked the 80s cartoon, but it wasn't until I found the spanish release of the First books that I got forever hooked. Comics were my main interest as a kid (still are), and seeing how different the TMNT from the comics were to the ones on TV was very cool to my 6-7 years old self.

The 80's cartoon was my first exposure to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. From there it was then the Live action movies and then the comics,which was at the time the currently just started Image Vol 3 and a few back issues of Vol1 after checking out a comic book store for the first time.

Fred Wolf series, then Archie and the Movies.

For me, it was the 2003 cartoon.

I think we can safely say that 90% of the TMNT fandom was introduced through the OT

I think for most people it went like this:

Original cartoon, Movies (almost every kid who watched the OT eventually saw the movies either in theaters or on VHS), to Archie (a large chunk of us had Archie issues), to Mirage (when we became teens, we discovered the comics), to 4kids (which aired by the time most of us were in our late teens), till now.

OT Cartoon.


You forgot to include video games.

Yeah and Toys :-(, just vote other for that I guess.

The '87 cartoon which got me obsessed with the toys for a while. I didn't build an Army of Foot baddies in a day:)

Clearly the OT. I've told my story about discovering it a few times, but it was something about the colors, animations, music, battle scenes, and jokes that brought me in and since I had pretty much watched Sesame Street/Disney up to that point, it was a big jump into somewhat more mature scenes for my age, and that mix of easy to understand plot with some deep references that I only understood as a teen/adult really made my discovery of the franchise.

And as the years pass by I'm sure we'll say that 90% of TMNT fandom was not only from the OT, but also from 2K3 or the Nick CGI version.

I think the interesting stories to hear would be from people who were first exposed to TMNT through the Mirage/Image/Archie comics or even the Movies alone, but yet only casually heard or distantly aware (remarkably so considering the mass merchandising/advertising) of the whole Turtlemania period caused by the OT. I think these stories would probably be from a generation older than the kids of the 80s/early 90s, such as adults/teenagers in the 80s. So if I do the math...people reaching 40 and older.

What started it? The video games, Manhattan Project to be specific.

But the older I got the more I discovered. First the movie, then the 2k3 show, then Mirage. Now I love every version of TMNT, and that's what I think its staying power is; the versatility and variety.

The 80s cartoon of course. It had such a profound effect on me as a kid and my friends. Still love it more than either of the new cartoons.

OT, Movies, Nintendo games 1 & 2, and the toys! eventually archie too.

OT, Archie, Turtles in Time shaped that old love.

I like ninja, I like turtles. Then way back as a kid I see these toys. It just clicked

I think it was the secret of the ooze which introduced me to the turtles.