Age Survey for TMNT paper (please help)
 

Hello all,
I am writing my final paper for my English degree on age demographics and the TMNT. I am curious as to what age fans were attracted to the franchise at and this survey data would help me immensely. Everything will be kept completely anonymous, I just want a rough idea of what age group is attracted to the franchise.

I was definitely either five or six when I first got into TMNT by way of the Fred Wolf cartoon.

I'm 16 and got into the franchise when I was 14, so I've liked turtles for a whole two years. :lol: I was most interested in the Nick turtles and the OT as well.

I was six for sure and got introduced to the TMNT via a Burger King FW VHS in Spring of 90. Some things, ya just don't forget.

I was 5 in 1989. (The original cartoon obviously)

I must have been 7 years old (1991) when I saw the OT in German TV for the first time.

13+, but that's only cos I'm old :lol:

i was young but not 100% sure on the exact age. know its was under 12 though :)

I distinctly being called out with 2 of my friends when I was in the 3rd grade as the go-to-guys if you had a question about the Ninja Turtles.

I was probably around 3 or 4 years old when I watched the original cartoon for the first time.

hmm
 

What are you trying to show here? It all really depends when you were exposed to it. You can start liking it at any age really, but if you don't like it when you first see it you probably wont later on either. The majority of us were exposed to the FW turtles at a very young age and that's where it all began.

I was about 9. OT.

About 3. Got the 1990 movie music videos and April Foolish on VHS.

Was 7 years old. Watching the 80's cartoon on CBS as well as the first 1990 movie.

7 years old (in 1989), saw the FW cartoon and hey presto.

Same here!

1995 first turtles movie (5years old :)) and then The Next Mutation.
I don`t know how I could love this show so much.
I have wached the first episode last week again and was shocked how bad it was.

Oh man! I was... probably 4 or 5? I was born in late 1983 and first saw the show in '88, I think. And then I went fully down the rabbit hole with this comic right here in 1990 and it pretty much consumed my childhood.

But I got permanently hooked on the TMNT when I was about 15, thanks to some curiosity, eBay, and these collections of the Mirage run. Discovering the Mirage comics is the reason I'm still hooked, for sure.

Supposedly my introduction was through being in my little baby pen or whatever & seeing my half brother walk by with the original Mikey toy. I flipped my wig until I was eventually allowed to see it & apparently I was immensely taken by it. According to my mom (and an old video-cassette that allegedly documents it), a few months later, I took my first steps so that I could approach the TV as the first film was being played on it. So I was hooked from the beginning. These events woulda been in 1991 as I was born late '90. :trazz: