How it all began
 

So is this the real "How it all began"? I just thought it was the first season VHS, not some hour long clip show.



If it is the real thing, it sure is a strange feature.

I was pretty certain that How it all Began was the first season cut into one special, as the episode with Baxter was cut, yet he's mentioned as they make the Turtlevan. But it's a while since I've seen it.

Yup according to wikipedia and other references on the web it happened like that.

I always wondered, was it ever stated why A Thing About Rats was cut out of the serialized cut? Was Shredder's hit on Baxter too mature? Not relevant to the overall story aside from the Turtles taking Baxter's van?

my DVD lists it as 74 minutes long, so something had to be cut I suppose.

DVD? Now that's interesting...

From what I know this "episode" seems to have never made it for the german audience. Couldn't find any reference for a german version on the web and my dvd set doesn't list it either as it starts right off with the e01 "Turtle Tracks" and goes up to episode 169 to end season 7 with. So it seems there was no such episode as shown above in german, definately not on dvd, but ...

Now here's the most interesting part: The german title "Wie alles begann" does ring a couple of bells and it does refer to something from way back associated with the turtles I just can't get a clear relation. I already thought of the Panini sticker album if it had sections in there titled like that but for this I'd need the sticker album from back then, not sure if mine is still somewhere in the attic of my mum's home.

yeah, I got some FW DVDs as a gift, but it's the Scandinavian release, so no English dub. And to put it nicely, the Scandinavian dubs are... terrible, absolutely garbage. Especially the Norwegian ones where 2 of the Turtles have helium pitched voices.

So, I've only opened a couple of them when I showed them to my kid brothers years ago and not opened them since.

I got randomly 4 out of the 7 of the DVD releases, the episodes are not in any order, and is just dollar bin type DVDs. the first DVD have the How it all Began.

Haha! I hear what you say :tgrin:

What's "FW" mean by the way? And looking at the last line of your previous post it seems those are more of bootlegs, could this be true? No idea of the covers and the entire presentation in general of course, just trying to count one and one together based on what I'm reading here without the intention of making something or someone look bad.

FW = Fred Wolf.

nah, they aren't bootlegs, just the usual crappy FHE/Lions Gate single DVD release.

https://www.laserdisken.dk/billeder/...3441383372.jpg
https://www.laserdisken.dk/html/bill...09563441383372

Thank you so much for this credible information :tgrin:

I haven't watched much of the Swedish dub but I know there's an episode where Leo calls April "Slyna" which roughly translates to "bitch".

Foreign dubs of American cartoons should just not exist. They should just be broadcast in english.

Can you go back to wherever you had been? I liked this place a lot better without the bile that is your post content the past few days.

There are two dubs into Swedish. One's for TV from 1990 by Mediadubb AB, and while using the "Hero Turtles" signature, the voices were popular. The other one is from 1991 for video by Sun Studio AS.

http://www.dubbningshemsidan.se/credits/turtles/

As you can see on Candy Kappa's picture, the "How it All Began" is in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. I had it in Swedish on video, it was just from season 1 without "A Thing About Rats". (got "A Thing About Rats" on video later)

I can only see up to season 3, how much of the series was dubbed into Swedish? Also, how much of the 2003 series was dubbed? I distinctly remember seeing the season 3 finale in Swedish and I think I might have seen some season 4 episodes on Swedish TV.

especially to kids that don't know English yet. :roll:

Cubism at its finest.

It goes both eays as you recall anime.

TMNT in Swedish
 

1987 cartoon:
*TV 3 Sweden ared season 1-3 dubbed into Swedish by Mediadubb AB. Circa 20 episodes from seasons 1-3 were also released to video, dubbed into Swedish.
*TV 1000 aired seasons 4-5 in English, with subtitles (text) in Swedish. TV 1000 also aired the Vacation in Europe episodes, dubbed into Swedish by Mediadubb AB. By daytime, when the Sun was shining upon beautiful landscapes of the idyllic wellfare state of Sweden and the children were awake playing, TV1000 was a children and family-friendly TV channel, airing TMNT cartoon episodes and film and TV-series versions of Astrid Lindgren books like the Bråkmakargatan children and the Bullerby Children. By night, TV 1000 somehow got more adult... :)

2003 cartoon:
*Dubbed into Swedish by KM Studio, it was released to DVD-video starting in 2003. Starting on 17 January 2005, it began to air over Swedish Cartoon Network (where I watched season 1 in early 2005). I've never seen anything past-season 3 in Swedish (which is sad for children who liked the series, at least season 4 should be dubbed).

*2012 cartoon
*Began to air over Nickelodeon Sweden on 4 November 2012. Has also been released to DVD.

read more here

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenag...%C3%A5_svenska

This website

http://smdb.kb.se/

allos you to read about audio-visual media released in Sweden throughout the years.

Ahem, it's called "Galactic Basic", and if it's a good enough language for every single sentient being in the Star Wars universe from Hutts to Wookies and everyone in between to learn it, then there's no excuse for anyone on Earth not to be fluent in it as well. We're one planet. C'mon.

Anime should be broadcast in Japanese.