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Mew	03-20-2016 03:22 PM

Europe Releases

In the Hero Turtles show, nunchucks were removed. Were nunchucks removed from the Hero Turtles carded action figures? If so, how? Weren't they banned?

Meow	03-20-2016 03:32 PM

No, for the action figures and their accessories nothing was left away or similar.

Mew	03-20-2016 03:57 PM

So there were nunchucks?

Meow	03-20-2016 05:04 PM

Absolutely no doubt there were and there still are haha ^^

Mew	03-20-2016 06:41 PM

Interesting. I thought Nunchucks were banned.

Discogod

03-20-2016 07:10 PM

They were basically forbidden from being shown in films and TV shows, as it was deemed "imitable behaviour" - there was a spate of nunchuk-related injuries during the kung-fu craze in the 1970s, and it was easy to make a set, plus the guy in charge of censorship hated them, so they were basically edited out of everything.

The toys, comics & games still had them though.

Mew	03-21-2016 05:34 AM

Wonder how that went through censors.

Candy Kappa

03-21-2016 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Mew (Post 1560175)

Wonder how that went through censors.

Cause removing toy accessories would be too much work.

Discogod

03-21-2016 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Mew (Post 1560175)

Wonder how that went through censors.

Only films & TV were subject to any censorship, from the British Board of Film Classification. They didn't have the power to censor toys.

Mew	03-21-2016 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Discogod (Post 1560193)

Only films & TV were subject to any censorship, from the British Board of Film Classification. They didn't have the power to censor toys.

Oh. Didn't know that. Was the 1990 film censored?

Discogod

03-22-2016 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Mew (Post 1560293)

Oh. Didn't know that. Was the 1990 film censored?

Yep, absolutely butchered to remove any scene featuring the 'chuks. Pretty much ruined the ending, too. Luckily we have the original movies & cartoon on DVD in their unedited form now.

Mew	03-22-2016 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Discogod (Post 1560529)

Yep, absolutely butchered to remove any scene featuring the 'chuks. Pretty much ruined the ending, too. Luckily we have the original movies & cartoon on DVD in their unedited form now.

That sucked. :/

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