Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
 

I've heard that because nunchakus were banned in the UK, Peter Laird & Kevin Eastman had to make two versions of the Ninja Turtles show, they even had to rename it Hero Turtles, not Ninja Turtles. As Michelangelo's weapon of choice was banned in the UK, they replaced it with a grapple hook. Is this true? Just rumours is all I've heard.

True, but it hasn't got anything to do with Eastman and Laird, and the name was changed because Ninja was a banned word in UK.

It was changed because the ridiculously over sensitive UK censors thought the word "ninja" was too violent, ditto with the 'chunks.

They banned the word ninja? They banned naunchakus? Not katanas? I hope they banned some weapons a little worse than them, like maybe guns! That's is crazy! :sick:

Ironic somehow isn't it that the Brittish can banned naunchakus but it's okay for them to have nuclear bombs.

Very ironic! I can't imagine why they did that! :x

Stupidity is why...Pure stupidity.

Well said Malignant, well said.

Somebody, please, hold me back, since I'm having a hard time keeping myself from beating the living bejesus out of whoever said the taboo "H" word...

*sigh*...That should be a new forum rule: any reference of TMHT should result in a warning at the very least :evilgrin:

Weren't the nunchucks also banned in the US? :-?

Yes, but not before season 4.

The UK banned them BEFORE season 4??? In Germany we also had the Hero Turtles but I saw a lot of episodes with Nunchakus.

Yep, Michelangelo seemed to disappear when the fights started.

What goods a grapple hook in a fight? Unless you just use it as a strangle wire.

Nunchuks ARE worse than katanas.

Beyond that, they have/had a gang connection.

Sayonara.

How'd you come to that conclusion? While some people have had suffered a broken jaw from nunchakus, many have been decapitated by katanas, or any other sword for that reason.

In some ways 'chucks are worse than katanas, ever seen a Bruce Lee movie? he made the 'chucks look brutal.

Well that might be so, but what about guns?

Please, lock this thread already...it's too much for me to keep seeing the references to the dreaded "H" word :dead:

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is this better ot worse than the march?