[neatoman]

What year did you first discover TMNT?
Not sure. Late 90's early 2000's, certainly before 4Kids at least because I remember it looking different from the other TMNT material I'd seen.

How old were you when you first discovered TMNT?
Between 6 and 9.

What was your first exposure to TMNT (comics, cartoons, toys, films, games etc.)?
Either one of the movies (I do remember watching TMNT III on TV, not sure if I saw one of the first two before that), or an audio cassette adaptation of the Fred Wolf episode where New York is frozen and Leo leaves the team.

What was your first piece of TMNT merchandise that you bought (toys, movies, food product, clothing, games ETC.)
Probably a used toy. Brand new it might have been volume 2 of the Ultimate collection. I got the second one first because it was in stock.

Did you stick with your TMNT fandom, or did you lose interest and get back into it later? If you lost interest, what prompted your rediscovery?
The first piece of TMNT media I ever really cared about enough to watch it all the way through was the 4Kids show. Which I watched uploaded to the internet alone. After it ended there wasn't much to get, the Fred Wolf being a total shitpile became more and more obvious whenever I gave it a shot so I didn't bother being an active fan. The thing that got me interested again was IDW printing up old comics and starting their own series.