What made you a TMNT fan?

[GreasyBoi]

At first I went to GameCrazy(back in 2003) and bought my first ever TMNT game. It was the 2003 game from Konami. I started to play my game in my evil sister's room and kept playing it for the next couple hours. Then I started buying TMNT Toys and TMNT Games. That's how I started liking TMNT.

[Buffy]

I started to like the turtles with the old toon show. Since then I've been a big fan.

[Raph's Girl]

When I was 6 my parents saved a turtle that was in the middle of the road. They braught it home (we were always saving animals back then) and when I came home from school I was surprised with said turtle. We kept it for a couple days and I looked up some info on turtles at the library (I was such a book worm back then) and took the turtle for show and tell at school and then we set him free. I've loved turtles ever since then.

A year later the TMNT series premiered and I was of course excited about a tv series about super hero turtles. I was already into superheroes (aye I was a tomboy) from watching Superfriends and Spidey and his Amazing friends as well as He-Man (I had He-Man and She Ra action figures when I was 4 or 5)...so a tv series about crime fighting turtles was right up my ally. Been a fan from the start. Course back then I was more into Don than Raph *L*

[VaughnMichael]

You know I can't really remember if it was the old cartoon or the toys that got me hooked.
I believe it was the toys because I was really into action figures around the time turtles first hit the shelves and didn't know what it was yet.
I was into things like G.I. Joe, Trashbag Bunch, M.U.S.C.L.E., & Silver Hawks.
So I was totally into the turtles from the first time I saw them without even knowing what they where from yet, and about a week later I think the show started on sundays here on fox I would pretend to be sick just so I wouldn't miss it because of church lol.
I then found the archie comics series around issue 4 or 5 at a local 7-11 so I became even more adicted to the boys in green.
I'd say around the middle of the Archie series my aunts boyfriend showed me the Mirage series and I started getting that.
So that's how it all started with my fandom and I probably won't stop untill I pass on.

[NightwatchersOnlygirl]

The old toon when it came on the tv in the UK it was called Hero Turtles back in 1990 that's when I became a fan of TMNT

[Scandia]

Watching the OT- first began in the 6th or 7th grade. Somewhere in the 8th grade I realized I could not live without it.

[Guitar_Raph]

Don't hate me for saying this, Comin Out of Their Shells.

It was cool to see TMNT as a band. As Splinter told them, you can accomplish more with an (musical) instrument than a weapon in hand.

First time I saw them was on a Larry King special back in November 1990 on NBC.

[Jester]

I watched the old toon, but like my pally Putrescent, I'm not sure if the toys were what got me as well. I remember getting Raph and Don first, because we couldn't find Mike and Leo.

[Buslady]

Raph made me a fan with his wit and charm.

[CudleyCowlick]

No doubt it was the OT's theme song. I just went insane when that came on, jump-kicking around the living room, knocking furniture over and scattering cats and dogs with my "ninja action". Then I'd settle in about 2 1/2 inches away from the TV screen and sit quietly at full attention for the entire show.

Then came the birthday when I got my first TMNT figures. It must have been '89 already 'cuz one of them was the first Undercover Don. If memory serves me, I also got Splinter and a mutant display stand Mike.

[TheUltimateShredhead]

It was seeing rocksteady in a comic book actually

[Raph]

When I was 8 I heard about the cartoon starting here in Holland in 1988. I missed the first episode back then, and even a year later with some re-runs I still missed the first ep. I was able to see it for the first time when the 2nd movie came out (didnt have internet or season VHS tapes, ya know)

The OT got me hooked, I was completely in my element, watching TMNT while eating pizza and having milk from my TMNT mug. Then the figures came, and I asked my mom, could I please have one! I took Don (the rest was sold out) but a year later I had vehicles, all the main characters. Bought the Archie comics (released by JuniorPress here in Holland). It wasn't until the year 2000 that I found out about/and were able to get Mirage comics and Image comics. I thought that was the coolest thing ever to find U.S comics in Holland. So I've always been hooked cause of the OT

[ToTheNines]

It was kind of unavoidable back in the day, ya know? What made me the fan I am today was being really bored one day and popping in TMNT III: The Manhattan Project. I got smacked in the face with nostalgia and then decided to buy anything TMNT related, shortly after the 2k3 toon premeried and that finalized it

[NameGoesHere1066]

The old cartoon got hooked into it.

[ToxicRevolution]

I don't know, I was too young to catch the beginning of the Turtle craze (I was born in 1990), but by the time I was 3, 4, or 5, whenever it was, I was into all the Saturday morning shows, mostly Turtles and the original Power Rangers. I was lucky to still have new Turtles episodes and re-runs, and I had a bunch of VHS tapes of episodes, action figures, video games, etc. Of course, for some reason around 10 or 11 I decided to let my mom get rid of my old action figures because I was "too old" for them, then around 13 or 14 I got back into the Turtles and regretted not having my old toys any more.

[Kendamu]

Back in the late '80s, when my local FOX station replaced The Real Ghostbusters with TMNT in their weekday afternoon block, I was initially skeptical for about 2 seconds, then I got sucked in by the intro. The episode where Baxter was turned into a fly was the first episode I saw. It was such a cool show that I was immediately hooked. It also explained what that green action figure I had with the orange mask and the strange weapons was.

[NameGoesHere1066]

how many of you bought the toys with out realizing what the heck the figures where?

[Lil G]

i probably have the weirdest story on this post...

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when i was 4 years old i went to my cousins house, abi and chi cha with my little brother jj. i was playing that gun game that you have to shoot those ducks and that dog or something and then my little cousin abi (3 years old at the time) turned off the game and popped in a tmnt video (the OT) and told me to sit down on the bed and watch it. im like "no. put the game back on." and he all of a sudden comes over and pushes me on the bed. i got up and ran out of the room. i went into the living room and saw abi whispering in chi cha's ear, while i was playing with some animal toys.

then all of a sudden they come over and push me over and drag me to the room (chicha was 2 at the time but he is big and muscular for his age and has always been like that. at the time you would think he's my age). Chicha comes in with a chair and told me to sit down on it. im said no so they came over and beat me up for like 15 seconds and they stop and chicha picks me up and puts me on the dinner table chair. abi ties like 4 blankets to the chair and popped in the OT tmnt video. chi cha was holding the blanket while abi was standing at the door making sure i didn't escape. so i just rolled along, and halfway through it i liked it andd told them that and they let me go only to watch it. it was the episode "sky turtles" because i remeber the turtle blimp and everything floating.
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i know you think this is a lie but it's not. we were crazy when we were little and i have a great memory. i mean, how do you forget something like that?

[NameGoesHere1066]

I think it's kinda strange that you would say right off the bat that we'd think your story is a lie...

[Kendamu]

Originally Posted by NameGoesHere1066

how many of you bought the toys with out realizing what the heck the figures where?

I was three or four years old. My mom bought the figure I had for me because I wanted a new toy and she thought that TMNT was an interesting concept that I might end up getting into.