Does anyone here still enjoy the 80s series?

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Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

Yes, Nickelodeon. It seems to take most inspirations from the 1987 cartoon.

Difficult to pin down, most of what it pulls from that series were the toy characters (who rarely ever popped up) and the general status quo is quite different. April isn't a newsreporter (meaning no channel six crew), Kraang is split up into a hivemind race, Bebop is Michael Jackson, Shredder is an actual villain etc. You get the idea, almost everything has been reimagined to a ridiculous degree, sometimes to an unrecognisable point (such as the Neutrinos).

Not to mention the fact that story is very loosly based on the old Mirage story. You know the drill:

1. Revenge backstory
2. Rooftop fight with Shredder
3. Infiltration of TCRI
4. Escape from NYC
5. Farmhouse
6. Return from farmhouse
7. Zog
8. Space adventures with the Fugitoid
9. Gang war following Shredder's defeat (coming after hiatus)

It's a pretty bare bones adaptation of the story with mostly new material but it's still clearly there.