"Be patient. It’s going to be okay. We’re being respectful of the franchise.”

[Rooish]

I dunno, looking through this thread, if someone comes up with goddawful designs and completely changes well-established characters and adds magic and other weird gimmicks, maybe they should be reassuring that they're going to be respectful of the franchise? It begs the question, in what way are you planning to be respectful of the franchise?

Yes, yes, it's a kids' show and adult hardcore fans should not expect kids' shows to cater to them, but it does affect the franchise as a whole for adult fans who want new adult-oriented content. Plus, cartoons for kids are written by adults and often have stuff adults can enjoy (the Nick cartoon was obviously enjoyed by many adults), so it makes sense that hardcore fans might get invested in a new cartoon that's coming out.

Plus every time they come out with something new it shifts all the new material that is released, henceforth. Subtle changes to the characters and designs that bleed into the other content, such as the IDW comics (which are the closest thing to enjoyable adult content that we're getting right now, and even they are kind of immature at times). Like, Don's stupid oblong head and tooth gap showed up in IDW, and Michelangelo becoming more and more of the runt of the litter. All this new stuff also fundamentally misunderstands Raph, who I never thought really wanted to be the leader but really didn't want Leo bossing him around. Not to mention it misunderstands Don and Mike who are not blind followers and would probably never follow Raph's impulsive nonsense.

We have every right to be annoyed with really ugly bizarre new content, even if we just complain to each other. No, people should not be abusive to the creators of these cartoons, although Ciro kind of brought it on himself with his treatment of the Don/April thing and his comments about female characters.

Although April looks like a pretty cool change. Love how nerdy she looks.