What if Nick/Viacom had never bought the TMNT property?

*Prowler* · 07-27-2019, 04:56 PM

Remember how everyone was unsure what was gonna happen after the 2k3 series ended? People wondered if Laird was gonna finish volume 4 and also feared there'd never be another TMNT cartoon, movie or videogame in the future. People feared the death of the property. Seems crazy these days, but the 2k3 series came out at a time where reviving older properties still wasn't that common like it is today. So people probably assumed that 2k3 was gonna be a one off thing that mostly existed due to Laird's efforts and then it would quickly fade away. The show, while successful enough, wasn't THAT big and the fact pretty much no one outside big TMNT fans remember it really speaks for its legacy.

So let's say the property would have gone dormant again after Turtles Forever and the 25th anniversary and that Nick/Viacom didn't buy it. What do you think it would have happened?

I'd say the franchise would stay dead for some more years until, perhaps, Disney acquired it and tried to put the Turtles in a crossover with Marvel characters like the X-Men. This decade has been full of revivals and remakes, and TMNT was a VERY big hit from the late 80s/early 90s, so I doubt the big dogs would have just let it die and not jump on the opportunity to revive it and cash on it while the retro nostalgia trend was still hot.

So yeah, probably Disney would have acquired the property eventually... would that really have been better? At least I doubt we'd have gotten the Bay turds, but perhaps we'd have gotten other crappy stuff as well.

Thoughts?

07-27-2019, 04:56 PM	#1
Prowler Emperor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,999	What if Nick/Viacom had never bought the TMNT property? Remember how everyone was unsure what was gonna happen after the 2k3 series ended? People wondered if Laird was gonna finish volume 4 and also feared there'd never be another TMNT cartoon, movie or videogame in the future. People feared the death of the property. Seems crazy these days, but the 2k3 series came out at a time where reviving older properties still wasn't that common like it is today. So people probably assumed that 2k3 was gonna be a one off thing that mostly existed due to Laird's efforts and then it would quickly fade away. The show, while successful enough, wasn't THAT big and the fact pretty much no one outside big TMNT fans remember it really speaks for its legacy. So let's say the property would have gone dormant again after Turtles Forever and the 25th anniversary and that Nick/Viacom didn't buy it. What do you think it would have happened? I'd say the franchise would stay dead for some more years until, perhaps, Disney acquired it and tried to put the Turtles in a crossover with Marvel characters like the X-Men. This decade has been full of revivals and remakes, and TMNT was a VERY big hit from the late 80s/early 90s, so I doubt the big dogs would have just let it die and not jump on the opportunity to revive it and cash on it while the retro nostalgia trend was still hot. So yeah, probably Disney would have acquired the property eventually... would that really have been better? At least I doubt we'd have gotten the Bay turds, but perhaps we'd have gotten other crappy stuff as well. Thoughts?