Is Turtlemania more of an 80s or 90s phenomenon, in your mind?

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Yeah, there was no real TMNT around at the time for whose good name NT:TNM could tarnish beyond the Image comic, which was hardly apples to apples. All we had to hope for at the time was a nebulous fourth movie that kept sounding worse and worse with every snippet that would come out about it. That maybe, maybe it wouldn't be nearly as bad as it sounded like.

The bit about "the Turtles being aliens" or something? I remember the outrage over it at the time.

And, ofc course. Eric Sachs as Shredder.

They, surprisingly, ended up going back on those ideas. I'm still not sure whether it was due to fan backlash...