Turtles bits, not bacon bits, of random remarks and thoughts

Ubiqtysync · 01-02-2003, 03:20 PM

Shredder's real name is Oruko (I think) Saki. Isn't saki some Japanese beverage? Ha, Shred-Head's named after an ancient Japanese secret Energy Boost soft drink.

In my opinion, there's no funnier sight than the Rat King on a sewer jet-ski in the Sega Genesis's TMNT V: The Hyperstone game, which was an amazingly easy game. Along with the often neutral Rat King, there's a hovering pod boss at one point containing a human Baxter Stockman (though having already been transformed into the Fly by this point and after the events in NES's TMNT II: The Arcade Game, he shouldn't be human again) and a hatch-door faucet of Mousers.

I'm pleased to see the turtles' popularity reinvigorated. I thought they completely succumbed to and were left asunder by the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers' reign of terror and Pokemon's dangerously OCD-inclined menace (gotta collect 'em all!). Too bad the fourth TMNT movie couldn't be live-action, now that John Woo's at the helm. Hey, how's 'bout throwing in John Travolta and Nicolas Cage--"Shut the shell up! Hey, watch your shellin' mouth!" I can just picture it now, Broken Shell, Shell/Off, ShellTalkers, even The Replacement Teenage Ninjas or The Big Pizza Slice. I'm being facetious, People.

There were turtle toys matching the comic book characters, like Ace Duck (however much thinner and dressed up like a pilot as opposed to a wrestler), Man Ray, Slash, Merdude, Triceraton, that android, Tattoo, Wingnut and Screwloose, Wyrm, Mondo Gecko, Usagi Yojimbo, Panda "something," the Warrior Dragon, that cockroach mutant, Leatherhead, and Casey Jones. They didn't have Jagwar (heh, heh, named after a brand of cars) and Dreadmon, but they had Dirtbag and Groundchuck, as well as that Punk Frogs quad.

The character of Kid Terra in the TMNT Adventures Archie comic book series was the closest we had to a Casey Jones in this bifurcated universe. Meanwhile, didn't Armaggon become the Archie series's version of the cartoon series's Baxter "The Fly" Stockman? I mean, Armaggon kept getting lost in time and space.

One thing exasperating about the Archie comic book series is how each "flavor of the month" alien is ousting one after another after another for the latest spotlight. Rather than recycling the same alien and perhaps constructing a solid continuity, whenever the writers ran out of ideas, they elected to introduce a NEW alien. The same triteness was incurred by the cartoon series. Instead of three-foot turtles, whatever became of the Neutrinos and Krang's Stone Warriors?

What is always the major setback to having time-travel scenarios and future versions of present characters, such as in the TMNT Adventures Archie comic book series, is the loss of suspense. Though entertaining, think about it, we know for certain the past (or relative to us, the present) turtles will never come to any harm because they're still around in the future (they must). Of course, these type of franchises regularly find a way out of this and conveniently and arbitrarily change their temporal mechanics dogma.

01-02-2003, 03:20 PM	#1
Ubiqtysync Mouser Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 12	Turtles bits, not bacon bits, of random remarks and thoughts Shredder's real name is Oruko (I think) Saki. Isn't saki some Japanese beverage? Ha, Shred-Head's named after an ancient Japanese secret Energy Boost soft drink. In my opinion, there's no funnier sight than the Rat King on a sewer jet-ski in the Sega Genesis's TMNT V: The Hyperstone game, which was an amazingly easy game. Along with the often neutral Rat King, there's a hovering pod boss at one point containing a human Baxter Stockman (though having already been transformed into the Fly by this point and after the events in NES's TMNT II: The Arcade Game, he shouldn't be human again) and a hatch-door faucet of Mousers. I'm pleased to see the turtles' popularity reinvigorated. I thought they completely succumbed to and were left asunder by the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers' reign of terror and Pokemon's dangerously OCD-inclined menace (gotta collect 'em all!). Too bad the fourth TMNT movie couldn't be live-action, now that John Woo's at the helm. Hey, how's 'bout throwing in John Travolta and Nicolas Cage--"Shut the shell up! Hey, watch your shellin' mouth!" I can just picture it now, Broken Shell, Shell/Off, ShellTalkers, even The Replacement Teenage Ninjas or The Big Pizza Slice. I'm being facetious, People. There were turtle toys matching the comic book characters, like Ace Duck (however much thinner and dressed up like a pilot as opposed to a wrestler), Man Ray, Slash, Merdude, Triceraton, that android, Tattoo, Wingnut and Screwloose, Wyrm, Mondo Gecko, Usagi Yojimbo, Panda "something," the Warrior Dragon, that cockroach mutant, Leatherhead, and Casey Jones. They didn't have Jagwar (heh, heh, named after a brand of cars) and Dreadmon, but they had Dirtbag and Groundchuck, as well as that Punk Frogs quad. The character of Kid Terra in the TMNT Adventures Archie comic book series was the closest we had to a Casey Jones in this bifurcated universe. Meanwhile, didn't Armaggon become the Archie series's version of the cartoon series's Baxter "The Fly" Stockman? I mean, Armaggon kept getting lost in time and space. One thing exasperating about the Archie comic book series is how each "flavor of the month" alien is ousting one after another after another for the latest spotlight. Rather than recycling the same alien and perhaps constructing a solid continuity, whenever the writers ran out of ideas, they elected to introduce a NEW alien. The same triteness was incurred by the cartoon series. Instead of three-foot turtles, whatever became of the Neutrinos and Krang's Stone Warriors? What is always the major setback to having time-travel scenarios and future versions of present characters, such as in the TMNT Adventures Archie comic book series, is the loss of suspense. Though entertaining, think about it, we know for certain the past (or relative to us, the present) turtles will never come to any harm because they're still around in the future (they must). Of course, these type of franchises regularly find a way out of this and conveniently and arbitrarily change their temporal mechanics dogma.