Kids who grew up with TMNT in the 2000's as opposed to the 80's/90's

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Originally Posted by sdp

Its a hard topic to reply to, especially since people are going to give very biased opinions like on the "comparing fads" topic I made a few months ago. Choppy's post might be the only real insight from a fan who was a kid then we may get. I don't think 2k3 made many new hardcore fans, or we'd see more of them here, I'm sure there were a few hardcore fans but most of the kids who liked 2k3 likely saw it as "another show" that they liked.

While Turtlemania was nowhere as big the second time around... Remember that most of those 2nd Generation Turtle fans aren't old enough yet. There comes a certain age, when, you start looking back fondly on the things you loved as a kid. For most the 2K3 fans, they aren't at that age yet.

My cousin was a huge 2K3 fan... but he's only 15 now. Not old enough to care about a show that just went away a few years ago and too old to admitting he likes cartoons. When he's 20 or 25, he'll likely become part of Turtles fandoms.