Weird TMNT stories

[Lightjump]

This thread is basically about all the weird stories that have to do with the turtles, they don't have to be from childhood as long as they have to do with the Turtles. For example, when I was six or so I watched the first turtles movie and when April said Casey was a 9-year old stuck in a 20-year Old's body, I thought he really was, I also thought that secret of the ooze was a prequel and that Keno was Casey before he was transformed into a 20-year old! Well just shows how literally I took things back in the day. But I can't wait to see all of the turtle stories you guy's have!

[KirkyMonster]

I used to think everyone at school was crazy for calling Tokka and Razhar, Bebop and Rocksteady. I thought that I was the most knowledgeable in the whole school because of that one thing that I knew how to tell a wolf from a warthog.

Because of the guy with the chainsaw in the first NES game who I thought was Leatherface or Jason Vorhees I thought this was because New Line made the TMNT movie and since New Line made all those Freddy Kruger movies that they wanted one of thir movie monsters to be in the TMNT game. It made perfect sense to me at 5.

I also remember having a conversation with a kid at school where I asked him
"I wonder why there aren't TMNT toys for the first movie?"
He replied
"Their is, they are called the Movie Action Turtles."
Gullible me believed him on that one for way too long, wondering how did I miss those in toy stores, and why aren't there a picture of them on the back of the boxes anymore?

I also thought the pie commercials ending of fresh from the sewer was a factual statement said with pride. "Authentic sewer flavor?" I never ate one by the way lol

[Kanon]

Just one story I remember,

I was watching an episode of the next mutation (I was 12 or so) and my father walks into my room.
He looked at the screen for about 1min and asked me why some lizards fighting some creepy looking turtles.
I said: They are ninja turtles and they are fighting the DRAGONS because they want to save New York.
1min silence then my father asks: Can I watch it with you?

I know Next mutation is horrible, but at least it brought me and my father to watch it together

[blindturtle02]

There was this one kid at school who kept crying,"Technodrome," so to speak. This was back in the very early 90's, and I was a first grader at the time. This kid lied about everything and he swore up and down they made a technodrome. I wonder if this toy was rare because no one in Texarkana/Hooks Texas had the friggin thing. I asked my mom if I could go to the Mall on a particular Saturday, so she took me and a buddy of mine to KB Toys.(I think that was the same Saturday we played hell out of the TMNT arcade game.) Low and behold, there it was. They had tuns of them, so I knew right then and there that I'd found what I wanted for my 8th birthday. It was weird to me because the chronic liar was telling the truth for once.

[miru]

I used to think Shredder was a robot.

[Jephael]

I remember being at some soccer game. I can't remember if my sister was playing or one of my cousins, but all I remember is having a couple of my TMNT figures with me and some kid told me they actually killed people. Of course back then I knew nothing of the Mirage comics, so naturally I thought he was talking about the Turtles of the cartoon series. Sometimes I wish I could go back to that moment and have a more meaningful conversation with that kid about the Ninja Turtles.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Jephael

I remember being at some soccer game. I can't remember if my sister was playing or one of my cousins, but all I remember is having a couple of my TMNT figures with me and some kid told me they actually killed people. Of course back then I knew nothing of the Mirage comics, so naturally I thought he was talking about the Turtles of the cartoon series. Sometimes I wish I could go back to that moment and have a more meaningful conversation with that kid about the Ninja Turtles.

I used to think I was a TMNT expert - and I was when it came to 1987 cartoon, Archie comics, movies and UK Hero Turtles comics. I knew every character and storyline. Just didn't know who Karai was when it came to the Tournament Fighters videogame, because I knew she wasn't in the 1987 cartoon. I almost felt ashamed, and thought almost nobody in Sweden knew asw much as me.

That would change some days back in late 2003-early 2004, when I used the Internet to re-discover the TMNT.

[billbot85]

When I was around 5 or 6, there was a grand opening of a new Blockbuster Video in my town, and I went with my parents since the even was geared towards kids as well. The best thing about this grand opening was that it had none other than the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES coming there to greet all the kids.

Well, despite my love for TMNT at the time, I guess seeing them in person was a bit too overstimulating for me. Before we entered the store, a guy in a huge mascot-sized Raphael costume started walking up to us. My parents said to me,"Hey, Bill, look! It's Raphael! Do you wanna go up to him and say hi?!" And of course, I freaked out got scared, especially considering the costume seemed so big. I guess it just overwhelmed me, I didn't do so well with people in giant mascot costumes.

I freaked out, closed my eyes, and screamed "NO! NO! NO!" as I turned and buried myself into my mother's arms, hoping that the big ninja turtle monstrosity would disappear. Then my parents said, "Oh look, he's walking away now." I open my eyes and see Raph walking away. Then my dad had the nerve to say, "You hurt his feelings." So, of course I felt bad about it, I didn't want to hurt the feelings of my HEROES of all things. So I called out to him and said, "Hi!" And luckily, he turned and waved back. My family and I went inside Blockbuster, and I felt better being around these giant Ninja Turtles, and even interacted with a guy in a Leonardo costume. Needless to say, it was an awesome grand opening for a video store. I mean, how many store grand openings had something like the TMNT?

I can only imagine what the guy in that Raphael costume was thinking when I lost my sh*t.

[zodiac brave]

i remember being in kindergarten and coming back to school on the monday after having seen the first flick for the first time and one of the "big kids" told me that part 2 was already out and that he had seen it already. He told me he would only tell me about it if i gave him this little micro machines helicopter i had that looked exactly like airwolf.

so i did. i was a gulli bull.

but damn...the story he told me kinda excites me to this day, lol. i dont remember it exactly, but he said that krang was in it and so were bebop and rocksteady and that they used machine guns to shoot at the turtles.

in my 7 year old mind, after just experiencing the magic of the henson created suits, the idea of what bebop and rocksteady would look like in that style got me so freakin pumped!

when i got home i raved to my mom about it and told her we needed to go see it. she told me he was lying and then got mad at me for giving away my "airwolf". lol. total let down...

but to this day i have this image thats never left me of a henson created rocksteady grabbing a machine gun off a gun rack and walking off all bad@ss to do some damage.

heh.

[Netkeeper]

I used to think live action Splinter was a ferret but they were just calling him a rat because of the cartoon/they didn't know what a ferret was. It made sense to young-me, since nobody at school knew what a ferret was either!

[snake]

Originally Posted by Netkeeper

I used to think live action Splinter was a ferret but they were just calling him a rat because of the cartoon/they didn't know what a ferret was. It made sense to young-me, since nobody at school knew what a ferret was either!

http://i.imgur.com/GNXRxOr.png http://i.imgur.com/LacsS5T.png

Ha. He does look like a Ferret.

[pennydreadful]

Originally Posted by Netkeeper

I used to think live action Splinter was a ferret but they were just calling him a rat because of the cartoon/they didn't know what a ferret was. It made sense to young-me, since nobody at school knew what a ferret was either!

http://i.imgur.com/GNXRxOr.png http://i.imgur.com/LacsS5T.png

That ferret is so adorable!

[Stugehen]

Sadly growing up I looked similar to this kid so everyone at school kept making the connection...I didn't think so...I definitely don't now, but maybe I'm just wishing I didn't.

Danny was lame...

[Candy Kappa]

When I was studying in the UK, I was standing in a queue at the local KFC (I'm fat and love that stuff). I was wearing a shirt with the TMNT logo on, and just waits for my food to arrive. Then this very drunk woman walked in, and she noticed my short and went bananas. She told how much her son loved the Turtles and she wanted to take the shirt off me and take it with her. Luckily I exited the joint with my food and shirt

[BlisterStockboy]

I was born in 1996, so I didn't get to experience the OT when it first aired, but we had some of the original episodes on VHS, in particular "Case of the Killer Pizzas"

For some strange reason I remember having my first lettuce/turkey/mustard sandwich while watching that episode when I was like five years old? I have no clue why that sticks out in my head so much.

[DevilSpooky]

When I was a kid I carried this little guys around with me everywhere I went.

Two stories are still fresh in my mind:

1st: I went to draw blood to know what type I was, I was sitting down with one of them on my hand, when the doctor was getting ready to put the needle in he told me to squeeze the turtle as hard as I could so I did, then it all went dark, I passed out, when I opened my eyes I saw my turtle on the floor and I had my head between my knees, but the poor thing felt like it was miles away from me, my mother then took me to eat something

2nd: I was at my father's work place and was playing around with them when one of my father's co-worker started talking with me about them, he then asked me where was Shredder, I told him I didn't have him, only had the 4 turtles, he then told me I had to have Shredder for them to fight with and gave me this: I flipped out and tried to kiss him and my father told me men didn't kiss each other, I told him I knew that and gave him an hand shake. Obviously now the Shredder was much bigger then the turtles so my parents had to buy me the 4 turtles from playmates too

[pennydreadful]

Devil, I love the story of how you got your Shredder - that's lovely.

[zodiac brave]

Originally Posted by DevilSpooky

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...K3ptS-V84Q.jpg

When I was a kid I carried this little guys around with me everywhere I went.

Two stories are still fresh in my mind:

1st: I went to draw blood to know what type I was, I was sitting down with one of them on my hand, when the doctor was getting ready to put the needle in he told me to squeeze the turtle as hard as I could so I did, then it all went dark, I passed out, when I opened my eyes I saw my turtle on the floor and I had my head between my knees, but the poor thing felt like it was miles away from me, my mother then took me to eat something

2nd: I was at my father's work place and was playing around with them when one of my father's co-worker started talking with me about them, he then asked me where was Shredder, I told him I didn't have him, only had the 4 turtles, he then told me I had to have Shredder for them to fight with and gave me this: http://images.comiccollectorlive.com...b3a3f7b88f.jpg I flipped out and tried to kiss him and my father told me men didn't kiss each other, I told him I knew that and gave him an hand shake. Obviously now the Shredder was much bigger then the turtles so my parents had to buy me the 4 turtles from playmates too

seriously, that shredder story gave me all the feels! lol!

[xChri5x]

When I was a kid, I have this memory of seeing a copy of TMNT 3 on vhs in the video store (rental place) that had a different cover than the standard one that I saw mostly everywhere:

(I'm in Canada btw)

I vaguely remember it being very similar to the one above (being mostly yellowy). I've tried googling this many years later, but I can't seem to find anything that stands out. I know there is the cover from the UK:



But I'm pretty sure it looked nothing like that and like I said, more like the yellow one. I honestly don't remember anything about this mystery cover, other than being different yet similar in colour... and enough for me to have a memory about it.

[BlisterStockboy]

Also, I'm not sure if this technically counts as "weird" but this was from my YearBook

*note the QTLB (Quote to Live By)*