How it all began

[Wesley]

I remember first watching the How It All Began video when I was 7 or 8. I thought it was good at the time, as I didn't pay much attention to what was going on in tv shows when I was around that age. I started paying more attention when I was 9. I watched the early seasons on rte two in 1995 and I realised that a lot of stuff had been cut from the video's episodes. I think it covered most of season one and part of season two. It ended with the episode The Mean Machines which I thought was anti climatic.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

All we can say when reading this is:

Be happy we live in the age of DVD and Bluray!

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

The Epic begins is season 1 edited into a movie special.

How it all Began is season 1 + season 3 episode Blast from the Past, edited into a movie special.

Correct!

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

A lot of foreign language dubs of American cartoons are poorly done, and that's why the cartoons bomb over there and get canceled. They can be broadcast in english with subtitles (like how people watch anime with english subtitles), for young kids if they don't know english yet.

English is taught everywhere in the world, I'm sure most kids learn it in grade school even in foreign lands.

Except for the last paragraph I kinda agree with you for the most part.

F*ck dubs. I still remember when American and Japanese cartoons got subbed here and kids who grew up in the 80s/early 90s didn't have any trouble keeping up with the plot of said shows. Besides, listening to foreign languages when you're younger helps a lot learning them. I grew up playing games such as Ocarina of Tine, Pokemon Red, Star Fox 64, etc. in English as a kid as did tons of people from my generation and it paid off on a long term.

What's worse really is dubbing live action flicks. Main reason I could never live in a place like France/Germany/Italy/Spain. Every damn thing is dubbed in those places

[Meow]

My portugal friend, see how the brand/origin thread of yours is tightly linked together with this post? Of course there is a lot of stuff being provided to you the easy way but isn't it up to you to choose? Yes, I absolutely hear you saying that sometimes you don't get much of a choice or that availability is a matter as well making it difficult.

But yet again I'd like to mention that "difficult" does not imply "impossible" while on the other hand let people do their thing and what they prefer to go for. I couldn't force people watching 8 mile in its original language and neither would I want to back then so why have a hard time yourself and not have people making their own experiences?

I'm not even sure if we're still on topic anymore lmao

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Meow

My portugal friend, see how the brand/origin thread of yours is tightly linked together with this post? Of course there is a lot of stuff being provided to you the easy way but isn't it up to you to choose? Yes, I absolutely hear you saying that sometimes you don't get much of a choice or that availability is a matter as well making it difficult.

But yet again I'd like to mention that "difficult" does not imply "impossible" while on the other hand let people do their thing and what they prefer to go for. I couldn't force people watching 8 mile in its original language and neither would I want to back then so why have a hard time yourself and not have people making their own experiences?

I'm not even sure if we're still on topic anymore lmao

Well, you got me there, brosef.

But I don't think it's really the same thing, tbh. I mean, sure dubbing technically creates more jobs, but lots of times the VAs we use for dubbing here are celebrities that are known for doing other stuff, like actual acting in tv shows or stand up comedy. Thus, it ends up creating a circle/clique of people. Pretty much every dubbed cartoon/anime I've seen here had voices I've heard before. It's not exactly a big industry here like it is in places like the USA or other European countries where dubbing is a tradition.

Don't wanna force anyone to do anything since nowadays I can just find stuff online in the original language. Funnily enough, nowadays games are starting to get translated into Portuguese. Especially Nintendo ones since the distribution changed to Iberian Nintendo. It's kinda odd for me since I grew up playing games in English you know? So I can't help but change the language into English. I mean sure, most games are originally in Japanese, so technically I'm playing a dub, but I can't understand Japanese and won't learn it just to play games, screw that, man

Plus, being from a small country without much international projection, we gotta learn a foreign language or two in order to increase our job prospects. If we were a more "desirable" and profitable market, we could just stick to our own language and tell others to learn it, but that's not case. Although, that's not holding countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark or the Netherlands back, now is it?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

To get even more confusing: Swedish Mediadatabse lists "Så började det hela", which is "The Epic Begins", as originally titled "How it all Began". I had that videofilm and also recall reading that on the cover.

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/000120141

So maybe also "The Epic Begins" has been released to video in the UK or the USA as "How it all Began"!

[Jukka]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

So maybe also "The Epic Begins" has been released to video in the UK or the USA as "How it all Began"!

That would be way in Finland it was handled. (Possibly scandinavia?)

The DVD (and VHS) cover with Leo holding sewer cover and rest behind him. And title "How it All Began" is the finnish version "Kuinka Kaikki Alkoi".

From the finnish name, it translates into "How it all began" but apparently its actually "The Epic Begins" for others?


I really thought for all these years that "How It All Began" meant the same for everyone. First five episodes from season 1 just in truncated fashion.


I have never seen the video-clip attached to the start of this thread. It was not released here as far as I can tell. And I actually thought it was a fan-made edit.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Jukka

That would be way in Finland it was handled. (Possibly scandinavia?)

The DVD (and VHS) cover with Leo holding sewer cover and rest behind him. And title "How it All Began" is the finnish version "Kuinka Kaikki Alkoi".

From the finnish name, it translates into "How it all began" but apparently its actually "The Epic Begins" for others?


I really thought for all these years that "How It All Began" meant the same for everyone. First five episodes from season 1 just in truncated fashion.


I have never seen the video-clip attached to the start of this thread. It was not released here as far as I can tell. And I actually thought it was a fan-made edit.

It's the same in Sweden. "Så började det hela" in Swedish means "How It All Began" but is "The Epic Begins".

[Meow]

I knew I could rely on my stomach feeling once more and here it is, the "Wie alles begann" german version of "How it all began" I mentioned in one of my posts here in this thread, after recovering the stickeralbum from my mums attic

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Meow

I knew I could rely on my stomach feeling once more and here it is, the "Wie alles begann" german version of "How it all began" I mentioned in one of my posts here in this thread, after recovering the stickeralbum from my mums attic

But is "Wie alles begann" really "How it all Began" or "The Epic Begins" (we've discussed the differences here)?

[Meow]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

But is "Wie alles begann" really "How it all Began" or "The Epic Begins" (we've discussed the differences here)?

Since the stickeralbum is in sections showing off several of the main characters (villians not included) and introduces the story, you'll get about the first 5 minutes of the video from the original post in this thread covered in the first section of the sticker album.

The only "How it all began" occurence for german fans is the one in the sticker album. There is no comic, no comic tv show episode or similar showing the exact same and entire content or even containing that same name as the video does. That said I'd also say the same about "The epic begins" which is absolutely inexistent in the german area.

[Halfshell81]

I remember it....

[ZariusTwo]

I've brought this "gem" up a couple of times on here in the past. The censoring is absolutely staggering in it.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Of course there is. C'mon now. You knew what this place was when you registered. At least I'd hope.

No, I didn't. Or at least I had a different idea of what this place is.
Maybe it was false nostalgia, since I visited this forum for the first time 13 years ago.