TMNT 1987 Season 9 scheduled for DVD release on August 16th!

[Vegita-San]

While season 9 does look a tad cheaper in the frame rate and design department....The one thing that always bugged me was the color changes in the turtles....Their plastron is really off...and skin almost has a brownish color...

[LeoNerdo]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

Season 9 having a unique animation style, is totally news to me. Interesting....

I am aware that seasons 8-10 adopt the "Red Sky" style, but could someone clear up the difference between seasons 8 and 9?

They are slight design differences but it is more noticeable when you see it in motion.
Here are a few screen grabs from some season 8 episodes credited to Dai Won Animation:


and then some season 9 episodes credited to Shanghai Morning Sun Animation:


And then season 10 episodes that went back to Dai Won:

[ToTheNines]

Huh, I don't like how season 9 ditches the green around the eyes. That was the neatest thing about the Red Sky character designs.

[prophecy718]

it seems i'm in the minority, but i actually like the season 9 design

that's just me

[sdp]

When you look at those screen shots and compare them to the silliest moments the OT or even the Turtles Forever OT turtles you can hardly believe its the same cartoon, heck in those last seasons they seem even more serious than the 2k3 turtles did in some of the later seasons. However the change is also not that drastic, if you see the pilot you can totally see how they are the same turtles as the sillier seasons and the later seasons, its not like there is a big discrepancy in personality it was done really well.

[ABrown]

Originally Posted by prophecy718

it seems i'm in the minority, but i actually like the season 9 design

Everyone and everything looked fine in season nine to me. I had no complaints. It's not like the animation looked as bad as it did back in seasons 3-4.

[Jester]

For me it's April's hair...that's the biggest "ick" of season nine's designs for me.

[CyberCubed]

I find it funny that Carter's mutation never really made sense. He didn't transform into any animal...he just became some hulking beast with a mohawk.

I guess it was just intended to look cool, I know as a kid I wanted a toy of his mutated form.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I find it funny that Carter's mutation never really made sense. He didn't transform into any animal...he just became some hulking beast with a mohawk.

I guess it was just intended to look cool, I know as a kid I wanted a toy of his mutated form.

Hell I want that fig now lol!

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Jester

For me it's April's hair...that's the biggest "ick" of season nine's designs for me.

That, and the rest of her design just seems off somehow in season 9. Maybe she's shorter and fatter looking..but I can't seem to place it.

It's interesting looking at the screen comparisons. Same company for 8 and 10...but for season 10, they seemed to merge the season 9 and 10 animation styles, giving it a truly cohesive look..

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

That, and the rest of her design just seems off somehow in season 9. Maybe she's shorter and fatter looking..but I can't seem to place it.

It's interesting looking at the screen comparisons. Same company for 8 and 10...but for season 10, they seemed to merge the season 9 and 10 animation styles, giving it a truly cohesive look..

Yeah, I think in season 8 April's hair was the same, but eventually either mid-season of 8 or in this one, it was just.... lazy. Either she had a new style, or the animators were lazy to add all the extra lines and detail in her hair and gave her this sloppy sharp-edged wannabe version of her original hairstyle.

Bodywise, her outfit is either... looser, or she lost a bit of T&A in Red Sky. Sorry to sound pervy, but she doesn't seem to have that big round butt in those brown pants like she did when she wore the yellow jumpsuit.

[ToTheNines]

Finally started watching this season, and I gotta say that I like the animation a lot better so far. Paired with the less drab color scheme, this season feels more at home in the Fred Wolf universe than season 8 did.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I find it funny that Carter's mutation never really made sense. He didn't transform into any animal...he just became some hulking beast with a mohawk.

Well the mutagen had "become unstable", so the previous rules didn't apply.

[pannoni1]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Yeah, I think in season 8 April's hair was the same, but eventually either mid-season of 8 or in this one, it was just.... lazy. Either she had a new style, or the animators were lazy to add all the extra lines and detail in her hair and gave her this sloppy sharp-edged wannabe version of her original hairstyle.

Bodywise, her outfit is either... looser, or she lost a bit of T&A in Red Sky. Sorry to sound pervy, but she doesn't seem to have that big round butt in those brown pants like she did when she wore the yellow jumpsuit.

Even Season 8 and Season 9 April are noticeably different, looks and even voicewise. Season 8 has yellow as opposed to beigeish-brown pants of Seasons 9 and 10, and isn't as "pudgy" around the waist. But her eyes went from hazel in Season 8 (after being black for Seasons 1-7) to blue for Seasons 9 and 10. Also, her voice is a little raspier (listen to that independent freelance reporter news report on that one episode and compare that to a Channel 6 report, even from Seasons 7 and 8, and you'll notice the rasp there). To me watching it means that April is now somewhere in her mid-30s agewise in Seasons 9 and 10. But it can be good or bad, as humans age, but mutants perhaps don't! Her role/job however is at a critical crossroads, recently being laid off at Channel 6 and almost has a mid-life crisis feel to it. Splinter's voice sounds older as well, which can be a good thing in terms of natural progression.

I just watched the whole season yesterday, and it's definately not "classic TMNT" compared to the other seasons (even 8 and 10 to a certain extent with Shredder, Krang and the Technodrome). It still beats Next Mutation and is on par with Fast Forward in my opinion. Plus, this season is watchable in around 3 hours, so it goes by pretty quick, and I like to treat Seasons 8, 9, and 10 as separate movies given the better continuity. I do miss some of the butt jokes in the earlier seasons, but Red Sky seasons are proving to age a bit better than the earlier seasons qualitywise. I like the laser gun sound effects of these seasons, and the music always suggests action/tension is nearby.

[ToTheNines]

Finally done. I really really liked this season, but the finale was lame. Thank God they made one more season.

One weird thing I kept noticing, was Rugrats similarities...

Tony Jay's voice is enough, but even Dregg himself reminds me of something of Rugrats when he's putting on his "benevolent alien" act. And so did that one videogame character from Carter and Mike's game. And even some of the musical cues sounded like it was from that show too. Weird.

[gobo]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

One weird thing I kept noticing, was Rugrats similarities...

Is that the breed of vermin Splinter was hyper-mutatin' into maybe? O_o

[mikezilla2]

any clue as to when AU/PAL might get the rest of the seasons or when we might start to see proper film masters or blu rays ? a man can dream.

[Germ]

Is 9 the last season or how many are there?

[Icebot]

Originally Posted by Germ

Is 9 the last season or how many are there?

Second to last, there are 10 seasons.

[The Turtle Terminator]

Originally Posted by mikezilla2

any clue as to when AU/PAL might get the rest of the seasons or when we might start to see proper film masters or blu rays ? a man can dream.

I think that ship has sailed at this point

[Powder]

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