Favorite ninja turtle rip-off

[Darth Shredder]

Originally Posted by Neutrino

And the point remains, wiki is not a reliable source

According to Wikipedia, a study proves otherwise.

[syk_skillz]

Street sharks

[SHREDDER-X]

Originally Posted by cowabunga14

Probably Street Sharks.

And then there's this:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_the_Bear

I don't think Boris was a rip off of TMNT. It did spoof and parody all of the other rip off's of TMNT at the time of the B&W comic book explosion and implosion. I think the greatest collection of TMNT spoofs ever collected in comic book form was a 1986 comic book from Blackthorne Publishing called Laffin Gas that featured the following ( trust me, I didn't make any of this up ) ;

- MILDLY MIRCRO-WAVED PRE-PUBESCENT KUNG-FU GOPHERS

- NAIVE INTERDIMENSIONAL KOALAS

- ADOLESCENT MANIACAL SAMURAI HARES

- COLOSSAL NUCLEAR BAMBINO SAMURAI SNAILS

- GUERILLA GOPHERS

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[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Originally Posted by Evenstar227

Battletoads. Only ever played it as a video game/arcade game, though. According to Wikipedia, it's not a rip of TMNT, it's

Wasn't Battletoads around at least 5 years before Beetleborgs?

[Jester]

What abour SWAT Kats?

[CudleyCowlick]

Ditto Cowabunga14 on the Boris the Bear appearances, though I agree that that it's certainly more of a parody of, rather than a inspired by the TMNT.

Really, I'm a huge fan of Street Sharks & Dino Vengers (or Extreme Dinosaurs if you wanna go with the crappy name they ended up going with. The animation was pretty darn good for the time and it doesn't matter what you call them, those were like the sweetest toys around back then and they are still really fun. I'm a diehard MOC collector and those are toys I actually prefer to have loose. Killamari & Spike look so good on my desk!

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by CrazyCowboyDion

those were like the sweetest toys around back then and they are still really fun. I'm a diehard MOC collector and those are toys I actually prefer to have loose. Killamari & Spike look so good on my desk!

Yeah, Street Sharks were easily my favorite toys as a kid (well, I guess I liked Megazords better). I still have mine at my grandmas house, me and my cousins bust them out all the time.

[Darth Shredder]

I'm currently watching Extreme Dinosaurs on YouTube. "Out of Time", the origin episode.

[Raph's Girl]

Samurai Pizza Cats is more or less a parody altho the TMNT are mentioned in the theme song.

Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters is my fave. I have every issue thanks to Wowio. Altho I don't like that they added a female to the group in the new stuff. Meh.

The Kung Fu Kangaroos is a kinda a parody BUT Donatello appears in the first issue.

Boris the Bear is not as much a parody as well somebody who hates everything. He kills off the TMNT (along with Woody Woodpecker, Gummi Bears, Care Bears, and well everyone else) in the 1st issue. But they all seemingly come back to life and get their revenge on him in an issue of Samurai Penguin (which is more or less a Usagi Yojimbo parody). I have yet to read any of the new Boris the Bear stuff. But I totally want to.

Wild West C.O.WBoys of Moo Mesa is not a parody per say since they've teamed up with the TMNT in the comics and appeared in an ep of Fast Forward. It's more or less a spin-off of sorts.

Now the Street Sharks...definatly a parody.

Swat Cats is not. They're not mutants. They're on an alternate earth and they fly jets....

[Blade Raider]

Originally Posted by Mr._Mutant_Man

Wasn't Battletoads around at least 5 years before Beetleborgs?

At least 4 years before Beetleborgs. Hell, Battletoads came out before Power Rangers. So yeah, that wiki intry is wrong unless there proof otherwise.

[Archon_Turtle]

SNAILIENS!

[Darth Shredder]

Oy. Alien snails... :S

[Evenstar227]

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle

SNAILIENS!

I've officially seen it all.

[cowabunga14]

Originally Posted by SHREDDER-X

I don't think Boris was a rip off of TMNT. It did spoof and parody all of the other rip off's of TMNT at the time of the B&W comic book explosion and implosion.

Yes, but he basicaly fought characters that were rip-offs of the Turtles, I guess.

[SHREDDER-X]

Originally Posted by Archon_Turtle

SNAILIENS!

Damn, forgot all about Snailiens ( created by the same dude that did Hamster Vice and Captain Africa). Yeah, they were a rip off too. And all of them were named after presidents.

[cMac44111]

does this count?

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by cMac44111

does this count?

Having never heard of this show, I of course looked it up.

The Adventures of T-Rex was an animated series that aired in syndication from 1992 to 1993 in North America. The show featured five musical Tyrannosaurus brothers who played to sold-out crowds as a vaudeville group while also secretly fighting crime as "T-REX," masterminded by Professor Edison. The show lasted only one season.

Set in a world of anthropomophic dinosaurs, brothers Bernie (blue), Bruno (pink), Bubba (green), Buck (yellow) and Bugsy (purple) were born with special powers to help fight crime. Each brother's special power was related to a specific part of their anatomy; Bernie's legs, Bruno's arms, Bubba's tail, Buck's mouth and teeth, and Bugsy's telekinetic eyes. The group rode out on their Rexmobile to battle “Big Boss” Graves, crime kingpin of Rep City (the show's setting), and his evil organization, The Corporation. Kid sister Ginger was part of the singing group, but didn’t know about her brothers’ secret identities.

So if you combined TMNT with Jem and the Holograms you'd get The Adventures of T-Rex.

But seriously....telekenetic eyes???

The voice cast for this series features 2 people from Next Mutation, Scott McNeil (Bonesteel) and Michael Dobson (Leonardo).

Gary Chalk along with Scott McNeil, Brian Dobson, and Kathleen Barr also worked with Cam Clarke in the 2002 He-Man series.

[SHREDDER-X]

Yeah T-Rex counts too. But they were so LAME !!!

[Drtooth]

Originally Posted by Jester

What about Samuari Pizza Cats?

And would Disney's Mighty Ducks count?

A) Not really. The show is more of a satirical Sentai show, and I feel it was more a "rip off" of Power Rangers than anything. The dub dilliberately was intended as both a Power Ranger knock off (as Saban dubbed it, and they had a good relationship with Tatsunoko) and a TMNT knock off. The theme song (American one, of course) stated "They've got more fur than any Turtle ever had." The Pizza thing is kinda a tip off, though. But then again, they work at a place called "Pizza Cat" a Japanese phonetic play on Pizza Hut... mainly since a lot of times the short U sound is translated as an "Ah" sound.

B) Yes and no.... by that logic you could also count Road Rovers. Personally, I thought it was just a dumb idea, and the biggest stretch of Disney's cartoon from movie shows.

[Ninjinister]

If we're going by that logic, Road Rovers would be my favourite.

"You're all good, good dogs...."