TMNT Will Change Yet Again Next Season

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Originally Posted by Dragon Turtle

Wow.. very interesting to see so much doom and gloom over the future of the TMNT franchise, even if the cartoon and vol. 4 end next year, I hardly see that as a death rattle for all of TMNT.


The cartoon has done remarkably well for action cartoon in this day and age, over 150 episodes, and a direct to tv special, Warner Bros doesn't give that type of treatment to their own DC properties.

As to the whos and whys, I did recieved this e-mail from Dan Berger a few weeks ago:

"The decision to do another season of TMNT lies in 4Kids' hands, so I'm afraid that we don't have any light to shed on the matter right now."

Despite TMNT being one of their highest rated shows, one look at all the Toy/Card based shows coming out this spring and the recent success of Chaotic, it's not hard to see why 4Kids is shelving the turtles, at least to see if they can get any of these other properties they are producing to take off.


As for the comics, Tristan did post this to his blog a week ago:

"I know there's a lot of doom and gloom circulating around the TMNT brand in spite of the upcoming TMNT 25th Anniversary, but what I've been hearing from Publishing and what I've seen has me excited.......there are a couple of things in line to happen next year that I think people have been worried about to a certain extent, that should please a number of them AND give a huge number of casual Turtle fans who also happen to be hardcore comic fans something they've been asking for for a while now."

Well if it is up to them, and the decent ratings isn't enough to keep the show going for fans, then there is no reason for me to support capitalists who are all about their money. So when the money runs dry you just shun everyone? Can't rest on the laurels of your other properties to keep one that you have needed in the past, afloat? If this is truly the case, 4kids will never be tuned into again on my TV sets, and I'm always reporting to Nielsen one way or another.

Man - man - man. You know, I don't mind if the show ends, just not on its 25th anniversary. That's like breaking it off with your girlfriend, or divorcing your wife on your anniversary.

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