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

[LeoNerdo]

Wow, a little bit of effort went into the cover art lol. I am pleasantly surprised

[Chaotix12345]

Wow, that's actually some pretty cool art! It definitely looks like a bit more effort has been put into the presentation this time around.

[oldmanwinters]

Wow, that cover art is the best of the whole set (not saying much, BTW). They still ripped off the poses from 4Kids stock art (Dooney's stuff, I believe), but they actually redrew everything in a fairly accurate old toon style (outside of the skin tones, of course). It's ironic that they finally made the turtles look that toon accurate... and yet Season 9 is pretty deep into the Red Sky redesign. haha

[AleXviD]

Heck, I even starting to regret I'm not gonna buy it. This cover is really awesome.

PS: Three WOWs in a row? I see I'm not the only impressed.

[Powder]

Neato. It's not perfect, but it's actually worthy the title of art this time around.

[Spitfire]

The drawing over 2K3 stock art thing is getting kind of old at this point. I like it alright but at least the last set had mostly original artwork. I wish they'd stop coloring them like the 2K3 turtles.

[hudemx]

It really looks great!

[ToTheNines]

An improvement, but not extremely impressive or anything. Still excited though!

[CyberCubed]

I hope the season 10 cover art rips off the IDW turtles.

[Shawn_1978]

Originally Posted by ABrown

Yeah, I really liked Lord Dregg as a villain. I mean Shredder will forever be the turtles arch nemisis, but Lord Dregg was great (especially with Tony Jay providing his voice).

No other villian will replace Shredder in my heart as my favorite, but I did like Lord Dregg as well. I loved Tony Jay's deep, menacing voice. It fit Dregg to a T.

I have my own opinion about how the original TMNT series should have ended though.

In my opinion, Lord Dregg should have been defeated for good, back in Season 9, with Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady being brought back at the end of the Seaon 9 finale, to have a final showdown with the turtles for the series finale of Season 10.

and although, I loved "The Fresh Prince Of BelAir" I wish it had waited a few more years, so James Avery could have remained as the voice of Shredder in the final seasons. Bill E. Martin did a great job with the role, but his Shredder always sounded constipated to me. They should have stuck with Jim Cummings for the Red Sky seasons as well if they couldn't get Avery back for it.

but what's done is done. All in all, I'm just glad that LionsGate is finally going to get the whole series released. There have been many animated series that have been released that haven't been finished being released due to lack of sales, and I don't want TMNT to be one of them.

If they do any special DVD releases of any of the missing episodes of classic TMNT, it will probably be either when the next TMNT movie comes out or the new animated series begins. Who knows.

also, if they want to include bonus features, i'd like for them to release the TMNT 1987 series soundtrack with all the show's background music, along with the DVDs. Even if the soundtrack album made the price go up, I'd still buy it, because the theme music and all background music from that series is pretty popular on YouTube. You should have seen how many people uploaded their version of the TMNT Fighting Theme after I attempted to do it.

Right now, mine has over 14,000 hits (or close to that) We should also lean on LionsGate to get the cassette tapes of allt he background music and release a soundtrack CD. I for one, would love that.

[tone-master21]

TVShowsOnDVD also posted the box art:



http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Teenage...Season-9/15442

[ToTheNines]

F**king sweet, the spine's actually uniform with season 8. AND we finally get Donatello feaured on a spine. (His slice of season 7 doesn't count, of course).

[deadpoolRKO]

That is a really awesome cover art

although idk what kind of wall they're busting through.. makes me think of a wall of cheese

[LeoNerdo]

Originally Posted by deadpoolRKO

That is a really awesome cover art

although idk what kind of wall they're busting through.. makes me think of a wall of cheese

That's interesting, I initially thought it was bricks. But you're right, it does look like a cheese wall hahaha.

[gobo]

Crumbly cheese...

[Shawn_1978]

I'm actually impressed by this box art for Season 9. They actually look more like the OT turtles.

The only gripe I have about most of these covers is that they never featured any of the other characters on the cover as well.

It would have been great to see April, Shredder or even Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady featured with the turtles on the DVD covers as well.

But I guess it would have taken up too much room. After all I know they're marketing the turtles, not the villian.

I just think that more could have been done with the earlier seasons box art.

[rufus]

Looks better than what i was expecting. Kinda amazing that it has made it this far along in releases. Most cartoons don't seem to get finished series releases.

[gobo]

Originally Posted by rufus

Most cartoons don't seem to get finished series releases.

Dunno about 'most', but that unfortunate trend is 99% Disney's fault.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Shawn_1978

It would have been great to see April, Shredder or even Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady featured with the turtles on the DVD covers as well.

April was actually on the cover of Season 6.

[CyberCubed]

The box is great. I wonder if some casual fans will be disappointed when they find out this season was only 8 episodes and costs
$15.

As a fan I'd buy it for $20 if I had to, but how many average people would folk over for only 8 eps.