Your biggest disappointment being a fan

[Slade]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

- Smash Up and it's stupid design direction and character rooster.

- Neca canceling their line because they weren't selling well in countries that didn't know the turtles wore all red in the comics. Then they proceed to release black and white variants instead of releasing colored headbands. They also released April instead of Shredder because she was cheaper to produce even though logic dictates Shredder would have sold better. Should also add Playmates **** blocked Neca on being able to sell their turtles figures at TRU because they knew the Neca figures were 1000X better then anything they've ever done.

Yep, that about does it for me.

[Weirdo-Warrior]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

- Playmates making zero toys based off Red Sky and defaulting to tons of lame variants of the turtles.

Definitely. But I would add to that:

- Fans buying tons of lame variants of the turtles and ignoring other characters (such as Shogun Shoate, Scratch or others that are today rare and expensive), discouraging Playmates from releasing anything but lame variants of the turtles

[Xav]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

BTTS has 3 terrible filler episodes, (Serling ep, the Green Mantle ep, and Superquest), but I quite like the other 10 episodes.

I actually thought Superquest was a fun episode.

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Yeah and they chose a horrible one instead of one of the better episodes.

Probably because the other episodes dealt with future characters that didn't exist in BTTS.

[Guitar_Raph]

My Next Mutation disappointemtns were...

1). Turtles Night Out. Sure I like the idea of them having humans around, throwing a party tp help save the animals. But it also broke the streak of Raph's motorcycle ride.

2). The closing credits where I saw them playing as a band, wasn't from an episode, but for a promo that FoxKids came up with for a music video.

[wussy fuz bunny]

its simple i'm a tmnt fan and i got dissapointed.

[ssjup81]

Hm, for me, my biggest disappointment is myself. I only say this because I didn't keep up with practically anything "Turtles" after The Next Mutation since I was so out of the loop. As I mentioned elsewhere, the 2K3 series snuck under the radar for me.

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by Weirdo-Warrior

Definitely. But I would add to that:

- Fans buying tons of lame variants of the turtles and ignoring other characters (such as Shogun Shoate, Scratch or others that are today rare and expensive), discouraging Playmates from releasing anything but lame variants of the turtles

Well Shoate I can't speak to but Scratch is rare because someone at Playmates broke the mold.

[Vegeta]

Originally Posted by ssjup81

Hm, for me, my biggest disappointment is myself. I only say this because I didn't keep up with practically anything "Turtles" after The Next Mutation since I was so out of the loop. As I mentioned elsewhere, the 2K3 series snuck under the radar for me.

This for me as well. The next mutation made me stay away from turtles until....last year. I was kind of dissapointed when I finally sat down and watched the 2k cartoon. I know its well liked on the forum but I don't share the love. The music was annoying, casey jones was just too much for me (the worst version of him), and the feeling I got from the series was "please like this kids, please buy the toys and remember this catchy theme." I need to watch the later seasons though. Yes, I know the ot did this as well...but the ot did it better. The 2007 movie was pretty bad too.

[Chris]

No conclusion to Volume 4 (though I can totally understand Peter Laird’s reasons)
No Forever War after so much build up
NECA dropping the ball really badly (though sadly not too surprising given their other lines)
Fast Forward Season 2 being cancelled, I actually really enjoyed the 1st season

But if I had to pick just one it would be The Next Mutation - so much potential, so mishandled.

[Candy Kappa]

Reshelled was based off on the Arcade and not a 4 player SNES remake, still a good game, but it's short. TMNT Arcade, you have a active xbla account to play a local co-op. Smash-Up was terrible, barely worth £8.

[ToTheNines]

I can't believe I forgot to mention the Ninja Tribunal season. That suuuuuucked.

I really wanted to like it, the build up to it through out season 4 was very well done, but it ended up being garbage on every level imaginable.

[Weirdo-Warrior]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Well Shoate I can't speak to but Scratch is rare because someone at Playmates broke the mold.

Really?? That's one side of the story I didn't know. Where did you read that?

[ctt4lfecw]

The way they portrayed the 80's Turtles cast in Turtles Forever. If they would have done them better with their original voice cast, that movie would have been perfect.

TMNT 3

[hankthetank]

The biggest disappointment for me is how the series ended it just didn't feel right it would have depressed me if I didn't have the 2003 series to watch after.

[zodiac brave]

TNM. I tried watching this a few weeks ago on netflix, hoping after years i could watch it and maybe appreciate for what it was...but...NAW.

The non-end of Vol 4.

Movie 3, unless (honestly) I'm inebriated.

Giving my 2k3 figure collection (along with my 2k2 MOTU figures) to my very young nephews. I'm getting back into figure collecting a bit and i'm kicking myself for this.

I'm weary of the new movie, because while im not of the "violent, grim and gritty is necassary or i'll hate it" camp, I'm still worried it might be too kiddie, bland or tweenie.

here's hoping it's good.

[liugeaux]

Oh this one's easy.
1. Ninja Rap - The only truly unbearable thing from the original movies.
2. Next Mutation - Saying this show had potential blows my friggin' mind. There was literally nothing good about it. I take that back...the one good thing was it being cancelled quickly.
3. Volume 4 Being Abandoned - If you don't want to put the work in to actually write the final books, fall back into a consultant roll, have final say on all plotlines and let someone else do the heavy lifting. Fans stuck with you for years as you drew out every single plotline only for none of them to get resolved.
4. The sad state of the 2K3 series on DVD - I enjoyed BTTS, and all I want is for it to be on DVD. Is that really so hard? It sounds like a totally reasonable request.
5. The abrupt cancellation of the Dreamwave Series - I loved those books and when I heard it was no more is was really bummed.

[cryan]

The 3 TMNT movie was a bit of a let down for me too.I really didn't like the fact that Casey(Elias Koteas)wasn't in the 2nd film was a bummer too.When they broght casey back for the 3rd film,they barely used him.Though he play Jones' anestor.

The OT didn't expand on certain characters(we all know who I mean)so I won't go into great detail over that.


The Next Mutation lost me.Getting rid of Shedder for a Power Rangeresque villain.

[gunstarheroblue]

I do have many disappointments, but the ones that stick out most for me would have to be in no particular order:

1 80's turtles in "TURTLES FOREVER" i understand they were looking for comic relief, but these guys were ridiculous. it was painful to watch them get sissified.

2 Turtles in time -Re Shelled.---ugh.
since the original arcade game/ SNES turtles in time there hasnt been a solid open world action game that takes advantage of their stealth.

3 the Shredder 2k3 version origin.

4 Movies TMNT 2 & 3.

[FearlessLeader]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

The fans turning on Laird during Volume Four's run.

Perfect answer

And Next Mutation

[NiNi]

The fact season three of the 2003 series wasn't sold in a set. Augh. I was so frustrated about that.