What incarnation had the best time travel?

[Jephael]

I always found it odd that Krang's dimensional portal itself wasn't capable of opening doorways to different time periods.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by shuriken

Mirage, all those time travels issues were fun and weird and awesome. Turtles in time is fun but it makes no damn sense how they were thrown through time.
Masks is probably my fave 2 part Mirage issue and it even gives the humble origin of the Foot Clan.

It's just a videogame (mixing TMNT universes), not a particular universe. Plot isn't important, just cool butt-kicking arcade action.

[Leofan26]

I think I had a fun time with the third film, I love the 4Kids series but that was probably my least favorite arc of the series

[Cipher]

I've actually got to go with 4Kids on this, as I really like the implied recursive element of Donatello helping found April's company with technology reverse-engineered from the future.

Plus, how fun was that episode with the Back to the Future III that had Donatello and Splinter writing a letter to the other Turtles one-hundred years in the future? As basic a gag as that is, none of the other versions have really taken advantage of things like that.

Mirage, while it's far and above my favorite series, never did much for me with its time-travel elements (which were almost exclusively related to Renet). Very, very occasionally, they were used to hit an emotional beat, but by and large any time Renet or Savanti Remero show up, they're comic relief, and not much is made of the time-traveling besides a different setting.

TMNT Adventures would be an easy second.