Which era of animated Michelangelo is your favourite?

[LuckyLadybug]

Originally Posted by WebLurker

Does your library offer interlibrary loans? That's one way I get material that not physically located in the public branch. Also, many libraries have way that a patron can request materials be purchased for the collection.

They offer inter-library loans, but some of the other libraries in the area won't loan out audio-visual materials that way. And my library charges shipping costs for inter-library loans. Ugh. I've never had a library do that before. That's a thought about requesting my library purchase some, though.

Oh, and yes, I must comment in agreement to 2003 Mikey following Battle Nexus. UGGGH. He really was insufferable after that.

[WebLurker]

Originally Posted by LuckyLadybug

They offer inter-library loans, but some of the other libraries in the area won't loan out audio-visual materials that way.

I think the libraries need to be part of the same library "network" to make an interlibrary loan, although mine does have a process to check out materials from outside the system. I've never heard of a library refusing an interlibrary loan (unless one of their patrons requested the item or something). Apparently there are different models.

Originally Posted by LuckyLadybug

And my library charges shipping costs for inter-library loans. Ugh. I've never had a library do that before.

I've never heard of a library doing that either. That definitely sucks.

Originally Posted by LuckyLadybug

That's a thought about requesting my library purchase some, though.

If you decide to try that, hope it works.

[Jester]

I can tell you which is my LEAST favorite...but I hate repeating myself.

[Candy Kappa]

It's a hard one... 2k3 Mikey have been completely ruined for me after the Ninja Tribunal and I loathe him with a fiery passion, at best. FW Mikey is pretty stock, and not much to him besides his Party-Dude shtick.

I think I like Nick Mikey the most of the three animated series, but he makes it really hard to like him at times. But when he shines, he shines.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Optimus Primer

I agree with Powder. Anyone who's not a TMNT fan just thinks all the Turtles are like 87 Mikey. I saw this Target ad where the 4 Turtles (in toy form) are sitting a table eating pizza. All of them have surfer accents and are yelling Cowabunga. I love 87 Mikey, but that incarnation stereotyped the TMNT in the public's eye since the show came out.

Words right out of my mouth, the holiday commercials Target has had the last couple years with the toys come to life were cute, but the Leo figure last year sounded more like a Mikey.

[CyberCubed]

Which separates the casuals from the real fans. Everyone knows the other 3 Turtles didn't talk like Michaelangelo in the original toon. They all loved pizza, but that was about it.

Saying the Fred Wolf Turtles were, "All Michaelangelo's" is the dumbest stereotype I see posted on the internet.

[WebLurker]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Words right out of my mouth, the holiday commercials Target has had the last couple years with the toys come to life were cute, but the Leo figure last year sounded more like a Mikey.

So I'm not the only one who noticed that.

[Tetsu Deinonychus]

I kinda wish Imagi Mikey was an option here, because he was a good balance between goofy and laid-back, and was essentially a CG version of classic movie Mikey.

Really, my favourite Michelangelo over all is Archie Mike. Mirage Mike is just a bit bland being mostly just "the nice one" and occasionally "the artistic one". Archie Mike combines that with just a touch of "party dude" but not enough to be obnoxious. Basically he's the best of both worlds, he's compassionate and creative like Mirage Mike, but fun-loving and humorous like cartoon mike.

Anyway, I voted for the Nickelodeon version. He may be a tad obnoxious, but he's very funny and entertaining, and I really like Greg Cipes in the role.

[Powder]

Mirage Michelangelo is still plenty fun-loving & humorous. I'm thinking you've not read a lot of it.

[slingtheory]

Gotta go with 2003. Yeah he can be insufferably annoying at times but hey he's just that kind of little brother. Plus beyond the bad jokes and teasing when he's not trying to make his brothers laugh or get under their shells you can tell there's more to the guy.he's not stupid just a slacker trying to have a little fun. 2012 is a close second. I love cipes in the role I just find his mikey too scatter brained and reckless a lot of the time. Like the time he almost turned himself into a giant pimple because he thought he could double mutate himself into a super mutant. That's epic levels of stupid right there.

[myconius]

Originally Posted by Tetsu Deinonychus

Mirage Mike is just a bit bland being mostly just "the nice one" and occasionally "the artistic one".

can't say i'm seeing where this is coming from?

"Pride goeth before a fall, buddy."

[Casey]

"The Gang's All Here"

[swing_kinker]

Odd for a fella in his 30s but it's 2012 for me. 87 was never my favourite despite being everyone around me's favourite. 03 was fine but 2012connects more in terms of cute and loveable. Works in the context of the show......my wife loves him too and that's what helped her like the turtles

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by Casey

"The Gang's All Here"

Oddly enough I agree. Aside from a very few other episodes this one is my favorite due to how well it shows Michelangelo's various sides.

[Shark_Blade]

Originally Posted by Casey

"The Gang's All Here"

Which Mikey is that?

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

Which Mikey is that?

Michelangelo as a human from the season 3 episode of the 1987 cartoon, "The Gang's All Here".

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by Casey

"The Gang's All Here"

I like that episode although I think it was wrong to take away Mikey's martial arts training when he turned into a human. It ends up coming across like the Turtles only got their ninjutsu skills due to mutating.

[Powder]

It makes sense, though. He would be seriously thrown off being in an entirely different weight class without his shell & the bulk of his muscle mass.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Not to mention that turtles dont have the same abdominal muscle structure as humans. He probably didn't know how to fully control his "new" body. At least that's how I've always seen it.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I always found it really funny when Mikeys transformation magically gave him shoes and at the end of the episode, donatellos antitode erased all of his clothing out of existence.