What did you think of TMNT as a kid?

[EvilStarLegacy]

There was nothing better than the TMNT. I used to watch the OT all the time and I had tons of action figures, including the Party Wagon. You take a look at pictures of my early birthdays and during 4 to 5 years straight all you can see are TMNT related stuff.

[Stingray69]

tmnt took over my life as a kid and has followed me to this day as a 25 yr old adult. Everything I owned as a kid was turtles my bed toys my whole room. Never really fell out of it. When the 4kids show come on I watched that. I did stop buying the toys though but a few months ago I got back into collection anything from the original series.

[Jephael]

I remember when I first heard of the Ninja Turtles I wasn't that interested but the first time I watched an episode I was hooked!

[Shawn_1978]

What did I think about the TMNT 87 series? Loved it!

To me, the show was like a sitcom and daytime drama rolled into one! every cliffhanger to me was dramatic whenever it looked like the turtles were possibly going to be done for. The background music of the show definitely fit all the moods that kept you on the edge of your seat, wondering what would happen next.

looking back on the show now, yes it may have been a bit silly, but it was always entertaining to me. It gave me happiness and lots of laughs during my depressing childhood and rough times in school. Whenever I felt really down, I'd pull out one of my Turtle VHS tapes and watch it. After awhile, I was able to forget my problems and feel alot better.

I miss the 80s and 90s era of cartoons, when cartoons were actually good and not like today's terrible garbage. As for the TMNT 2003 series, I thought the first season was ok, but I just couldn't get into them like I could with the 87 series.

I will definitely check out the new 2012 series on Nickelodeon when it starts and see what Nick comes up with for them. I'm hoping they'll recapture the humor and all the things that made the 87 series so great, while yet still making it different from the old series.

One thing I enjoy today about the old series, is conversing with other fans of the 87 series on YouTube, who watch it as well on there.

I watch more TMNT episodes on YouTube than I do on my DVD's. Fun times! we didn't have the internet back in the late 80s and early 90s.

I remember back after the episode "The Evil Eye" ended with Shredder throwing his metal helmet into the river and it exploded. I always wondered how Shredder was wearing his helmet in the next episode. my cousin said "he probably made another one" Which was most likely true. But since when did we argue with cartoon logic back then? I never did.

The channel I used to see TMNT on was Channel 12 when we have cable. it was called "Channel 43's Kidsland, which I think was the WUAB station, which was in Cleveland. I remember Liz, the Channel 43's Kidsland host, who I thought was very sweet and I wanted to meet her when I was a kid.

Fun times, and so many great memories TMNT brought to my life back then, as a child.

[longbowhunter]

As a kid my first exposure to the TMNT were through the Mirage comics. I remember being MASSIVELY disappointed when the first episode of the cartoon aired....although the toys were pretty cool.

[Tora]

Originally Posted by Shawn_1978

What did I think about the TMNT 87 series?
The channel I used to see TMNT on was Channel 12 when we have cable. it was called "Channel 43's Kidsland, which I think was the WUAB station, which was in Cleveland. I remember Liz, the Channel 43's Kidsland host, who I thought was very sweet and I wanted to meet her when I was a kid.

Fun times, and so many great memories TMNT brought to my life back then, as a child.

I live in Ohio and grew up watching the Kidsland 43 with Host Liz and have to say she was my first crush as a kid and I always wondered what became of her seeing how they replaced her years later with an older lady.

[Powder]

Considering that dude hasn't been here in over a year, I doubt he'll see your post.

[Shark_Blade]

The best thing EVER.

[Cobrakahn]

I remember TMNT coming out during my 6th Christmas, I got Donetello first then Ralpheal. The show was on WDCA 20 which might have been the Paramount Channel then. I never really got to watch the show because my brother was in charge of the remote.

But I remember aspects of the tv show, now that I own them on Itunes I recognize allot of the jokes.

[BubblyShell22]

My siblings and I used to watch TMNT before we went to school, but we never got to see the end of the episodes because we always had to leave before they ended. My bro had the four Turtles and Baxter Stockman as the fly as well as one of the vehicles. One time we even played with My Little Pony and TMNT together. Man, those were the days. But I loved the show a lot and thought it was awesome. I used to have dreams about the Turtles and talk about them every morning to my family. My love of them is still strong with the new Nick show and what they've done with our boys.

[blindturtle02]

I friggin loved the TMNT as a kid and still do. I remember getting the 4 turtles, the sewer playset, Shredder, April, Splinter, Slash, and muckman with Joe Eyeball for my 7th birthday one year. I'd watch the show every afternoon at my friend's house because she loved the turtles too and I didn't have cable. My grandma would tape several episodes on VHS about 12 per tape and send them in the mail usually as Christmas presents. Those 2 episodes per FHE tape just never did it for me. I never had the whole series though so it's a treat to own them all now via Lion's Gate.

I think my all time favorite birthday present was the Technodrome. I got that for my 8th and played never got tired of it. I found out years later that mine was missing one of the guns and runningboards on the sides. I think I was one of the only kids in my school who still liked Turtles when their popularity was waning. I got into Power Rangers along with everyone else but still bought Turtles stuff along with all the megazords from PR.

My buds and I would play Raid the Technodrome every morning on the playground in elementary school. That was awesome. I'd fill the sink up with water and soap in hopes of making mutagen at home but that never worked out too well. My stepdad was pretty livid lol. Good times.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by blindturtle02

My buds and I would play Raid the Technodrome every morning on the playground in elementary school.

What's that kind of game? "Raid the Technodrome"? What did you use for it?

In short, mesmerizing. I don't have many concrete memories of what i was thinking about the show while watching it as a child. However, i have been told that i was jumping up and down on the couch if i wasn't hiding behind it, when watching tmnt as my 5 year old self.

[blindturtle02]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

What's that kind of game? "Raid the Technodrome"? What did you use for it?

Aw nothing really. We'd pretend that the entire playground and the equipment therein was all part of the drome. We weren't allowed to bring toys to school so I guess it was sort of, well, Larping maybe now that I think of it. Allot of us loved the episodes where the tmnt would break into the drome for various reasons, and there was a period of maybe 2 weeks or so when we played out this huge story. Each of us would make stuff up as we went along. The jungle gym was, say, a foot soldier factory. The slides were used as elivators etc. If it had rained the day before, puddles were mutagen spills lol. We were around 7-8 so imaginations ran wild. I wanna say around 20something kids got into it. The teachers must have all thought we were nuts but most of them had kids that loved the show too so they'd just shake their heads. The play was pretty wacky like the cartoons so none of us ever got into any trouble.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by blindturtle02

Aw nothing really. We'd pretend that the entire playground and the equipment therein was all part of the drome. We weren't allowed to bring toys to school so I guess it was sort of, well, Larping maybe now that I think of it. Allot of us loved the episodes where the tmnt would break into the drome for various reasons, and there was a period of maybe 2 weeks or so when we played out this huge story. Each of us would make stuff up as we went along. The jungle gym was, say, a foot soldier factory. The slides were used as elivators etc. If it had rained the day before, puddles were mutagen spills lol. We were around 7-8 so imaginations ran wild. I wanna say around 20something kids got into it. The teachers must have all thought we were nuts but most of them had kids that loved the show too so they'd just shake their heads. The play was pretty wacky like the cartoons so none of us ever got into any trouble.

Sounds cool. Around which year was that? (so I can know which season was around back thenn, anf se if there were many Technodrome break-in episodes)

I always liked episodes with Technodrome out of power-Bebop and Rocksteady must break into power stations.

[Gin Rummy]

I liked it. I watched the Movies, & Played with the toys, although TMNT was my Brother's passion, I just usually went along with what he was always doing. As a kid I was much more into The Biker Mice, & Street Sharks. I didn't start to really get into TMNT until 2k3.

[shuriken]

I thought they were the most awesome thing to ever happen like ever. I was kinda obsessed to be honest.

[CansecoBat]

The toys were awesome, it was a competitive thing among friends. It was a status thing for kids regarding their turtle collection.

The cartoon? It was fun. It acknowledged the silliness of it all, but had fun with the characters. It didn't take itself seriously.

The movie? Now this was the turtles. Serious bidness here. The definitive version for me then, and now as an adult. This movie took things seriously, but wasn't devoid of the fun elements of the characters from the cartoon.

[Mzx10484]

I thought I wanted to be like them, I really wanted to have their weapons, I wanted to deal with them, my father then built my nunchucks and I was one of them a little closer. Later my Bo was a broomstick with tape in the middle. It made a lot of fun.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

My first exposure to them was the 1990 movie, but once I discovered the cartoon (I was a bit late in finding it) I watched it religiously. Every afternoon when I came home, from sixth grade until (yes, really!) it stopped airing in my area during my last year of high school. Watched it on Saturday mornings, too. I was a TMNT fan-girl, and even though I was "too old" for the toys or anything like that, I still collected posters, buttons, movie novels, and other stuff. It started both my love of TMNT and of superhero/action cartoons and comics in general. This was at the same time that the Spider-Man and X-Men cartoons were on, too, so between the three, I became quite the geek-girl, LOL! Still am, even now.

On a more serious note, TMNT was what inspired me to stand up for myself and others (I was very short and slim when younger, and therefore an easy target for bullies for much of my childhood), to never give up when things are tough, and always be true to myself. Important life lessons from a cartoon- you gotta love it when something you love can also teach you something of value! Too bad cartoons nowadays can't do that....