Official T-Drome "Suggestions for Nickelodeon Cartoon" Thread

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Shredder_Fan

What I Like/Want:

- Old toon characters and villains returning
- The original Technodrome (underground or at Dimension X)
- Show being more similar in tone to the original series
- 2k3 characters like Hun and Bishop appearing
- Archie and/or Mirage plotlines being adapted

Music in new show:

- The original Technodrome theme (just like in the old cartoon)


What I do NOT want:

- Shredder must be human, NO F**** utrom
- Slapstick kiddie series. Let's face it, this is going to be CG, which makes us all worried. The original TMNT cartoon always had an adventure/action element to it, even if the plots were silly. That's what kept it a fun watch.

lol, wow. u don't mix words

[Prowler]

- Bring back the following OT characters: Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, Leatherhead, The Rat King, Slash. Change their origins and don't make Slash a retard and make Bebop and Rocksteady more threatening like in the first season of the OT.
- Bring back the Technodrome.
- Bring back the Rock Soldiers and pit them against the Turtles.
- Put Hun and the Purple Dragons in the show.
- Don't make Shredder and Krang allies since the beggining.
- Don't make Leonardo annoying like he was in the OT.
- Don't make Michelangelo so stupid like he was in the 4Kids series.
- Don't make Casey Jones so stupid and getting his *** handed to him all the time like in the 4kids Toon after season 2.
- Don't bring back the Neutrinos.
- Don't bring back Zach.
- Put human Foot Soldiers and add variety like the 4Kids series had the Invisible Foot, the Elite, etc. And make the Turtles fight them once in a while, in the OT they barely fought them.
- Don't, and I repeat, DON'T bring back Howie!
- Make it a mix of the OT and the 4Kids series.
- NO CGI!
- Put Utroms in the show and make Krang a traitor of their homeworld or something lilke that.
- Let the Turtles use their weapons, one of my biggest gripes with the OT is that the Turtles only used them in seasons 1 and 7.
- Treat the franchise with respect and dignity.

That's all I can think of for now.

[Leonardo_Warrior_Turtle]

Can they even bring back OT characters or does Fred Wolf own them?

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Leonardo_Warrior_Turtle

Can they even bring back OT characters or does Fred Wolf own them?

Mirage owned all the original series characters, not Fred Wolf. They simply own the animation/series of the old toon, but not the characters itself.

Since Nick now owns the franchise, Nick also can use any original cartoon character they want.

[sdp]

I guess we can expect the new show to be 20 episodes per season/year.

This is the way other Nick shows like Avatar, icarly and Spongebob are done and apparently Nick is forcing it on Power Rangers that traditionally gets 40 episodes per season/year theme and is now going to be split into two 20 episode seasons over two years of one yearly theme. I'm guessing TMNT will get the same treatment, now for a show like TMNT its actually a good thing, normally cartoons only get 13 episode seasons, 4Kids spoiled us with 26 episode seasons.

[CyberCubed]

20 ep seasons are only 6 episode less than most 4kids seasons were, so I see no problem.

As long as the show gets at least 150 episodes by the time it ends, I'll be fine with it.

Any TMNT cartoon is a failure if it doesn't hit the 150 mark, like the previous two did.

[sdp]

Well that would mean the show would have to be on the air for 8 years, which is scary since I'd be 30! It seems like a really long time for a show to run, even the 4kids show didn't last that long. I can see it lasting for 4-5 years, 80-100 episode run is really good, even ~60 would leave me happy. 20-40 episode run would indeed be seen as a short lived.

edit:
Alex Deligiannis just tweeted this:

Came in to studio for a bit to keep mind occupied. Looking over some storyboard panels for the pilot. Almost like having a new TMNT comic.

[CyberCubed]

Makes me wonder what the tone of the series will be. A mix between the original cartoon and 2k3 would be fine, kind of like the Archie series was.

[Venom]

What if, what if - now hear me out here - what if, Shredder and Krang were from two opposing factions but after encountering the Turtles on a number of occasions the two decided to form a truce of sorts and form and alliance to destroy those meddlesome reptiles!

[aml435]

I think my ideal timeline for season 1 would start off very minimal, but introduce a lot of the things we expect throughout the season.
Start off with the turtles stopping the crimes of the Purple Dragons, crossing paths with Casey Jones and April, and eventually a few episodes in, foiling the machinations of Baxter Stockman.
Throughout those episodes, establish Oroku Saki as a sort of billionaire industrialist, who is well liked and respected in New York. Kind of a Bill Gates, Steve Jobs type.
April is back to being a reporter, like the OT, and is trying to find dirt to bring down Saki.
The turtles & April discover links Baxter Stockman's schemes to Saki's corporate empire and uncover his criminal ties to the Foot Clan.
I think it would be interesting to make Saki a publicly known & respected figure, like they hinted at a bit in the 2K3 show, to make it harder for the turtles to take the fight straight to him.
Have some episodes with the turtles clashing with the purple dragons & the foot & fleshing out the backstory between Splinter & Shredder.
Hun leads up the Purple Dragons, recruiting thugs who may one day be trained as foot ninja. Tatsu trains the best of them to be Foot soldiers/ninja. Bebop and Rocksteady would be human Purple Dragons with a line here or there, but not really focused on at first.
Eventually, the turtles discover something beneath Saki's highrise - the Technodrome. It turns out that Saki has used Krang's utrom technology (might as well make Krang an Utrom) to build his commercial empire.
Credit much of our modern tech that we take for granted as having come from the Utroms and marketed by Saki.
After foiling several of the Shredder's criminal plans, he uses Krang's technology to mutate 2 of the purple dragon's into creatures to rid him of the turtles. They become the Bebop & Rocksteady we know from the 80's, but bigger, more hulking, and somewhat competent.... but still a little bumbling for comic relief.
I figure that the above could probably fill a whole season with the Krang/Technodrome reveal, and Bebop & Rocksteady mutation and first confrontation playing out over a 2-3 parter at the end of the season.

I would also run a thread through Season 1 of Stockman being punished for failures like 03, but instead of getting down to Head-attached-to-spider-walker or anything like that, after several physical punishments & tortures, Shredder has Krang mutate Baxter into the Fly from the 80s... probably in Season 2.

[Oniri]

I think character wise, I would focus on who were in the comics for the first season (April, Casey, Baxter, etc). A human shredder would be greatly preferred.

I love Bebop, Slash and Rocksteady to pieces, but I wouldn't have them in the show in less they can figure out a constructive way for them to be hanging around. I love the "Dumb and dumber" duo in the OT, but depending on the feel of the new show it and how far they take it, it can get old REAL quick (kinda like 2K3 Mikey in later seasons). I think it would be cool to them as more legit villians/henchmen. Maybe not as important as Baxter, but some important muscle kinda like Hun was in 2K3 and Tales of TMNT.

[Berserker]

I would like a future Bebop & Rocksteady to actually be their own faction. They would be like Hun and the Purple Dragons; street smart but not book smart, brutish criminals who lead a street gang. Maybe other misfit mutants would join them along the way.
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Subaru History

[***First of Two Latin Kings***]

Originally Posted by Berserker

I would like a future Bebop & Rocksteady to actually be their own faction. They would be like Hun and the Purple Dragons; street smart but not book smart, brutish criminals who lead a street gang. Maybe other misfit mutants would join them along the way.

I kind of like this idea even if it seems obvious to me.

[Spitfire]

Why do people keep saying "A human Shredder." Shredder was human in 2K3. Yes the MAIN Shredder wasn't human but there was a human Shredder. I also never took issue with Chrell because it let them dismember his body without pissing off the censors.

Also note Shredder was only human in the first issue of the comics.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Berserker

I would like a future Bebop & Rocksteady to actually be their own faction. They would be like Hun and the Purple Dragons; street smart but not book smart, brutish criminals who lead a street gang. Maybe other misfit mutants would join them along the way.

Originally Posted by ***CJJ***

I kind of like this idea even if it seems obvious to me.

I like that idea too.

[Utromshredderhater]

I think the new show has to be a good blend of the OT, Archie comic, and a little bit of the Mirage comic. April should be a reporter because she's a bit more useful that way. It might be a good idea to team Bebop and Rocksteady with Tokka and Rahzar so that way it's 4 on 4. I wouldn't mind them digging out Keno again

[KittenBunny]

I hope they do a pretty big or at least a noticeable change to the Turtles and the other character's design...

For instance the Next Mutation turtles were given a pretty rad revamp... new specialised and individualistic duds and bigger muscles, more natural body armor on the plastron and a different shell...

I know not everyone was a fan of these new revamps, however, I really appreciated their initiative in trying to make something new and more unique about each of them.

I don't mean they have to change them too much or add some silly 5th turtle, but some more protection for battle would be good and also individualistic bandannas would be really very much appreciated.

I also hope they bring back their tails, not necessarily the same tiny lined tales from the mirage series, but maybe something a bit more visually appealing and similar to turtles in real life, sort of like a really tiny lizard tail? I thought the tails on the turtles made them look much more mean and macho. An artist on deviant art, i think she is called Alier, does a really good tail style.

and I second that SHREDDER MUST BE HUMAN! It was such a let down that he ended up being an Ultrom, like a Krang wannabe really...

Also, no mystical powers bullsh*t for the turtles, just plain old Kung Fu Fighting!

Disclaimer* these are only my ideas on what would look good on a new turtle design. In no ways am I saying that the past turtles styles from any of the comics/series were not at all good enough and therefore have to be changed... I just love seeing new designs!

KBxxx

[cryan]

Also,NO ANIMIE STYLE.If they do bring back certain characters from the OT.I would love to see them updated.

[Gyt Kaliba]

Originally Posted by cryan

Also,NO ANIMIE STYLE.If they do bring back certain characters from the OT.I would love to see them updated.

I'm assuming you mean 'Anime' style, and I hope that means you weren't too fond of the original 2K3 designs either, cuz they were kind of anime-esque in terms of detail. ^_^;

I'm gonna also agree with Kitten on some of that - if there was one thing I DID really like in Next Mutation, it was the individualized masks. I wouldn't mind seeing that make a comeback somewhere.

[cryan]

The 2003 version were really good.I guess I ment on the the lines of Ben 10,Teen Titans or Transformers Animated for example.