I feel old...

[Andrew NDB]

Technically message boards are still part of "social media."

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Technically message boards are still part of "social media."

If that's the case then this is the only social media that I use. Unless you count youtube as well.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I hope that I didn't ruin this thread. I got drunk and spilled my heart out.

[Coola Yagami]

I miss those days. I was still living in Mexico when I found the Drome. Back then the 2K3 cartoon was still new and hasn't quite reached our side of the continent yet. Between the 2K3 cartoon, new action figures and Volume 4/Tales 2. Then Mexico randomly started airing the Red Sky eps and it was awesome to learn more about them from here. And then there was Dr. Spengler's blog that helped me catch up on all the Mirage stuff.

Then I was there for Fast Forward, Back to the Sewers, the CGI movie, Turtles Forever... and later on the new IDW comics, 2012 show and ugh... the Bay movies.

It's been a ride.

Sadly for now, not counting the modern day crap, all we have left are new NECA figures, the videogames (which came and went by now) and the IDW comics.

[tmntpower1988]

Only another 3 years until I'm 40, I'm getting there It's crazy that the 1987 series will be turning 40 in 2 years, holy sh*t Before we know it the 2003 and 2012 shows will be that age It didn't feel that long ago that I was a kid in the 90's believing that Klangers were on the moon and the turtles were living in the sewers. I remember wanting to go down to the sewers to look for them When the characters broke the fourth wall in the 1987 show I thought they did exist in real life and were talking to me through the TV screen I really miss my childhood It was great getting to grow up through the different eras of the TMNT shows.

Originally Posted by Mad Dog McMutt

I hope that I didn't ruin this thread. I got drunk and spilled my heart out.

Not at all man, your post looks fine to me

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Originally Posted by tmntpower1988

Only another 3 years until I'm 40, I'm getting there It's crazy that the 1987 series will be turning 40 in 2 years, holy sh*t Before we know it the 2003 and 2012 shows will be that age It didn't feel that long ago that I was a kid in the 90's believing that Klangers were on the moon and the turtles were living in the sewers. I remember wanting to go down to the sewers to look for them When the characters broke the fourth wall in the 1987 show I thought they did exist in real life and were talking to me through the TV screen I really miss my childhood It was great getting to grow up through the different eras of the TMNT shows.



Not at all man, your post looks fine to me

Cool. I am just 2 years away from being 40 as well. Life sure does go by fast once you turn 20.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Mad Dog McMutt

Cool. I am just 2 years away from being 40 as well. Life sure does go by fast once you turn 20.

It's like it starts around the first four years after High School. You look back and realize that High School was four years ago - the same number of years you were in High School.

From that point it's like the chronometer stops following a cadence and just speeds up even more with each rotation.

[tmntpower1988]

Originally Posted by Mad Dog McMutt

Cool. I am just 2 years away from being 40 as well. Life sure does go by fast once you turn 20.

I feel like time is going in even quicker now in my 30's than what it did in my 20's I remember back in the school days looking at the clock in the classroom and thinking to myself "Why is time going in so slow? I wish time would hurry up and go in faster so I can go home." Now I'm wishing time would go a bit slower

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Originally Posted by IMJ

It's like it starts around the first four years after High School. You look back and realize that High School was four years ago - the same number of years you were in High School.

From that point it's like the chronometer stops following a cadence and just speeds up even more with each rotation.

Four years goes by in a flash these days.

[CyberCubed]

It's also because now we've went through multiple revivals of the TMNT franchise.

The early 2000's were exciting because Mirage came back with Vol. 4, the 2003 cartoon came out our first new cartoon since the original, toys/videogames, and eventually the 2007 movie.

Then in 2011/2012 the Nick era started with the IDW comics and 2012 cartoon. But since then we went through 3 major reboot periods and since then we've been in a lull. It just feels a lot of the "excitement" for the TMNT franchise is now in the past. We went through 4 decades of TMNT after all.

[sdp]

it's hard to stay interested when it's the 8th reboot.
2012 was likely the last time I was fully hyped for a TMNT anything.
Even if some were done badly pretty much most stories or ideas have already been done. And between all the different versions at least some of them have done them either great or just fine.
We've seen plenty of new ideas fail and succeed. It's hard to get excited anymore.
Not just TMNT but any franchise that's been done to death.

[CyberCubed]

Also you have to remember, the third reboot (IDW and Nick) was the first time we were getting the return of original cartoon/Archie characters mixed in with Mirage characters, so that was new at the time. In the early 2000's, PL prevented any Fred Wolf characters from appearing in the 2003 cartoon, and of course the Mirage comics went on at the time. So the third reboot was actually the first time we were seeing the return of old characters since the 90's, so it stood out for that reason.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that outside of Turtles Forever which was an anniversary movie, most characters hadn't appeared since the end of the 90's.

[RaphaelinSTL]

It's been slightly over a decade since I started using this forum consistently ... time moves fast, man.

[Warhorse]

I'm just happy that this little obscure band of comic book heroes managed to hang on over the decades. It's nice to pop into Hot Topics or Spencers and still see TMNT T-shirts, mugs, posters, towels, etc. And during Christmases and birthdays, my friends and family know exactly what to get me. Anything with TMNT, a horse or LOTR on it. Usually TMNT prevails.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Also you have to remember, the third reboot (IDW and Nick) was the first time we were getting the return of original cartoon/Archie characters mixed in with Mirage characters, so that was new at the time. In the early 2000's, PL prevented any Fred Wolf characters from appearing in the 2003 cartoon, and of course the Mirage comics went on at the time. So the third reboot was actually the first time we were seeing the return of old characters since the 90's, so it stood out for that reason.

Sometimes it's easy to forget that outside of Turtles Forever which was an anniversary movie, most characters hadn't appeared since the end of the 90's.

This is a good point. That was a very exciting period, and it was fun watching both versions tell their stories and seeing the occasional parallel thinking and different takes.

Then the next version to think outside the box just got immediately sh*t on lol.

[Poweranimals]

When I clicked on this thread and it said "14 years ago", I was confused... and then I realized the thread was created in 2009. It's actually been 14 years since its creation.

[Andrew NDB]

The most positive times in my memory:

*1988-1991 : The heyday. Everyone was a Turtle fan. TMNT cartoon, toys, comics, video games were all the rage. This will never end, right?

*1996 : So many things were circulating. The mysterious, ever elusive TMNT 4... or would it be NT:TNM? We don't know! Image Comics, the possibilities there.

* 2000 : Eastman sells his half of the rights to Peter... and suddenly there's a Vol. 4 of the comics?! And a new cartoon that's supposedly more in line with the Mirage comics? Talk of a new fourth movie deal being bandied about?! Exciting times. More possibilities.

* 2007 : Heading toward the release of TMNT 4... oh boy, is this gonna be great?!

* 2009 : The news of Mirage's sale to Viacom/Nickelodeon was not good news to anybody... but now, the possibilities! What happens next? Nobody knows! Who will win the TMNT comic book license? What will the first Nickelodeon cartoon look like, or when can we expect it? Will what they want to put out be gritty or kiddy? Will this somehow end up being a blessing in disguise? Nobody knows yet!

* 2011 : IDW wins! Now will the comic be gritty, kiddy, or some kind of jambalaya of everything? We don't know yet! Let's find out.

* 2014 : Maybe, just maaaaybe this 2014 TMNT movie might turn out OK. They "fixed Shredder" after all, right?

That's it, really. And almost all of those are followed by immense, sometimes earth shaking-level disappointment. But at those particular vertices of time... there was excitement and hope.

I'd mark the END of various TMNT golden ages as such:

* 1993 : The release of TMNT III. Even as a kid, coming out of the theater felt like I'd just gone to a wake. Turtlemania was already hurting by that point but that honestly felt like the final nail to me.

* 1999 : The end of Image TMNT and NT:TNM. Well, now what? This felt like an end and for about a year, it sure was.

* 2009 : For obvious reasons.

[ToTheNines]

You gotta admit the current NECA Mirage line is exciting and has been very rewarding.

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I'd mark the END of various TMNT golden ages as such:

* 1993 : The release of TMNT III. Even as a kid, coming out of the theater felt like I'd just gone to a wake. Turtlemania was already hurting by that point but that honestly felt like the final nail to me.

* 1999 : The end of Image TMNT and NT:TNM. Well, now what? This felt like an end and for about a year, it sure was.

* 2009 : For obvious reasons.

Interesting, for me 1993 was still Turtlemania to me, but then again I was too young, so I had just discovered the turtles "recently". I was completely in love with everything TMNT until Power Rangers came out, but I still held to loving the TMNT for years, it was around 1996 when I realized turtlemania was dead (as was power rangers). This is when I moved on to Dragon Ball and then I moved on to Pokemon in 1999.

[ToTheNines]

Yeah same here. I wasn’t exposed to TMNT until ‘93 (my parents actually have a home video of me seeing the toys for the first time when we were on vacation with another family who had a slightly older kid.)

Had a TMNT birthday party in ‘95 and got most of the NES games used.

I think I was still into Power Rangers in ‘96 which led to Beetle Borgs, Mytic Knights of Tir-Na-Nog and of course The Next Mutation. Me and the fellas all thought it was quite cool, and by this time the 1990 movie had aired on network television a couple times.

Wasn’t until Pokemon and Beast Wars that I realized it was totally dead.