Will April ever be a pretty woman again?

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Mori Calliope is NOT amused.

Who? Pretend girl can be mad about it.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Well sorry Leo656 but April and She Ra are not here to be easy on the eyes for you. Just because they're not as bangable as the previous versions doesn't mean you have to hate them. Telling them you jerk off to them is not the compliment you think it is. And if you don't like it, then don't watch it.

That sounds like the G4 lady.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Who? Pretend girl can be mad about it.

It's your soul, not mine. I warned ya.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

That sounds like the G4 lady.

That is in fact the joke, yes.

[Prowler]

I've never heard of this girl before and seems odd that Leo of all people would be the one to know about her existence.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Leo656

She survived the Purge, fam.

Also I think you meant "laid off". THEY'RE DOING SUPER OVER THERE YOU GUYS!

Yeah, stupid autocorrect lol

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I've never heard of this girl before and seems odd that Leo of all people would be the one to know about her existence.

I'm a very complicated person. STOP TRYING TO PUT ME IN YOUR BOX!

It's not my fault that the greatest rapper alive is a VTuber Anime Chick, these things just f*cking happen man.

Murder is indeed "so f*cking kawaii" and that's not my fault either.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Leo's example reminds me of being 11-12 or so and looking for websites about my favourite cartoons on the Internet.

Dang I can't even imagine the internet being around when I was that age. At that time the girls in class were still girls, and my class was more into full grown busty women, even back then. Like the same kids that would pick on their female classmates and call them gross and icky would be bragging about wackin it to Cindy Crawford and Kelly Bundy. There was no one I wanted to see naked more than April back then. I can't imagine how kid me would have reacted to actually seeing art of April nude and taking it.

When I discovered R34 as an adult I was like 'dang, this is the kinda stuff I always imagined as a kid'.

[Leo656]

"As a kid's" I love your phone

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Dang I can't even imagine the internet being around when I was that age. At that time the girls in class were still girls, and my class was more into full grown busty women, even back then. Like the same kids that would pick on their female classmates and call them gross and icky would be bragging about wackin it to Cindy Crawford and Kelly Bundy. There was no one I wanted to see naked more than April back then. I can't imagine how kid me would have reacted to actually seeing art of April nude and taking it.

When I discovered R34 as an adult I was like 'dang, this is the kinda stuff I always imagined as a kid's.

Sometimes I do wish I had grown up in a world without Internet still. I was born in 1990 but always felt like I should have been born a decade earlier instead. A lot of the things I like happen to be from a time period that's kinda before mine.

In fact I got into TMNT at a time where the FW series was already over. I was growing up watching reruns of it in cable and frustrated that there were no toys or mercy of it for sale anywhere. So I kinda experienced my own Turtlemania alone. Strangely, my older brother who was born in 1983 grew up during Turtlemania and is the reason I got into the Turtles indirectly and yet he couldn't care less about TMNT beyond FW and the 1990 movie. He looked at the 2k3 series and kept complaining about the Turtles being "blind" and spending time in space instead of being in NYC constantly...

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Leo656

"As a kid's" I love your phone

Lmao yeah my phone is stupid.

[Leo656]

Meanwhile the Mirage Turtles went to space after like what, 3 or 4 issues? And some people complain about TMNT "abandoning their roots" by leaving the city meanwhile the source material had them doing that almost immediately.

People are weird.

[Prowler]

He didn't like Mirage because it was too dark and "sinister" for his liking. Turtles for him must be colourful and fun. Yet loves the 1990 movie.

Go figure. I really don't know what makes smart people tune very illogical when it comes to Ninja Turtles.

[Leo656]

It's a very illogical franchise!

I mean there's many things to like about it and it can be liked from many different and disparate directions... but that also leads to a severe disconnect between the more polarized sections of the fanbase who can't ever see things from the other perspective and don't understand how/why anyone could feel that way. We're all guilty, to an extent. What makes each of us like it on an individual level is generally much different than what led our sibling or neighbor to it.

Many things are similar but I think because there was such a hard shift from semi-serious to Full Blown Goofy so early on in the franchise's lifespan, it led to there being a deeper "broken base" issue than some other franchises have. Every franchise has it but the TMNT fans of differing opinion are mostly VERY far apart so as to be irreconcilable on nearly every single issue.

This forum is a testament to the fact that after "I Like Ninja Turtles", nobody really has much in common as to Why.

[Prowler]

Rarely do we even discuss Turtles anymore tbh. And tbh there's not much left to discuss really. We are all scrapping the bottom of the barrel at this point.

[Coola Yagami]

It's kinda odd how after fighting a ninja and then little biter robots the next plan was to reveal aliens on earth and going to space to fight humanoid dinosaurs.

But I mean the main characters are talking humanoid martial arts turtles so that kinda stuff makes more sense than a guy running around in a bat costume. I can't imagine a story where Batman is after the Joker and then gets warped to Apokolips and deals with Darkseid for 3 issues and then is warped back to Earth and continues the plot of finding the Joker for 2 more issues.

I did find it original how the plot went to 'sneak inside TCRI to rescue Splinter' to suddenly warped in space with Fugitoid and Triceratons and then back to TCRI to conclude that story.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Rarely do we even discuss Turtles anymore tbh. And tbh there's not much left to discuss really. We are all scrapping the bottom of the barrel at this point.

Literally just whatever stuff IDW comes up with next. We do have those 80s themed issues coming out soon.

It looks like it's gonna be a while before any new show will be announced. I remember Rise being announced hot on the heels of 2012 ending.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Literally just whatever stuff IDW comes up with next. We do have those 80s themed issues coming out soon.

It looks like it's gonna be a while before any new show will be announced. I remember Rise being announced hot on the heels of 2012 ending.

I don't read IDW so I have nothing to say about it.

Rise got cancelled rather early didn't it? It got what, one season? Two seasons?

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Literally just whatever stuff IDW comes up with next.

Oh boy. I can barely contain my excitement.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Rarely do we even discuss Turtles anymore tbh. And tbh there's not much left to discuss really. We are all scrapping the bottom of the barrel at this point.

Other than the 3.5 people here who like the IDW book, most of the convo taking place is about the toys. Pretty crazy actually that TMNT in media is crap right now, but the toys being produced is the best it's ever been for accuracy and choice. Worst it's ever been for price though, obviously.

I think this speaks to the fact that TMNT is in an era of wish-fulfillment for long time fans and collectors. For me, the last real hurrah of TMNT was 2012 Nicktoons. I imagine the last hurrah for me in toys will be the Archie Comics line and given the price I honestly don't know how long I'll be hanging in for that.

[Leo656]

It really ought to just be a toy and video game brand from now on.

And if nothing else, whenever Prowler's feeling fit enough to drop by he always manages to get things going again for a little while. You notice that? Whenever he stops by the thread activity goes up 1000%. Even I can't manage that anymore.