Season 2 Details ?

[oldmanwinters]

Maybe there's already a thread for this, but a recent NYCC panel revealed some concept art (can't find it on the net, though) and details about Season 2.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=41667

Here's some highlights from the article:

Possible SPOILERS

New Roles for April and Shredder:

Rahman then showed a picture of April O'Neil, describing her as the "leader" of the upper side of the city while Shredder led the underground.

New Mutants:

Handing the microphone over to Nieli, the animator thanked the audience for tuning in and giving the show "huge numbers" before showing off images of new mutants and villains for the recently ordered second season. The first image on the screen was of Donatello's pet roach, which he had trained to be a spy. Nieli revealed that, while on assignment, the roach falls into acid and mutates into the "Cockroach Terminator," a huge, evil cockroach. Nieli then showed an image of the roach'' second mutation, "Cockroach Terminator 2" which was a huge, gloopy green monster with wings.

"He has sweet little butt flaps!" Nieli said, pointing to his 3D model as the audience laughed.

Comic-inspired looks:

Nieli then brought up an image of the original Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" comic book, saying that he modeled the Mousers in the show after their design in the original comic. He also displayed sketches for the appearance of season two's Leatherhead, another character from the original comic.

April's future?

Talking about the show, Nieli and Hastings said their process of picking what stayed from the various "TMNT" animated series, movies and comics was less a weeding out process and more prioritizing what they wanted to use first.

"I haven't discarded anything, we'll get to it when we get to it," Nieli said.

Adding that he loved the spirit of the animated series, Nieli explained that while April went through the most changes it was important to him that she never becomes a, "damsel in distress every week."

"To me, she's the same April," he added. "She will grow up to become the yellow-jumpsuit girl."

And, for good measure...
The origin of "Booyakasha":

Paulsen, a veteran of the first animated series, praised the new cast and director Romano, adding, "It's a pleasure to work with such competent folks on another iteration of an iconic show."

Citing that the show was being made by fans, for fans, Paulsen also stated that Nieli and Hastings really "got" the show and the spirit of the Ninja Turtles. Cipes then told fans he accidentally changed Michelangelo's iconic catchphrase from "Cowabunga" to "Booyakasha" during the pilot.

"There was a moment in the script where it was empty, and it was the catchphrase moment, and they're like, 'Hey Cipes! Try something!' And I'm all, 'Booyakasha!' And it stuck!" Cipes said.

"'Cowabunga' is my roots and I hear it might come back at some point but for me 'Booyakasha' is such an awesome thing, it's actually a call to action in a positive way," he added, explaining it was a real term that means "all praises to the most high," before leading the audience in a huge cheer of "Booyakasha!"

"How perfectly cast is Greg Cipes?" Paulsen asked as the audience applauded.

[Kevin G]

Thanks for the info man

I guess that's a foreshadowing that April will eventually become a new reporter and work for channel 6 ?

[Kevin G]

Can't wait for season two, even though we aren't finished with season one.

[pannoni1]

Originally Posted by Kevin G

Can't wait for season two, even though we aren't finished with season one.

Season 2 will be much more important than the first since it will be airing during the buildup to the Michael Bay movie and since the show will be stripped daily, will allow more people to catch up on Season 1 to experience the whole series. That said, I'm looking forward to Casey, Leatherhead, April's transition to adulthood, and so much more. And with Shredder underground, I expect some serious drama between him and the Turtles, since it looks that for Season 1 we'll only have a few Shredder occurrences. Nice to see that production is well underway. Let's just watch the rest of the first season for clues on how Season 2 will take shape.

[CyberCubed]

I thought the preview was just showing late Season 1 eps. I am pretty sure Leatherhead and Chong are in Season 1.

[NinjaMan]

I wonder what they mean by April being the leader of the upper side. Well at least we know when Leatherhead appears. Nice read.

[TheCanadiandrome]

lookin good!

[CyberCubed]

Are we sure the website got it right by saying these are Season 2 details?

As far as I know the work of the tail-end of Season 1 isn't even done yet, why would they have a Leatherhead fight scene almost finished from a Season 2 ep?

[zodiac brave]

this all sounds pretty good and exciting. i wonder if fugitoid or the triceratons will make it into season 2... i love the "cosmic" stuff the turtles always get into. it'd be cool to see what Ciro and co would do to reboot the neutrinos, too!

[Kevin G]

Originally Posted by pannoni1

Season 2 will be much more important than the first since it will be airing during the buildup to the Michael Bay movie and since the show will be stripped daily, will allow more people to catch up on Season 1 to experience the whole series. That said, I'm looking forward to Casey, Leatherhead, April's transition to adulthood, and so much more. And with Shredder underground, I expect some serious drama between him and the Turtles, since it looks that for Season 1 we'll only have a few Shredder occurrences. Nice to see that production is well underway. Let's just watch the rest of the first season for clues on how Season 2 will take shape.

@pannoni1: you make a lot of good points. I am very excited to see April's transition to adulthood. I guess season two is really going to focus on April and Shredder, while season 1 is guess some what of a tease. I agree, I rather finish season 1 then hop right to season two when that comes on.

[Kevin G]

Originally Posted by zodiac brave

this all sounds pretty good and exciting. i wonder if fugitoid or the triceratons will make it into season 2... i love the "cosmic" stuff the turtles always get into. it'd be cool to see what Ciro and co would do to reboot the neutrinos, too!

I thought Fugitoid was already confirmed ?

[BubblyShell22]

Thanks for the details, Adam. I like what's in store for the show, and that bit about April is intriguing. I'm glad they recognize that April shouldn't be a damsel in distress every week. That's great. And I love the origin of Booyakasha. In that context, it actually doesn't sound that bad, but I didn't think it was bad to begin with.

[Zany Orange Dude]

Sweet info!

[Jephael]

I for one am excited to see what's to come!

[FearlessLeader]

Didn't read the article but just throwing in my two cents about my interpenetration of the way things were said at the panel:

New Roles for April and Shredder:
Quote:
Rahman then showed a picture of April O'Neil, describing her as the "leader" of the upper side of the city while Shredder led the underground.

This was said by the moderator, who at times I personally questioned if he even knew anything about Turtles and what he was talking about, nothing was mentioned about anything like this statement by anyone who actually worked on the show so I am personally taking it with a grain of salt. It was funny cause he said this and you could almost hear a collective WTF noise spread across the audience.

April's future?
Quote:
Talking about the show, Nieli and Hastings said their process of picking what stayed from the various "TMNT" animated series, movies and comics was less a weeding out process and more prioritizing what they wanted to use first.

"I haven't discarded anything, we'll get to it when we get to it," Nieli said.

Adding that he loved the spirit of the animated series, Nieli explained that while April went through the most changes it was important to him that she never becomes a, "damsel in distress every week."

"To me, she's the same April," he added. "She will grow up to become the yellow-jumpsuit girl."

He than almost immediately went into saying how much he also loved the Mirage comics version of April and how he can see her almost growing up with the awesome 80's hair she used to have. So I am guessing we are still getting kind of a mish-mash of all the best points of all the April's. At least that's how I saw it.

[CyberCubed]

I think everything here is misintepeted. Leatherhead is a Season 1 character, they already have a toy planned for him.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader

Didn't read the article but just throwing in my two cents about my interpenetration of the way things were said at the panel:



This was said by the moderator, who at times I personally questioned if he even knew anything about Turtles and what he was talking about, nothing was mentioned about anything like this statement by anyone who actually worked on the show so I am personally taking it with a grain of salt. It was funny cause he said this and you could almost hear a collective WTF noise spread across the audience.



He than almost immediately went into saying how much he also loved the Mirage comics version of April and how he can see her almost growing up with the awesome 80's hair she used to have. So I am guessing we are still getting kind of a mish-mash of all the best points of all the April's. At least that's how I saw it.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I think everything here is misintepeted. Leatherhead is a Season 1 character, they already have a toy planned for him.

Fair enough, peeps. I went ahead and added a question mark to the thread title to put it into the hypothetical.