TMNT - Who's your favorite Ninja Turtle
Poll: TMNT - Who's your favorite Ninja Turtle
Total Members Polled: 28
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Hi, just a fun poll as I've just seen this video from Corridor Digital:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dJcuuTSpSE
As a kid of the '80s, I grew up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on TV, and I always had a clear favorite.
How 'bout yours?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dJcuuTSpSE
As a kid of the '80s, I grew up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on TV, and I always had a clear favorite.
How 'bout yours?
Tim330 said:
I only recently found out that Shredder was voiced by James Avery (Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air)
It reminds me of the line up of guests they had for captain planet.
Sting, John Ratzenberger and Goldblum from the top of my head.
As for the Turtles, Donnie for purple and the fighting staff when I was a kid. He's by far the most intelligent so that's a bonus.
parabolica said:
Am I misremembering or did there used to be two official names for TMNT? I seem to recall there being something else beside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Raph btw. No idea why; think probably because red is my favourite colour! Simpler times...
As far as I remember it was Ninja turtles everywhere except the UK where it was Hero turtles. Raphael for me too, again not sure why! Raph btw. No idea why; think probably because red is my favourite colour! Simpler times...
Also Donatello. No idea why
I had a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (not Ninja, of course) party for my 6th birthday in 1991 and my mum made masks for everyone, I was purple for Donatello and everyone else was either Raphael or Leonardo. There was no orange material, so nobody was Michelangelo. My mum bought a green lightbulb for the kitchen so it was like "the sewer", and of course we had pizza.
I had a Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (not Ninja, of course) party for my 6th birthday in 1991 and my mum made masks for everyone, I was purple for Donatello and everyone else was either Raphael or Leonardo. There was no orange material, so nobody was Michelangelo. My mum bought a green lightbulb for the kitchen so it was like "the sewer", and of course we had pizza.
ZesPak said:
Radec said:
Yeah Hero turtles in the UK, Ninja turtles was too hardcore for our soft kids
Not from the UK, but was it different show or rebranded? And more importantly, did it have April O'Neil?
ZesPak said:
Shakermaker said:
Exactly the same show, they just scrawled the word "hero" into the title card and dubbed the lyrics to the theme tune ever so slightly
So they literally censored the word "Ninja" out of it?Why go through that effort? Any cultural reason I'm missing?
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30862/complete...
Turtle Controversies
As harmless as the 1988 cartoon series was, it was still heavily edited for broadcast in the UK and much of Europe. Due to more stringent censors, many of the action sequences had to be trimmed so that the Turtles weren’t seen using weapons too often. Poor Michelangelo suffered the worst; in the UK, nunchucks are restricted, which meant his fight scenes were cut and replaced with him using a grappling hook instead. The name of the show was even changed to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, because the word “ninja” had a violent connotation.
In 1990, some 250,000 turtles were imported into Britain to feed the demand of young Turtles fans who wanted them as pets. For only a few pounds, kids could easily buy a small turtle, not knowing that it would grow to be the size of a dinner plate. When the kids no longer wanted to take care of the animals, they were often dumped in rivers and ponds, where they devastated native ecosystems. The problem became so severe that the European Union banned the sale of the most popular breed, red-eared terrapins, in 1997.
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