CW4Kids?
Is that an actual network absolutely no one gets or Is that what replaces Kids WB?

Did anyone else hear that?
The death rattle of the Iceman's career? Swear it was in there.
Anyhoo that's only the tip of the iceberg. That movie lacked two things. Bebop, and Rocksteady!! How could they have introduced two new mutants and not had it be the dynamic duo of baddies! Then there is the super shredder retardedness, I don't feel that requires further explaining.

@TVTastegood

@0:14 you see Bebop and Rocksteady, and the other two are Toka and Razor from the movie.

I think it might have been some sort of legal which prohibited Bebop and Rocksteady's use... I forget for sure, though.

I didn't plan on jizzing my pants today, yet here we are

@smashpro1

You too, huh?

More like three times the turtles.

Judging from the clips, it looks like the climax may take place in the original black & white comic book world.

That gives us a grand total of 12 turtles at once.

4Kids voices

I keep hearing Hudson Horsetacio every time I hear Leo

Will the April O'Neils make out at all? Not that I want to know....someone else does. Yeah. That's it.

That looks better and better every time I see it. Also, how are people saying Bebop and Rocksteady aren't involved? They were quite visible in that promo. Focus people.

The movies and black and white old skool turtles as well? Now that's fangasm-tastic.

Oh, and Ninja Rap owns you.

I was hoping the DVD would drop before it aired on TV, I'd rather see the story at once than have to watch 3 or 4 episodes every week. I've already got my money saved.

This really sucks, because the only things I can think to say about this involve the word "erection" and somebody else has already made the joke.

Can't wait for that special... the B&W Turtles made my day... Rocksteady and bebop are the icing on the cake...
Has anyone noticed that 2k3 Michelangelo is everybody's bitch?

No no no I'm talking about the live action movie from the 90's The Secret of the Ooze not having Bebop and Rocksteady.

Makes me wish I still had the craptastic transforming Bebop and Rocksteady action figures, those things sucked balls and yet I loved em

Bebop and Rocksteady couldn't appear in the movie for the same reason that American Maid and Die Fledermaus couldn't be in the live-action Tick TV show. They were characters that were created for the cartoons, and were not in the original comic books, and as such were not actually owned by Mirage and thus not eligible for inclusion in the movie.

(Actually, they probably could have done it, but they would have had to essentially actually license their own characters, and for what that could have cost them, they might as well just create new characters that they DO own.

Greymattersplat, Mirage DOES own Bebop and Rocksteady (or rather they did...now they are owned by Nickelodeon/Viacom), and they DO appear in the movie (Hell...they appear 15 seconds in the trailer)

"It has been stated a number of times in various places that the reason the new animated show does not feature Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady and the Technodrome is that Mirage does not have the rights to those characters. This is not true. We have the rights to those characters and most of the other characters from the old animated series. The reason they are not in the new show has NOTHING to do with rights issues, but rather the fact that I did not want to use them." ~Peter Laird (Co-creator of TMNT)
http://www.planetracers.com/blast/prblast0073.html

Oh wait....you were referring to the live action film series.

Well again, MIRAGE "did" have the rights, and the filmmakers wanted Bebop and Rocksteady, but Laird and Eastman refused under the basis they weren't pleased how after the first season of the 80s cartoon, they went from semi-serious characters to basically lumbering comic relief. Instead, convincing them to instead use two new mutants instead to distance the film from the cartoon.

NERD------GASUM!!!!

the only thing i want to know is how do the turtles wind up meeting each other without totatly ripping a hole in time since they are the same characters and was shreeder in that one scene killing krang.

The 25th anniversary special is set to air on television first - after the 4kids finishes airing the top ten or whatever. 4kids is a network that was once on Fox, now on CW. Goes to highest bidder. It's like a one stop shop for the highest bidder.

I work for the newspaper in Peter Laird's hometown, North Adams, so he granted me an interview a couple weeks ago explaining why he sold the whole kit and kaboodle. http://tiny.cc/tf4Oa

God and Yes. Can't wait to see it.

I prefered when the Turtles met The Power Rangers,
No Idea who the female turtle is supposed to be, but yum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihWJ9ekj6YQ

Now if only they'd release more trades of the original comics.

@demoncat

Parallel universes. All three versions are different characters from each other.

@Lost Captain
First of all, EWWWW.

Venus De Milo the female turtle was created for the horrible Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation series to add a female member to the team. Why they couldn't just turn April into an action hero like every other Turtles series, I don't know.

Icky bonus: she's kinda their long lost sister, but they all have huge boners for her.

What the hell was Shredder doing with Krang at 0:10?

Can't wait! Hope it's not about mutants or ninjas tho.

I'm not that much of a fan of the TMNT (I enjoy the comics reasonably but was too old to be into the cartoon), but this is an exciting project. What I hope is that it will inspire other producers to create the same kind of metafictional, referential material. Could you imagine Sensational Spider-Man meeting Ralph Bakshi Spider-Man or Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends ? I'd be there.

My apologies, Cypo. I stand corrected.

I'd always been under the impression that what I said was the actual story, and I know it's happened to other series (like my aforementioned Tick example), and it all fit, so I never looked into it. I wouldn't call it "making an assumption" so much as "drawing an incorrect conclusion", but the result is still the same.

I hate when I do that.