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01-25-2006 03:32 PM |
Wacko
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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Every so often I ponder the phenomena that was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. How did that idea ever make it? It is beyond preposterous. Also, turtles are really SLOW and totally not ninja like. Moreover, ninjas don't strike me as particularly artistic. I never watched the show and I know basically nothing about these things, but what was mutant about them? And were they young teens? Older teens?
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It started off as a lark -- a very obscure comic book. Nobody had ever done a comic book like that before, and it had a very small print run. So the early editions became collectibles and they resold for fantastic sums for a brief period of time. I believe their mutuations manifested themselves in their preternatural fighting skills -- or perhaps the goofy stripe around their head at eye level, because otherwise they looked like normal talking turtles. Despite their names, I don't recall them as being particularly artistic.
As to how it got put on Saturday morning TV and merchandised -- no idea, but I'm sure it was at least as good as most of the other crap on at the same time. I liked "Battle of the Planets" (aka G-Force) and the cartoon with Spiderman, Ice Man, and the Fire chick with the nice cartoon tits. I'm pretty sure network TV cartoons suck now.
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