Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

fade2black

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/teenagemutantninjaturtles/

This looks like a helluva lot of fun.

Thank God they decided against using real actors this time...

monkeyfudge

Rhyme beat you to it:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054964614

Ruu_Old

Good to see it alright, doesn't look too bad.:)

fade2black

Haha...I went back two pages and all. Apologies.

EDIT: Oh wait...TMNT....

My bad.

monkeyfudge

The fact that a thread title can't be in all caps makes it look strange.

Pugsley

Looks kinda cool, used to love that show

Rhyme

monkeyfudge wrote:

The fact that a thread title can't be in all caps makes it look strange.

True... makes it so that only people who've seen the trailer or have an extensive knowledge of acronyms would 'get' the thread title

monkeyfudge

Rhyme wrote:

True... makes it so that only people who've seen the trailer or have an extensive knowledge of acronyms would 'get' the thread title

Yes.. if the acronym is TMNT and not Tmnt... which sounds like what you'd hear if you dropped a heavy book on the floor.

madrab

looks great, cant wait to see it

next year should relive my childhood nicely

LundiMardi

that looks ****!!! I would have preferred real actors to be honest... very disappointing.

Vokes

Shouldn't it be Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles O_o

herobear

SofaKing wrote:

Shouldn't it be Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles O_o

Censorship and "Hero Turtles"

Upon TMNT's first arrival in the United Kingdom, the name was changed to "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" (or TMHT, for short), since local censorship policies deemed the word ninja to have excessively violent connotations for a children's program. Consequently, everything related to the Turtles had to be renamed before being released in the UK. The lyrics were also changed, such as changing "Splinter taught them to be ninja teens" to "Splinter taught them to be fighting teens."

The policies also had other effects, such as removing Michelangelo's nunchaku (which were at the time banned from appearing in even 18-rated movies) and generally toning down the usage of all the turtles' weapons. After many seasons of never using his nunchaku, they eventually disappeared entirely, replaced by a turtle shell shaped grappling hook called the "Turtle Line".

By the time of the 2003 TV series, these censorship policies had been abolished, and no changes have occurred in the content of the show. The name "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" remained unchanged for the 2003 show. As a result, in the UK, the 1987 show is still called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and the 2003 show is called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

i was wrong about the concept originating in japan.
really good source of info >here<


the trailer looks kinda cool, but then i used to love the live action films when i was a kid too(had them all on vhs)