The History of TMNT: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 

That is so sweet!

I was born in 81 and i can assure u, u were not. I was

Total radical move, Dad! COWABUNGA!!!

That's fantastic.

I had the Michelangelo one long ago.

Yo rhyme bruh I love it

Wa-hoooooooh!

Teenage mutant ninja turtles heroes in a half shell, TURTLE POWER.

It's Donatello does machinery.

All facts 💯

Sadly, my very initial exposure to the incredibly insanedom of the critically popular TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES craze was something of a hazy blur to recall; other than the unmistakable fact that me and my 2 brothers used to "watch it" virtually every Sunday morning like around 10a on the old-school WATL 36 channel. At which point, the series, for us, was already like in ankle-deep of season 2, specifically with the "Return of the Shredder", "It Came From Beneath the Sewers" & "The Case of the Killer Pizzas", episodes, respectfully. Remembered thinking how we, as a couple of unimpressed 11 & 10 y/o's were so deftly quiet, (if not so painfully shy), to fully react to what would eventually amount to the unstoppable juggernaut it was well on its way of becoming. One would like say that maybe we all were just secret closet fans with these characters, the show as a whole, but were openly ashamed to admit it. Yeah, I know, how sad were we? What eventually occurred, overtime, was that when the show finally hit the weekday format, most notably airing in the comfy 5 o'clock time slot, that's when we, personally, felt that the show had finally hit its stride! What with such memorable episodes, like: "Splinter No More", "Turtles on Trial" "Attack of the 50-Foot Irma", "The Old Switcheroo" & more! But perhaps what was THE MOST MEMORABLE EPISODES to have ever blown our collective minds, for me and my brothers, were those epic episodes that we were all NEVER privy to in its entire existence. Preferably the very 1st 5 episodes what started the show's eponymous hype since its initial beginning... "TURTLE TRACKS"-"SHREDDER AND SPLINTERED." That, for us, was, arguably, like THE BEST EVER, OUT-OF-THE-LOOP EXPERIENCE / HAPPY ACCIDENT for us that we could have ever been exposed to; because, in a lot of ways, it helped make for an incredibly, whole new FRESH SERIES to watch all over again, and the rest, as they say, is HEROES IN A HALF SHELL, history! P.S., although one of my personal favorite colors has always been red, MICHELANGELO was, by far, my personal favorite NINJA TURTLE!!!

Yep. Leonardo was the first one I got as well. Still my favorite.

Same here! Leonardo's still No.1!! My whole Home Office is full of framed 90s Movie Posters and the NECA TURTLES 😁 even my son is in Love with them and wants to play with it! 🤘🏼🤩

It was the best time to be a kid

Björn Jensen Truly the best time. And best action figures but that intro tv series got me hooked. My dad swore his generation had the best childhood in the 60s. Lol nah

Thank you for this. There were 2 rich brothers that lived on my street in the early 90s. All the kids would flock to their garage after school because they had every TMNT toy. EVERY TOY... their dad prided himself on collecting each tmnt toy made. It was a garage full of plastic wonderful, and I forgot about it till I read your comment. Thank you again.

Thank you.

Its truly does hold up. If nothing else the story was really good, but the suits were amazing and the fight scenes were engaging. A rarity indeed

Rob Pollock 03 TMNT was amazing. They really stayed close to the grit of the Mirage years but with a good dose of light-hearted moments of the Free Wolf series.

Thanks, Rob!

Peter Laird was the story consultant for the series

I watched the 03 series every Saturday as a child, and then rediscovered all of the episodes on RU-vid. After rewatching the whole series, it still remains one of my favorite cartoons ever, alongside teen titans and naruto.

I remember one Saturday morning, doing my usual wake and bake, and seeing the intro for a new Turtles cartoon. I said what the hell, ain't nothing else on right now! After that amazing intro, they launched into the episode and I was hooked! I hadn't had any interest in Turtles since I was a kid and there I was watching a new cartoon. Every episode was better than the last and, much like you, I became a fan all over again. I stuck in until the series took them to the future and I bowed out as the series had went to garbage at that point. I did love the Turtles Forever flick though.

Squeaky spinner racks are pure nostalgia.

*cough x-men *cough ducktales

biker mice gi joe he man thunder cats

@Telepathy did they have their own action figure series? I think i have one somewhere😆

@@GenOner xmen aired in the 90s not the 80s

Ew.

That is just nasty to picture. Then Luke was kissed in the mouth my Princess Leia...

PIXEL DAN!!!! I follow your channel, man. Do you remember Turtle Pies from Hostess? I emailed Hostess when the new Ninja Turtles live action movie came out to ask them if they would be re-releasing Turtle Pies. Unfortunately, they weren't. I wish they would. They were very delicious and came with a big sticker, typically a random one. I had a few that I put on my Dad's flight bag that he lugged around O'Hare airport (he's a pilot). Good times....I miss the Turtle days.

Ok

dan fuck off those numbers we all know comics dont sell like they did in the 80s spiderman back in the 80s probably sold 250 k a month

Radical radical radical radical

I still have my VHS copy.

no ninja, no ninja, nooooooooooooo. lol

CoinOpTV Yo it's a green Machine gonna rock the town without being seen

CoinOpTV I made another funny 😛

At some point, yes.

@@SecretGalaxyTV don't forget to mention that it started off as a porn

@@SecretGalaxyTV have you reached that point 👀

Think they did that one already, brought back memories of the Toxic Crusaders.

I watched the 2003 series on Cartoon Network as a kid.

You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

I loved it.

Man my first love will always be the original 87 show because that's what I grew up with, but I like the 2012 series and the 2003 series

it was the best so far . it even beats the 2003 series

That cartoon was amazing

Also, the current IDW comics run is also amazing

Living well is the best revenge.

Hey, mom. I'm going to change Max's name to "Old Yellow." "What for, sweetie?" Oh, no reason. No reason at all.

Lightning in a bottle, man.

My friends and I used to talk about what printing everyone was able to acquire. I think 4th printing of Issue 1 was the earliest anyone was able to purchase. I never had any of the actual issues. Just picked up the trades years later.

Neca is now making figures of them

Thank you.

As did my younger brother. He was practically raised by the cartoons on VHS.

Yeah, weird.

I LIKE weird!!!

sixto reynoso I totally agree. The original comics and the rpg where awesome and so cool! Then when the cartoon came it quickly went downhill from all that cool that came before

agreed, the Archie comic run used to make me angry LOL but it did give enough life to the characters that i think brought a big light to the original material thus allowing for more nicer reprints of the comics with the extra stuff and stuff like the amazing NECA figures. necessary evil?

I read that the TV guy that approached them was from Harmony Gold "owners?" of RoboTech and that Palladium games helped introduce them after Palladium wanted to get the RoboTech license, and naturally showed off the other games they had made

Christopher Vogler make sense. I played them both, likes TMNT better so I would apply weapons and some vehicles from one to the other. You guys are making me want to pull that out and start a campaign lol

Excellent. Thanks for watching.

Such a weird thing. Such a weird, weird thing.

@@SecretGalaxyTV Thatcherism at it's finest. Thing is, I'd also seen the title "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and was confused as hell as to what the difference was with "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles", so yeah, censoring the word "ninja" really didn't seem to work that well.

Well, what did you think of the latest series?

You're welcome.

thats how raph is in everything but the og cartoon they made him a goofball telling jokes, anything else including the archie comic that many people remember he was a jerk sometimes

You're welcome!