The only thing is does confirm is the style. They had previously confirmed that it would be entirely CG generated. :o

Yeah, they did. But things can change.

Thanks for the info. Ninjaturtles.com is still under construction even though it was supposed to be back up early 2011.

I also grew up with the 1987 cartoon. I found out about the comics a few years later when I was in a drugstore with parents, and saw an Archie comics issue of TMNT. I went to a local comic store and looked for more ninjaturtle comics, found out about mirage studios and started collecting both companies runs. In 1996 I found the mirage website and learned about all the other stuff available and went hard core collector.

I found TMNT boxers with the VIACOM logo on the tag at Walmart a few months back, and that's the ONLY thing I've seen put out by since the buyout from Peter Laird.

Sorry, stupid enter key.....

I'm not very happy with the low detail design of the characters. I'm the kind of person that has always been craving high levels of detail. They look bland and too.... blocky/shapey.

I rather enjoyed the 2003 TMNT as it went more toward the more violent/realistic turtles (language/behavior/situations) The older 87's cartoon went WAAAAAY out there to extremes just for laughs, it was after all completely directed at children. The 2003 series tried to bring the comic format back, and still reach out to those that were now young/old adults, not just children.

It'd be interesting if we could find out what happened to the live action Hallmark christmas special that was supposed to happen back in the early 2000's, as well as what's going on with the new movie that was supposed to be being done by Paramount.

I always wanted a darker edgier, bloody TMNT cartoon, something the older #TMNT and TMNT-L mailing lists of the 90's dubbed as an HBO series hopeful, like Spawn. Now that Laird no longer has ties to control the movies/cartoons, it's more of a possibility, but still unlikely.

I really should clarify, by "the serious episodes of the series," I really mean "the serious episodes of the series." There are plenty of episodes that work well in the 2003 series, but there are several (IMHO) that verge on being melodramatic. The whole Ninja Tribunal saga, for one. In fact, I think any time they flashed back to ancient Japan for some reason, I was lost.

The 1980s cartoon doesn't hold up that well these days. It was too silly, even compared to other action cartoons at the time, and like you say, it goes to great lengths for jokes that aren't that funny. But the 1980s cartoon was really simple, and it was generally happy and optimistic. In comparison, the last TMNT (and really, most action cartoons today) are quite dark and serious. Maybe it's just a reflection of the times we live in, but I get a little tired of it seeing how everyone is doing it. I saw that new Thundercats trailer, for example, and I thought to myself "Who the heck watched Thundercats for the backstory?" Maybe the villain-of-the-week format doesn't fit TMNT, but why doesn't anyone do it now? It's like it's beneath the writers.

ninjaturtles.com was such a cool web site. It was so unlike other web sites throughout its whole existence, because the guy who ran it illustrated the Turtles himself and was a devout fan, not a corporate marketer. So the whole site always had this homebrew feel to it, like a relic from the Internet of the 1990s. The little contests, the toy collections, the fan mail, fan art - you don't see that sort of thing very often anymore.

I'm sure that when Nickelodeon begins their campaign, they'll probably replace the site with some generic corporate poo. But it was fun while it lasted.

Yeah. I might have to relaunch my online TMNT Museum if they totally butcher the archive of information that was there. If I recall, the site was actually run/updated by Dan Berger. Laird was more of just approval authority and he only did the Blast From the Past section.

god no. let the series end! TMNT Forever was an absolutely wonderful finale to the whole concept

Looks like Mikey and Donny traded in their Nunchucks and Staff for a Kama and Spear.