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Elbows and knees, and even ankle articulation. If these had a little more muted colors instead of the solid toon colors I'd consider getting them myself.

Still, think kids are going to love these. The show looks really promising and fun. It's got this kind of FLCL off the wall feeling to it which is a welcome change after so many years of the same thing over and over.

And I really dig the concept of starting younger with them to better explore the sibling divides and coming back together as events unfold. Playing up the Raph big brother angle as the leader and protector, to then Leo's eventual rise to fill the shoes of a leader could be interesting, and this pushing back of the shredder material should give them more open room to character build and have fun with the kid side of things before it gets all serious doom and gloom.

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Originally Posted by evilekim

I loved the last cartoon, but the fact that Nickelodeon ended it was absurd. That show was the only thing they seemed to get right.

They didn't exactly end it, so much as it ran its course and the stories were done other than constant retreads. Short of a merman storyline, and maybe doing a little more on Shinigami and Karai, they had nothing original and new left to do. So they ended it on one big love letter to the creators done mad max style.

This show is set to go back farther before they started as a named team. To build how that really formed and the leadership role changed, and better establish different forms of fear from the foot and over arcing reveals to up the fright from Shredder better as a larger menace. All the while being off the wall, comedic, and hyper stylized with imagination to better get the message across to kids of the innate moral lessons of TMNT about family, brotherhood, and helping people.

This show might do surprisingly well and even better than past incarnations. Might even rejuvenate the brand back to 80s toon popularity levels with kids. For many kids this is going to be their original tmnt. Same as various transformers series are different era kids favorites.

This is essentially the TF Animated and FLCL version of TMNT. That break for the writers/creative teams to let them go wild with anything and blow off steam for a few years, before going back to rehashing out the same tired material over and over and over again. Even so, they've mixed in tons of references from all over like animated did too. There's some mixing in of new movie stuff with the 2k3 stuff, and even some of the recent CG stuff is getting references. Mikey had even made a joke of wanting nunchuks with boxing gloves in the CG one, and this has that. A little bit of Flash Forwards' weapon lights too. You can see a lot of lore and reference love in these designs. And this idea of adopted brothers because of all being different turtle breeds is an even better emphasis of found family, but family all the same.

The original show itself was already a Titans Go! kind of remake to begin with, and if done today, would likely be as ridiculed if not even more than this is getting. Heck even the CG and 2k3 show had to point out the flaws of how bad original TMNT actually was. When it switched to the darker tone in the later seasons, it effectively killed the brand on CBS.

Which is interesting to note, as much as fans seem to like TMNT OOTS, it didn't exactly do that great at the box office. It's still on the line of probably not getting a sequel, but may if they find a way to bring it to audience attention better somehow. They gave the 80s series fans what they wanted, and apparently, outside of toy sales, it really doesn't do well at box offices.