[Snowflakian]

The show has the first episode up on Youtube officially as a preview.
It's definitely different. Like FLCL and Transformers Animated did the dragonball Z fusion dance while holding TMNT toys.

Has some potential, but definitely needs room to grow to see what it can become.

TBH, something high energy, comedic, and vibrant feels kind of refreshing for now instead of a constant retread of what the past 3 series were. And I gotta admit Mikey's new Jack O'Lantern ball and chain was actually a fun highlight as well as Leo's portal swords. And I really dig the aspect that this plays them up more as overgrown kids and not the TMNT that they'll become later over the course of the series. It really does feel like 10-13 year old's power fantasy, which is what it should be for a fresh take to do something different. And it's nice to see a series to let the creative teams go as far to the edge as they can in randomness to get that out of their system after the rigidity of of what the cg one was, and it's nice to see them do something completely off the wall and different instead of a complete retread of 80s, 2k3, and the cg one. TBH, even orignal TMNT started getting a bit off the wall random near the end of the 80s run. The toys even did Ronin Warriors style anime armor and a brief buffed up super heroes line too. And it's not like parody costumes are anything new to the line either, so it's nice to see them try something completely different to get it out of their systems before having to do the same stuff over and over and over again until beyond stale.

Splinter definitely will take some getting used to though, but you can really feel his "worn out by having to raise four sons" aspect in this. So he feels much more like an actual father as opposed to their sensei.