And this following television series, the Turtles' 3rd big cartoon series!Īs they just celebrated their 15th anniversary, the Turtles are now "all grown up" and finally want to explore the outside world from down where they live, in the sewers. What came from that was a fairly successful comic book relaunch at IDW and an upcoming rebooted film franchise in the hands of Transformers director Michael Bay. Since then the series was actually purchased by Nickelodeon from its original co-creator Peter Laird. Even if the series was probably less talked about nowadays despite a 2007 CGi film trying to revive the flame.įinally there also was a fairly decent and popular 2003 animated series that concluded with an impressive franchise-spanning epic " Crisis"-like crossover film.
As such TMNT evolved a lot over the decades and has always been present to this day, one way or another. Nevertheless, it is considered noways an iconic franchise that easily counts thousands of fans worldwide.
And even for some others the action figures or the first live-action movie adaptation might be their first impression of the series as a whole. Might come from the original Eastman & Laird's comic book series, while for most of the others it might come from the 1980s cartoon For most people their first memories of it Has lived through and evolved so much over more than 25 years.Įveryone's familiar with the Ninja Turtles, in one form or another. It always surprises me how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise Genre Action/adventure comedy/scifi animated series Name: Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) Season 1 released as the 3 DVD-sets: "Part 1: Rise of the Turtles", "Part 2: Enter Shredder" and "Part 3: Ultimate Showdown"ĭirected by Ciro Nieli, Joshua Sternin & J.R.