Does anyone like the original ninja turtles cartoon series? Recently I have started going through all 10 seasons, I remember watching this on tv as a kid.

I was TMNT maniac as a kid, I swear there wasn't an action figure I didn't have.



This is how I spent summers with my cousin in grade school

Oh god this show was so awesome. I loved it to bits.

I always identified a lot with Krang for some reason, but I don't remember why. Maybe because I was a really arrogant child and I always felt I was "surrounded by morons".

I recently came across this:



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Yeah, nothing beats a classic...

Loved it as a kid, but my mum never bought me any of the toys as it was 'just a phase'. She said the same with Power Rangers a few years later. I felt so deprived. I wanted a Megazord so much that I tried (and failed) to build one out of Lego. I'd still love some of those toys for nostalgic reasons so she was completely wrong about it being 'just a phase'.

Also, it was retitled Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles over here because someone thought we'd be traumatised by the word 'Ninja', but be okay with mutated animals fighting a disembodied brain

PS Love that pic Small Pink Blob

I remember around 1990 or 1991 I took my little cousin to see the movie. He was so into it.

The 1987 cartoon was the Turtles I grew up with. I was 5 when that came out. I was obsessed, and had several of the toys. I was so excited when the arcade game, and later the movie, came out. I saw the film on my 8th birthday, and wanted to karate chop everyone afterwards.

Oh hell yeah! TMNT, Ghostbusters and GI Joe were probably my trifecta of early childhood cartoons. Hell the live action TMNT film was the first feature length movie I saw in theaters. The real question is how could someone not like or at least casually watch TMNT as a kid growing up in the 80s/early 90's?

TMNT-Hell yeah!!!

What, is the word "ninja" considered offensive by some hypersensitive dimwit somewhere? First I've heard of it.

I was an enormous fan as a kid. I liked Gijoe toys for the articulation of joints, cause they could do awesome karate shit, but when it came down to the 'coolest' ones that had emotional appeal and nostalgic value, it was Ninja Turtles.

It will always be a huge part of my childhood, and I still like the first movie a fair amount and some of the video games. I still get a bit of halo effect of excitement, from my nostalgia, but I'm not sure I'd be able to watch the series again as I'm not the same person anymore.

It was one of those things, that could only be that great as a kid and it burned a permanent implant in my mind, like looking too long into the sun does on the retinas.

Looking back, I can see the commercial craze of it all. You know, how they were milking parents of every dollar with so much merchandizing. The action figures were a huge part of my memories when young, but to me, the memories of cutting down sticks and going out in the forest as children, pretending to be Ninja Turtles fighting might have been what did it more than anything, as myself and my brothers had a favorite one we all wanted to be. I identified with Raphael because he was emotionally unstable like me, my brother identified with Donatello for his intellectualism, and my step brother Leonardo as he was oldest and liked to lead.

I suppose we didn't have a Michelangelo fan in our childhood and his nunchucks might have been harder for us to craft as we always found vine maple trees for our weapons. Part of the excitement was hunting down a tree that would work for the right weapon and stick fighting. Unfortunately Raphael's sais weren't very good in a fight, so I'd get the short end of that stick.

I look back and I wish I could just live near a really nice forest like that again. And just roam free. I think the action figures are in storage somewhere, I don't know where. I loved them to pieces and I'd never get rid of them, but the childhood memories are probably what has the most magic.

I think this artist's take on April O'Neil just became my new onitis

I loved it too. I think one aspect was enjoying the different personalities that correlated to their coloured headbands. Sillly but still.

Oh, and also this: