Castle Magus

"Nick, Jesse, and Stephan are shell-shocked by the first TMNT movie."

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I was 11 when this movie came out. Saw it the theater, maybe not day one, but certainly within the first week.

I agree, the first one is way better than the other two. That said, the second one is still way better than the third one, Vanilla Ice and all. I did not see the third one in the theater. I didn't hate TMNT3 as much as the AVGN did, but it was not great.

Also, I don't care what the "accepted consensus" or whatever may be. Donatello is the best Turtle, not Raphael. I don't mean in this movie, I mean in general. Honestly, of all four of them, Raph has always been my least favorite (voiced by Rob Paulsen in the original cartoon aside, because Rob Paulsen is awesome). Don't get me wrong, all of the Turtles are cool and all, and I do like Raph, he's just the one I like the least of the four.

And yeah, spoiler alert, Casey Jones just straight up murdering the Shredder in the first movie via garbage truck compacting was a pretty "what the fuck holy shit" moment. Granted, Shredder got over it by the next movie, of course. That said, when they were talking about the Turtles not really using their weapons much in the later movies and how they never used them lethally in the first movie either, I couldn't help but think of Casey's intro scene, where he beats the shit out of those would be purse snatchers, and he hits the one dude with the "slashing" thing (just a full 360° swing upside the guy's head). Like, seriously, you hit someone with a hockey stick like that IRL and you could very easily fuck them up bad if not outright kill them. But the moral guardians were more worried about the katananinjato and sai and nunchaku and shit like that.

And yeah, it's always the money people. The money people ruin everything. Sure, some things might not exist at all without the money people, but in too many cases, maybe we'd have been better off if those things hadn't existed to start with. Thankfully, there weren't very many money people involved with the first TMNT movie. (Also, it wasn't until the third movie that the Jim Henson Company was kicked to the curb, not the second one, and man does it show. Third movie Turtles were about on par with the live musical Turtles. Not great.)

Ghostbusters x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Epic Theme Song Mashup 2024

Here’s my new mashup for you featuring Ghostbusters and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme from the TMNT 1990’s movie.

For this video I used my Korg Kronos 61 and Korg Kronos 88. All the sounds you hear in the video are from the two Korg Synths.

Now enjoy when Leonardo and his team meets the Ghostbusters and clean up New York.

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I opened this initially expecting it to be a mashup between Ghostbusters and the original 1987 cartoon theme, but I guess the theme from the live-action movie works, too.

Here's one by the same creator as the above which does use the 1987 TMNT theme, mashed up with Ducktales.

"April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can be any race. It doesn't matter. Let's not do a culture war over this."

While I'm on the subject of Ninja Turtles and its music:


My favorite (aside from the original English, naturally) is still the German version. And the Hebrew version, which I'd never heard before now, is pretty cool, too. I also like the Italian version for how completely different it is, even compared to the Hebrew one, as most of the others sound at least somewhat similar to the English version.

Damn... I'm going to have the Ninja Turtle theme stuck in my head for like at least a week now. Unless I drown it out with some other stuff... ¬_¬ (EDIT) Wow, a lot of the versions of the Sailor Moon theme are completely different, definitely not versions of Moonlight Densetsu. (/EDIT)

"We review the new TMNT: Shredder's Revenge beat 'em up from Tribute Games -- what did we think?!"

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They had issues with the game, even though (ostensibly) they mostly liked it. However, just speaking for myself, their issues are non-issues, because I personally have less than zero interest in playing online multiplayer. Also, I have no problem with "exploits" nor do I need those "exploits" to be nerfed or whatever. (That's what fucked over Bloodstained, at least a little, i.e. the devs "fixing" "exploits" because people whined about them.) I mean, I get their point, and I agree that if I had any interest at all in playing multiplayer, which I don't, I'd probably want that shit to be toned down or whatever. But just me, playing by myself (which, to be fair, I haven't done yet, because I haven't bought the game), I don't give a flying fuck about taunting to fill up a super meter and how that supposedly "breaks the game" by "not engaging with the systems properly" if you do that or whatever the fuck. And Pat saying he'd probably prefer to have the supers, or taunts, removed entirely because "the original game didn't have them" or "they make it too easy" or what the fuck ever. *eyeroll + facepalm +smdh + weary sigh*

Apparently, there was a Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie released last year, which was an adaptation of a comic book series with the same premise. This is mostly a "for future reference" post for me, because I don't have the means to watch or read either, at the moment. But, yeah, it's cool that this is a thing that exists.

Found out about this via watching the latest James and Mike Mondays video, which was them dual-playing Turtles in Time on the SNES and Hyperstone Heist on the Genesis at the same time. They briefly mention the Batman vs TMNT movie in this.

What the hell? You mean to tell me that another of these things has been released already? ಠ_ಠ

This went completely under my radar, somehow. Hell, I still haven't even seen the first one yet, either.

I didn't have to watch that to know that the review intro was pretty much beat-for-beat identical to the actual TMNT cartoon intro, but it's nice to have that comparison there to prove that it's so.

Oh, I meant to write about this stuff earlier, before getting distracted by other bullshit, so here goes. Had some interesting and fairly weird dreams last night.

Dream #1

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Dream #2

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Heard about the above via this week's Two Best Friends Play Friday Night Fisticuffs video, and it's pretty cool. Some of the other stuff on that channel looks like it might be pretty cool too.