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"Lani, Jesse, and Stephan remember the days when five teenagers(?) with attitude were all we needed to solve the world's problems."



Lani says: "I know I'm a little older than you kids... I was a fresh-faced elementary schooler at the height, at the peak, of Power Rangers popularity."

I would have just finished my sophomore year in high school when this movie came out, and I would have just entered or been about to enter high school as a freshman when the show itself first came out in August 1993. It was a pretty damn huge deal at the time. That said, I only vaguely remember seeing the movie at some point, likely even in a theater, but I remember next to nothing about it now. (And I saw the 2017 one that Jesse mentioned, most definitely not in a theater, but I remember even less about that one.)

I did not go to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers live show. I was unaware until now that there even was a Power Rangers live show. (I did, however, go to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells Live Tour thing, when it hit Carowinds in 1990 or 1991 or whenever. And I had a cassette tape of the album, too, which I'm pretty sure I got at Pizza Hut. Yes, that was a real thing that exists.)

Anyway, as for the movie itself... yeah, this movie came after Austin St. John, Walter Jones, and (RIP) Thuy Trang had already left the show, after which I lost most of my interest for the whole thing. I never really got into even Zeo or Turbo (and I had no idea that Alien Rangers was even a thing that existed or if I did I had successfully blotted it from my memory until today), and I didn't watch anything of In Space and all the stuff that came after that.
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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.




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.
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"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."
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Cracked.com has put out an article about that Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue thing, which is particularly timely to me, given that I'd only just watched that James Rolfe "What Happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons?" video, which talked about it, a couple of days ago.

Anyway, in the article, they interviewed a bunch of people who were involved in creating the special. The funniest was probably Townsend Coleman, the voice of Michelangelo of the (1987 cartoon) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who straight up claimed that Mikey was almost assuredly a burnout (and that his prototype during auditions was Jeff Spicoli), so it was kind of weird for him to be there.

One of the other guys talks about how they couldn't get the Scooby Doo gang to be in it and that it probably would have been hypocritical for Shaggy to have been giving anti-drug advice anyway. (This, despite the original Scooby Doo show creators supposedly not being aware of/intending/admitting to Shaggy's reputation as a stoner.)
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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)
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"We spoke to the developer of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection at Comic Con. We discuss what we saw and the goodies planned to be included!"



Huh... I didn't know that about the third TMNT Game Boy game (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue), that it was basically a Metroidvania game. Makes me wish I'd gotten it as a kid, since I only owned and played the first two Game Boy games. And, yeah, Back from the Sewers wasn't nearly as good as Fall of the Foot Clan. The only good thing I can say about BftS over FotFC is that the second game used the actual Krang theme[1] when you fight him, unlike the first game which just used some generic boss music. As for the soundtracks over all... ... ...*shrug* I like them both. The second one's probably got more to it, though. I hope the third game's is as good. ...I mean, I guess I could just listen to it and see/hear.

And yeah, on the whole, the Cowabunga Collection sounds pretty awesome. I'm sure I'll get it eventually.

Ah, the days back when Konami didn't suck shit. I.e. back when they actually still fucking made real-ass video games.

[1] - For reference. (EDIT) I tried linking to the actual TV show version a few times, but the videos kept getting blocked/removed for whatever dumbshit reasons, so fuck it. *weary sigh* It's basically the same as the arcade game version, there, just a lot slower and more mellow. (/EDIT)
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"We review the new TMNT: Shredder's Revenge beat 'em up from Tribute Games -- what did we think?!"



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*
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Yeah, I'm probably going to get this. Won't be at launch, of course, but someday.
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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.
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James and Mike say that the movie is "not great" and "mediocre" at best, but they seemed to like it a heck of a lot more than Angry Joe and his friends did. They claim that there are spoilers in this review, but the only real "spoilers" there are, as such, are the mere fact that Bebop, Rocksteady, Krang, and the Technodrome are in the movie at all.
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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.
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I guess I need to start watching this show. I'll get right on that, after I watch all of the 2003 series for the first time (of which I also still haven't yet seen even a single full episode).

No, but seriously, that's pretty cool.
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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.
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(EDIT 2) And here's a link to the full review. (/EDIT 2)




I'll either do another post later, or edit this one, with the full review when it goes up tomorrow. Apparently, they're going to rip the 2014 Ninja Turtles movie a new asshole. Both of these guys have already discussed the movie separately as themselves and not their characters, but now, several months later, they've decided to do a joint review as the Angry Video Game Nerd and the Nostalgia Critic.

I still have yet to see the movie myself, so I honestly don't know if it really is as bad as they and so many other people make it out to be. I thought it was a terrible idea from the get go, myself, but several members of my family who went to see it in theaters with their kids said it was pretty good, so... I don't know. *shrug* I still have little interest in seeing it, but I'm not adamantly opposed to watching it either, so maybe I'll get around to it someday eventually.

(EDIT) Oh, and on a semi-related note, Doug Walker is in this week's episode of James and MikeDoug Mondays as well. (/EDIT)

Dreams

Jan. 26th, 2015 08:49 pm
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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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In lieu of going to see the Michael Bay produced TMNT movie myself, I have opted to watch reviews of it. Below are the embeds of the three I watched from Matt, Pat, Woolie, and Liam of Super Best Friends Play, James Rolfe and Mike Matei of Cinemassacre, and Doug Walker of That Guy With the Glasses. (If Noah Antwiler of The Spoony Experiment does a review/vlog of it at some point later on, I'll edit this and include that one as well.)

The embeds are in both the order I watched them and, coincidentally, the order of most hate to least hate, as well as most spoilery to least spoilery (though they all contain spoilers). The Best Friends get way more into the nitty gritty (and somewhat nitpicky), whereas Doug takes more of an overview approach (and goes off on an interesting rant against Michael Bay and about film-making in general), with James and Mike somewhere in between. The consensus seems to be that it's a pretty bad movie, as expected, but not as bad as Turtles 3. (Is it weird that I just did a kind of mini-review of reviews of movies? >_>)

As for me... I'll probably see it eventually, after it comes out on DVD or whatever, but I'm not going to be watching this thing in the theaters. I don't know... I might go see it in theaters if some of my family members want to go at some point. I'm undecided, at this point, but I'm leaning toward not.

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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.
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But now they're saying it's on again?

And that Megan Fox is going to be playing April O'Neil?

What. ಠ_ಠ

What's next? Shia LaBeouf as Shredder? That would make about as much sense as Megan Fox as April O'Neil.

TMNT dream

Oct. 2nd, 2012 09:27 am
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There is apparently a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon out now. Prior to just before the writing of this post, I had only heard two things about it. The first was a Facebook post from someone saying they were watching it, and the other was a tweet from Rob Paulsen, who voices Donatello in the new show (and who voiced Raphael in the old 1987 show).

And, so it would seem, that alone was enough to cause me to have a TMNT related dream last night. The dream was in the style of the old 1987 cartoon, even thought it was ostensibly about the new one, since until just before beginning this post I didn't know what the new cartoon even looked like (more on that later).

The first bit was between April O'Neil and Splinter and was a bit meta/4th-wall breaky. They were talking about how the Turtles had moved away from New York, for some reason not well explained in the dream. Apparently, it was just so that the new show would be in a different setting (which it isn't IRL). Strangely, they didn't seem to know where it was exactly that the Turtles had moved to, and they were speculating places like Dallas or San Fransisco and such. Go figure. Splinter mused that he was glad that they hadn't moved to some generically named sewer and April responded with something along the lines of "Yeah, something that could be easily retconned as having been in New York all along." So, it seems, Splinter and April were glad to see the Turtles gone, I guess? >_>;

So now, the dream scene-switched to the Turtles themselves. Right off, I should say that both Raphael and Donatello were speaking with the exact same voice (Raphael's old voice). It was very weird. They were all riding some new hovering devices that kind of looked like Segways but without the wheels attached. Or maybe like the hoverboards those kids were riding in Back to the Future II. Anyway, they were riding around in the sewers (naturally), but somehow ended up at the top of a dam (shades of the NES game I guess). Instead of going off to defuse bombs or whatever, though, they decided to just try to ride their new hover-Segways down the overflow stream from the dam, with Donatello reassuring them that the things worked perfectly well underwater. And... that's about it. That's where the dream ended.

As for the new cartoon... well... I can't really judge since I haven't actually seen it, but I can say that I'm not really a fan of the new rapping intro theme. ¬_¬ The 3D animation looks... interesting enough... but I think I'll reserve judgement on that as well until I've had a chance to actually watch an episode or two. (Though I can't help but think that they look like they're made out of felt, for some strange reason.) That said, it will probably be a long while before I ever get around to doing that. I haven't even watched more than a couple eps of the 2003 cartoon either, for that matter.

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