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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Vocal Challenge "If This, Then That"

By Sergio VanNessPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a classic part of American Pop Culture history since team Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman made their first comic back in 1984. After the 1987 cartoon & toys series launched, they have been pretty much an international icon under the banner of Turtle Power! I am presuming you already know who the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are if you’re reading this, but if you don’t here are some links for you to find out anything you want to know.

Wikipedia: 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles

Short history video:

https://youtu.be/IgaSkHRBc88

Long history video:

https://youtu.be/wRMWDMz8tn8

(I would also recommend the episode of Toys That Made Us about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Netflix.) 

    If I was going to reboot the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I would make a complete series for their childhood for children to view, a series for pre-teens & Teens, then a series for adults, and a few films. The big kicker? What drives this sell? They are all the same Ninja Turtles in each series, just at different points in their lives. No matter how innocent or how ruthless it gets, it’s the same Ninja Turtles you are following throughout each series. We can call it The Multi-Network Ninja Turtles Universe or T.M.N.T.U. 

How I would set up each series:

    - Training Mutant Ninja Turtles, videos, ages 9 and under animation: The Origins that Master Splinter tells them is innocent compared to the truth they discover in the R series. It will be presented to children under the age of 10 years old. It is a means to establish educational content out of the Ninja Turtle Series. Youtube videos, full adventures, and so many diverse elements. It just opens up tremendous opportunities for children of all ages to encounter the Ninja Turtles at any age. 

    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Series, ages 10+, animation: This series becomes a little looser when it grows & goes through mature subjects as the Ninja Turtles get older. Going over situations like experiencing the surface world, understanding about how to deal with situations, revealing a proper story with this series, side adventures, and comparable to the 3D animation TMNT done by Nickelodeon in 2012. This is where they first contact the foot clan and criminals of the topside world. Eventually fights a Robot Shredder and then The Human Shredder. This series will have Shredder and Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady, Casey Jones, April, each one of the Ninja Turtles finds something specific about Ninjitjus to comprehend and takes us into the mythical part of Ninja Turtles. This series doesn’t leave their planet Earth and has Nothing about death until the Ninja Turtles are 16 years old in the series. 

    - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Films, PG-13, live-action/practical effects/animation: These are for big stories, each story should be a 2 maybe 3 part film series. This is where we would get to go big and all out for each story over a 2 hour & 45-minute movie for each film in the story. We have space travel, different dimensions, time travel, the real Shredder being a Krang with a robot body, and a Power Rangers crossover. We conclude an outlandish story that hardly a few people would believe. It will be an on-running joke that Master Splinter doesn’t understand them but always listens to them, cause he is a great parent. He recognizes that they are back safe & in one piece, so he is proud of them & then decided to joke with them by saying things like “You children have the wildest imagination.” while eating pizza with them. He knows, but like a Ninja plays dumb. 

    - Ninja Turtles, Series, R, live-action/practical effects/animation: war arcs, tournament arcs, lone warrior arcs, deaths, plus everything else mentioned before. It will have a serious approach and have humor, but it will be a lot darker than anything to show up before it in a live-action series. They find out the truth about Splinter, Shredder, Krang, Tricarions, their true origins. There is a lot that can be produced here and it doesn’t matter if it’s in order either as long as we complete each story. We could do the death of each Ninja Turtle and they don’t have to be dark deaths either. Actually, I think it would be stronger storytelling if they perished of old age as legendary warriors throughout all the multiverse. The strongest interpretations of the turtles yet. 

    The prospect for all merchandise in this aspect of rebooting the series would be limitless. There wouldn’t be a single item that couldn’t be produced into a product to advertise for this series. We would reach every fan base. Fulfill just about everybody’s desires for Ninja Turtles at the same time for around 30 years to come, before a new reboot would be unavoidable. That would give whoever would be currently holding the rights of the series at that time plenty of time to arrange for whatever they established to do next. 

    30 years is a generation, let a whole generation that raised upon this concept of Ninja Turtles decide how the next generation of Ninja Turtles is going to be because they are going to be the ones that we inspired in some manner to get to a position where they will be the ones working on it later. Give them their room & time to shine, they will be the ones that inspire others the way we were inspired and impressed them. 

    This has been an OoPSUpDate by Sergio VanNess reporting on the Vocal Challenge “If This, Then That” about our friends in the shadows, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Logging off for the night, Thank you for all the excellent memories. Until next time, Cowabunga!

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