@Sonichu666  
Scott McNeil’s character Simon Bonesteel was a good point to me, he was like something you would see in the more campy Ninja Turtles stuff.

@Beau Skunky
 
Besides, that show’s high point was the crossover with Power Rangers in Space.

@Background Pony #0447  
I prefered the animated shows over “The Next Mutation” personally, (even the original campier one) but to each their own.

@Beau Skunky  
yeah,man.i’m mostly only a fan of the comics,didn’t care for the cartoons,but the movies i liked and nt:tnm was a sweet continuation.

@Dashole  
He’s been saying that on every pic regarding the new TMNT movie. Apparently, she does have fans.

@Background Pony #0447  
Don’t you mean doesn’t?

i’m not gonna watch this unless this has venus de milo in it.

@good background pony  
I thought he became a ghost later in the comic? Would’ve been interesting to see the 2003 series version interact with Splinter.

@Beau Skunky  
what is funny about rat king is that he had mind controlled rats but also played god inside of splinters mind cause in the comics rat king was represented as a ghost

@good background pony  
I don’t know, I liked the 2003 show. As you mentioned it was a bit more “true to the original” TMNT, more then the original cartoon was, but of course they had to change/update some things, and add some new things to, (including new villains like Bishop, and having Baxter work for Shredder like in the old cartoon) in order to keep it a unique/different canon, as well.  
I can understand them toning down the series a bit, sense the original Mirage series was quite violent, but it still got away with some things most 4Kids shows don’t. (Like Bishop being impaled off-screen on a hook, and Shredder being beheaded ON-screen! Amazed they got away with both, but of course, both villains were shown to of survived.)
 
But yeah, the comic-adaption episodes were pretty good. I especially like how they did the “Rat King/I Monster” adaption. (Shame they only used the Rat king once in the 2003 series. It really feels like they ignored him. Oddly he had a very brief cameo in the series finale, along with many other characters in the show.)

@Beau Skunky  
honestly i never understood why people loved 2k3 to me it felt like a water down version of a great comic book ,but with episodes taken from the comics it makes it enjoyable aside some stiff dialogue

@good background pony  
Yeah, the new show is quite good, and seems more balanced then the previous cartoons. It’s a li’l comical/campy without being as silly as the old ‘80s/‘90s show, yet it’s also quite serious/dark/edgy as well, (some moments I’m amazed Nick let them “get away with”) but doesn’t take itself to seriously like the 2003 show did. (Most of 2003’s comic-relief came from Michelangelo.)
 
I also think the show does a better job on Leonardo’s character. In previous shows it felt like he had hardly any personality besides “heroic/noble action leader,” but in this new one he seems to have more flaws, and even at times confidence issues about being “leader.”  
He also seems a bit more sarcastic/jokular with his brothers then previous versions, (though, he isn’t as much as they are) making him more like a realistic teen.  
“Yes, this is all part of my crazy ‘Let’s all live’ plan!”

@MisterC  
the new show is better than anything you mentioned also image tmnt was alright it had a nice concept but was executed poorly

@MisterC  
I like the 2007 movie, and the new Nick cartoon.  
Dregg (the replacement villain in the final seasons of the original cartoon, right?) while kinda a cliche’ ‘90s villain, was kinda cool however, just because Tony Jay voiced him.
 
Never really understood that “anything new/remade is bad attitude.” Kinda ironic coming from people who like the new/current MLP cartoon. (I’ve seen some old-school MLP fans bash it to for not being like the old ones ironically.)

Or the Next Mutation… Or TMNT ’07… or the new cartoon… or Fast Forward… or the Image TMNT ’verse… or Dregg…

I got a sensible chuckle out of the mask joke. Mostly because you see all this shit going down that is serious, then you have Michelangelo being Micelangelo.  
I don’t hate Micheal Bay too. I used to dislike him, but when I heard he said “I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime”, I realized that what he said was true.

Eh, the designs could be worse… They look better when you see them in motion.

There is also this .

@Background Pony #956C  
Bay is only a produced on this, not a directer like with Transformers.

y’know watching the trailer, the turtles THEMSELVES seem ok…but everything else around it just screams “hollywood bullshit”. especially megan fox. blech.

difference, they made no real money from that garbage.
 
they very much might make a LOT of money with this garbage regardless of quality or intelligence.
 
………….personally though…………. okay I am not a fan of the design but it DOES make some sense. they are supposed to be anthropomorphized ahlf human turles, and this looks more along that line.
 
still its Michael bay, and the Bay has yet to earn penance for the sacrilege of transformers, and he only deepens his sins with the next one.

@Background Pony #5FCE
 
I didn’t say any of those shows were bad just that they were obvious sell outs that people never seem to acknowledge the previous, obvious sell outs when talking about the new stuff.

@Psycho333  
Hay, it was better then half of Next Mutation, and the half of it that was good wasn’t from the turtles.

@Background Pony #3EB5  
I liked Baby Looney Tunes :-(

What about the third live action TMNT movie? (It had no title other then “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3” but the blank space beneath those words fit better as it left a blank space in our childhoods and hearts because IT SUCKED)