The lyrics were also changed, such as changing 'Splinter taught them to be ninja teens' to 'Splinter taught them to be fighting teens'. There were 28 new syndicated episodes for season 4 and only 13 of those episodes aired in 1990.Ĭonsequently, everything related to the Turtles (comic books, video games, toys, etc.) was renamed before being released in the UK as well as various other European countries. Starting on September 25, 1989, the series was expanded to weekdays and it had 47 more episodes for the new season. During the final two seasons of the show, to combat the rising popularity of, the lead villain switched to Lord Dregg, an evil alien overlord bent on world conquest by trying to distract the public into believing that the Turtles were the enemy instead of himself. Either way, Stockman was rewritten as a shy and meek lackey to Shredder, later mutating into an anthropomorphic. The animated Krang, however, was instead an evil warlord from., whose race was changed from to either due to apprehension toward depicting a villainous character in a children's cartoon or that for Shredder to boss around a black Stockman would be perceived as.
The Foot Soldiers changed from human ninjas to an endless supply of robotic grunts, allowing large numbers of them to be destroyed without anyone dying (this was a very important decision in terms of the show's child audience excessive violence would have alienated parents of children, the show's target demographic)., one of the series' most memorable villains, was inspired by the design of the Utrom, a benign alien race from the Mirage comics.
The film became one of the most successful independent films and spawned, as well as inspiring a three-dimensional animated film set in the same continuity, which was released in 2007 under the title. In 1990, a was released, with the Turtles and being portrayed by actors in partially animatronic suits created. While the animated TV series, which lasted for 10 seasons until 1996, was more light-hearted, the comic-book series continued in a much darker and grittier tone. At the height of the frenzy, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Turtles' likenesses could be found on a wide range of children's merchandise, from to skateboards, breakfast cereal, video games, school supplies, linens, towels, cameras, and toy shaving kits. Accompanied by the popular, and the subsequent, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a mainstream success.
Once the product started selling, the show got syndicated and picked up and backed by, which funded the next round of animation.
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