Hope you ordered Pizza right now, cause here's an extra seasoning for that topping of yours! The website Moviezyng Warehouse had just listed the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series up for pre-order. The Ultimate Collection contains all 155 episodes of the show, including the 25th-anniversary series finale direct to video movie, Turtles Forever.
The complete series is currently priced at $59.99, and while there are no words about bonus features currently, gaze upon this amazing box art showing off the four turtle brothers (Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo) in action. Its release date has been announced for July 25th of this year. One week before the release of Seth Rogen's highly anticipated take of the quartet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
The 2003 animated series based on the characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird was hailed as a fresh new take on the property at the time. Overseen by Laird himself, the series took a more serious tone than the 1987 animated series, but it was still appropriately aimed at children as it had its light-heartedness balanced. Taking influence from the franchise's original roots from the Mirage Comics run in the early 1980s.
However, the show's tone was changed later on in the final two seasons. The time-traveling season Fast Forward sees the Turtles and their Master Splinter travel one hundred years in the future where they are befriended by Cody Jones, the teenage tycoon descendant of their human friends, April O'Neil and Casey Jones. Whereas the seventh and final season, Back to the Sewer sees the turtles going back to their present time while traveling to cyber-space to rescue their sensei. With character redesigns being based on the 2007 animated feature, TMNT.
The series would later come to a conclusion with the 25th-anniversary multiverse crossover movie, Turtles Forever in 2009. Ending the show's six-year run on television. The same year where the franchise was purchased by Nicks's parent company, Viacom. Marking a whole new age of Turtlemania to commence three years later in 2012 with the release of their own animated series. The 2003 animated series is currently available for streaming on Paramount+. Co-produced by both Mirage Studios and 4Kids Productions at the time, the series stars voice-acting veterans Michael Sinterniklaas, Wayne Grayson, Sam Riegel, Greg Abbey, Darren Dunstan, Scottie Ray, Marc Thompson, and Veronica Taylor.
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