Bizarre TMNT Crossover Mixes the 1987 and 2003 Worlds

Posted 11 years ago by Television

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I’ve never paid much attention to the more recent TV incarnations of my beloved Turtles (mainly because I don’t watch TV, give me season sets and I would check it out), but this is just too good to pass up. Following a TMNT Top Ten Countdown in September, 4Kids Entertainment is releasing a straight-to-DVD. It looks like it’s actually a crossover between the classic ’87 Turtles and the 2003 (an onward) Turtles.

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The video shows Bebop and Rocksteady, robotic Foot Soldiers, and even the classic Turtles themselves rubbing shoulders with the new class. I’m sure this will be some wacky time travel plot, but the fact that it’s going to be feature length is pretty awesome. On the 4Kids site, if you click the image below you’re taken to a “top secret” MP3 file of a very bad 80s Shredder impression. I can’t tell if Rocksteady’s voice is the same or another bad impression, but I guess we’ll find out in the months to come. The suspense is killing me!

Found via Topless Robot

  • I’ve tried getting into this new series every now and then, but I can’t. It’s just not very good. It’s like Power Rangers, there’s all these different eras of the show built around gimmicks (cyberspace, the future). I was kinda excited for Back to the Sewer, happy they were coming back from the future, but then they went and messed it up by dealing with the cyberspace and Cyber Shredder. How is THAT going “back to the sewers”?

    That said, I may still check out this movie though if the 80s connection is strong.