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There are now 25 entries left to submit. You have my support - TMNT Nom Thread!

Lokii

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Top 50 TMNT Stuff AND MORE!
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A very merry cowabunga to all you teenage mutants and hero ninjas. We’re here to talk some turts! Those turtle boys ain't been cutting no slack for thirty years now and, despite being a property so much of it’s late-80s/early-90s era, it’s managed to stay vibrant and relevant by way of many revisions and reinterpretations. Them turts been in loads of TV shows, movies, comics, video games, and live rock bands. It’s a ton of stuff! A ton of wacky wild over-the-top fun and crazy stuff! As elder millennials, we love it. We eat it up. We want to celebrate everything from the tuning fork on Krang’s robot head down to the banana peel on Muckman’s toe.

So send us your favorite TMNT stuff! We originally had talked of doing the traditional Top 50 Characters, because you know Turts got loads of insane character concepts, but we realized that would leave out so much stuff that makes Turtles Turtles: Donnies blimp and Dimension X and Baxter Stockman’s Gun That Shoots A Flicky Finger and all sorts of wonderful miscellanea that would be excised in a characters-only list. By all means please vote for all your favorite wooly and wild wackos but also anything else you love from the TMNT universe. All we ask is that you constrain your votes to things that exist within the fiction, rather than the media themselves. As great as Turtles 4: Turtles in Time is, you wouldn’t vote for it. You might, however, vote for a large fruit in the early morning or pizza boxes adorned with big cartoon bombs. You get the idea.

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One other note of consideration: because we don’t want this list to be filled with 7 different versions of Mikey and 16 of Raphael we’re considering a vote for a particular character as a vote for all expressions of that character across all media.

Voting is open until Midnight Easter on March, 16th. Please send your list of 25 trutle things to @Dracula with your #1 pick clearly delineated.

So polish up your twin sai and get the pizza thrower some gas cause we’re going through the top 50 most badcial and radatious Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle brickabrack, miscellanea, and farrago. Cowabrunga!

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Falselogic

Falselogic

Lapsed Threadcromancer
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So I can't vote for these?

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Why even bother participating?
 
Dracula

Dracula

Plastic Vampire
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Falselogic said:
So I can't vote for these?

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Why even bother participating?
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Raph can be seen here in this single comic frame suggesting that we take advantage of a free pie offer (dudes). This back-of-the-cereal-box microfictional universe constitutes a valid canon appearance of the Hostess Turtle Pies. Therefore, I will accept a vote for them.

But f'real if you guys wanna vote for snacks that look like Mikey's head or whatever I'm gonna include them because that's fun and in the spirit of the list
 
Falselogic

Falselogic

Lapsed Threadcromancer
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Now I want a Hostess Brand Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pie and I won't be able to have one!
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Canonically, the mutagen ooze is vanilla pudding.

EDIT: Ooo. That thumbnail... that's someone's kink. More power to them. Not for me, though. Not for me.
 
Purple

Purple

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I am mainly here to acknowledge the very good reference in that title but I guess now I have to like throw a list out don't I.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Lokii said:
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Let's see if I can name them from left to right.

Mouser, Triceraton, Jambi the Genie, Raphael; public flasher variant from wave 16. Soundwave. Bebop. Beep, the robot who beeps. Galactus. Shakeweight.

Completely stumped on the last one. Does the "d" stand for... Darg?
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Got my list in. The relatively recent reading of the original comic, which holds up really well, influenced a lot of my choices (it's interesting to read it in light of some of the stories were slowly coming out at the same time the vastly different tone of the comics continued and became more grounded with occasional giant robots and tales later declared non-canonical by the creators (done by other people) with a lot of time with the Ninja getting so badly beaten by Shredder, they basically leave New York for, from reader's perspective, TWO YEARS living in a farm upstate (not a euphemism) while the cartoon chugs along, both creating it's own iconic mythos and, well, getting silly. Which apparently had a lot to do with the cast, as I understand it, who like to play silly.

The comics were one of the biggest influences on my list but the 87 cartoon had some great characters and the 2003 cartoon was a pretty strong marriage of the original comics (with some straight up adaptations of those stories) and still aiming for all ages. And, of course, it ended with Turtles Forever, a very loving and fun tribute to the whole franchise (which sadly did not get the original cast). I suspect the original cast would have wanted to but SAG-AFTRA did not have a contract with 4Kids.
 
Kirin

Kirin

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Trying to get a list in before I leave on vacation. My Turtles experience is pretty limited - I have *vague* memories of the '87 toon, but honestly remember more from NES and SNES era video games, so most of my list is gonna end up being stuff that showed up in those.
 
Dracula

Dracula

Plastic Vampire
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Johnny Unusual said:
Got my list in. The relatively recent reading of the original comic, which holds up really well, influenced a lot of my choices (it's interesting to read it in light of some of the stories were slowly coming out at the same time the vastly different tone of the comics continued and became more grounded with occasional giant robots and tales later declared non-canonical by the creators (done by other people) with a lot of time with the Ninja getting so badly beaten by Shredder, they basically leave New York for, from reader's perspective, TWO YEARS living in a farm upstate (not a euphemism) while the cartoon chugs along, both creating it's own iconic mythos and, well, getting silly. Which apparently had a lot to do with the cast, as I understand it, who like to play silly.

The comics were one of the biggest influences on my list but the 87 cartoon had some great characters and the 2003 cartoon was a pretty strong marriage of the original comics (with some straight up adaptations of those stories) and still aiming for all ages. And, of course, it ended with Turtles Forever, a very loving and fun tribute to the whole franchise (which sadly did not get the original cast). I suspect the original cast would have wanted to but SAG-AFTRA did not have a contract with 4Kids.
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The whole Beaten by Shredder > Flee to the Countryside > Return to NYC storyline reappears in many versions of Turtle mythos and I always enjoy to see how they permutate on it.

Still got about another week left to send us entries, by the way!
 
Lokii

Lokii

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Yall, yall. Deadline's creepin up. It's creepin. It's going to come through the wall like a mouser and won't you look the fool.

Remember Ralph's famous catchphrase: "Be cool not rude and submit a list of your 25 favorite TMNTs junk!"

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WildcatJF

WildcatJF

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Probably not gonna get the time to put a list together until the weekend, which appears to be after the deadline...
 
Dracula

Dracula

Plastic Vampire
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WildcatJF said:
Probably not gonna get the time to put a list together until the weekend, which appears to be after the deadline...
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We're gonna go ahead and extend the deadline through the weekend so you and anyone else who wants to send us a list have a lil bit more time!
 
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