Nickeledeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Revamped & Still As Bossa Nova As Ever

With the clusterfuck surrounding Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles as well as cartoons such as Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gravity Falls and Legend of Korra gracing televisions each week it’s easy to overlook that over at Nickelodeon they are currently holding down Saturday mornings with a few familiar faces.

That’s right, the heroes in a half shell are back and as fun as it’s ever been! Currently near the end of it’s second season the show completely respects and stays true to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle mythos while at the same time sprinkling generational Easter eggs for old fans of the comics, cartoons, and movies. The respect shown for the established property allows the creators to make the show their own without angering everyone in the process (sneak diss). From tweaking villains’ looks and story lines to adjusting some main characters’ ages, abilities, and strengths, the new TMNT presents the same characters we fell in love with in our childhood in a refreshing new light.

Unlike past portrayals where each Turtle is distinguished by either their weapons as in the original comic or by the color of their mask; Nickelodeon does what no one else has done to the property before and successfully executes character design. In the new series each Turtle not only has their traditional mask & signature weapon but they all each have their own unique appearance. Mikey is the youngest so it makes sense for him to be the shortest, Raph’s skin tone is a darker shade of green t…