Does anyone remember that live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series from the late 90s… Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation? It looked a little something like this: Notice anything weird… maybe something missing (besides good taste and decent production values)? There’s absolutely no sign of Shredder, Krang, Baxter Stockman or my two favorite rude […]
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While Marvel Comics has dabbled in animation since the mid-60s, it wasn’t until 1999, when they joined forces with Saban International and 20th Century Fox, that the publisher offered up it’s first animated series based on The Avengers. The series, The Avengers: United They Stand, was heavily promoted and much hyped. The collective fan response […]
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UPDATE 2/27 (9:40am CST): It appears that the squeebs at SCG Power Rangers LLC (Saban Capital Group) finally forced the video to be taken down “due to copyright claims.” Shankar responded on Facebook (where the film is still posted) by saying: To all the viewers that enjoyed this film, I consider this an outright infringement […]
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Lost Signals: VR Troopers (1994)
In 1994, “Power Rangers” mania was at an all time high and every kid in the world followed the adventures of the teenagers with attitudes fighting monsters with giant robots and cool costumes. Also during that time, every company tried to strike while the iron was hot looking for their own successful variation of the […]
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In 1997, the Eastman and Laird cash giant known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reached its zenith, and the popularity of everyone’s favorite “heroes in a half shell” waned almost overnight. Much of the audience that fueled the Turtles meteoric rise through animation and action figure domination, now teenagers, had outgrown the characters. Meanwhile, […]
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In 1993, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers mania was in full effect. As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were ushered out of the children’s consciousness, a new team of color coded superheroes were brought in in the form of costumed mystical superheroes who fought giant monsters and formed a slew of controversy for allegedly encouraging violence. […]
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Before 1994 our only real animated Spider-Man fix was the 1981 series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Intent on rethinking the Spider-Man mold for the nineties, FOX forked over a ton of money to New World Corporation (and then Saban) to create Spider-Man: The Animated Series. With a completely different animation style, and small uses […]