Why is the 80s cartoon so popular?

turtles 4 ever!
and the mirage turtles proceeded to kick all they asses

80s turtles were not portrayed kindly. Inappropriately so.

>1987 TMNT
Soul
>2003, 2012 and 2019 TMNT
Soulless

Correction, was popular. Not is, but was.

The show has not been shown in reruns since 1997, has not been given a blu-ray release and as far as I know know doesn't stream anywhere. Kind of strange for a "popular" cartoon to never get thos those things.

Now the 2003 show does get reruns and is streaming on CBS All Access. Go watch that.

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There's a "rights issue" with the show. Google it

It has a weird relationship with the rest of the franchise to say the least. Characters associated with that particular cartoon only really show up in other material if they happened to have toys, and they usually only ever showed in the show itself like once and way after the toy was released. The show is otherwise full of like a million characters that are all garbage and never appear in anything unless, again, they happened to have toys. Even Wyrm, a character that never appeared in the show but had a toy, showed up like three different incarnations.

It weirdly comes across like anyone who ends up making TMNT material care more about the toys the show advertised than the show itself.

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Anyone claiming to be really sure what made it popular is lying. It caught everyone by surprise, and similar shows bombed.
It's just lightning in a bottle. Damned if anyone it totally sure how it happened, but it did.

>Soul
Since when was errorpalooza considered soul?

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The characters both heroes and villains set itself apart from its copycat shows. Extreme Dinosaurs and Street Sharks had great heroes, but you can’t name a single villain. Turtles meanwhile had the iconic Shredder, Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, Baxter Stockman, Rat King, Leatherhead, and even more one shots for toy sales that still fit the ridiculous theming.

It’s music was great and emphasized radical instead of edgy.

The toys were also in a price range that made them more appealing for parents of kids who wanted them. Turtles shit out toys for every character in every mold they could think of, but they became the iconic size to set the standard in the industry. Extreme Dinosaurs were better quality but bigger and more expensive because of the quality put into the plastic molds. Street Sharks suffered this same problem, higher quality but pricier and more limited with its characters to manufacture. The toy sales were a symbiotic relationship with the cartoon, each literally progressing the other forward in success, and turtles toys success was far more massive than any imitators.

>TMNT's potential still hasn't been fully realized after four shows and five movies though
But the first movie absolutely kicked ass. It's more or less the definitive version.

>TMNT's potential still hasn't been fully realized

And it never will. It's doomed to only appeal to brats. There is a big stigma about animal characters, that they should only be for brats. So the franchise is doomed.

And the current comic is a horrible shit.

What are all those weapons?

This is true. It's ridiculously good.

what the fuck was this guy’s problem?

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He got murdered by Karai

Best April, best Shredder

>What are all those weapons?
A flail with a pufferfish at the end, a spray can with an armadillo sticking out, a double ended dildo and a purse with a head.

A double ended what now?

It's "popular" in the sense that Adam West Batman, Ralph Bakshi Spider-Man and Super Friends is/was "popular". It gets referenced a lot in pop culture and the franchise itself but mostly for the purpose of being mocked.

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And there'll never be a better April than 87 version.

You're right, it looks more like it's triple ended at closed inspection.

I'm pretty sure Wyrm was in the Archie comics version of TMNT? Also was the Archie comics in the same Playmates 1987 continuity?

Even though you got shit like thisit was still pretty good for Western animation (yeah animated in Korea and you see a lot of anime influence in the first season heck the first few episodes) that it was probably the best animated series till BTAS and Gargoyles (or Disney afternoon pre-Bonkers in general) showed up. In fact I put those three series as the Holy Trinity of quality in animated series for the most part.

The first movie took the best parts of the first Mirage Studios comic and the animated series. That's probably why it's so good.

>Also was the Archie comics in the same Playmates 1987 continuity
No, the stories are vastly different. There are some shared characters but Archie Comics was far more silly than 87 TMNT could ever hope to be.

Is this the foot tickling fetish gangster? If so you know why