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Ace The Duck is the Ninja Turtles Greatest Ally and will Rise with the TMNT

11/28/201802/05/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Miscellaneous

I love Ace Duck, after the turtles and Shredder he is the figure I wanted. He was always the turtles favorite ally when I played with them. I love his designs, now his design doesn’t really work for other incarnations of the turtles but fits perfectly in the Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. He isn’t a terrible character either, he could be made into something cool.

The original Fred Wolf cartoon didn’t use him because when the toy came out they were in that “no mutants” phase where we rarely got any mutants, so the fact that he got a cameo says a lot about his popularity at the time I think. When the show finally got around to doing mutants every other week, his toy was no longer sold so he lost his chance. Archie just did weird things with characters, I doubt they thought about ridiculing him, in fact they tried to use him somehow in their weird space storyline and it was the best they thought for him at the time. The Nick show making fun of him is well, Ace Duck is a product of its time it sounds silly on paper but he could be redesigned to fit the universe if they really tried, then again the Nick show has far more ridiculous things that them making fun of Ace Duck is like pot calling the kettle black.

Rise of the TMNT x Splatoon Crossover Splatfest

07/31/201802/03/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Continuity on Infinite Earths

The Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles and Splatoon had a crossover….of sorts in May 2018 when they had a special Splatfest to promote Rise of the TMNT. For those unfamiliar it’s a small tournament that has two sides battle out over a personal choice like Hot Dogs or Hamburgers. This sounds a bit dumb on text but somehow it is something you have to experience to see why it’s a lot of fun. Everyone gets so much into it and has all these cool catchphrases and drawings that add to the mood.
Marina Pearl

This was indeed a special Splatfest since normally they don’t do licensed properties but also it lasted 3 weeks as it put up Raph vs Leo the first week, Mikey vs Donnie for the second, and for the final the winner of both first rounds. Raphael ended up winning the first round and I lost since I had been representing Leonardo while on the second round I was on the winning side by representing Donatello. Finally on the final round with Raphael vs Donatello I chose Raph and lost alongside him as Donatello won the tournament of best turtle.

Musical Ninja Turtles: We Wish You A Turtle Christmas & Turtle Tunes (TMNT) are good and bad

12/22/201701/28/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Listen back..

In 1994 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were slowly losing traction but were still in a pretty good position when it came to market share, it was optimal to milk it for all it was worth before it kept slipping and so we got two direct to video Musical releases from the TMNT. This was not the same as Coming Out Of Their Shells since they were going for a much lower budget release and so we got two specials that change songs with TMNT inspired lyrics.

Music Match Christmas – 3 X-Mas Music Videos ft Grace Jones, Pee-Wee, Splinter, TMNT, Alpha 5

12/18/201701/28/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Music Match

I’m a big fan of X-Mas songs but since most of my favorites are the usual suspects that you’ll hear a thousand times in stores by the time the season is over I thought I’d do something a little different. Today we feature three X-Mas songs that were featured in different Christmas specials so at least these are different interpretations from the usual classics and they have cool music videos to along with them as well. So, let’s listen and watch 3 of MiscRave’s X-Mas playlist.

Grace Jones – The Little Drummer Boy – Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

The oddest song in this odd X-Mas special by Pee-Wee Herman, the performance by Grace Jones is absolutely fantastic. You can tell just how much artistic fortitude just oozes out of her every movement even when she’s in Pee-Wee Herman’s flippin’ Playhouse. I especially love it when Pee-Wee starts dancing like an idiot and Grace Jones just goes along with it. Her outfit is not very Christmassy in fact she takes her winter jacker and gloves and dances in this weird plastic body suit that makes you question if it’s even appropriate for the children watching and yet mesmerizing at the same time, a must watch performance every X-Mas at MiscRave.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tribute Memories

09/24/201701/25/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Rave

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the first franchise that I fell in love with and because of that I have written about the TMNT a few times and to have TMNT articles in an easier to find format. Whether it’s obscure stuff, continuity or underrated things I usually try to highlight these aspects of the … Read More “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tribute Memories” »

3 French Cartoon Openings / Intros ft Ranma, Ninja Turtles, Wakfu

09/22/201701/25/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Video Classic

When cartoons get dubbed they normally change the lyrics to the opening songs as well. Today sounds like a good day to take a look at three different cartoons and their respective french intros that they had. You’ll also find the lyrics below each video as well as a translation to the lyrics in case you want to follow along and practice your French.

Tortues Ninja (Générique TV – FR 1987)

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cartoon opening
is really quite something, while using the same beat of the original and animation the lyrics take a whole different spin that tells a slightly different take on them and finding more similarities with the Mirage comics version of the TMNT than the more kid friendly cartoon would have. They’re avenging Splinter against their fatal enemy the Shredder, they are authoritarian and make the law, the turtles are “hellish” and Kowabunga is not a catchphrase but their battle cry. Jeeze, the opening makes me want to check this interpretation of the show instead of just the regular old cartoon.

TMNT Summer Shorts 2017 Looking back at these 3 shorts

08/27/201701/25/2021 Luigi Kawasaki

Secret Movie

For a second summer in a row we got some TMNT shorts in 2017 while the Summer 2016 shorts were actually just called SDCC shorts maybe this retroactive name change means we might get shorts every summer. Hell as I’ve speculated these shorts might have been pitches for Nick’s Rise of the TMNT so here are all 8 shorts compiled.

Teenage Mecha Ninja Turtles