Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the United Kingdom and most other countries in Europe) is an joint-venture between American/Japanese animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and Shogakukan Studios. It premiered December 28, 1987, first as a five-part mini-series animated by Toei. The series features the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created in comic book form by Kevin Eastman and...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the United Kingdom and most other countries in Europe) is an joint-venture between American/Japanese animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and Shogakukan Studios. It premiered December 28, 1987, first as a five-part mini-series animated by Toei. The series features the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created in comic book form by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, but the property was changed considerably from the darker-toned comic in order to make it more suitable for the family.
The initial motivation behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series was that, upon being approached to create a toy line, Playmates Toys was uneasy with the comic book characters' small cult following. They requested that a television deal be acquired first, and after the initial five-episode series debuted, the California toy company released their first series of Ninja Turtles action figures in the...
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