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So I hear that yesterday Nickelodeon announced that, probably to help promote their new Ninja Turtle movie, Mutant Mayhem, they were going to air the original cartoon…which I think will hurt them if anyone compares the original show to the released clips of Seth Rogan’s take on the Turtles showing more interest in talent shows than fighting evil ninja. Fine, whatever, it’s why I just started an article series going over the Ninja Turtle intros, to get in on the hype and draw out a few readers.

Well, with this news I decided to get the second installment of the Many, MANY Intros Of Ninja Turtles out, which will focus on the Japanese OVAs. That’s going to be a trip, folks. While looking back into the first article, partly because I wanted to add something to the part about the “red sky” years I forgot to mention, the new villain, when I see the video replaced with this notation:

Video unavailable

This video contains content from Paramount Global (PMN), who has blocked it in your country on copywrite grounds.

The odd thing is, as of this writing the UK version is still up. Now I was under the impression from the announcement I read that they were only licensing the original show. I’ve never seen it show up on the Pluto TV Turtles channel, though both of their shows and the 2003 series have made appearances. The original cartoon and Next Mutation have not appeared there, but it depends on what Mirage Studios owns that Nickelodeon purchased and of course their own shows, the CG series and Rise Of The TMNT. I could see blocking whole shows…but the intros? The hell?

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