6 Best Ninja Turtle Knock-Offs
After serious contemplation, I think my favorite cartoon growing up in the 80s was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There were a lot of cartoons to choose from, but the Turtles were my favorite. They were great characters, their show was just a lot of fun, and I loved the toyline, which had even more awesome mutants. I loved that there was this endless supply of funny, cool, and radical mutants to collect.
So I’m pretty excited to see the new live action Ninja Turtle movie, even if it threatens to be as soulless as Michael Bay’s Transformers.
Be brave, old friends; you will get through this
But there’s a dark side to my love for the Turtles as well, and that is my love for all of their crappy knock-offs too. Like all successful franchises, the Ninja Turtles spawned more than their fair share of crappy rip-offs. But whereas other companies can’t steal the Transformers without being obvious, it wasn’t that hard to make an action cartoon about anthropomorphic animal superheroes.
Join me after the jump for the best (or crappiest, depending on your point of view) Ninja Turtle knock-offs!
Blooper Reel? Sure, Why Not?
Slow news day today, so how about a quickie blooper reel from the upcoming DVD release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
Darn it! The video got taken down off Youtube, but you can watch it by clicking here.
I know I was entertained. And can I say how great it is that Marvel had another successful year at the movies? Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy have been two of their absolute best films. Here’s hoping 2015 is great for them as well!
The Ninja Turtles Sure Have Changed
Somebody at HalloweenCostumes.com has the greatest, most fun job in the world. They get to make neat stuff like this! Most likely to honor the upcoming new movie this weekend. Anybody going to see it?
Do You Love the Marvel Movieverse? I Know I Do!
Marvel Studios, being generally awesome, has put together a massive, 5-minute-long trailer for all of their movies to date. I’m not sure why – other than synergy with Guardians of the Galaxy – but who doesn’t love a reminder that the Marvel movies have all been awesome? Did you hear that Guardians of the Galaxy had a $94 million opening weekend? That’s way above predictions! The film is a hit! Go Marvel!
Good times! Now go see Guardians of the Galaxy again!
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If Only Harry Potter Had Been Like This From the Beginning
Remember that utterly genius cross between Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy? Of course you do. Well how about Harry Potter done in the style of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!
We owe this bit of greatness to The Unusual Suspect, who made both videos. Whoever this person is, somebody give him some kind of expensive government grant so that he can keep being a creative genius!
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