Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is an American live-action television
series produced by Saban Entertainment, which ran on the Fox Kids
network from 1997 to 1998 based on the fictional superhero team. As of
August 24, 2018, the series is distributed by Allspark, the
entertainment division of Hasbro and the characters are owned by
ViacomCBS.The series introduced many new elements to the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles, including a female mutant turtle called Venus
(named after the famous statue) and new central antagonists, an army
of humanoid dragons known as "The Rank" led by the vicious
Dragonlord.The series was touted (in some of the promotional material)
as a continuation of the 1987 TV series, but the series instead
loosely followed the continuity of the 1990s live-action film trilogy.
The Turtles lived in the same abandoned train station featured in the
second and third films, Shredder's face is clawed as it was in the
original film, and Splinter's ear is slashed as it was in the original
film. However, the films and the series display differing styles,
Shredder is alive (and no longer Super Shredder), and April O'Neil and
Casey Jones are absent. In a departure from other TMNT continuities,
Leonardo states in the second episode that the Turtles are not
blood-related, while other media explicitly present the Turtles as
biological siblings.Other notable differences were found in the
Turtles' weapons; Leonardo carries one double-bladed ninjatÅ instead
of two katana (though he was shown to own two in a few episodes),
Donatello has a metal staff instead of a wooden BÅ staff, Raphael's
twin sai could combine to make a staff; and Michaelangelo's signature
weapon was a pair of tonfa (his weapon of choice in other media,
nunchucks, are outlawed in several places). Further, the name of the
series was amended in several European countries to Hero Turtles: The
Next Mutation under various censorship rulings, as with most output of
the franchise. The series was partly based on a never released fourth
film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series, titled Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: The New Mutation.
series produced by Saban Entertainment, which ran on the Fox Kids
network from 1997 to 1998 based on the fictional superhero team. As of
August 24, 2018, the series is distributed by Allspark, the
entertainment division of Hasbro and the characters are owned by
ViacomCBS.The series introduced many new elements to the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles, including a female mutant turtle called Venus
(named after the famous statue) and new central antagonists, an army
of humanoid dragons known as "The Rank" led by the vicious
Dragonlord.The series was touted (in some of the promotional material)
as a continuation of the 1987 TV series, but the series instead
loosely followed the continuity of the 1990s live-action film trilogy.
The Turtles lived in the same abandoned train station featured in the
second and third films, Shredder's face is clawed as it was in the
original film, and Splinter's ear is slashed as it was in the original
film. However, the films and the series display differing styles,
Shredder is alive (and no longer Super Shredder), and April O'Neil and
Casey Jones are absent. In a departure from other TMNT continuities,
Leonardo states in the second episode that the Turtles are not
blood-related, while other media explicitly present the Turtles as
biological siblings.Other notable differences were found in the
Turtles' weapons; Leonardo carries one double-bladed ninjatÅ instead
of two katana (though he was shown to own two in a few episodes),
Donatello has a metal staff instead of a wooden BÅ staff, Raphael's
twin sai could combine to make a staff; and Michaelangelo's signature
weapon was a pair of tonfa (his weapon of choice in other media,
nunchucks, are outlawed in several places). Further, the name of the
series was amended in several European countries to Hero Turtles: The
Next Mutation under various censorship rulings, as with most output of
the franchise. The series was partly based on a never released fourth
film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series, titled Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: The New Mutation.
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