Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26318110-20190829070550/@comment-995426-20190829123259

The thing is, 2K3 was genuinely good, but it wasn't well-liked by the 1987 TV series fans who make up the most profitable TMNT nostalgia market. 2K3 was possible because of the driving force of Mirage themselves when they still had the property after Fred Wolf Films' extraordinarily generous license dried up, to develop a show that was closer to the original comic which most 1987 fans had never even heard of, much less read. As a result, 2K3 was seen as "changing" too many things, when in reality it was the 1987 series that made so many drastic changes. But when most the public think of "old" or "original" TMNT, they think of the 1987 series because of the extreme market reach it had. So Viacom's productions&mdash;the 2012 series, Rise, and the 2014 and 2016 films, were designed to as outgrowths first and foremost of 1987 series nostalgia. 2K12 dabbled in some Mirage references, but those became few and far between. There's still an IDW comic that draws from Mirage influences (in addition to other continuities), but the driving force for that series is at IDW&mdash;Viacom just licenses comic rights to them, and otherwise bothers extremely little with the IDW comic except out of concern for how it could affect the reputation of the cartoons and movies they want to produce.