Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25684889-20141209175355/@comment-995426-20160111063952

The fact that Nick is now unabashedly emulating this toyetic model is an abomination. Remember when the first season was a lot more subtle and well-disguised in its product placement? It's not necessarily a bad thing to be to some degree merchandise-driven, but there are much better ways to do it. The difference is what priorities the production values. If product placement is the paramount priority without a reasonable deference to quality of production itself, then you'll get a nakedly toyetic abortion of a show like what 1987 was and like what 2K12 has turned into.

As for pandering, 1987 TV series fans are the worst demographic of TMNT fans I could imagine trying to please. They were raised on junk TV, and if that's what they still prefer, then they won't know a good show from a crappy show&mdash;they'll just be happier the more it resembles the series they grew up watching. The 1987 TV series was never that good even when it was new and in production, so to prefer it above all other styles of TMNT is to have fundamentally bad taste.