Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): The Ultimate Collection [DVD]

Disks look good box looks great thanks :)

I was afraid they were never going to release this series again.I was a child in the 80s, I begged to watch the 80s Turtles. They're fun, it's ok, I get it. But I LOVE this series from 2003. I love this version of these characters. I love their stories. I love the voice acting. I love the art style and animation. I love the villains and the side characters that keep coming back and getting referenced to. I love how they treat each other and their friends, and the people who annoy them but they help out anyway. I even love the child character from the future season--they made a child side character without making him annoying! And the nearly-adult teenage turtles like him, there are zero stories about being forced to "babysit" the child, they all genuinely like him and protect him and teach him things and connect with him differently. The later seasons do have a lesser quality, I think, but they still have several good stories and characters that were fun to watch. (Why did they add a corny catchphrase? For toys? Probably for toys.) One season was basically canceled and they were told to start the next season that corporate thought would be more popular immediately, and the last season was similarly rushed to a conclusion and suffered for it. This series was a huge comfort to me during hard times in my life, and I'm so happy to actually own a full release of the series on physical media.Audiences: I clearly enjoyed it later in life, but I think pre-teens and up can enjoy this series. Younger audiences may need additional parenting to understand that self-defense is cool, hitting people because you feel like it is not, and small children additionally might find some scenes and themes too intense. (Please read a wiki about Baxter Stockman if you are considering allowing a small child to watch this. They do not show the violence on screen but his various conditions can be disturbing.)

Been waiting to get this for a while and I’m glad I waited until the price went down!! It took me back to 2003 when it first dropped and is such an iconic show. I added it with my 87 and 2012 collection. I brought the turtles forever dvd because it was uncut. Only thing I didn’t lie was the case whee it cracks quite easily so be careful

Great if you are a fan of The Turtles!!

This collection has all of the episodes that are contained within Seasons 1-7 on the TVDB. However, it doesn't contain the "Mayhem from Mutant Island" episode that was created from a bunch of shorts that 4Kids made before re-editing them into what is effectively Season 7, Episode 14 of the series. You can probably find this "episode" on YouTube pretty easily since the individual shorts were originally on 4Kid's website before the website got taken down.The version of "Turtles Forever" is the cut version of the film that gets rid of extra dialogue (~7-10 minutes worth of in-between dialogue and various scenes). The film looks like they sampled the PAL DVD with an NTSC framerate, so you get weird interpolation issues. Attached are two pictures of the same frame of a particular scene from the movie. The NTSC version of the scene (the one in this DVD set) has slightly more information on the sides, but there's a bunch of combing when attempting to de-interlace the image. The PAL release (the one from the individual UK release a while back) has less information but has slightly better de-interlation (thought both releases of the film are not as good as they could be). As such, you would get more of the film that is slightly better de-interlaced if you grabbed the PAL DVD instead of relying on disc 18 of this Collection set.That being said, if you want all of the episodes of the 2003 series, this is the best set to get as I don't believe Season 7 was released on any physical media in the USA before this collection. In addition, a bunch of individual season releases of this show are pretty hard to find at a decent price. As such, I do recommend this set if you want this show. Nickelodeon could've made the release with a bit more care, but it's probably as good as we're ever going to get with this series based on how masters work and the level of effort that Nick usually does with their DVD releases (Shout Factory had a much better release with Jimmy Neutron, for example).If you're a TMNT Super Fan, grab this set and the PAL release of Turtles Forever and find an online broadcast of "Mayhem from Mutant Island". That will get you most of what you would need for this era of the Turtles from a TV show standpoint.

Loved this as a kid and wanted to relive those Saturday mornings.

Love it

Perfect condition will enjoy for many months to come