When TMNT Added a Girl Turtle In the 90s

The reason why it's dubbed is because on set the animatronics were to loud so they couldn't use the actual sounds from set.

"we could make a fortune renting Venus out" excuse me WHAT!!!

The worst part about the retcon is that, they didn't need to make the main 4 turtles unrelated, they could still be brothers while having Venus unrelated to them. Just say she was mutated by Shredded or something, introduce her as a villain at first that later becomes good; Saban literally did that exact storyline for the green ranger 5 years prior to Next Mutation.

My only real complaint about Venus is that she doesn’t have a unique color. They just gave her light blue, when it could’ve been white or yellow or even pink.

Raphael having a more fitting voice for Mikey makes more sense when you find out its Ed from Ed, Edd, n Eddy.

Looking at the situation as a whole, a rule against adding a fifth turtle was wise as it would involve rewriting the turtles' entire back story and throw the balance off, as was ultimately demonstrated with Venus and how convoluted her own backstory was. This is reminiscent in some respects to how the writers of the 2016 Powerpuff Girls series created a new Powerpuff Girl named Bliss, who was actually the very first Powerpuff Girl, and caused their own backstory to be rewritten in an equally convoluted way.

That weird time history where people behind power rangers took a spin on the ninja turtles, sounded good on paper, but with a rather questionable execution.

> A normal, human sidekick made to be relatable > Daddy Derek

25:45 I just spat out my drink lol.

Just to address the "I didn't see anyone talk about show in deep length" there's actually a youtuber, Phelan Porteus, former Channel Awesome member and huge Turtle fan, who has a video series when he reviewed each episode of Next Mutation in details while also make fun of it, especially when it comes the edits in UK version. Just wanted to shout out him.

HOLY FUCK!!! Xavier went from joking about if Yuri remembered him to hosting a live stream with the entire cast!

If there’s one thing that’s great about the Next Mutation… it’s that Phelous did a retrospective that gave us great Ninja Turtles memes like, “A New Way” or “Michelangelo is Brain Dead”, or “What a Swinger”.

I think Venus gets such a bad wrap because of The Next Mutation being a terrible show, she's actually one of the better parts of it, even if her backstory is needlessly clunky. I think they should focused on the fish out of water aspect as she slowly starts connecting with her new family (and get rid of the creepy horny overtones). Also I always liked the idea of her, Slash and Metalhead forming their own team.

A YouTuber named Phelan Porteous did in depth coverage of every episode individually. It nearly killed him. But it’s a good watch.

The fact they team up with the space rangers is the craziest thing in ninja turtles and power ranger history. Cause it means they are set in the same universe

The show's development actually began as a 4th movie also titled "TMNT IV: The Next Mutation" which would actually explore the turtles and Splinter going through a second mutation, affecting each of them with different looks and abilities. (Donatello would've gained telepathic/telekinetic powers but at the cost of losing his eye sight and would've worn goggles. And got a metal bo staff, Leonardo had the ability to turn his skin into metal chrome, Michelangelo would've turned into a human and allowed him to be accepted into society., Raphael had the ability to morph into "Raptor-Raph" with long claws, and monstrous teeth, and Splinter had the power to become a muscular wererat creature in order to fight along with his sons.) Unfortunately that script didn't go well. (But elements would be recycled in the later "Red Sky" era of the 87 show.) And a new pitch was written titled "The Foot Walks Again" where instead the Turtles travel into a dark dystopian dimension. (I.e. Back to the Future 2 or Super Mario '93.) Which would've featured an evil hypersexualized April O'Neil, "Kasey" Jones having electrical taser-hands, and a firth turtle named "Kirby" (inspired by Jack Kirby.) Who was a rougher and violent survivalist in this dimension. The Foot Soldiers have also evolved with high-tech guns led by a Cyber-Foot leader "Fang". The Shredder is also very alive in this dimension. And the story would've taken elements of the City At War comic but with more futuristic tech gear with the hopes of making an even darker tone than the original 1990 film. However, that script went through many revisions, and rewrites from other writers and Eastman and Laird disliked more and more. Also, the trilogy's studio, New Line Cinema, was no longer attached and would've been distributed by TriMark Pictures. (The very small budget studio that brought us the Leprechaun and Warlock movies.) And this ambitious effects heavy movie could've ended up feeling like their previous films like Cyborg 2 (1993) and very unlikely Jim Henson's Creature Shop would've been able to return.

I discovered Venus in a coloring book, that for some reason actually had a dramatic narrative that depicted her backstory with realistic drawings. Had no idea the show existed until WAYY later, and I was amazed to find out she was in a show.

Venus de Milo is basically Krystal from Star Fox if she was given even less to do

Saban: So what if we make a TMNT live-action series with Power Rangers elements, but we put over annoying sound effects. The Producers: YES!!!

Fun fact: Power Rangers in Space (the season with Turtles crossover) actually had very small budget. It was meant to be the final season as the previous one, was a failure. It had low budget, but a productio that actually cared.