Wait. TMNT III Didn't Flop?

[Catman]

With all this Viacom Buys TMNT news I've been re-visiting the Turtles. Part of this includes looking up random info on the franchise. And I just learned something I couldn't imagine. For all these years I was under the impression that TMNT III was a flop. I mean...how couldn't it be? It sucked and everyone hated it. Plus, we had to wait 14 years for another movie! But it turns out I was wrong. The movie was #1 for two weeks. Two weeks! Now, I know what you're gonna say, "Catman, there was no Internet in those days. News traveled slowly." But, come on, I remember that Monday after the movie had opened everyone at school was talking about how crappy it was. So, the news wasn't THAT slow. Now I wanna know who saw this movie in its second week so I can slap them across the face!

 

[Morg]

Slap me and I'll ban you I was taking the kids to see it they love it but then they were 6 and 8 yrs old

 

[Catman]

I refuse to believe you have kids, Morg.

 

[bullets]

I liked it .

 

[Catman]

I liked it .

 

[Project862006]

Yoshi ftw

 

[KenK]

Fox released number III? Figures.

 

[Decoy Lad]

TMNT 3 was not a flop, but was not a hit either, it just broke even. Given the increasing budgets and declining profits as well as the decline of the turtle fad, no one wanted to go through with a fourth TMNT movie.

 

[TheVileOne]

Nickelodeon bought TMNT for $60 million.

Honestly that sounds like a bargain compared to all the money the franchise has brought in over the years.

 

[FrostBite]

I went multiple times in theaters. I was 4. Do you want to beat children? DO YOU!? DO YOU!?

 

[deathshead2]

Nickelodeon bought TMNT for $60 million.

Honestly that sounds like a bargain compared to all the money the franchise has brought in over the years.

Well its not like 4kids could make a higher deal than that, there real lucky. That company is quickly going under. Paramount could have just waited until 4kids lost the rights in 2012 and got it cheaper. So, 4kids could try to get as much as they could, so don't blame the property, blame the company behind them for the fail.

 

[Octoberist]

i really think that because 4Kids has the cartoons and they were syndicated with a proper home, the new Turtles cartoons could have been bigger.

 

[Catman]

Fox released number III? Figures.

Fox released it internationally. New Line released it domestically. Like they did with the first two movies.

 

[Morg]

I refuse to believe you have kids, Morg.

Those kids weren't mind I was babysitting for a friend and they wanted to see the movie. I forgot how many times we saw TMNT, they love the movie. I was getting sick of it

 

[Catman]

Those kids weren't mind I was babysitting for a friend and they wanted to see the movie. I forgot how many times we saw TMNT, they love the movie. I was getting sick of it

I refuse to believe someone would allow you to babysit their children.

 

[SUPER SAIYAN D]

Well its not like 4kids could make a higher deal than that, there real lucky. That company is quickly going under. Paramount could have just waited until 4kids lost the rights in 2012 and got it cheaper. So, 4kids could try to get as much as they could, so don't blame the property, blame the company behind them for the fail.

It wasn't 4Kids who made the deal. It was Peter Laird and Mirage Studios.

 

[SUPER SAIYAN D]

Nickelodeon bought TMNT for $60 million.

Honestly that sounds like a bargain compared to all the money the franchise has brought in over the years.

Your'e right, VileOne. At the peak of their popularity in 1990-91, the turtles were worth 365 million dollars.

 

[Rick Random]

Turtles III is better than II. The Turtle costumes are much worse however.

 

[Morg]

I refuse to believe someone would allow you to babysit their children.

Guess all that money I made was made up too