So, it seems to me that most people grew up on the 80's cartoon and Archie comics version of the Turtles. Assuming this is true for you all, how did you react the first time you experienced the Eastman and Laird original Turtles? Was it surprising? Cool? Scary?
Follow up part:
When the first live action movie came out, were you aware at the time that it had stronger ties to the original comics than any popular media for the turtles at that point?

Excluding Shredder, who was your favorite of the old Turtles villains? There were so many great characters that they only introduced for a couple episodes. :P

out of all the characters which do you feel needs to be remade(new sculpt) & released .
(you can't say all of them)

If you could be any kind of a TMNT-style mutant animal (not limited to just what was seen in the cartoon), what would you be?

And given the previous failed attempts to re-launch the TMNT brand (in the forms of a live-action show, other animated series, and the most recent movies), do you feel that TMNT is still a viable franchise?

==="Assuming this is true for you all, how did you react the first time you experienced the Eastman and Laird original Turtles? Was it surprising? Cool? Scary? "

Still haven't experienced that myself =p