TMNT Doesn't Need Another Reboot (But Street Sharks Does)
In movies, TV, and comics, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have more adaptations than they could count on their three-fingered hands, but it’s the long-neglected Street Sharks series that perhaps most deserves a reboot. The popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has been long-running and began a trend of anthropomorphic superheroes in the ‘90s. However, while similar series, likeBiker Mice from Mars, Earthworm Jim, and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, saw revivals, the turtles’ spiritual spinoffs, Street Sharks, never got their second chance.
Street Sharks was the story of the Bolton boys: four brothers mutated into superhuman shark hybrids Ripster, Streex, Jab, and Big Slammu by their father’s evil colleague. With a conspiracy to reshape humanity at hand, the Street Sharks battled their fishy foes, Dr. Piranoid and the Seaviants. Promoted at a 1994 toy fair by Vin Diesel, Street Sharks toys rode the popularity created by NYC’s sewer-surfing superheroes and had a cartoon series to support it. Having lasted for three seasons and produced a spinoff, Extreme Dinosaurs, Street Sharks became a cult classic of the ‘90s.
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Having expanded to toys, video games, cartoons, and almost everything else, TMNT is a series that keeps rebooting itself when it doesn’t need to. The turtles’ 1987 cartoon had its heyday and became defined by it, to the point where it can still sell merchandise and invoke nostalgia after being canceled for almost three decades. Meanwhile, Street Sharks is neither gone nor forgotten, with merchandise still produced, but without a new TV series or movie reboot, the sharks doomed themselves to obscurity.
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