An Unknown New Era

At the last week, I totally didn't check for TMNT's news because I think this time may didn't any new news came out.

But just for yesterday, when I checked its news, I saw an article that really make me shocked:

The Mirage Group Sells Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(TM) to Nickelodeon

NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As previously announced, The Mirage Group, owners of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(TM) property, have sold the iconicbrand to Nickelodeon - part of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA, VIA.B). 4Kids Entertainment (NYSE: KDE) has received a payment of approximately $9.75 million at the Closing in consideration of its agreementto terminate its right to serve as the merchandise licensing agent prior to the scheduled expiration of the representation agreement in 2012. 4Kids may also receive an additional $1 million upon expiration of the escrow relatingto the transaction.

The sale of the Turtles property, which has achieved popularity across theworld, comes in its 25th anniversary year, with the Teenage Mutant NinjaTurtles having made their debut in an eponymous comic by TMNT co-creatorsKevin Eastman and Peter Laird in May 1984. In the quarter century that followed, the Turtles brand embraced nearly every medium and product form: four of the most successful independent theatrical motion pictures of alltime, over 350 half-hours of TV programming, top 10 all-time sales status forworldwide sales of toy action figures, and over 600 worldwide merchandise licenses.

"This is a great deal for all parties," said Alfred R. Kahn, Chairman and CEOof 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. "We congratulate our partners at Mirage on the sale of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Nickelodeon and on their gracious recognition of the contribution made by 4Kids to re-launch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise in 2002 for a new generation of kids around the world. We also congratulate Nickelodeon on acquiring the rights to an outstanding boys' property."

"From 4Kids' perspective, we received a $9.75 million capital injection at the Closing and a share of Turtles royalties through June 30, 2010," added Kahn." 4Kids will also continue to air the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television episodes that it co-produced with Mirage in 'The CW4Kids' block on the CWNetwork through the end of the 2009-2010 broadcast season."

4Kids, Mirage and Viacom will work together so that Turtles broadcast andmerchandise licensees can be assured of a seamless transition which isexpected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2010.

As you see, Mirage Studios, the former of TMNT, has sold all the rights of its iconic brand to Nickelodeon. This news is already one week, I just knew this news yesterday. This is truthly such a big news!

I just feel all things happened such suddenly and unexpectedly! Peter Laird, the author of TMNT, created first comic of TMNT in May 1984 and established Mirage Studios as the TMNT rights holder in the same year. Since that time, TMNT has created many legends in pop culture until today.

Just for this year, TMNT celebrate its 25th Anniversary, and at 23th April 2009, Mirage Studios announced a big news to worldwide that they will produce the fifth TMNT film and targeted release in 2011. This news make many TMNT fans happy. In 13th July 2009, an audition of open casting to star as foot clans done in Los Angles. While everybody is waiting for the preparation complete and start to film, everybody never expected that Mirage Studios sold the rights to other company at this time. I have seen a company sold itself to other company, but never seen a company sold its brand, especially iconic brand to other company.

For me, I didn't have any objection for this sale. I know the feeling of Peter Laird now, he must be very bother now. He has been doing for the creation of TMNT comics for over 20 years, I know he must be feel very tired now; he want to retired for another new life for his twilight years, so he sold all the rights of TMNT to Nickelodeon.

I think sold to Nickelodeon not must be a bad thing, because I found that TMNT didn't have any development in popularity since came into 21st century. Maybe the popularity of TMNT will rise up after joining Nickelodeon because Nickelodeon is a famous and success company. They has produced many classical, famous, success and unforgetfulable TV animation series. The most well-known are "Spongebob Squarepants" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender".

I protest somebody said that all the programmes of Nickelodeon are kiddy. This is just for majority, but not for "Avatar". I believe the new TMNT animation series will as mature and serious as "Avatar" (or more serious). Addition to that, the movie version of "Avatar" - "The Last Airbender" (a live-action movie) will be release in July 2010 due to the success of TV series. This will be one of the Hollywood mega movie release in summer 2010.

I am full of confidence that TMNT will develop rapidly under the "caring" of Nickelodeon and Paramount. I bless for the TMNT for having a wonderful life in the future.

P/S: I still have a question, after this sale, did TMNT 2011 still available?

烧焦啦！烧焦啦！

哇！你看我家的煲水壶型不型？

壶盖的橡胶套已经熔了。。。

哇！你看壶里面。。。焦了！

我看这次我死定了！我觉得很奇怪，为什么没有人跟我讲他们有煲水，并叫我看着。我妈妈和我弟弟去我三姨家，而我婆婆去我三姑家，家里只剩下我一个人。在他们还没有出去之前，我早就呆在电脑房里了。他们应该懂我们家的煲水壶的沸腾声很小（除了我婆婆），我在房里根本就听不到，他们出去前应该要跟我讲的，可是没有。难道他们不是一起出去吗？难道我妈妈和弟弟走了后，我婆婆是等一下才坐三姑车去的。在等的时候，她在煲水，她以为我会听到并关掉？

在两点时，我闻到烧焦味，可是我没有去管，以为邻居在烧东西。半小时后，我还是闻到那个味道，我走去厨房，才惊觉煲水壶在煲着水。我关了火，两个小时后，我打开壶盖，我看到水已蒸发干了，煲水壶已“变形”了！

我不知道这次谁对谁错，总之我知道我死定了！看来他们晚上回来时，我又要跟他们争论一番了！

Suggestions To TMNT 2011 #2: Combined With Harry Potter 7, Part 1

Did TMNT 2011 still distributed by Warner Brothers? If is, I have a good idea. Everybody knows Harry Potter is the film series that earned the highest box office of all time (nearly US$5.5 billion), and Warner Brothers is the distributor of Harry Potter since the first film. Harry Potter 7, Part 1 will be released to worldwide in November 2010, and its release date is nearly to release date of TMNT 2011.

My suggestions is, request Warner Brothers to add the promotional video of TMNT 2011 into Harry Potter 7 and show it before the showing of Harry Potter 7 in every showing time of every theatres in worldwide. I know this is difficult, but you should try it (if you make TMNT 2011 as a mega movie, this will make the request become easier to do). ;)

I Bought A Ticket of "This Is It"!

Yeah, I successfully bought a ticket of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" yesterday at GSC Mid Valley! I bought the ticket of 4 p.m., 30 October 2009. Originally, I went to buy the ticket at the GSC Signature at The Gardens because they will free one collector's edition poster of "This Is It" if you buy two tickets, but only limited for 100 posters. When I asked the seller, they said the poster has sold out yesterday morning (15 October 2009), and there're over hundreds of people queued up when the tickets started to sell.

Wow, looked like this movie has attracted all the human in the world! Finally, I gave up to buy the ticket at GSC Signature The Gardens but bought at GSC Mid Valley (because GSC Signature only sell Gold Class and Premiere Class tickets, and they are expensive).

I am very excited to watch this movie!

Suggestions to TMNT 2011 #1: Challenge The Teenagers Market

I have seen that TMNT haven't received good respond since the introduction of TMNT 2003 TV series and TMNT 2007 film. I know TMNT originally was target at teenager and adult market (the comics book), but because of the introduction of classical and famous TMNT 1987 TV series which was target at children market, so many people wrongly think that TMNT is "belongs to children" until today.

For me, why TMNT 2003 TV series cannot go famous, because its story, I can only say "too serious and violence for children and too childish for teenagers", it means that this TV series seemed like didn't suitable for any classes of age, so as the 2007 movie (because it is also an animated film besides the above reason). My sixth sense tell me TMNT will going to "extinct" in Malaysia in 2010 until TMNT 2011.

Through the history, I saw TMNT has been divided into two classes: Comics fans (teenagers and adults) and Cartoon fans (children). In 2003 TV series, you (you for author and company) make the storyline is loyal to comic (serious and violence), but you added some children elements far-fetched into the story to attract the children. Don't think this will attract both children and teenagers to watch but it will bring negative effects. If you want to target children market, why added too many serious and violence elements into the story? You should only focus at childish story (children market) or serious story (teenagers market).

But this is not the important point I want to talk now. The era is changed, the teenagers even the children nowadays are more likely to violence and somehow serious story. So, I suggest you should try to challenge the teenagers market, because the teenagers markets nowadays is big. Don't be hesitating, make a PG-13 storyline for TMNT 2011! Trust me, it will bring many advantages!

考完试了！

耶！终于考完年终大考了！这就标志着高一生涯终于结束了！我觉得我应该可以拿到好成绩，因为这次考试我比上半年准备得更好。希望历史和历国可拿90分，因为我这两科是花最多时间去读的。