Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

The Jim Henson puppets looked and I think still lookes great, specially when compared to the sequels or the laughable bad looking Turtles from the 2014 film.
I think the Turtles from 1990 ended up as one of the most successful releases during the early 90s, and I remember thinking it made something around 90-100 million dollars and instead it turned out to be (according to Wikepedia) over 200 million $, against a budget around 10-11 million $.

That is quite amazing.
Maybe even more, considering that in a lot of countries (I think even my own) the main target of the Turtle-mania at that time, was mostly kids between the ages of 6-12 years old, and there was several cinemas/movie theatres were kids was not allowed, because of the ratings, and parents claiming it to be violent and not kid-friendly entertainemt, like the cartoon show. 

I loved how the film had some really neat fight scenes, that was incredible well choreographed, and I liked how Raphael was much closer to the original comics instead of being the sarcastic jerk from the cartoon show, and his little fights with his brother Leonardo. Also a big shout out to Elias Koteas, (not sure if I got his name right) but he kicked ass as Casey Jones and handled himself very well, especially with Raphael and Donatello. 


I do remember some of the He-Man toys as a kid, as some of the older brothers of friends of mine used to collect them, and these toys/action figures went wel along with the Turtles figure.
I guess the Turtle power days will never came back as strong as it once was, but when it was big, it really was an almost ustoppable force, that just kept coming up with more toys and movies and stuff to sell to us kids.