Some of that increased good will may have been due to a renewed focus on franchise-nostalgia in Out of the Shadows, including the presence of fan-favorite characters like Bebop, Rocksteady and Krang (whom many longtime fans know best from the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon TV series).
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of The Shadows wound up being one of multiple 2016 sequels that pulled diminished box office returns compared to its predecessor – a phenomenon since dubbed “sequelitis” by many in the entertainment press.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will be available on DVD and Blu-ray starting September 20th, 2016.
Newly-released concept art for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel demonstrates that those mutant villains could have had a significantly different appearance in the film.