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Since I mentioned the Dino TMNT, what did you guys think of the Extreme Dinosaurs cartoon? I was pretty underwhelmed by it since I had completely bought into Street Sharks at the time. At the very least I was hoping the Sharks would make an appearance in a crossover episode or something but ultimately they got tossed aside in favor of an all new cannon for the "Dino-Vengers", now the "Extreme Dinosaurs". I consider ED to be a better example of a corporate cartoon series because it jettisoned everything that preceded just to deliver the most paint-by-numbers TMNT clone possible. Street Sharks at the very least played fast and loose with the turtles formula and it occasionally went in really weird and wild directions. ED is exactly what you'd expect it to be to the point of feeling like a parody at times. The change of voice actors and characterization was also a little jarring. T-bone was more of the strong and silent leader type in street sharks, but was rewritten to be a turtles styled earnest leader in training for their spin of series. The raptors received an especially odd series of changes too. Originally Bad Rap was purple and was more of a cobra commander kind of villain. In the spin off he was flat out retooled into a villain akin to Beast Wars megatron. So much so that in addition to a new color scheme and alot of added muscle, Gary Carlson was recast to voice him despite having originally voiced Spike.
