Why did the change hero turtles to ninja?

Does anyone remember Teenage mutant HERO turtles?


Now the ninja turtles have, like, no eyes. D:


And there not the same Pizza loving party dudes anymore!|||[edit] Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles





The title screen from the TMHT version due to the Censorship.Upon TMNT%26#039;s first arrival in the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Poland, Austria and Germany, the name was changed to %26quot;Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles%26quot; (or TMHT, for short), since local censorship policies deemed the word ninja to have excessively violent connotations for a children%26#039;s program. (although in Ireland the first season aired as %26quot;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles%26quot; before changing to %26quot;Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles%26quot;)[9] Consequently, everything related to the Turtles had to be renamed before being released in these nations (comic books, video games, toys, etc.) The lyrics were also changed, such as changing %26quot;Splinter taught them to be ninja teens%26quot; to the %26quot;Splinter taught them to be fighting teens.%26quot;





The policies also had other effects, such as removing use of Michaelangelo%26#039;s nunchaku (which were at the time banned from appearing in even 18-rated movies) and generally toning down the usage of all the turtles%26#039; weapons. After many seasons of never using his nunchaku, they eventually disappeared entirely, replaced by a turtle shell shaped grappling hook called the %26quot;Turtle Line%26quot;.





However, when the live-action movie came out in 1990, the %26quot;Ninja%26quot; of the title was kept even in the UK. In time, nunchaku scenes were retained in previously-censored movies such as those of Bruce Lee.





By the time of the 2003 TV series, these censorship policies had been abolished, and no changes have occurred in the content of the show. The name %26quot;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles%26quot; remained unchanged for the 2003 TV series. As a result, in the UK, the 1987 TV series is still called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and the 2003 TV series is called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, hence a disambiguation between the two TV series|||it was the other way around. teenage mutant ninja turtles was originally a comic, and had been for many years, then they made the toys, and then the 80%26#039;s tv show. these were all called teenage mutant ninja turtles. but then when they tried to sell the show to us in the uk they thought it was too violent a name, so they only agreed to show it if our version could be changed to teenage mutant hero turtles.





to be fair, the new series is a hell of alot more close to the original comics and how the turtles actually are. the first cartoon was really camp and kinda ruined them, even tho its what most of us remember.|||yea i know it was teenage mutant hero turtles, but the kids of %26quot;today%26quot; probably think ninjas are more appealing. but they have eyes! they%26#039;re just behind the mask. sometimes they are revealed, but rarely. they are still pizza loving party dudes! they CRAVE pizza.|||I think the term HERO was first used in the kids TV series, which considered %26#039;ninja%26#039; to convey unnecessary violence. This was in the early nineties, when the %26#039;TV Violence%26#039; debate was in full swing.





And yeah, they look weeeird now!! :)|||really?? i had no idea they had teenage mutant HERO turtles. i know the song goes, 鈾猦eroes in a half-shell. TURTLE POWER.鈾? hehe.|||Yeh I remember having a VCR of the killer pizzas. Remember they put them in the microwave and they turned into monsters haha. That was the Hero turtles. Times change.|||of course i remember them!





cartoons are not the same!





i was watching some with my nephew the other day and man they are cracked out.





seriously. the value has gone way down.|||They were always called ninja but were softened to hero in the UK|||Because they wanted to! IDK!|||I love TM NT very funny.. they kinda cute, the way the fight and move.|||Yea but ninja%26#039;s are like the shizzzzzz|||UK they were hero US were ninja|||lol|||skeet thats why|||i have know idea dude/girl|||i think it was because that rat thing taught them|||why dont you make any sense?