Splinter begrudgingly allows the Turtles to visit the surface world, where they encounter pizza for the first time and observe a teenager named April O'Neil, with whom Donatello becomes infatuated. In the present, Yoshi, now known as Splinter, has trained the Turtles-Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael-in the art of ninjutsu, and celebrates their fifteenth 'Mutation Day' with them. Part 1: Years ago, Hamato Yoshi, a Japanese ninja master, moves to New York City and purchases four baby turtles, before witnessing a shady deal in an alleyway in the resulting fight, he and the turtles are coated by a strange chemical mutagen, transforming Yoshi into a humanoid rat and the Turtles into anthropomorphic form. Main article: List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) episodes No. A trailer for the series was released on June 21, 2012, on Nickelodeon USA. The images showed the designs of all four Turtles, Shredder, Splinter, a teenage April O'Neil and the Kraang, an alien race that combines elements of both Krang and the Utroms. Production art was leaked on the Nickelodeon website before it was taken down. Actress Kelly Hu confirmed her role as Karai in May 2012. In April 2012, it was announced that Phil LaMarr would be playing the role of Baxter Stockman and Nolan North would be playing a race of aliens known as the Kraang, while Roseanne Barr was confirmed to voice their leader, Kraang Prime. In August 2011, it was revealed that Mae Whitman would be the voice for April O'Neil.

In June 2011, it was confirmed that Sean Astin is playing Raphael and Greg Cipes is Michelangelo. Jason Biggs voices Leonardo and Rob Paulsen voices Donatello. A feature film was released by Paramount Pictures, which is also a division of Viacom in 2014. Viacom would be developing a CGI animated TV series for its Nickelodeon family of channels for broadcast in 2012. On October 21, 2009, a press release was made indicating that Viacom had bought the complete rights of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise from Peter Laird for $60 million.

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