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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to get de-aged in new cartoon series
just like Spidey and his Amazing Friends, Teeny Mutant Ninja Turtles is aimed at young kids with short episodes coming to YouTube this year.
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It wouldn’t be fair to say that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were having a resurgence in popularity, since they never really went away. As Paramount continues to lean on the TMNT brand, they’re taking a page out of Spidey and his Amazing Friends book and talking the Turtles back to their childhood for a new kid show launching later this year.
Titled Teeny Mutant Ninja Turtles, the new CG-animated series will explore the days before the Ninja Turtles reached their teenage years. Each of the 30 episodes will run around four minutes long and is intended to tap into the young child demographic in the same way that Disney+’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends does. The difference here is that Paramount’s Nickelodeon Digital Studio is developing the series for a YouTube release.
This announcement is joined by news of new books featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including a prose adaptation of Last Ronin, and a new agreement with Mattel to develop new toys, playsets, and games for a 2027 release. It comes just a few months after it was announced that Paramount was tapping Neal H. Moritz, who has worked on both the Fast and the Furious and the Sonic the Hedgehog film franchises. The hope seems to be to revitalize the TMNT brand for a new generation in the same way Moritz did with Sonic, whose films have grossed over $1 billion at the box office so far.
In addition to the Teeny Mutant Ninja Turtles show coming later in 2026, a new live-action hybrid TMNT movie – presumably with them in their iconic teenage years – is due out in November 2027.
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