First, that link is broken.

Second, relevance? Why does everyone assume I'm pissed that rabbids are in the game when I believe I've made it more than perfectly clear that the problem is the lack of TMNT-characters in favor of said rabbids.

Ok so 4 Turtles, April, Casey, Shredder- Those are the only characters to remain the same -mostly- with the different variations with the omission of Splinter. Of course they woulde be announced first. After that it depends on 1. which eras of the franchise do they/can they include and 2. Which versions of which character. My money is on characters close in design to the Second Cartoon and the CG Movie. I would not count out prior incarnations entirely, based on the fact that it is the Turtles 25th birthday. There is talk of Beebop and Rocksteady possibly showing up in some sort of crossover with their 80's animated selves.  I think it is posible to get one or two characters out of left field.

After the primary characters, there are only a few that show up in mutiple versions. When the final line-up is out we can be a better judge. I see the rabbid inclusion as a stunt like Sonic or Snake or Vader and Yoda. They announced it early for hype. That does not mean they are ignoring the Turtles, just that they thought this gimmick would get people interested. I am not saying they were right, but I don't see a reason to doubt it based on that.

Doubt it because the last Ubisoft/Turtles games was crap. Doubt it because the gamecube fighting game was crap. Doubt it because we haven't had a decent Turtles game since maybe '03 or '04 and we haven't had a great one since the 90's.  Don't doubt it for a silly pr move that could have been timed better. 

Let's see the full roster before we freak, and accept the fact that a Ninja Turtle game is like an x-men game in that there are too many great characers to include every one in every game. I expect a few of my favorites to not be included the first time around. I'm ok with that as long as I get a good game.

Now, if they announce Vanilla Ice as a playable character I'm walkin. "Go, Ninja. Go" my ass.

Where did I say I thought you were pissed?  I just poste that cuz I thought it was relevant, this being a thread regarding the turtles and crossovers.

The problem is that this was billed as a celebration of Ninja Turtles history. People feel like they haven't seen that celebration, with all their favorite characters, and now instead they are getting an advertisement for other Ubisoft games. That's a raw deal, and don't pretend it isn't.

If you took out all the characters and replaced them with sock puppets, you could theoretically have the same "gameplay." But no one cares about the gameplay if there isn't a great context for that gameplay. Suddenly the context of "a celebration of Ninja Turtles history" is being pissed on.

An appropriate "cameo" or "easter egg" would be a single, unlockable Rabbid, dressed as a Ninja turtle. Then it would still be in the spirit of "a celebration of Ninja Turtles history." Instead there are two different versions of Rabbids announced before TMNT characters that people in this thread are calling shoo-ins.

B-I-N-G-O

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Well, unless the Pr arm and programming arm of ubisoft are the same I still see no reason to be pissy. They are unrelated, and may not always help the other. The pr wing being asshats is not something to hold against the programming wing. It's a stunt- big deal. We cannot say positively that the rabbids were programmed at the expense of Turtle lore, just that they were hyped at it.

And you do know how much the rabbids sell on the Wii, right? So including characters from your most profitable line is bad? They did a pr move to court a wider gaming audience. How dare them.

If the line-up end up being 50% ubisoft franchise and 50% turtles then I see the complaint. Until then, let's wait.

Exactly. That's why i'm only mildly annoyed by this, instead of up in arms. We can only judge the damage that the Rabbids' inclusion has done after we see the whole roster.

I'm pissed!  Now, I can't play as THIS GUY!!

It made me slightly more interested. I mean anything + rabbids is pretty much gonna be better- even mediocre mini-games.

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/022309tmntcrazy.html

Check out this list of characters and then tell me if Rabbids are such a bad idea..........