Starting on September 2, 2003,

4Kids Entertainment 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Leisure Concepts, Inc. and later known as 4Licensing Corporation) was an American licensing company. The company was previously also a film and television production company that produced English- dub ...

and

Funimation Entertainment Crunchyroll, LLC, previously known as Funimation from 1994 to 2022, is an American entertainment company owned by Japanese conglomerate Sony as a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex that specializes ...

began distributing 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series to

DVD The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind ...

, and originally also to VHS. The latest VHS release occurred on June 7, 2005, while the original run of DVD releases continued until October 21, 2008.

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Many fans heavily criticized Funimation's erratic release patterns, and while a more traditional seasonal release pattern began in 2007, production ceased following

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. It ...

purchasing the entire TMNT franchise in October 2009. In June 2015, Nickelodeon began once again releasing DVDs of the series. However, they too began an erratic release pattern, with several months between volumes and each volume containing only three non-sequential episodes.

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Home video, 2003

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' is an American animated television series developed by Lloyd Goldfine, and based on the comic book characters of the same name created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The series premiered on February 8, 200 ...

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