@Soxfan311@Rageoverrun Of course it is! Color Classics by IDW! But that means nothing when they still adhere to the colors established by this cover from 1986 BEFORE the cartoon came out a year later.
@SkyAzureEclipse In addition, in the 2012 series episode "Never Say Xever", Donnie states that they're all freshwater turtle, suspecting that they derived from Diamondback Terrapins or Common Box Turtles
@SkyAzureEclipse Before Rise of the TMNT debuted, all four turtles were generally depicted as red eared sliders; this was actually the reason they wore all red masks in the original comics.
The images below are from The Blue Hole (comic, 2005), 2014 film, and the 1990 film.
@Crimson_Mayhem_ Reposting since the original thread vanished.
During the production for the 2012 version of TMNT, Raphael was originally supposed to be the one to have a crush on April, rather than Donatello in the finished product.