It suffered from a very small budget (CAD$1 million, courtesy Sanford Productions' almost-cost cutting troubles), the mouths barely moving at all on the Turtles' normal forms' animatronic suits (the same ones used in We Wish You a Turtle Christmas/Turtle Tunes), a hefty price-per-shooting day for the Turtles' "next mutation" forms animatronic suits and the Mona Lisa and Kirby animatronic suits (created by Gerry Anderson of Thunderbirds fame), IATSE Canada problems (due to Super Shredder's voice actor, Eric Stuart being a non-union actor who usually appeared in anime dubs, so he went under the Alan Smithee name), and hammed up acting.