Did you Americans have all the problems with Michaelangelo's nunchukas (spelling?)? Over here he rarely used them because too many kids were attatching heavy blunt objects to string and swinging them round their heads or at their siblings. Spent most of his time attacking with his fists or short one-handed staff things (sticks?
).
How do you use Sai daggers as bludgeoning weapons, hit them with the handle?
Not meaning to keep going on about the original comics, I just thought it interesting that in the cartoon Krang was completely evil, but in the comics the brain thingies were all good guys. They save Splinter's life and turn out to be the 'people' behind the TGRI company (who made the ooze that accidentally created the turtles). The cartoon took a lot of liberties with the original ideas...