Id say that this actually hurts Garfield a lot. Rep went through the work of telling people Garfield was a well made fake. With this one? The devs and mods went scorched earth. If the garfield leak was real, why did they comment on it and put it down, while nuking this one with silence and deleting the speculation channel? Combine that with the subtle differences in the Garf leak and Ren and Stimpys models, and I lean that we can say it is a well done hoax.
Furthermore, I hate to say it but TMNT makes sense to get top billing. By the numbers, it is the most profitable Nick/Viacom property. Granted, it's only by around 1 billion...but that is still 1 billion dollars. I know that it might not make sense to us at first because I dont think most of us associate TMNT with Nick/Viacom that much, but the numbers do not lie. I also am happy that we did skip out on four turtles. If the last characters do include Shredder, then we get to have some more visual diversity. The turtles do mesh together a lot, so I get what they went for. April looks fun as heck, and I bet shredder will be too.