This was released in Summer 1994 on VHS in the iconic white clamshell casing that had become synonymous with the home video release of Disney features. At the height of the craze over the original animated film "The Lion King" being in theaters and cultivating a phenomenal following at the time, seeing this film on shelves in stores caused confusion for both parents and children, thinking it was the actual Disney film itself. Goodtimes Home Video, now defunct, was releasing similar or exact titled cartoons that were in obscurity to capitalize on the success of a Disney film in theaters at the time. They did the same with "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Little Mermaid". Eventually the company was forced to relinquish this practice in the face of legal action from Disney, thus leading to its eventual folding a few years later.
Cam Clarke and Townsend Coleman also voiced Leonardo and Michelangelo respectively in the original Las Tortugas Ninja (1987).