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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…another bonus cartoon, Mr Incredible And Pals, coming in at four minutes. Animated using mostly static artwork created in the 1960s/70s Filmation style, the short is a supposedly “lost” episode… |
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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…completed his survey recently on the history of the Filmation animation studio, so there’s plenty to catch up on! I’m also hard at work on something cool too – an… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…see the regular show: apart from the occasional, rare moment of CG enhancement, this is childish cartoonery even more limited than the cheapest Filmation or Hanna-Barbera classic. It’s directed with… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…their segments, just like those Filmation cartoons used to do on TV. I’d love to be able to get excited by things like this. And, actually, I am…for the long-in-development… |
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch: Complete – Winners!
…copies to give away! Coming to DVD on April 29 for a suggested $29.95, Filmation’s 1971 animated series predates was the first screen incarnation of the teenage witch, her cat… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…fine form in mining the Filmation back catalog and presenting these otherwise forgotten shows in sparkling new transfers coupled with unexpected and fantastic bonus features. Other kudos must go to… |
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Goofy's new animators spill the beans; plus dancing penguins and other new reviews
…for another in BCI’s too good to be true Filmation sets, The Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection, and the totally baffling winner of this year’s Best Animated Feature Academy… |
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Hero High here!
Howdy! Just a quick pit-stop for now to point you in the direction of our latest review, this time for another sterling job by BCI with their Filmation catalog that’s… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…while on vacation in Ireland. This somewhat archaic short would be the little basset’s last appearance on screens until television’s Filmation studio brought him back for a weekly show some… |
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Weekend Roundup! Plus The Tick is back!
Wow…what a week! And just in case you missed any of it, here are the highlights: • Appreciation For Filmation – we looked back and reviewed several titles from the… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…looks like a house! • Mickey’s House Of Villains – the House Of Mouse gets all shook up! • The Ghost Busters – plus Filmation’s animated Ghostbusters Vol 1 and… |
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Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!
…our Contest Corner you’ll find a couple of new giveaways, for a couple of holiday grab bags featuring a handful of fun Disney Channel DVDs and a duo of Filmation… |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
…a duo of Filmation favorites in the mix at Contest Corner, running until the end of this week. We’ll be back to our regular site updates soon, so stay tooned!… |
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Oscar night approaches, as does Bravestarr!
Rand’s back with some more classic Filmation goodness in his Bravestarr: Volume One review. He wasn’t expecting much from the Studio’s final show, but remains sufficiently impressed following a previous… |
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One on one on One Hundred And One Dalmatians!
…bonus package well exceeding expectations. As Rand says, “the set is far from a wash, and based on the bonus disc alone, I can recommend this set to Filmation and… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…behind me, while Darrell MacNeil (animation artist, and co-writer of Animation By Filmation) was in-between us. This made Ben envious later on when I told him, since he had missed… |
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Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award
…cartoons with his visual take on DC Comics super heroes, beginning with his co-producing Batman: the Animated Series in 1992. Timm began his career in animation at Filmation, doing layouts… |
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Justice League: The Complete Series
…They discuss the old Filmation and Hanna-Barbera shows and how it was basically a boy’s club where the villains didn’t even have a chance. For their series, they wanted characters… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…in Elroy’s Mob. Someone at Warner Home Video is definitely a Jetsons fan, but perhaps this set would have been better served by having one of the Filmation superhero shows… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…and Ricardo Montalban, both in 1974, and a silly parody, Zorro: The Gay Blade, in 1981. Since then, animation has been Zorro’s medium of choice, including shows from Filmation and… |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
…Tom Tataranowicz (he had worked on a number of the late Filmation shows like He-Man and She-Ra) supervised the stories. This season sees Tony Stark grow longer (blue) hair, the… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…the same way. Both are remembered nostalgically by fans of 1980s television animation along with Filmation, Disney and DiC. The cartoons released here cover a variety of different genres, from… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…don’t end up doing much of anything themselves! After a single season, the cat and mouse were retired again until the Filmation studio licensed them for a new show in… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…by The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries with the added element of featuring real monsters and ghosts. At the time, Filmation’s Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters had become huge hits on television,… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…Filmation’s old school The New Adventures Of Batmanfrom the 1970s (where Batman was actually voiced by Adam West), but with a larger scope. The Brave And The Bold gives us… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
Filmation (December, 1985), Classic Media (October 12, 2010), single disc, 51 mins, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $9.99 Storyboard: He-Man and She-Ra commemorate Christmas for the… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…of Hawkman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Hawkman, Black Canary, and The Huntress; and Captain Marvel appears for the first time since his Filmation series. For the most part, their combined… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…DVD set, 455 mins plus supplements, $30 Don’t get excited for Paul Terry’s original, undervalued TerryToon series, or even Filmation’s late 1970s/early 80s Saturday morning television revival, but be energized… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…do for Hanna-Barbera and Filmation cartoons. Even mediocre Abbott and Costello is worth watching for me, and fortunately I would consider Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd to be a… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…something even Filmation would have been ashamed of. Likewise the epic location and Pinewood Studio shoots of Superman: The Movie and Superman II are replaced with dressing a London subway… |
