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True-Life Adventures true again!
…other questions, please reply to this email or call us at 1-800-723-4763, Monday 9:30-7:30 and Tuesday through Friday 9:30-6:30 CST. Thank you for your patience, Walt Disney Home Entertainment Technical… |
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Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced!
…• Anthony DiPaola, Harrington Park, NJ Congratulations! Watch out for your Peanuts DVD sets in the mail! Read Animated Views’ review on Peanuts: 1970s Vol. 2 here! About Peanuts: 1970s… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…at a loose end…hahahahahahahahaha!! • Mad Monster Party – the original stop-motion spook-fest! • Monster House – dare you knock on the door? • Groovie Goolies – the Saturday mourning… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2
…storyline, and setting things into motion for the Phoenix Saga that would dominate season three. Throughout the show’s second and third seasons, it continued to dominate on Saturday mornings and… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…earn an Emmy for promoting 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea in prime time!) or repackagings of cartoon shorts. Alice In Wonderland became the first of the animated features to be… |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
Marvel/Sunbow Productions (September 12, 1983 – October 1, 1985), Shout! Factory (July 14, 2009), 4 discs, 480 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $29.99… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…and fan reaction both influenced and informed the creation of this eventual blockbuster. Autobots Roll Out (20:00) is all about the product placed cool cars licensed for the Transformers to… |
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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
Hanna-Barbera (1984), Warner Archive (May 17, 2011), 1 disc, 110 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated , Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: Renegades from the planet Gobotron come to Earth… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…in the early 1980s, and packed with the latest games that sported then-amazing graphics leagues better than our Atari 2600s could ever hope for. I wasn’t the biggest gamer back… |
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Alice In Wonderland
Walt Disney Pictures (March 5 2010), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (June 1 2010), Blu-ray plus DVD and Digital Copy, 109 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, 5.1 DTS-HD Master… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…their movements and, particularly, their facial expressions traditionally so as to make them work in the animation medium. Animating Tintin (11:00) explores this process briefly, also touching on the fully… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…to the Ministry and becomes his guardian. From then on, Mighty Atom becomes a hero for peace in Japan, aided by his tremendous “100,000 horsepower strength”, rocket-powered flight, and other… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…living out their doomed lives, perhaps within live-action environments, but back in the early 1980s, when Rosen wanted to adapt the story to film, the only technology that would allow… |
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All*Star Superman
…1980s Superman revamp by John Byrne (oddly enough, Byrne himself was born British before moving to Canada as a child). The purpose of the Byrne revamp had been to modernize… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…company grew, and success came in the form of the incredibly popular Mickey Mouse cartoons and the Oscar winning Silly Symphonies, but almost twenty years on a second World War… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…also hundreds of never-seen-before visual documents. Eighty per cent of the more than 400 visual documents displayed in each of the volumes in this series are presented here for the… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
Filmation (1980-1981), BCI (December 18, 2007), 2 discs, 357 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Two masked, historical heroes… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…the creators, like in the recent Saturday Morning sets. Maybe when Warner comes out with a 90’s version of the set, they can include one of these episodes and give… |
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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…New York City. Although its success was modest when it first appeared in black and white in 1961, its subsequent showings on Saturday mornings proved to be very successful. Saturday… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
…film earned $8 million internationally, becoming the most successful film of all time. Afterward, Disney continued to release one critically acclaimed film after another, from Pinocchio (1940) to Fantasia (1940)… |
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Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…How large was the orchestra? HGW: About 70 or 80 players. A really good size! AV: To you, what are the most rewarding sequences of the film? HGW: The opening… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…would have to manually reenter scores and records every week of the season! I eventually moved up to Vic-20, a TRS-80, and finally a Mac. Like Olivier, I got hooked… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…had an animation division and I ended up becoming an animator on Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, a Saturday morning cartoon. After that ended, they laid most people off. They… |
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The Smurfs coming to the big screen
…line of statuettes, games, toys, theme parks and a hit TV series, which ran as part of NBC’s Saturday–morning lineup from 1981-90. Kerner said the genesis of the current project… |
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View a clip from The Batman
…animated series is now available at Superhero Hype!. The Batman premieres Saturday, September 11 (10:30 a.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT), on Kids’ WB!’s new Saturday morning slate for the 2004-2005 season…. |
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Batman enlists Martian Manhunter for season finale
…action-packed, two-part episode “The Joining,” airing on consecutive Saturdays, April 28 and Saturday, May 5 at 10:30 a.m. ET/PT on Kids’ WB! on The CW, the No.1 rated Saturday morning… |
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Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series
…strictly through multiple seasons. On Saturday mornings, however, even hit shows were sometimes massively retooled before being allowed back for the next season, and most were cancelled outright. Think about… |
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Confirmation on this year's Walt Disney Treasures, and Real Ghostbusters!
…shorts, The Chronological Donald: Volume 4, featuring the final 31 animated cartoons in this character’s theatrical series between 1951 and 1961, including the much requested educational featurette Donald In Mathmagic… |
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Star Trekkin' across the universe! Plus Venture Bros. and Tiny Toons!
…Season 1, Volume 2, the second half of the syndicated series. I’m hoping that the next volume comes along soon, because that’s where some of the real Tiny Toons gold… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…fun characters, circus atmosphere and simple plot especially enchanting to children. One of the first Disney features to be released on home video back in the early 1980s, Dumbo has… |

