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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…episodes, including a unique version of the final, unaired show. Rodney’s review took me right back to enjoying this show when it was on during the 1980s, and BCI have… |
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Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews
…take a look at the other animated spook-hunting show from the 1980s, Filmation’s Ghostbusters, now out in a pretty nice six-disc Volume 1 collection. The series will be completed with… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…this new Oz film was a glint in a franchise producer’s eye, fans will want to jump to the excellent featurette Walt Disney And The Road To Oz (10:20), which… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…friend, Howard, Who gave a mermaid her voice, and a beast his soul. We will be forever grateful. Howard Ashman 1950-1991 It’s in those terms that the Disney artists chose… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
Warner Bros. Animation (2010), Warner Home Video (September 20 2011), single disc, 146 mins, 1.78:1 letterboxed widescreen, Dolby Stereo Surround, Not Rated (nothing particularly offensive), Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The pages… |
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The Muppets
Walt Disney Pictures (November 23 2011), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 20 2012), single disc Blu-ray plus DVD and Digital Copy disc with Soundtrack Download, 103 mins plus supplements, 1080p… |
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Jackson Beck dead at 92
…famous phrase “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” and voiced Bluto in more than 300 \\Popeye\\ cartoons. He went on to work in \\The Batman/Superman Hour\\ and \\The… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…television in the 1980s, but the Americanisation of the voices didn’t match the very British nature of the setting. These versions are much more authentic, “based on the original and… |
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Osamu Tezuka and Astro Boy!!!
…in recent years put out many volumes of the original manga, for most of us the first exposure we had to Astro Boy was his television cartoons. I grew up… |
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M-I-C-K-E-Y…Happy Birthday, Mr Mouse!
…time, Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) and The Prince And The Pauper (1990) featured memorable Disney casts in these classic tales. In the 1980s and 90s, Mickey worked professionally onscreen with… |
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Like a Bolt out of the Blu! Plus The Odd Couple!
…slice of pure comic genius. Often referenced in other movies and cartoons, including a very memorable episode of Tiny Toons Adventures (no, that’s not the connection I’m talking about), it… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…used, with a “current” (mid-1980s, per the original story) episode of a newsmagazine show looking back on a story done ten years earlier, when Mason’s book was released. So, in… |
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Robot Chicken team hatches Titan Maximum
…show from the creators of the stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken. The new show will be called Titan Maximum and will use stop-motion to “satirize Japanese cartoons of the 1980s”…. |
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Green Lantern: First Flight
…number of times before, from a rotating segment on The Superman-Aquaman Hour in the 1960s, to various guest spots on Super Friends in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as… |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
Tezuka Productions (1980), Manga Video/Anchor Bay (November 22, 2005), 8 discs, 1530 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $39.98 Storyboard: Astro Boy… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…epic adventure 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Of course, the DisneyLand show also provided publicity and a way to fund another Disney project, the theme park itself – all of… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…1980s output, though as anyone will tell you, practically every other company has been beating them to the punch by way of extras and overall quality. BCI have especially shown… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
Walt Disney Television Animation (September 19 2000), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 16 2008), single disc, 75 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail:… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…SYNOPSIS By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…was an attempt to catch the sword and sorcery trend of the late 1970s and early 1980s, not least the Disney answer to Ralph Bakshi’s interpretation of Tolkien’s The Lord… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season 1, Volume 1
Filmation Studios (September 9, 1985 – November 28, 1987), Classic Media (September 28, 2010), 2 disc set, 430 mins, 1.33:1 original aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail:… |
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return Of Black Adam
Warner Bros. (2010), Warner Home Video (November 9, 2010), 1 disc, 25 mins plus supplements, 16:9 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Rated PG-13, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Captain Marvel’s origin is… |
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Gisele and the Green Team-an eco-friendly webtoon
…by using magic, girl power, and green ingenuity. The series is similar to the popular 1990s cartoonCaptain Planet. Bündchen was inspired by cartoons from the 1980s and her role as… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
Walt Disney Studios (2007-2009), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (November 30 2010), three single discs with supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital, all rated PG, Retail: each sold separately at $29.99… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
Hanna-Barbera (1993), Warner Archive (December 14, 2010), 5 discs, 528 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated G, Retail: $34.95 Storyboard: Two disgraced police officers are assigned dump… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
Walt Disney Productions (August 21 1942), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 1 2011), Blu-ray and DVD discs, 70 mins plus supplements, 1080p original Academy 1.33:1 high-definition, DTS-HD High-Resolution 7.1 and… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…supplements, 1080p high-definition 2.40:1 widescreen, 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $49.99 Storyboard: When young Milo’s mother is kidnapped by Martians, he stashes away on their spaceship and launches… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…premium 3D pack). The front cover may or may not intentionally be a pastiche of The Goonies’ poster from the 1980s, but it’s almost a direct lift and, if so,… |
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Dumbo: 70th 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… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…the film again, I’m more willing to set aside my issues with the future time-frame, where I did originally feel that the jump in time of roughly 20-30 years did… |
