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The DisneyLand Anthology
…I was amazed and delighted, and it remains one of my favorite discoveries. Featuring six full and uncut episodes of the DisneyLand television series, this is just simply Walt Heaven!… |
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The Rescuers
…sharing with Art Stevens and John Lounsbery, and Artie Butler’s careful and almost live-action use of music, which never “Mickey Mouses” the action. The entire film looks and feels quite… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…are most remembered (not that they particularly helped animation’s continued downward spiral). Hollywood in general had turned to sword and sorcery epics – grand tales set in mythical lands and… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…Keys And Backgrounds, Character Designs (for Bambi, Mother And Father, Flower, Friend Owl, Thumper and Faline), a series of original Posters, and a number of Production Stills showing behind-the-scenes photos…. |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…character animation, especially against the otherwise gorgeous backdrops and digital matte paintings as inspired by the work of Sleeping Beauty designer and painter Eyvind Earle. In a nice touch, and… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…the delights of Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow’s digital recreations of 1930s New York, and Sin City’s elaborate realisation of a completely comic book inspired world noir, 300… |
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Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney
…Mouse and Silly Symphonies shorts and the early features Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. Although there was a wealth of related merchandise readily available (a… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…funny, they’re Babs and Buster Bunny, Montana Max has money, Elmyra is a pain! There’s Hamton and Plucky, Dizzy Devil’s ducky, Furrball’s unlucky, and Go-Go is insane! Their scripts were… |
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Not so silly Symphonies; Song Of The South?; More Hanna-Barbera!
…rounded out with a final two volumes, and those rumored Education and More Rarities too, please! Do your bit and help save the Walt Disney Treasures! Though that series looks… |
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I Yam What I Yam…Popeye's here!
…and his hand in the new official DVD! • Popeye: 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition – Rand takes a look at the post Fleischer 1960s cartoons made for television by King… |
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Treasures found!
…this collection does repeat a chunk of material known already to collectors, it’s still a more than reasonable collection of Walt-centric episodes from his TV show, and perhaps the only… |
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What the heck? Cult animation, live-action and seals in love!
…pockets and armies of restoration teams, making their achievements that much more remarkable, and I encourage and of you serious about animation history to seek them out and support future… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…wish list and one only very recently issued in the United States. When I mention Halas & Batchelor Cartoons, anyone worth their salt will know this husband–and-wife team’s company was… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…first and second seasons! • The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad – a classic slice of scary Disney! • Invader Zim – the entire collection. In a box that… |
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Alice returns to Walt's Cartoonland!
…Jumping back to the present, and don’t forget that tomorrow’s big Disney/Pixar release Tuesday sees both Ratatouille and the Pixar Short Films Collection coming to stores. Follow those links, and… |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
…Studio’s growth. Leslie (The Pixar Story) Iwerks’ The Hand Behind The Mouse celebrates her grandfather, Walt’s legendary animator and best friend Ub, in the grand style awarded to Frank And… |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…Feature went, as we all perhaps hoped and predicted, to Brad Bird for the amazing Ratatouille, with Best Animated Short going to Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman’s Peter And The… |
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Back to the Park, more Peanuts announcements…
…the show until the big screen movie and media onslaughts from Chef and Mr Hankey, I find the series and what Trey Parker and Matt Stone get away with to… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…weekend and pick up a Blu-ray Disc player! I’m finally going Blu, joining James and Rand in the hi-def camp, so be on the lookout for more and more BD… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
As promised (some time ago, but we’ll gloss over that!), I’ve finally reached the finish line on my review for Andy and Larry Wachowski’s live-action/CG hybrid take on Tatsuo Yoshida’s… |
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Looney Tunes meets Gargoyles…what's up, doc!?
…some very entertaining – and odd! – one shots and rarities. In the extras department, Constantine Nasr’s feature-length Man Of A Thousand Faces documentary on Mel Blanc is as exemplary… |
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Yabba-dabba-doo-or-don't? The Complete Flintstones completely reviewed!
…disc set that comes in fancy Bedrock inspired packaging. The review eventually went up very late (at least past Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm’s bedtime) and I’m now all Bedrocked out, but… |
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Snow White week begins at AN&V!
…best we could find out was that it was a 160-page “Chronicle Of The Art, The History, And The Magic Of Walt Disney’s Masterpiece“), and I already have a number… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…90. But she would dance on stage and her dress would move and the flowing of the fabric and all of that allowed the artists to see and to understand… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…by the end of its also overlong 14 minutes. Rounding things out, an excessively in-depth and vast collection of full-screen concept art, storyboards and production photos make up the sizable… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…months later with the “film school in a box” two-disc collection, which featured both the theatrical cut, a newly extended and recut unrated edition, hours of supplements and, in some… |
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We’re off to see the Wizard!
…it’s a bona fide film classic, beloved by adults and children alike, and celebrating its 70th Anniversary is a brand-spanking new Blu-ray edition that was released a couple of weeks… |
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Animated DVDs up for 2009 TV DVD Awards!
Home Media Magazine has opened up voting for their 2009 TV DVD Awards, honoring the best television series DVDs released this year. And animation is front and center in several… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…Smallville. Produced at Ruby-Spears Productions right next door to Hanna-Barbera Studios, and animated in Japan and Korea at Toei Animation and Dai Won Animation, the series benefited by a stellar… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…love the film would do well to seek out The Pixar Short Films Collection, where it comes with commentary from writer-directors Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews. The “big extra” on… |
