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DreamWorks' Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas sails onto DVD!
…new disc release due in stores November 18th. {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/246 DVD Toons}} again has the first look, commenting that “although Sinbad didn’t bring home the big box-office booty, that’s not… |
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Floyd Norman and Leo Sullivan to help run Punch Animation
…movies Flash Gordon, Pac-Man, Iron Man, Tiny Toons Adventures, Scooby-Doo and Flintstones. Mr. Sullivan has over 50 years of experience in the field of animation and is a credentialed teacher… |
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Jane Jetson passes away
‘dtemplar’ in the {{link http://forums.toontitan.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=17831#post17831 DVD Toons Forum}} posted that “Penny Singleton, who brought Jane to life on Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 primetime cartoon The Jetsons, died in California Wednesday two weeks… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…The Tunes Behind the Toons, was the first short to have a synchronized score. By today’s standards, it is quite primitive. While utterly charming to watch, the music is quite… |
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The Smurfs 2
…A Chance Of Meatballs 2, Hotel Transylvania, and The Smurfs. The menu offers additional previews for Angry Birds Toons, The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale, and One Direction: This… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…to introduce a new Disney (anti-)hero…had we not recently seen the exact same shtick play out in one of the Toy Story Toons in which rejected fast-food meal toys come… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Milton, a pair of goofy Siamese cats that caused multiple disruptions in Disney cartoons long before Si and Am came to plague Lady’s life in Lady And The Tramp. Here,… |
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Clone Wars wins first Emmys
…– Jason Park, Background Designer: Transformers: Prime – Arato Kato, Character Animator: Transformers: Prime – Kirk Van Wormer, Storyboard Artist: Transformers: Prime – Robert Kline, Storyboard Artist: Disney Minnie’s Bow-Toons… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #38: How To Train Your Dragonite…I Mean, Dragon
…Awesome podcast plug: Talkin’ Toons with Rob Paulsen! We’re fans. • Bring on the news! Big Hero 6, Disney Withdraws Trademark Application for ‘Dia de los Muertos’, DreamWorks plans sequel… |
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New Toy Story Toon revealed: Mythic Rock
…listed on the résumé of Pixar producer Kim Jorgensen Adamsthe. Mythic Rock appears to be the latest entry in the Toy Story Toons line of shorts, following Hawaiian Vacation, Small… |
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Analysis of this year's Oscar candidates, and The Polar Express…Expressed!
DVD Toons’ comment feature {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/58 My Toon Cents}} runs down the list of eligible films put forward by the Studios this year for consideration as nominees for the Best… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #37: Tinker Bell – They’re Breaking Canon
…fairy. • Is fairy romance a thing? • Recommended awesome podcast tangent: Talkin’ Toons with Rob Paulsen; he voices everything (Bubble, Yakko, Pinky, PJ) , you can’t un-hear him. •… |
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Frank And Ollie DVD does exist! Full review online…
…title, as of earlier this week, so your best bet is to buy online via {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TAYSO/qid=1069942638/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/002-1902555-2863210?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 Amazon.com}}. The disc is well worth tracking down, as {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/256 DVD Toons}}… |
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\\Variety\\ handicaps Oscar race
…its own and some may want to take this final chance to celebrate the past before CGI and foreign toons… take over” {{link http://animation.skyblueproductions.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=245 Vote for who you think will… |
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Bakshi's Wizards
DVD Toons has finally gotten around to {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/317 reviewing Ralph Bakshi’s 1977 fantasy Wizards}}, though they don’t seem too bothered by having to wait for their copy. “If you… |
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Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & The Wolf (2006)
…1996 which featured reasonable designs and animation, but was sapped of any real charm by drab live-action sequences and unconvincing new musical arrangements. There was also a Tiny Toons Adventures… |
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Pottermania mach 5, plus The In-Complete Pluto
…The Complete Pluto, Volume Two. While the set concludes the pup’s toons on DVD, I have to gripe about the “complete” tag, and go into several reasons why in the… |
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Heathcliff to make comeback
Variety reports Magic Lantern Entertainment has entered into a joint agreement with FitzRoy Media to develop a range of properties, from direct-to-DVD toons to a potential live-action theatrical feature, around… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…vintage toons, but the big guys seemed oblivious. Warner Bros. in particular, with its huge catalog of titles, just did not seem interested in making money on their old animated… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…shows, people often associate their productions with limited animation, countless spin-offs, and cartoons based (officially or unofficially) on popular TV shows. This is all true, but one should also remember… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…been, and it makes for a disappointing way to close the show. Is This Thing Loaded? Disc Two begins with Trailers for Tiny Toons & Freakazoid, Batman: Gotham Knight, and… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…of the networks that the cartoons be fully kid-friendly, totally devoid of serious storylines or interesting characterizations. The closest they ever got to presenting a good Batman story was in… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…1945, Bruce Broughton has distinguished himself in animation music scoring (The Rescuers Down Under, Tiny Toons Adventures, with a clear and knowing nod to Carl Stalling’s style), live-action (Silverado, evoking… |
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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…1930s titles and presented the cartoons as close as possible to their full condition. The quality for cartoons from this time is to be expected – prints have been duped,… |
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Cool World
…cartoons of the time. Although Roger Rabbit sparked the toon boom, it was the critical and commercial success of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King that really put… |
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Scooby Doo box set reviewed; new feature opens strong
{{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/287 DVD Toons}} have taken a look at the recent Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Seasons One and Two DVD box set from Warners. Meanwhile, the new live-action Scooby… |
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Ko-Ko sings again!
The good word about {{link http://www.inkwellimagesink.com/ Inkwell Images}}’ excellent series of animation anthology discs keeps spreading, as Del Walker at {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/286 DVD Toons}} takes a look at Max Fleischer’s… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…cartoons actually looked and felt like the panels they were drawn from, and the approach – while forced upon the program makers by necessity – took advantage of both mediums… |
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A new toon "Brew"…
…toons and promote their upcoming projects: {{link http://www.cartoonbrew.com/ Cartoon Brew.com}}. Both the writers’ previous sites will remain active as archives, but look to the Brew for new updates, features and… |
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Kim's Sitch In Time flies by on DVD
…the “tween” set. {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/280 DVD Toons}} has the first review online, pointing out about the time-hopping plot that “there’s plenty of fun to be had with the characters’ past… |
