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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…Disney Studio by then studio head Ron Miller, the film was put into development in the early 1980s, when the cost of producing the film to the standards thought to… |
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Danger Mouse – The Complete Seasons 5 & 6 box art and details
Containing 37 episodes of the popular cartoon series, Danger Mouse – The Complete Seasons 5 & 6 also offers character descriptions and the Count Duckula episode “One Stormy Night,” in… |
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Disney reaches out to preschoolers; Review: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
The Motley Fool gives a commentary regarding Disney’s efforts to lure preschool audiences. Two components from the company’s game plan involve the upcoming Playhouse Disney series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and… |
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Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse DVD in November
…from the out-of-print original release which will include the premiere “House of Mouse” episode, the featurette “The Sounds of Christmas”, and sing-along songs of “Deck the Halls” and “Sleigh Ride.”… |
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Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1
They’re not the best cartoons, and the DVD is far from state of the art, but these are the ORIGINAL Looney Tunes cartoons, and for that reason they deserve a… |
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Epic game designer Spector talks Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is re-branded as an action hero in the Nintendo Wii console’s hotly anticipated Epic Mickey game set for release next year. The Guardian online speaks to designer Warren… |
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Dumbo finally on Blu-ray for 70th Anniversary!
…Scene – “The Mouse’s Tale” • Deleted Song – “Are You a Man or a Mouse?” • Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo – A journey back to the origins… |
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New 2D shorts star the Mouse
Bob Iger may have said there aren’t any 2D films in production, but Disney has not stopped the traditional animated short according to Cartoon Research. The new shorts have…”the design… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…ground that has otherwise been cut from the movie version of the story, including the disbanding of the Justice Society and the US government’s mystery men hunt. The story then… |
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Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection
…the program looks great. Here the menus switch to the Secret Agent AKA Danger Man logo that adorns the box, accompanied not by the original theme tune, but by Rivers’… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White Volume 2 review!
…these shorts are the best barometer to gauging how much the Disney cartoon had come on in such few years, and the direction they were headed. Maltin and his crew… |
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Mickey Mouse in Black and White: Volume Two menu shots
While it is unfortunate that the packaging is cheaper and not completely consistent with earlier waves, the upcoming Wave 4 of the Walt Disney Treasures series still has plenty of… |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
…plan is of course for Disney to eventually bring these films in-house, but as for the moment the licensing deals Marvel has with those companies, and the one for the… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…James Bond themes. For more details on these and other events, head on over to the Meltdown website, and maybe I’ll see you there! Have a great weekend! – Ben…. |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…but also lots of crude, badly drawn cartoons. The sound era brought the magic of Disney, and the brilliance of the Fleischers. And somewhere in there … there was Paul… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…and the less obscure Birdman And The Galaxy Trio. Bill and Joe had their time freed up slightly when they sold their studio to Taft Broadcasting in 1967. The last… |
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Heidi’s Song
…as to hire that Studio’s songwriters the Sherman Brothers to provide the tunes, but for me the full animation just isn’t there; the movie struggles as a result and the… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…of further stories and interviews with the Disney family and the creators of the film. Following the Making is a look at the Location Visits – places shot for the… |
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Tarzan II
…new stories hitherto untold. In the same way that The Enchanted Christmas elaborated on the Something There sequence in the original Beauty And The Beast, and how the upcoming Bambi… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…the palace exploration menus (there are numerous “clickables” that fill the viewer in on the life and times of the real Anastasia), but for ease-of-review’s sake, I went with the… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…the original Goofy shorts, from Michael Giacchino’s use of the second theatrical Goofy theme, to the artists depiction of the vintage character design. The intention was to make a “lost”… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…the DVD, and while there still isn’t anything on the score itself, there is something on the Restoration Of The Sound Track. Exclusive to the 7.1 mix on the BD,… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…new ones in preparation for the features. Already, a number of the upcoming titles have been leaked, including The Ballad Of Nessie (a stylized account of the origin of the… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…happens to them? They go to the orchestrator, the person in charge of completing the composer’s work by making sure it’s fully playable by the orchestra. That said, there are… |
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The Rescuers
…in the mouse world (the Mickey Mouse watch used as a clock on the wall of the Rescue Aid Society, which resides in the basement of the United Nations, for… |
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The Lion King 1½
…which really takes up the space on the disc, and there are some fun moments along the way. Despite the fact that these “trips” are obviously geared toward the little… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…of the same, this time focusing on the voices behind the animated personalities. In the Toy Box, there’s a bunch of fun stuff, from the fullframe look at the film’s… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…one of these is funny and ranks up there with what the other studios were doing at the time. At their best, the Noveltoons aspired to greatness, such as with… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #65: Balto – Streetdog
…all the sidekicks? • Did Balto have to be half wolf? • How Mason would have expanded the story. • All the different possible deaths of Steele. • We rate… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #82: Duet – Interview with Glen Keane
…we get Glen back? • Glen was SOOO kind and went on to the Facebook fan page and replied to many of the the questions personally! Check it out HERE!… |
