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Warner Animation asks you to decide
TV Shows on DVD have discovered that Warner Bros Animation has put together a survey asking potential DVD buyers about their interest level in various cartoon properties they own, and… |
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A double dose of Sabrina
…a look at the recent release of Filmation’s Sabrina The Teenage Witch show from the early 1970s. The Archie spin-off contains much of the charm of the other Archie shows,… |
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The Richie Rich Scooby-Doo Show: Volume One
…fail Richie can always count on his maid/bodyguard Irona The Robot to assist him. Warner has fortunately included the original opening for the show, unlike the Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour DVD set…. |
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Osamu Tezuka and Astro Boy!!!
…watching the 1980s version, but have also loved seeing both the original 1960s anime, as well as the 2003 re-imagining, come out onto DVD. I wrote reviews of all these… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…the Godmothers, raised by them. They were kind and mischievous and loving and very protective of her. Then, she was in the woods with the animals, and they’re so different… |
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The Chosen One
…the latest of these “one-man band” features, or rather “two man band” as it turns out, picked up by Indican Pictures for DVD distribution following their handling of ex-Disney animator… |
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Ninja Turtles: Day of Awakening coming August 7
…August 7, the same day that the computer animated TMNT will be released on DVD. The two-disc DVD set will feature the final 13 episodes from the show’s first season…. |
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Bambi II Better Than Bambi?
Slate has an interesting article which talks and argues about Disney’s direct-to-DVD sequels and why Disney should not kill them. Disney has announced that there will be no more straight-to-DVD… |
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Ariel’s Song: Tony Pulham, a fortunate art director under the sea!
…the task of the art director: imagining the look of the locations where the story will take place. In the case of Ariel’s Beginning it’s the job of Pooh’s Heffalump… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…Being a Disney Exclusive, the main title for The Wonderful World Of Disney’s incarnation in the 1970s play as a disc introduction (not attached to the main feature itself), but… |
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Maleficent obsession!
…that is appealing to all members of a Blu-ray family. Add to that the extremely clever gimmick of bundling in the regular DVD of the movie in the same pack… |
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Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection 6 – Winner!
The contest is now closed. Congratulations to our winning name: • Daniel-Jean Simard, of Plattsburgh NY The Looney Tunes are back on DVD in a sixth volume of their highly… |
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Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive
Warner Bros., the only major studio to release their films in both competing high-def optical disc formats, today announced that they will be dropping their support for HD-DVD and instead… |
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WALL•E: Angus MacLane’s burning love for BURN•E!
…in communicating a certain emotion. For BURN•E the needs of the emotion from the piece overruled the originality from the selection of the piece. I also thought that it was… |
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HD disc war is over — Blu-ray wins
Toshiba, the major hardware backer of the HD DVD format, has announced that they “will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders”. The announcement signals an… |
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Disney's Enchanted Easter Experience
…enjoy again and again. Both the Blu-ray Disc and DVD boast a vast kingdom of entertaining bonus features, including the trivia based BD-Java feature “The D-Files” available only on Blu-ray… |
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The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian – Winner!
Return to the magical world of Narnia in the second installment of CS Lewis’ timeless epic The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, coming to DVD on December 2 – and… |
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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…the Digital Copy disc. There is an insert concerning the Digital Copy, and one advertising the Watchmen collected editions and the video game base on the movie. Ink And Paint:… |
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Watching the Watchmen, plus Green Lantern!
…scenes re-inserted into an ultimate Director’s Cut of the main Watchmen movie, this is a chance to see the “comic within a comic” play out in all its animated glory,… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…H-B formula: stuck outside in the cold, Jerry tries every trick in the book to get in and munch on the Swiss cheese that Tom has inside, while The Unshrinkable… |
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Ice Age coverage, Chuck does Tom & Jerry, and more of Saturday Morning
…again with an episode of The Jetsons, which were already overexposed in the previous sets. With all the shows in the Hanna-Barbera library, can’t we find something else to show… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…for the War to be over. The giant robot was then used in civilian service, and was commanded by Shotaro Kaneda, the twelve-year old son of the robot’s chief inventor…. |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
…the device pits the team against Cobra at the edge of an active volcano in the fourth episode, “Duel In The Devil’s Cauldron” . It all culminates in the final… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…the Enchanted Tales information on the back, but inserts The Princess And The Frog’s Tiana on the front alongside Cinderella and Mulan. Interestingly, the wallet sleeve promotes this as a… |
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Bedknobs and Shermans; Earth and Our Gang!
…Rascals are back on DVD in The Our Gang Collection, the first ever release of the final MGM shorts in the series, just released thanks to the Warner Archive, and… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…by the similar effects work in Star Wars, but of course the show was sold to the network before Star Wars was in theaters. The Batman-Tarzan Adventure Hour combined the… |
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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…interchanges. Just as the producers openly admitted that The Flintstones owed much of its conception to The Jackie Gleason Show (i.e. The Honeymooners), Top Cat was heavily influenced by The… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…populated by huge dangerous insects spreads across the Earth and threatens to eradicate mankind. Nausicaa lives in The Valley of the Wind, in a village that is fortuitously placed in… |
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Valiant
…military. The two of them join three other pigeons, and together the five of them form Squad F, the last hope of a desperate nation. So begins perhaps the weakest… |
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Superman: Brainiac Attacks
…but dumps it all in favor of reverting to the status quo by the end of the movie. Similar “resets” are made during the story in other ways. The apparently… |
