Hanna-Barbera Christmas DVD collection?

[Christmas_Boy]

Anyone know why WB has never released a Hanna-Barbera Christmas DVD set? HB did more Christmas specials and episodes than even Rankin/Bass so you’d think it would be a no brainer. When you also consider all of the other animated properties WB owns they could do some real bang up compilation Christmas sets. You’d think it would be steady seller. But I can’t figure out why they put Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey on the WB Archive disc with The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus instead of the other two Rankin/Bass Christmas specials that have yet to be released to DVD. They would have all fit. Then again they could have easily put them all on the last reissue of the Christmas classics box set.

Anyway, I think Disney should do the same. They could put all of the Christmas shorts as originally released along with From All Of Us To All Of You with all its incarnations over the years and the other two Disneyland Christmas episodes. There could be a nice feature on Disney & Christmas and you know people would buy it. As it stands all of these under 60 minutes Christmas DVDs they’ve done are lackluster and boring. I’d love to see a sparkling deluxe collection on par with the releases Disney used to do. It would have even made a decent enough Treasures release if that line weren’t now dead even though it’s a strong enough concept to be a mainstream release.

[bbeagle]

My secret shame is watching HB's "Christmas Comes to Pac Land" every year. (I'd love to get a legit DVD version.)

Nothing spreads Christmas cheer more than a pants-less Santa sitting in Pac Man's living room!

[dth1971]

What about a SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS Christmas collection?

[Christmas_Boy]

I too like Christmas in Pacland. The Santa design used there is the same used in other R/B films.


What could be on a Saturday Morning Christmas set? Other than H/B what other episodes does WB own that could be included?

[Hey Steve]

It looks like several years ago, Amazon Video On Demand had some Hanna-Barbera Christmas packages, but they have been unavailable for quite some time now even though they are still listed on their website. Similarly, AOL Video also had several of these HB Christmas specials on their website, but I don't think they are avialble for viewing on there any longer either.

HANNA-BARBERA CHRISTMAS VOL. 1
"Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper"
"Smurf's Christmas Special"
"Christmas Flintstone"

HANNA-BARBERA CHRISTMAS VOL. 2
"Yogi's First Christmas"
"Flintstones Christmas Carol"
"Tom & Jerry: Paws for a Holiday"
"Scooby-Doo: Winter Wonderdog"

HANNA-BARBERA CHRISTMAS VOL. 3
"Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale"

[The Cartoon]

I'd love to see an HB Christmas Collection. One of the highlights of my year of animation is watching Christmas cartoons on Boomerang. Classic cartoons, especially Hanna Barbera, really managed to capture the Christmas "Magic" if you will. I would probably even watch them months before Christmas if I had such a set. A Walt Disney Treasure specializing in Christmas would be great as well, I've even e-mailed them about it.

[Ioz]

I'd love to see Christmas Comes to Pac-Land and the Smurfs Christmas specials/episodes (The Smurfs' Christmas Special, Baby's First Christmas, and 'Tis the Season to Be Smurfy) on DVD.

[Christmas_Boy]

I've written Disney as well on a Christmas Treasures.