The Official Marvel Animation DVD Thread, Part 1

[Joe Wagner]

Originally posted by David64ca
spider-man: animated series on DVD, that's cool.

It would be if Disney was putting it out as a season set and not mangaling the series to create what I'm sure they'll call an "all new animated feature." Stupid Disney and their attempt to destroy all icons that they don't own. I'm sure this is all a cleaver ploy to discredit spidey as a good character so that they can swoop down and buy Marvel. They would then decide that Wolverine isn't kid friendly enough and give him his own animated movie where he becomes best friends with his mortal enemy (watch virtually and Disney animated or non-animated movie to see how often people that can't stand each other become best friends by the end of the show, makes me sick!) and decides that the life of a prince is more like him - becoming entirely socialized into the Disney standard of "Classic" storytelling.


-Joe!

[Keith]

For what it's worth, The Digital Bits mentioned yesterday in their Rumor Mill column that The Transformers: Season One box set would be released in April.

I've got a message in to my contact at Rhino to try to get some more information about this release. Anything that I hear worth passing along will be up on my site.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to upload the news section this morning, but I'll have the info on Transformers and a few other things uploaded either later this evening or tomorrow (that is, if my computer and network don't rebel against me again).

Keith Finch
Editor
Animation on DVD

[baggins]

It's a start. Although it's not a big a brand name as Batman or Spider-Man , it's good to see that an animated show is getting a whole series box set release.Although Transformers are not my cup of tea , I'll be buying it for a gift for a mate , who is a big fan of them .
Lets hope this is just the start of many animated series getting season box sets.

[Adam Tyner]

I hope Rhino gives the image quality of the Transformers set a little more attention than the individually released discs, which are unacceptably poor. Also, is there anything worse than Rhin-O-Phonic sound?

I'm not sure if Rhino's Transformers set would light a fire under the studios in quite the same way as a release from a more prominent studio like Fox or Buena Vista.

[baggins]

Talking of season box sets.Have Disney any notion of releasing a season box set of Gargoyles?.

[Joe Wagner]

As far as I know Disney has no intention of ever doing anything with the Gargoyles again. I would love to have a season box set of Gargoyles but from Disney's standpoint it isn't profitable. Seeing as how they are the all great and powerful ruler of the copyrights, I wouldn't expect to see it anytime soon - if ever. Just another prime example of Disney using their animation resources for the wrong stuff ('In the mind of a Disney animation executive - gee......Snow White 2 vs a new Gargoyles DTV - think what the fans want and go with the oposite decision - Snow White 2, complete with awful plot, it is then!).

-Joe!

[baggins]

I get where your coming from. Disney has this little kid mentality,
unless they are advertising a holiday. All of those second movies (Aladdin, Little Mermaid,Beauty and the Beast) the list goes on and on.None were a patch on the originals. I love most of their animated features, in fact I'll be watching Atlantis on DVD tonight.

You would have thought, with all the diversity that Disney like to get into, they would have, brought out a animated season box set by now.

[Golden Age Flash]

i think I'll just save my money for another series that happens to be coming out in production order ... (at least the first 5 episodes)

[James Harvey]

It is such a waste. For an animation pioneer like Disney, you think they'd understand the people's love for animation and actually step forth and put out some great animation sets of their television material.

[Joe Wagner]

Originally posted by baggins
I get where your coming from. Disney has this little kid mentality,
unless they are advertising a holiday. All of those second movies (Aladdin, Little Mermaid,Beauty and the Beast) the list goes on and on.None were a patch on the originals. I love most of their animated features, in fact I'll be watching Atlantis on DVD tonight.

You would have thought, with all the diversity that Disney like to get into, they would have, brought out a animated season box set by now.

One would have liked to think they would have, but they didn't. Of the ones you listed I actually liked Return of Jafar (nothing on the original mind you, but decent) but had no desire to see the other ones. Atlantis is a great movie and a departure from their usual fare - I really enjoyed it, I hope you do to! Another series that is actually fairly decent (except for the incredibly annoying Turk) is The Legend of Tarzan - be warned if you do watch it - it's nowhere near the quality of Gargoyles (a shame becuz this is a toon that could have been great, it's had a couple that were good but nothing truly outstanding with most inching above standard).

-Joe!

[ZorBrak]

Originally posted by Jim Harvey
It is such a waste. For an animation pioneer like Disney, you think they'd understand the people's love for animation and actually step forth and put out some great animation sets of their television material.

well guys, I have some good/bad news. I sent Disney a pretty, how to say, unfriendly letter, informing them of the number of fans who were disgusted by this decision and that their animation properties were not being treated in the most profitable fashon, (specifically mentioning spiderman several times) and that they would make much more profit by following WB's example and releasing their animation shows in chronological volumes and/or boxsets as fans HATE best of sets and theme sets and any other thing they pull out of their ass that isn't in order. Now I have sent letters to Disney DVD before and usually do not get responses back in less than 24 hours if I do at all, but this one was not an automatic pretyped message response like always but I got it fast.
I got a personal repsonse, stating that Disney has begun checking fan reaction of the announcment at many sites (I recommened they check this thread for reaction) and that my recomendations were going to be fowarded to their marketing team as I had made several noteworthy points on the oppurtunities being missed ...they said for "future" marketing decsions though....
which is the bad news, I would guess that means this travesty of a DVD is still being released, but afterwords they may do a double take and release the whole show...or others like Dukctales or Darkwing Duck. They may have written me this letter just so I would hear what I wanted to, but it might possibly be true, can Dinsey really be changed? hmm...and I hate to tell you but I accidnetly deleted the letter while clearing out the gobs of junk mail, but I am not BSing anyone, I really received a letter stating this and I think it may be a good sign.

[Adam Tyner]

Lets hope this is just the start of many animated series getting season box sets.

...though bear in mind that the Transformers box only includes 16 episodes (wholly unnecessarily spread out over five discs), which is still a far cry from the 65 eps-per-box you've championed elsewhere.

[baggins]

I did't realise that there was only 16 episodes of Transformers.As I said I only bought it for a pal.The 65 episodes of BTAS seems to be a one off where season sets are concerned. The 65 episodes of Spider-man for instance was broke up into 5 series, which I did not know untill the other day.When animation is televised in the U.K they just show episodes in long streches and don't even mention if it's a new series .Sky are the first to advertise The New Batman Adventures, which we have been waiting to see for 4 years.The 65 episodes of BTAS , as you say that most of us want in some kind of series box set. What I want is for WB to come out and say they are commited to releasing all the first series.

If thats a success, hopefully they will release the rest of 109 episodes that they made in each of their season sets.

[Gyro]

Spider-Man was my favorite show. What happened to it anyway? I never saw the last episodes.

[baggins]

It's still been shown on Fox Kids , on Sky. In the U.K, anyhow.

[mbaker]

I think this little image is a perfect metaphore of our views toward Disney. It's from the new Howard The Duck comic which pokes fun at Disney. Talk about a conflict of interest.

http://www.cinescape.com/0/bigphoto....MAX+imprint%2E

[Joe Wagner]

Well, since it looks like Disney wants to know the consumers opinion for a change I went ahead and created a petition that will show Disney how we all feel. Here it is:

http://www.petitiononline.com/spiDVD/petition.html

-Joe!

[Kenshiroh]

I signed the petition. (2nd person to do so.)

Just to reiterate what everyone else has been saying here: I will NOT buy the recently announced hacked-together Spider-man "movie" DVD, but I would be interested in chronological season boxed sets.

Disney is also butchering movies from Hong Kong and trying to make it illegal for stores in the USA to sell the uncut DVD versions imported from Hong Kong. (You can read more about that here.) So this kind of thing is nothing new for them.

BTW, I have two of the tins that Disney released, "Silly Symphonies" and "Mickey Mouse in Living Color". The SS set apparently has only about half of the SS cartoons that were produced and they are not in chronological order.

According to a post on Home Theater Forum, some of the cartoons (on both sets) are also edited, despite the claim on the sets that they are "Uncensored".

You can search the Home Theater Forum to find the post for all of the details about the cuts.

[Joe Wagner]

Hola everyone!
Well it looks like Disney is looking for opinions (if this is true it would have to be a first ) and I started a petition asking for Spidey to be released as a season box set. Please sign this as maybe it'll make Disney understand that people don't want the crud they piece together from two differents seasons to call a movie but actually want the entire two seasons (unedited, of course).

The link is:

http://www.petitiononline.com/spiDVD/

-Joe!

[Spider-Man]

As big of a fan that I am , I don't think I'll be touching this with a ten foot poll. This is totally NOT what to do. I want good DVD versions of SM:TAS to replace my horribly taped VHS copies. And this won't suffice.