Woot, news is starting to leak out today about WB showing this morning. Seems we will be getting BTAS Volume 3, Thundercats Season One and Superfriends Season Two around May 24! With next volume of Superman not far behind! Sweetness that only leaves Batman Beyond and Justice League sets in my WB dream list!
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Woot! Thundercats S1, BTAS V3, more Superfriends, superman!
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Batman: The Animated Series - Volume 3
Sweet, I'm pleased to see Warner Bros push on quickly with these releases. If I could someday have all the Batman, Batman Beyond, Batman/Superman, Superman and Justice League seasons on DVD... well that'd be kickass.
Sweet, I'm pleased to see Warner Bros push on quickly with these releases. If I could someday have all the Batman, Batman Beyond, Batman/Superman, Superman and Justice League seasons on DVD... well that'd be kickass.
Very cool...surprised they're not waiting till mid-June to release it to coincide with Begins, but I imagine they've got the Burton re-release being prepped for that week. I still need to get Superman Volume 1, so hopefully Volume 2 isn't far behind. After that I'll need Justice League and Batman Beyond to get some real DVD love, along with Tiny Toons.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
Give me a Mysterious Cities of Gold box set and my journey to the dark side will be complete.
No, I don't know what I mean by that either.
No, I don't know what I mean by that either.
No more annoying than the original Looney Toon characters. Tiny Toons is almost as bad as Baby Looney Toons but was saved by a handful of good episodes... but this was only but a stepping stone that lead to the brilliance of Animaniacs. This series returned to the roots of Looney Toon characters lampooning (lampwning?) celebrities and popular shows/movies. It also gave rise to Pinky and the Brain! Another Good Idea, Bad Idea! Stupid Useless Facts! The Goodfeathers! The Animaniacs themselves had a great number of skits doing a parody of Apocalypses Now, being tortured by a Barney knockoff, an extremely funny Power Rangers skit that hasn't had a rival until Megas XLR, and pretty much anything with celebrities or movies. I also loved the music enough to buy the cassettes.Shinobi said:
What did Tiny Toons bring us? Younger equivalents of Looney Toon characters and a female counterpart (UGH!). Their parodies weren't even all that funny, except for that one episode where Plucky and Hamton tried to bus tables at a celebrity restaurant. Fowlmouth rocked though... but he was so underused. He had like 2 skits for himself in the whole run. =(
The US Cartoon Network used to show all these old cartoons up until around ten years ago and this is when i started to hate everything that i used to watch when i was a kid. Bad animation, bad writing, cheesy endings and bullshit plots all around.Zensetsu said:
I hate 80s cartoons.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
I'm typically don't buy cartoon series on DVD outside of South Park but Thundercats is so freaking mine!! They were easily my second favorite series growing up (TMNT #1 of course)...and they were a close second at that. Now if only the original TMNT cartoons would come out....
Er... the first season has been out for a while and the second season comes out April 26th.JC10001 said:
Whatever. The show's already started being released on DVD. That's the point.
Edit: Upon further looking, I'm completely correct. That disc contains all of what was officially called Season One, in addition to four unaired episodes. Season Two is complete as well.
Edit: Upon further looking, I'm completely correct. That disc contains all of what was officially called Season One, in addition to four unaired episodes. Season Two is complete as well.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
Just found an unofficial MCoG set here>> http://www.mysteriouscitiesofgold.co.uk/ if anyone's interested.
I liked 'em both back in the day, but they were more bad than good and overstayed their welcomes. Tiny Toons was better than Animaniacs, it had some bad skits but they were never completely unwatchable to the degree that Animaniacs' Hip Hippos or Rita & Runt were. And after Animaniacs went to Kids WB, it was all just dismal. The Pinky & the Brain solo show was mostly horrible, too, and even worse when they added Elmyra.morons said:
Freakazoid pwns any other "Steven Speilberg presents..." show for days.
I'm not saying I don't want Tiny Toons or Animaniacs, as they certainly had their moments, I'm just annoyed that Freakazoid always gets the shaft when the nostalgia kicks up. It was a way more consistent show.
FortNinety
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luxsol said:
Stop complaining; we still have no Ducktales on DVD.
The Take Out Bandit
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THUNDERPANTS ARE ON THE PROWL!
THUNDERBOWELS ARE LOOSE!
Yay - I've been waiting on this for a while. For some strange reason Thundercats is one of the few shows I used to watch as a child that I can watch today and not cringe.
THUNDERBOWELS ARE LOOSE!
Yay - I've been waiting on this for a while. For some strange reason Thundercats is one of the few shows I used to watch as a child that I can watch today and not cringe.
bionic77 said:
I haven't seen the last episode but what you are describing is certainly not the last episode, the Thundercats moved to New Thundera and Mum Ra followed them there, Lynxno and maybe Bengali stayed back on Third Earth and watched over it. The rest of the episodes too place on New Thundera and Third Earth, I didn't get to watch a lot of episodes after that point unfortunately.
Going by TV Tome would also mean that the channels that ran TMNT would have had to run the same five episodes an entire year, because the "second season" didn't begin until a year later. Not even Cartoon Network can rerun a series this long.Dan said:
I'm not sure about where you live but in San Diego (KUSI) i didn't get to watch TMNT until 1988 because as soon as the miniseries ended I didn't have to wait an entire year for the series to begin playing. It took a week or two for the series to start.
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Thunder-frickin-cats! Kick ass!
And Freekazoid was so great!
And Freekazoid was so great!
luxsol said:
The Animaniacs were nothing but annoying little trolls that burped every ten seconds. That might be funny to a nine year old, but it got old real fast for me. Chicken Boo sucked, dog and girl sucked, and I don't even remember the other ones. Pinky and the Brain rocked and I loved Goodfeathers being a Goodfellas fan, but that's where it ends.
Tiny Toons whole point was to have a new, younger take on the classic Looney Tunes gang, and they did it quite well. Hampton was terrific, as was Plucky, Gogo absolutely rocked, I could watch the Coyote/Road Runner fued redone for a thousand years, and Elmira was hilarious. Buster and Babs were kinda ordinary, but at least they didn't make me roll my eyes to the back of my skull like the Animorons.
Now granted I haven't watched Tiny Toons in a few years so it's possible it doesn't hold up, but this is how I felt even then. It's pretty damn certain that Animaniacs won't improve with age. Tiny Toons on the other hand could well be as funny as I remembered it being.
And I never watched Freakazoid, so for that reason alone it probably sucked.
luxsol said:
There were five episodes in all for season one (and it is season one BTW, don't know why you're arguing about it...Batman I think had four or five seasons that were completely uneven, thus they're being sold in volume sets), and quite frankly they're the only ones that hold up. It got neuteured big time from episode six on.
Oh yeah, here's the coolest part from Thundercats...
"Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!"
My cartoon requests for DVD are pretty simple for now...I want Earthworm Jim badly. This show was simply genius, with every episode leaving me gasping for breath from laughing so hard. Outside of that and a volume or two of old school Droopy, I can't think of many cartoon sets that I'd buy. Well, maybe Talespin.
Feh... I don't know when they hell they started considering the pilot to be season one, but it was always considered the pilot up untill... the DVDs came out???Shinobi said:
Anyway, I think the series was great up until they took away the nunchucks from michaelangelo. Seeing Mike bash the hell out of those mousers is awesome. Not to mention Usagi Yojimbo's appearance in the series!
And no... Tiny Toon Adventures doesn't hold up today after season 1. It goes straight down hill from there with a small rise for the movie.
The Nickelodeon cartoon channel that's on most extended Satelite and Cable services shows Tiny Toon Adventures, along with many not-yet old school Nick cartoons like Rocko's Modern Life.Shinobi said:
And you should always want (AND BUY) the DVDs of your favorite cartoons even if they're still shown on TV because it gives a good message that people WANT to see more old cartoons released on DVD!
So if you want to see Tail Spin, Duck Tales, and Darkwing Duck on DVD... BUY GARGOYLES SEASON ONE! even though they show ALL of these cartoon on Toon Disney.
And i want to add onto the must wants on DVDs: EXO-SQUAD! Best damn cartoon war drama ever made. Better than friggin cheesy Macross/Robotech! None of that bullshit beating aliens with love and music and taking your entire family along to fight, just solid characters and a great storyline. Gundam serials are second only because it's too damn preachy and unrealistic giant robots with giant guns.
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