Hasbro regains rights to TF cartoons

[Andy Turnbull]

From here.

Hopefully this means Metrodome will have fuck all involvement with the TF series from here on in.

One day, we might get a Series 1 without those dreadful enhanced audio tracks.

Andy

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We might also get a TF movie release that isn't full of crap special features and also a run of the Japanese TF cartoons with the English dub on all releases and the Zone episode on the Victory DVD boxset without having to pay extra for a compendium boxset.

[Jaymz]

I'm hoping it means someone will finish releasing GI Joe on DVD.

[Shockprowl]

May 16, 2008 22:08:00 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

One day, we might get a Series 1 without those dreadful enhanced audio tracks.

Andy

Gods, those 'effects' made me want to remove my brians!

Good news.

[The Doctor]

PTOO! PTOO!

-Ralph

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May 18, 2008 23:51:23 GMT Shockprowl said:

Gods, those 'effects' made me want to remove my brians!

What are 'brians' and does everybody have them?

[The Doctor]

They're like militant Harolds.

-Ralph

[primenova]

I'm surprised that no ones gone & release the G2 format cartoons to try to get more money in - instead they just redid the already released original format ones but with out the silver covers.

[blueshift]

Aug 24, 2009 13:58:50 GMT primenova said:

I'm surprised that no ones gone & release the G2 format cartoons to try to get more money in - instead they just redid the already released original format ones but with out the silver covers.

I'm not, the G2 cartoon was horrid.

There was an inexplicable G2 dvd / video release a few years back, remember. I can't imagine it sold well at all.

[The Doctor]

And it looked fairly ropey too, the masters not having aged well. G2 is more of a curiosity. I can't see any market for more releases of it.

-Ralph

[Deleted]

The only G2 cartoons I've seen are just the handful of episodes that were released on DVD a few years back. From what I saw of them I don't think I'll be too bothered if they don't release the full series on DVD.

[Nigel]

May 16, 2008 22:08:00 GMT Andy Turnbull said:

Hopefully this means Metrodome will have fuck all involvement with the TF series from here on in.

Not the case, it seems. Metrodome has just released the animated G.I.Joe film on DVD. www.amazon.co.uk/G-I-Joe-Movie-Sgt-Slaughter/dp/B000W222A2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1251195135&sr=1-1

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was new and thought that the G.I.Joe series would finally be released on DVD. No such luck, then.

[primenova]

The pilot was corrected in G2 format - remember the scene with Megatron shouting attack but showing Prime. G2 one put the scene Meg's on ship saying follow them into here to correct error.

[The Doctor]

Aug 24, 2009 19:39:30 GMT @zudobug said:

The only G2 cartoons I've seen are just the handful of episodes that were released on DVD a few years back. From what I saw of them I don't think I'll be too bothered if they don't release the full series on DVD.

Especially in a world where Beast Wars have yet to receive a full release in the UK!

-Ralph

[Kingoji]

Aug 25, 2009 12:01:40 GMT primenova said:

The pilot was corrected in G2 format - remember the scene with Megatron shouting attack but showing Prime. G2 one put the scene Meg's on ship saying follow them into here to correct error.

Sorry, what?

[primenova]

In the pilot there's that scene - where they repeat the last scene of Optimus pointing - but it's Megatron you hear shouting attack. In the G2 edited one they put a window over the top showing Megatron from the chase scene so it fits with the audio. It should be on the G2 dvd/video release. They pause the animation so Megatron freeze while he's still talking seeing that they didn't have animated to fit the voice.

[grahamthomson]

If only the Cybernet Space Cube could fix all the cartoon's little flubs.

[primenova]

That was only really the main one i can remember - this being to get the pilot finished & reday to air & the crew working on the other 13 of series one.

Oh - there was the flicking in series 3 fight or flee where character mouths kept changing colours when Cyclonus & Scourge arrived.

[charlesrocketboy]

Aug 25, 2009 16:52:13 GMT The Doctor said:

Especially in a world where Beast Wars have yet to receive a full release in the UK!

Why the hell has Beast Machines been given a release before Beast Wars?!

[The Doctor]

I know. Madness. Who owns the rights to Beast Wars now?

-Ralph

[primenova]

something entertainment wasn't it

the ones doing the Armada, energon, cybertron dvd's.

they only got upto v4/v2/v1 - do they do animated too? or was it Univaersal who did the BW dvd - do they have the rights?

[blueshift]

I would love a proper Armada boxset

[Nigel]

Universal released the Beast Wars DVDs but I don't know if they still have the rights. AEC and, I believe, Animated are distributed by Entertainment Rights.

[The Doctor]

Aug 27, 2009 12:34:17 GMT blueshift said:

I would love a proper Armada boxset

If you have a player that plays R1 DVD's, it got a full US release acros two boxes.

-Ralph

[blueshift]

I would love a player that plays R1 DVDs

Isn't there some signal problem even if you have a R1 player though?

[Andy Turnbull]

Nope. None that I have experienced anyway.

Andy

[The Doctor]

Didn't have any probs with playback when I had a telly. The rule re: DVD's players is, the cheaper they are the higher the odds they will be multi-region hackable. Most cheapo supermarket jobbies do it fine. Just google the model first for a hack to be sure.

-Ralph

[Nigel]

Ah, now that's a thought. I recently replaced my expensive non-hackable Sony with a cheapo supermarket jobby.

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Aug 27, 2009 17:11:10 GMT blueshift said:

Isn't there some signal problem even if you have a R1 player though?

The only problem you have is the 'green screen' effect that happens when you plug an R1 DVD player into a TV that isn't NTSC compatible. Most TV's these days are though so that shouldn't be a problem.