Woody Woodpecker
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I just found this board from the referrals on my sitemeter (Cartoon News and Views is my blog). Jeez! I'd never run into this board until just now. The really bad part is that I was really close to calling my site "Animation News and Views" but then I decided that cartoon sounded better. It's a really new blog, so if I can come up with something better I may just change the name... ![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_new_redface.png)
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"I can't help but feel partly responsible" -- Bart Simpson.
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Well, that explains everything! Though, it is a little random, how you joined the day after I posted a link to your blog.
But hey, it was just coincidence. No harm, no foul. Dunno what Ben (the mod) will say, but I hope he's ok with it. Because personally, I don't have an issue with your blogs name. It is a little close, but I think it works. Your blog is great, though! Love the banner!
By the way, welcome, Michael...hope you stick around!![Happy :)](./images/smilies/icon_new_smile.png)
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Well, that explains everything! Though, it is a little random, how you joined the day after I posted a link to your blog.
But hey, it was just coincidence. No harm, no foul. Dunno what Ben (the mod) will say, but I hope he's ok with it. Because personally, I don't have an issue with your blogs name. It is a little close, but I think it works. Your blog is great, though! Love the banner!
By the way, welcome, Michael...hope you stick around!
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Gee, nobody else bought the boxset today?
... and here I thought most of us were CLASSIC animation fans as opposed to strictly CONTEMPORARY animation?
Nah,
I haven't had the chance to look at the set either. Kind of an impulse buy, too.![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_new_wink.png)
Also a good week to get Justice League Seasons 1 and 2 at Best Buy. They're having a special on both seasons. $19.99 each through the 28th of July.
Had to get Season 2 of JLA. By far the best JLA season after the JLU sets.
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... and here I thought most of us were CLASSIC animation fans as opposed to strictly CONTEMPORARY animation?
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Nah,
I haven't had the chance to look at the set either. Kind of an impulse buy, too.
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_new_wink.png)
Also a good week to get Justice League Seasons 1 and 2 at Best Buy. They're having a special on both seasons. $19.99 each through the 28th of July.
Had to get Season 2 of JLA. By far the best JLA season after the JLU sets.
Packaging looks to be a bit better than what WB uses for their Looney Tunes and Justice League sets, Daniel.
Although it's one of those cardboard multi-disc flippy sets, it has a faux wood appearance that shows through the slits in the exterior slipcase. Perhaps the only bad thing is that the disc slip through the BOTTOM of the slipcase rather than through the side like the WB sets.
Despite complaints about the "public domain" appearance of Woody Woodpecker on the packaging, in my opinion it's actually a smart looking piece of packaging.
(I dunno. Lots of artists complain about packaging. I sometimes wonder if they're not upset because THEY didn't get the assignment to design the exteriors! There about as many big-name artists who SCREW UP designs like like this as there are anonymous artists in the licensing divisions of companies who actually produce this artwork.)
I picked up my set at Best Buy for $29.99 this week.
Here's hoping next week's first Popeye set release is as reasonably priced!
P.S. -- I really got this set for the late '40s Freddie Moore-era Woody Woodpecker and 1950s Tex Avery shorts. Those are the Lantz-produced cartoons that I like. The rest I'm sure okay -- it's really the later era sanitized Woody and ultra-cheaply animated 50's and 60's Lantz cartoons that I don't much care for.
What appears on this set seems to be much of the creme of the crop, though.
Wish I could say I got a chance to actually some of these, though!![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_new_laugh.png)
Although it's one of those cardboard multi-disc flippy sets, it has a faux wood appearance that shows through the slits in the exterior slipcase. Perhaps the only bad thing is that the disc slip through the BOTTOM of the slipcase rather than through the side like the WB sets.
Despite complaints about the "public domain" appearance of Woody Woodpecker on the packaging, in my opinion it's actually a smart looking piece of packaging.
(I dunno. Lots of artists complain about packaging. I sometimes wonder if they're not upset because THEY didn't get the assignment to design the exteriors! There about as many big-name artists who SCREW UP designs like like this as there are anonymous artists in the licensing divisions of companies who actually produce this artwork.)
I picked up my set at Best Buy for $29.99 this week.
Here's hoping next week's first Popeye set release is as reasonably priced!
P.S. -- I really got this set for the late '40s Freddie Moore-era Woody Woodpecker and 1950s Tex Avery shorts. Those are the Lantz-produced cartoons that I like. The rest I'm sure okay -- it's really the later era sanitized Woody and ultra-cheaply animated 50's and 60's Lantz cartoons that I don't much care for.
What appears on this set seems to be much of the creme of the crop, though.
Wish I could say I got a chance to actually some of these, though!
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I got mine from Amazon.com, shipping from the US and mine came with the deluxe digipak glossy foldout and the slipcover with cutouts.
I think the price went back up, but it's worth it.
BTW, when you say "jewel cases", do you mean the regular-sized DVD cases that are slimmer ("thinpaks") or actual CD-sized jewel cases? If it's the CD cases, that pretty much sucks right there.![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_new_frown.png)
I think the price went back up, but it's worth it.
BTW, when you say "jewel cases", do you mean the regular-sized DVD cases that are slimmer ("thinpaks") or actual CD-sized jewel cases? If it's the CD cases, that pretty much sucks right there.
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