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Old 12-26-08, 12:27 PM
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2-disc set of complete Fleischer Superman cartoons from WB: 4/7/09

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Warner Bros. is finally releasing the classic Paramount Superman cartoons (1941-43) on a stand alone DVD set. These are the nine Max Fleischer sci-fi adventures and eight Famous Studios World War II flavored action epics as you’ve never seen them before. The two-disc collection will go on sale April 7th and will retail for $26.99
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All I have to say is "schweet."
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Comes with 2 featurettes Dvd Active has the cover art:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...-superman.html
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Where is the "I'm waiting for the Blu-ray" comment?

I like these classic cartoon sets. They always are fun and cheap.

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I have a few different low cost (maybe even dollar store) collections of these, as well as some (all?) of them on various Superman movie DVDs. I've kept multiple versions of them due to different special features.

Any new special features would have to be pretty sweet to get me to upgrade.
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All 17 also comes on the WB's 4-disc Superman set
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I wonder if they'll fix the mistake they made on The Mechanical Monsters when they released the Ultimate Collection last year. They used the wrong opening. I know it's nothing to get up and arms about but it would be nice.
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$26.99? Ouch. Are these going to look better than they do on the Superman sets or the Diamond Anniversary Edition?
I was a little miffed when none of these appeared on the HD editions of Superman and Superman II.
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Originally Posted by beebs
Where is the "I'm waiting for the Blu-ray" comment?

I like these classic cartoon sets. They always are fun and cheap.

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Right here..."WHERE IS THE BD???"
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I have them on Cartoon Craze disks, which cost me about $8. They had better be fucking amazing before I spend $27.

And where's the pre-code Betty Boops?
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Originally Posted by Nick Danger
I have them on Cartoon Craze disks, which cost me about $8. They had better be fucking amazing before I spend $27.

And where's the pre-code Betty Boops?
Those ones you have are POS. I had them too when the Superman cartoons first came out, but the trash can ate them up!!!

When you compare the Diamond with the ones from the Ultimate, they are night and day. In the Diamond Set the first cartoon shows the planet Krypton as very light hazy green, the Ultimate shows it as a bright green!!! That's just one highlight of the Ultimate. I can't wait to see them on BD!!!
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Don't know why I would pay over 20 dollars for these other than the picture quality when I can get them for free online.
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If you're paying more than $20 for a $27 MSRP DVD, you need to shop around.
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
If you're paying more than $20 for a $27 MSRP DVD, you need to shop around.
You see my point though.
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Looking forward to seeing the set....if they are better than the very good Diamond disc I'll by it for sure. I'm just surprised that Warner Bros is actually bothering with this.....
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Originally Posted by Carcosa
Looking forward to seeing the set....if they are better than the very good Diamond disc I'll by it for sure. I'm just surprised that Warner Bros is actually bothering with this.....
Don't know why it's so surprising. They already remastered the things for that Superman Ultimate tin a year or so ago along with the two featurettes. It's a simple repackaging of previously released material. The only real hope is that they might have gone back and fixed a couple of glitches.
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Originally Posted by darkhawk
All 17 also comes on the WB's 4-disc Superman set
Actually, there's nine on the 4-disc Superman and eight on the 2 disc Superman 2.
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Are they going to be remastered and have DD 5.1 like on the other versions?
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Looking forward to adding these to my Superman collection.
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Originally Posted by beebs
Where is the "I'm waiting for the Blu-ray" comment?

I like these classic cartoon sets. They always are fun and cheap.

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Is this lossless?
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Warner Bros. will have its work cut out to release DVDs with substantially better video quality than the Bosko DVD. Maybe Warner Bros. found a first generation negative of "Terror on the Midway," which would be an improvement on the film source Bosko used. With the cost of digital intermediate scanning going down, Warner Bros. may have sprung for a real mastering job, with a BD disc of these cartoions to follow a SD disc. Warner Bros. will have a tough time selling this Superman set to most buyers for more than double the retail price of the Bosko Superman DVD unless the new versions of the cartoons are dazzling.
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I'm happy with the Diamond disc until they release this on BD. I'd be all over this if it would have been my first time buying it, though.
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Can't wait!
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Originally Posted by gerrytwo
Warner Bros. will have its work cut out to release DVDs with substantially better video quality than the Bosko DVD. Maybe Warner Bros. found a first generation negative of "Terror on the Midway," which would be an improvement on the film source Bosko used. With the cost of digital intermediate scanning going down, Warner Bros. may have sprung for a real mastering job, with a BD disc of these cartoions to follow a SD disc. Warner Bros. will have a tough time selling this Superman set to most buyers for more than double the retail price of the Bosko Superman DVD unless the new versions of the cartoons are dazzling.
If you read the previous posts, they have on the Ultimate DVD. What everyone is wondering is in the other posts.


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