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Post by SpiderScooby on Aug 21, 2009 15:06:28 GMT -5
If I could see well enough to drive, I would buy a van and paint like the MM.
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Post by littlebixuit on Aug 22, 2009 3:29:24 GMT -5
..if I were old enough and had the money for it, then, i think, I'd first make the driver's license and then think about buying my own MM...
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Post by danielmcloughlin on Aug 23, 2009 14:31:28 GMT -5
Lool!
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Post by Ark on Apr 4, 2016 17:09:19 GMT -5
Seems like the DVD releases have kind of been in order. The Scrappy-Doo show right before this was all released on DVD, a second volume of this would likely follow.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Oct 29, 2017 16:24:39 GMT -5
I remember reading comments that the Volume 1 DVD set was the lowest-selling Scooby-Doo DVD ever released. It makes sense, since some people had no love for Scrappy, and some people hated the absence of Daphne, Fred and Velma. I bet anybody who bought the DVD set only wanted it for the Richie cartoons.
One possible way a Volume 2 DVD set could happen is if it was to be a manufacture-on-demand release. If i recall, a Top Cat DVD set, which had many but not all the episodes, never sold well publicly, but in recent years they announced a manufacture-on-demand release of the complete series. I think the Volume 1 set of RR/SD was more suited for manufacture-on-demand releases and not a release you could buy at Walmart.
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Post by mattpricetime on Nov 19, 2017 20:35:19 GMT -5
They were rumors back then that some of the HB original run were bad sellers. Which at the time most people thought could have been possible. The major success of the Warner Archive started the turn around and most people kind of accepted that while maybe they sold "well" they just didn't sell enough to make it in stores.
2017 though kind of made the entire affair look like bunk from the start. Something clearly happened that changed their way of handeling this early this year. For the last several years WB had been moving the overwhelming majority of it's back catalog over to the Archive. They had re-released Top Cat and Wacky Races through it, and most people expected a good chunk of the older sets to be done that way.
Then out of freaking nowhere came the Hanna Barbera Diamond Collection. Back to stores, even Wacky Races and Top Cat got them as well and the kicker most of which on new discs. Not just repacking old discs that didn't sell like we've seen on many of LT and CN ones. I've seen several confirmations these sets were made new for these releases as was thought because several have different disc numbers than the old sets.
So I think while some of them probably did sell better than others. It's extremely unlikely if they sold that bad as some rumored they did, they would have even bothered making these updated sets this year. It just makes no sense to make new discs of something in the past you had so many supposedly left over of.
I think the major hold up right now is that they want a plan in place where before it was more as they felt like it. We know the Scooby movie is going to try to jumpstart the brand. So they need to know what they have left, and when they are going to put them out. Which are going to stores and which are going Archive. This is the first time in years HB isn't leading in new releases on dvd, but they dominated in store re-releases and several not yet on dvd went up on digital. Warner Archive on social media keeps insisting work is going on but are being very coy.
As the person on this site who often makes a lot of long winded hypothetical posts about these subjects, my fellow Scooby addicts I think this is the calm before the storm. It may take them some time but I bet it's not long before we start seeing a bit more agenda with the back catalog of Scooby and the other remaining HB shows.
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Post by barneynedward on Nov 26, 2017 14:45:15 GMT -5
I'd like to see The New Shmoo be released on DVD.
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Post by mattpricetime on Nov 26, 2017 15:10:07 GMT -5
Last time somebody asked Warner Archive about that one they mentioned that one might have some clearance issues in front of it. I have no idea if that would be over the Shmoo character himself or music clearances.
It would also be interesting if this cool-off period had them trying to pay off certain rights issues.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Dec 2, 2017 8:09:05 GMT -5
I also learned on Facebook in the last several weeks that the rights to the Richie Rich TV and/or movie properties are held by DreamWorks. There was also a live-action Richie Rich sitcom released to Netflix around 2015, but it was short-lived (makes sense, since there are lack of original characters, such as Gloria, Reggie, Irona, etc.).
Maybe the reason why there has been no Volume II release of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show is because it has to be cleared by DreamWorks before getting the green light for a DVD release. I wonder if an acquisition by DreamWorks in 2008 precluded future DVD releases, and maybe it might seem like it didn't sell well, but it may have been more like recall the DVD sets following an acquisition?
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Post by mattpricetime on Jan 3, 2018 18:39:14 GMT -5
That's not really how these rights work. When Hanna Barbera licensed Richie Rich back then it included licenses for reruns and home media in perpetuity. However they at no point ever actually owned the character himself. Warner Bros can do anything they want with that specific Richie Rich show. Put it on tv, put it on streaming, put it on dvd, put it on social media and the current Richie Rich rights holder doesn't have any say at all.
However, if Warner Bros. wanted to make a new Richie Rich and Scooby Doo show, they'd have to go and actually work out a whole new agreement with the current rights holder. As such why there have been other Richie Rich productions that have had nothing to do with Warner Bros. Casper is the other Harvey character under the same situation, where HB retained their shows they produced with him, but never owned the character.
A lot of people get confused on rights issues because they don't really interact with them much. The major reason for a lot of these conversations happen in regards to Hanna Barbera are home video rights. When some of these shows were made the contracts back then did not include clauses that still hold up today. But by the 80s those were regular inclusions, most things caught up in legal battles from the 80s-90s falls more often on music rights than it does character rights. They don't own the characters to bunch of those licensed shows, but the shows themselves are there's to do as they wish.
Which is really kind of interesting to see if during the "off-year" if some things there have changed. There's dozens of properties that a wholly owned by WB to do a lot with. But if they could swing a few of the more popular licensed characters, it might be a potential payoff later down the line.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jul 17, 2018 10:43:10 GMT -5
I wonder if music rights issues has anything to do with why there has been no home video release of The Little Rascals animated spinoff? Maybe it might have to do with music used in The Little Rascals that was also used in the Scooby-Doo segments from The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour and Shirt Tales, yet the latter got released to DVD a few years back?
It's possible that if the same background music used in multiple series (not multiple incarnations of the same series), music rights issues may prevail. Also, regarding The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour, I did notice some background music on the Scooby segments were also used in the Richie Rich cartoon series. So maybe that might explain why there are no further DVD releases of Richie Rich at this time, yet ironically, many of the Richie Rich segments are available on the Boomerang App (though sadly, not accessible in Canada where I live).
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jul 21, 2018 21:29:11 GMT -5
Is there any background music from Scooby Doo used on Shirtales and Little Rascals. I know of at least one piece of background music used in all three series. It's usually designated as chase music, particularly in The Little Rascals. I heard such music in the episode "Tiny Terror" during a chase after Butch's baby brother, Spike; and at the beginning of "Science Fair and Foul" when Alfalfa and Spanky were seen running and catching the baseball. I believe I heard this background music in one of the 1982 Scooby episodes.
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