Scooby (and others) WBshop Updates

[mattpricetime]

Hello all, I decided to make this thread here as a resource for whom it might become valuable. As I watch WBshop besides as a fan but also to get some ideas on market trends, and when I do I watch over to see what happens to some titles as to be honest I watch my cartoon dvds often, so sometimes it's important to make sure something is still available should one wear out. And since this site is called "Scooby Addicts", I might not be alone on that

So this thread will serve as an update log for anything that gets removed, returns, gets renamed, etc. I will focus firstly on Scooby titles, but then add notes on some others since clearly some of us on here are fans of other parts of WB's library (LT, HB/RS/MGM,  DC etc) If there's anything specific someone on here would like me to check on, please feel free. I don't do this weekly or anything but it doesn't hurt me to take a few more seconds to look for something if it will actually help somebody.


Now let's get started:

Rules as best I understand them: For those unaware Warner Brothers operates two arms for home video. WHV for the main in store releases, WA for made on demand. WBshop is their personal shop and obviously serves as example of what they are selling. If it's available there clearly they have inventory of it to sell. If something disappears from WBshop from WHV, it is either in between pressings or OOP(out of print). I can't really confirm an exact time frame, but from what I've noticed usually if it doesn't come back in a few months, it's really OOP and on the WA list to one day bring back to print.

NOTE1: The only real exception i've seen to this was, four films WA released on Bluray had their dvd counterparts go out of stock and get deleted not long after release. Those four had their dvd versions quietly added to the WA side without any announcement. As of today I've noticed more of those had their dvd counterparts deleted. I think history is going to repeat itself there.

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SCOOBY DOO!

At this moment the only missing Scooby item seems to be A Pup Named Scooby Doo volume 1. It's been gone a  long time now, so it's more than likely OOP. this hardly matters now with a complete season sets out too. But I wouldn't be surprised if the other volumes go OOP when they sell out what they have. I suppose if you bought the volumes earlier, you may need to buy the season sets should one of them ever go up.

That volume still exists in the combo packs though, but I bet those won't last too long either.

EDIT: 4/2/2015, looks like I get a chance to try this thread out early. WBshop did a maintenance and my prediction yesterday just came true. A Pup Named Scooby Doo volume 2 is now joined volume 1.

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OTHER TOONS

Hanna Barbera (and associated)
At the moment of the non-Scooby HB/RS sets, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio is the only one missing from WBshop, it's been down a month or so that i've noticed. Two others also went down around the same time, but both went back up earlier last month. I don't know if this bodes bad for it, or if the whole movie with the same name had anything to do with it going down.

EDIT: 4/3/2015 Under that same maitence it appears several titles are currently missing. These include, Wacky Races, Flintstones Season 2, Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Huckleberry Hound V1, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show & Real Adventures of JQ S1V1. But then this might be a bug on their part

DC:
EDIT: 4/3/2015, The Legendary Super Powers Show and Galactic Guardians (Seasons 8 and 9 of Super Friends) are both missing as of last night's maintenance.

Cartoon Network:

Fosters Home Season 2 and Grim Adventures Season 1 have been gone from WBshop for a long time

EDIT: 1/27/2016 I noticed the Powerpuff Girls complete series and season 1 are gone.

Popeye:

EDIT: 4/3/2015 Volume 2 and 3 of the theatrical collections went down

And right now that appears to be it. I will update this on the odd times I check WBshop on this. Like I said if there's anything any person here wants me to keep an eye on, let me know, it won't hurt to add a few seconds to check on something if it would help a fellow Scooby Addict

Edit:
I made mention of it below but do note I am under the firm belief that Warner Archive success has caused them to seriously consider if more pressings are worthy for just about everything. So these "down times" whether for a new WHV batch or a WA re-issue are probably going to continue to stay longer and longer as time goes on. It seems they are mostly doing movies mostly for re-issues but I think anyone can see the writing on the wall, tv sets will go that way too.

[ahkyahnan]

Thanks for starting this. I'm on Warner Archives' mailing list & keep up with their WB offerings regularly. The item I've longed for the most is Clue Club.

Did you get the email about WB Shops being transferred to another company? Will that have any negative impact on future releases you think?

Mark

[mattpricetime]

From what I gather probably not. As in truth WBshop was probably always run by a smaller company in itself. By that I mean the people who actually package the orders, keep inventory, take customer orders and complaints, etc. But I wouldn't take it anyone who's actually involved in what they release is involved in that bit.

However interestingly enough Wbshop as of this morning seems to have hit the ultimate glitch or having a major inventory check. Since most dvds (old, new, WHV, WA, etc) aren't showing up if you search or sort for them lol. This may be the new company going through double checking all the links that should be there, so some of what I posted last may need to be edited once they sort it out. Or otherwise they got some serious gremlin problems.

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EDIT: 4/6/2015 Wbshop seems back to normal and on facebook they responded to a question I asked which confirmed my suspicions in that just because something goes down might mean it's just on backorder (aka they aren't taking any more orders until they actually press out the next batch), which explains why some items will only temporarily be down and come back shortly.

EDIT: 4/23/2015 I would also like to make a small statement of pondering here. Given at this point in time that the Warner Archive is so successfl and a bunch of these older movies/tv sets probably have long since passed their main buying period, should we really be surprised if year by year Warner discontinues a bunch of the old sets to quietly put back out from the Archive? For the most part i'd imagine just about everything when it runs out of stock will be faced with the "do you really want to press out a whole new batch?" question. I consider this overall a good thing as it'll guarantee most of these items are available to be made when you want them, but could be unfortunate if something happens to your copy while it is "down". Just food for thought there.

[CaptainBuck]

Did you ever pick up Clue Club?

Apr 4, 2015 20:14:22 GMT -5 ahkyahnan said:

Thanks for starting this. I'm on Warner Archives' mailing list & keep up with their WB offerings regularly. The item I've longed for the most is Clue Club.

Did you get the email about WB Shops being transferred to another company? Will that have any negative impact on future releases you think?

Mark

[ahkyahnan]

Jan 7, 2016 15:31:42 GMT -5 CaptainBuck said:

Did you ever pick up Clue Club?

Apr 4, 2015 20:14:22 GMT -5 ahkyahnan said:

Thanks for starting this. I'm on Warner Archives' mailing list & keep up with their WB offerings regularly. The item I've longed for the most is Clue Club.

Did you get the email about WB Shops being transferred to another company? Will that have any negative impact on future releases you think?

Mark

Yes I did! Haven't watched it all yet, but really like it.

Mark