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Post by Ark on Feb 19, 2024 0:03:46 GMT -5
They should take Scooby Doo off the title, because Scooby and Shaggy are rarely even in it. I watched an early VHS advertisement for it and there wasn't really even anything in it mentioning Scooby. I wonder who made the final call to name it a Scooby film? On the flip side, Zombie Island looked that much better when it came out a few years later. Who knows, maybe the failure of this is why they put so much into the Mook films.
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 11, 2024 9:00:44 GMT -5
I watched an early VHS advertisement for it and there wasn't really even anything in it mentioning Scooby. I wonder who made the final call to name it a Scooby film? On the flip side, Zombie Island looked that much better when it came out a few years later. Who knows, maybe the failure of this is why they put so much into the Mook films. Yes, when the TV movie was originally produced and aired in 1994, it was simply titled "Arabian Nights". They first added the Scooby-Doo name to the title for the 1996 Turner Home Entertainment release under the Cartoon Network Video label, thinking that would draw more customers, especially since 1996 was when Scooby-Doo was starting to get popular again through TBS and Cartoon Network reruns. Also, keep in mind this was actually Hanna-Barbera's very last Scooby-Doo production, as the Mook films were largely produced at Warner Bros. Animation, back when they didn't skimp out on quality (Hanna-Barbera was on the WB Animation lot at the time, and their staff members did collaborate with the WB Animation crew on the first three movies; "Cyber Chase" was produced after Bill Hanna died and the studio had been completely folded into WB Animation). I don't count "Bravo Dooby Doo", as that was technically produced by Cartoon Network Studios (though this was back when they were a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera, and they even got Joe Barbera and Iwao Takamoto to consult on it). What a way to go out... That last "Scooby-dooby-dooooooooo!" is like H-B's equivalent to the final spoken line in a classic Looney Tunes cartoon being Cool Cat's "So cool it now, ya hear?"
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Post by Ark on Mar 11, 2024 22:34:08 GMT -5
It's humbling to watch the last of true Hanna-Barbera. The Jetsons Movie had so many issues and people pass away that it made the message that much more loud and clear, but Arabian Nights didn't have that same effect for the Scooby franchise. It was a curse to make an Aladdin knock-off in the '90s... see the history behind The Thief and the Cobbler...
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 14, 2024 11:36:42 GMT -5
It was a curse to make an Aladdin knock-off in the '90s... see the history behind The Thief and the Cobbler... Indeed. Hanna-Barbera tried to throw a curveball by doing a gender-swap on the protagonist with Aliyah-Din, and throwing a bit of Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" in the mix (specifically the whole "arranged marriage" bit, along with Haman putting the Prince to sleep and Aliyah-Din having to wake him up). Maybe instead of this movie, H-B could've just made an hour-long TV special of the "Aliyah-Din" story, with better animation and a few original songs to pad it out. They could've called it "Yogi Bear and Aliyah-Din" or something.
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