Alvin Show DVD in September

[Jon Cooke]

This just in over at TVShowsonDVD. Paramount is releasing an Alvin Show DVD on Sept. 8. The bad news is, it sounds like it's only the first episode with two 1980's specials thrown on to pad it out.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Alvin-The-Very-First-Alvin-Show/12109

[Brandon Panther]

"Rockin' Through the Decades"? Don't they mean "Rockin' with the Chipmunks"? I'm sure that was the actual title.

[Studio Toledo]

This just in over at TVShowsonDVD. Paramount is releasing an Alvin Show DVD on Sept. 8.
After all these years, they finally got the rig---

The bad news is, it sounds like it's only the first episode with two 1980's specials thrown on to pad it out.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Alvin-The-Very-First-Alvin-Show/12109
Well that just sucks. :mad:

Not buying it!

[nickramer]

Obviously, they need to get someone else to be in charge of Vitacom's home divison. Heck, they don't even care about doing actual (not the DVR thing on Amazon) season sets of some of the older Nicktoons. Not to mention a real Betty Boop and Friends sets.

[Studio Toledo]

Obviously, they need to get someone else to be in charge of Vitacom's home divison. Heck, they don't even care about doing actual (not the DVR thing on Amazon) season sets of some of the older Nicktoons. Not to mention a real Betty Boop and Friends sets.
That's Viacom actually (unless that was a joke in on itself).

But yeah, I think by this point, we'd deserve something a little better than simply one episode. I would've let them off easy if half the series was out on disc instead perhaps.

[nickramer]

Whoops, I ment Viacom. Sorry.

[Bradskey]

That's the only way they release the 80s series so no big surprise: 3-episode bargain rack DVD's for the kiddies, thanks so much.

[Studio Toledo]

That's the only way they release the 80s series so no big surprise: 3-episode bargain rack DVD's for the kiddies, thanks so much.
You mean the 60's show.

The way that they are bothering to release this, it's more like a retrospective if nothing more.

[Fibber Fox]

This just in over at TVShowsonDVD. Paramount is releasing an Alvin Show DVD on Sept. 8. The bad news is, it sounds like it's only the first episode with two 1980's specials thrown on to pad it out.

Hey, where are all those people who say we should rush out to buy crappy 80s cartoons because the "support" will magically translate into stuff we actually want to see being released?

F. Fox

[Nelson]

That sucks, if you want to buy and see the original "Alvin Show", then you have you watch that god awful 80s version on this collection?

It should just be the original 1961 series, the 80s Alvin has seen many home video releases in the past, while the original series, has not seen the light of day, since it ran on Nick back in the early 90s.

[Magpie]

Vitameatavegicom. :)

Yes, it should only be the 1961 series/version...w/ a bonus hula hoop.

[Bradskey]

You mean the 60's show.


I'm sorry, what I meant to say was, that's how the 80's show has been released AFAIK -- crappy random single discs. So its no surprise they will now treat the 60's show the same way, since its apparently the same rights holders.

[samtheq]

Boo! Boo, boo, boo (and not the bear, either).
This will be a "renter" instead of a "buyer," and I will probably remove the atrocious 80's crappy shows, even.
I would have bought a boxed set of the originals, Viacom! Are you listening?

[Studio Toledo]

That sucks, if you want to buy and see the original "Alvin Show", then you have you watch that god awful 80s version on this collection?

It should just be the original 1961 series, the 80s Alvin has seen many home video releases in the past, while the original series, has not seen the light of day, since it ran on Nick back in the early 90s.
This is how I feel about it as well.

[tristar]

Come on, Viacom! Betty Boop is the single most recognizable classic cartoon character in this day and age (no joke!). Do you know how many people would buy boxed sets of these cartoons restored and un DVNR'd? I would! Nearly everyone on this forum would! Moms would! Dads would! Girls would! Boys would! Animation historians would! Please Viacom, answer my prayers!

[nickramer]

Come on, Viacom! Betty Boop is the single most recognizable classic cartoon character in this day and age (no joke!). Do you know how many people would buy boxed sets of these cartoons restored and un DVNR'd? I would! Nearly everyone on this forum would! Moms would! Dads would! Girls would! Boys would! Animation historians would! Please Viacom, answer my prayers!

I see someone else got my message. As I said before, I would like it to be an "and Friends" set as I would to have some other Fleisher shorts on there like "Swing Your Sinners" and a clear copy of "An Elephant Never Forgets".

[Gasmask Ted]

Most especially, women of a certain age who consider themselves "sassy" would; then they'd remember they only care about the image, not the cartoons, and give the sets to their younger sister's college-aged kids so as to free up room for cigarettes, hormone replacement pills and Corona in their studio apartments...

[Studio Toledo]

Vitameatavegicom. :)

Yes, it should only be the 1961 series/version...w/ a bonus hula hoop.
A harmonica would be nice. :p

[Studio Toledo]

Most especially, women of a certain age who consider themselves "sassy" would; then they'd remember they only care about the image, not the cartoons, and give the sets to their younger sister's college-aged kids so as to free up room for cigarettes, hormone replacement pills and Corona in their studio apartments...
Oh, women! :D

[Geezil]

A harmonica would be nice. :p

And much easier to ship together with a DVD set than that hula hoop. :tweety:

[Studio Toledo]

And much easier to ship together with a DVD set than that hula hoop. :tweety:
The next thing I would've said!

[SheckyGrey]

Just go to ToonTracker.com and order all The Alvin Show DVD bootlegs. **** Viacom, they don't need your business. The boots vary in quality but they are well, well worth it.

[Gasmask Ted]

As "trading post" is in the name of this forum, wouldn't it make sense for people who wanted to do this to each buy one then trade with others here? There are 4 volumes at Toon Tracker for $20/DVD (plus shipping). So, assuming there are 4 people who wanted to do it and have the tech to dupe off the DVDs (these are single layer DVD+-Rs, right?), it would cost each of them $25 to acquire one volume from ToonTracker plus outgoing shipping, packaging and blank DVDs for the other three people ($1-2 per person). This doesn't even violate the spirit of ToonTracker, which explicitly talks about how these items are provided on a collector to collector basis.

I'm in if three other poeple want to form a group to do this.

[Studio Toledo]

As "trading post" is in the name of this forum, wouldn't it make sense for people who wanted to do this to each buy one then trade with others here? There are 4 volumes at Toon Tracker for $20/DVD (plus shipping). So, assuming there are 4 people who wanted to do it and have the tech to dupe off the DVDs (these are single layer DVD+-Rs, right?), it would cost each of them $25 to acquire one volume from ToonTracker plus outgoing shipping, packaging and blank DVDs for the other three people ($1-2 per person). This doesn't even violate the spirit of ToonTracker, which explicitly talks about how these items are provided on a collector to collector basis.

I'm in if three other poeple want to form a group to do this.
I'd rather trade for this stuff than to buy it, but because you can get desperate in waiting or anything to come out, you end up giving in. Places like ToonTracker and the guys I had dealt with for the past decade often was the best way to get anything back in the pre-DVD days.

[SheckyGrey]

I own all four of the discs but I also encourage everyone to just support ToonTracker.