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Geezil
09-12-2007, 03:51 PM
Yes, pardners, it looks like that may be a valid question at this snag in time.

On a visit to the National Wholesale Liquidators store in Hackensack, NJ, earlier today, here's what we found among no less than 1,000 cheapo cartoon DVDs on display:

The by-now-widely-known Digiview retreads of retreads of its own retreads, with no Rocky & Bullwinkle titles in sight.

A new EastWest assortment, among which many titles clearly consisted of animated shorts and features (e.g., "Panda and the Magic Serpent") recycled from the Digiview catalog.

And finally & most numerous of all ... remember those cardboard-packaged Betty Boop, Felix, Little Lulu, Tom & Jerry Mark I, etc., titles from Genius Entertainment a few winters ago? Well, here they are again, in new slimline cases but featuring the identical front and back cover designs from the Cardboard Era.

If this is at all reflective of the rest of the USA (and beyond?), methinks that vein has finally been mined for every last nugget.

So now, it appears we can wholeheartedly save all of our George Washingtons instead toward more of those bells-and-whistles boxed sets we've dreamed of! Curtain.

mighty mouse
09-12-2007, 04:34 PM
Tom and jerry mark 1 !!!!!!!:p ;) :D :rolleyes: lol ! No offense ,but I assume thats your fancy way of referring to the van beuren version? I really got a kick out of that.:D

Jon Cooke
09-13-2007, 03:08 AM
If this is at all reflective of the rest of the USA (and beyond?), methinks that vein has finally been mined for every last nugget.

I think I'd have to agree for the most part. Out of all those crappy EastWest discs I bought at the Dollar Tree recently, only one had anything interesting on it (the Bugs Bunny Playhouse disc which had some nice obscure Warner cartoons like "Saps in Chaps" on it). Still, don't give up, Geezil! You never know WHAT will show up in those dollar bins (as we've seen with the recent Hoppity Hooper and Bullwinkle discs).