Major Fan Campaign Announcement...Complete the Original Series
 

OK folks...This may be a big one..

I've talked to a few of the voice actors on the show and they've all said they'd love to come back and record the episodes they missed the first time around and have a 'complete voice set' on the show. In other words, no replacement voice actors.

I'm going to try and dig up some contact information for FYE, and see what it would take to arrange this and how much money it would take to see it happen. I know Barry Gordon would love to record the eps he missed and I just talked to James Avery and he would love to come back and complete the set. Now we've just got to get FYE's attention with it .

I'll try and come back with further detials soon...

omg, yes. Glad to hear that James Avery had major respect for his part even though he left it for Fresh Prince. I would LOVE to see this happen. And you wouldn't contact FHE you would contact Wolf Films since they were the original producers of the show.

oh wow. But this would have to be a DVD speicial unless they deciede to bring the old tmnt back to tv.

That would be pretty cool.

That'd be sweet! I'd especially like to hear from Cam Clarke again. (see acting list here = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164682/ ) Medal Gear Solid, Tales of Symphonia, Leonardo--he's been keeping himself busy! :D

That would be a great idea.

that would be cool. put them on DVD or VHS, i don't care. as long as i get to see at least one ep! :lol:

If this happens... I'll be an incredibly happy fanboy. :D Please keep us posted, Vegita-San!

OK, here's something new to report.

The folks at TVShowsonDVD.com said I should start by giving FYE a call at a number they gave me., But, since they have more experience in dealing with the company, I'm going to ask if they could help along the way as well..

Second, another good idea would be to call Bluepka Producations, the company that voice directed the o riginal and new shows. I'm going to need someone who can call in a buisness manner and talk to Susan Blu, the voice director. Maby she can help get something started as well. If anyone is interested in this job, lmk :)

It's a slow start, but a start :)

Don't you mean FHE? FYE is a video/cd store as far as I know.

It would be great if the original voice actors would redo those episodes. I guess it depends on how profitable the companies think it would be.

Wait the ones that did it with the old cartoon is now doing with the new??

if they do come back and record a complete set, could they also fix the voice flubbs...Like Donny speaking with Raph's voice in Turtle Tracks??

I don't think the turtles having the wrong masks is fixable. It would have to be re-animated I would think. Especially in the the error you mentioned, it wouldn't make sense for Donatello to say that. Only way to fix it would be to go into the film and color it correctly I would think. Just fixing the episodes in which alternate voice actors were used would be fine with me. Some characters had some pretty bad alternative voices. No one did Shredder like James Avery and when they had to use someone else it just didn't work. I would love for his voice to be used in every episode rather than his crappy alternatives. Raphael also had a horrible 1989/1991/Euro vacation alternative. The one for 1996 was okay, but the alternative for earlier in the show was just bad. I would also think that Pat Fraley would be up to fixing the few episodes he missed considering what he said in his interview on NTN.

Whoops, your right. FHE is the company I meant. Doing some research today :)

The thing is Donny's mouth actually says those words ("Ain't u up on current events, lady?? We just saved ur life!!") ....as out of character as it is....Why not just have Gordon actually say the line??

yea that was donnie with Raphael's voice. And they would have to re-animate.

No no, I'm sure Vegita-San means that the later seasons of the old 'toon will be redone with the original voice cast instead of the VAs who took over for the ones that left.

that really sounds good, theres nothing worse than hearing replacement actors or actresses that just dont fit right, id defenity enjoy the later part of the series alot more if they are involved cause i didnt much care for the ending maybe the voice acting will help some more :D

That sounds pretty awesome, Vegita-san. Hope it works out!
I think Rob Paulsen was the the voice for Raph in 89-91, but I'm not positive. Michael Gough was the voice for the Red Sky series. I'm not sure beyond that.

As for Shredder, you're right, no one did him like James Avery. William E. Martin was the 94-95 man, and I know that Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, Usagi Yojimbo, and the Rat King [and Canard in Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, hee]) was an alternate in 1993 (he was also a Krang alternate in '89).

I've been on a bit of a voice actor kick today, can ya tell? :lol: I've grown fascinated by the connections between my favorites shows and VA's. (There were several VA's that worked on MD:TAS and the original TMNT series, for instance, as well as the same head writer!)



...I'll stop now. :tanime:



Anyway, this is a really neat idea, and it's awesome that the VA's are willing to give but humble fans the time of day!

Susan Blu was the voice director? as in Stormer from Jem? That's freakin awesome!

OK all, I have two numbers I think should get us to the parties we need, now I just need someone who's good at navigating phone menus and sub parties to get to the people we need. I also need someone who can conduct it in a serious/buisness like matter so we come off as sounding reputable :). I get too nervouse and loose concentration when I do new stuff like this.

If anyone is up for the job, LMK.

If everyone here contected FYE viva mail of some sort and the voice actors did as well they would do it. Also might wanna contact Lions Gate. Their putting out the DVDs so they could re-do the voices before they release anymore. It would pay back for itself and they know it

Update:


Found a way to contact Susan Blu without calling. One of the VA's has passed along my info for her this week. Hopefully she'll be interested and call me back....

First step done :).

I still need someone to call a lions gate number for me. If you think you can help, LMK..

Neil

This should prove to be really exciting if they go through with it! Wouldn't it be cool if they also did some original voice clips for the DVD menus?

Hopefully Mrs. Blue will contact me sometime this week and we can get things started. Now I just need someone to call the Artisan Number I have..

I dunno, call me a tmnt conservative if you'd like but I don't think we should be messing around with the original episodes. I would like to keep them completely as they were back when they originally aired, sure sometimes the alternate voice actors were odd, but most of the time it was just nice to hear a different voice. It was nothing really horrible to have a weird sounding donny for one episode, and sometimes I remember watching it as a kid and liking the voice change for that episode. If you liked James Avery as Shredder then watch the ones where he did the voice acting and skip the ones he didn't. The episodes were all very similar in plot anyways. I say no to this unless it's a bonus feature, I want my episodes in tact and completely as they were unedited and untampered.

They can easily put it on the DVD as another audio track.

If Lucas can do it to Star Wars 24/7, so can we...

That wasn't a good thing.

And to an extent I agree with not messing w/ the originals but in this case I hope it happens. I hated the alternate voices.

Matter of perspective, as the original films were only half what Lucas wanted them to be and only produced them the way they were so Star Wars could be popular enough to warrant more accurate re-makes.

I hate to topic drift, (again :( ) but is there anyway you could PM me with Contact info for Susan Blu? I was hoping there was a way I could set up an email interview with her for my website...

Almost 90% of Star Wars fans would prefer the original movies over the edited ones, look at how much the VHS go for on eBay... If you like the new stuff it means you probably weren't born in time for the original movies. I also gurantee that the whole vision is just a load of ********. He made some movies and then he wanted to make prequels to make more money. I mean look at his street date for all Star Wars merchandise. A friend of mine said that they had to sign all sorts of papers saying they wouldn't release anything before the street date otherwise Lucas would sue. He's in it all for the money. Just because we CAN do it, doesn't mean we should. I CAN jump off a bridge and commit suicide, just because I COULD doesn't mean I should.

I would only want them to alter the episodes if it was a bonus and wasn't the default.

You mean the original original movies or the SE vhs? I preferred the SE actually but I really didn't like the DVD changes. THE SE changes were just added scenes for the most part. The DVD changes were uncalled for.

Edit: I just checked ebay, all the Star Wars VHS aren't going for much of anything.

Newsflash "purist", I LIKE the original movies, I STILL like the original movies, but that does'nt mean the new versions are'nt without merit, they expand and correct a great deal of the storylines that Lucas wanted to originally tell when the films were produced.

I have no biased, blind allegience to, by Lucas' own admission, an incomplete product, I like the improvments he's made to the films, I like the direction he's taken them

calm down man, first off I have a name, it's not purist. Lucas did some dirty things like taking out original actors and replace them with new ones. If he wanted to he could have added in things as bonus features.

and DK, the original VHS:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...381327242&rd=1

Remember VHS is a dieing, most movies on vhs get like a buck a piece, this is almost the cost of the new DVDs.

More power to you if you're able to pull this off. I for one am not a fan of alternate voices, especially for main characters. They seem replace actors on soap operas quite often. Glad I never got into those things - it would drive me nuts getting used to someone else playing the part when you've seen (and heard) someone else do it for so long.

Still looking for someone to call Artisan For me. Willing to pay $10's to anyone who helps out. Gotta be able to call and talk to 'em in a buisness like manner, however :)..

Anyone interested, lmk...