DIC Snag Their Properties Back
 

Following up on the Hogan release, here are more of the titles returned to Dic by Disney,. which will hopefully be making their way to DVD in the future.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5382


M.A.S.K and Jayce first. Now

OOH! I hope the Popples are gonna be on DVD soon!!! :evilgrin:

Ya know, everybody blames DiC for the fall of toy-based animation in the early 90's, and I think that's a bit unfair.

DiC has a DAMN good library of shows, and while their animation DID gradually degrade to the state it is today (wretched), back in the 80's and early 90's the story-telling and animation-quality were rather impressive the majority of the time.

Hearing that DiC has gotten these properties back is even more good news, as DiC has been releasing the best DVDs lately (just got C.O.P.S. and Supe Mario).

Too bad Captain Planet is maintained by Cartoon Network (due to three seasons being produced by Hannah Barbera) so DIC can't get the rights to distribute the first three (with Whoopi Golbderg voicing Gaia), not to mention theres' again the matter of Sonic Satam not showing up on the list.

Who owns the right to The Real Ghostbusters? Was it DIC?

I swaer I saw Sony in it or something.

DiC owns the rights to the likenesses and the episodes of the Real Ghostbusters, but Sony owns the rights to the franchise and the name.

An example of this would be the Extreme Ghostbusters episode "A Temporary Insanity", where the animators for Sony drew a mannequin in the Firehouse lounge of Peter in his identical Real Ghostbusters appearance. However, DiC raised a fuss and so for the rebroadcastings they had to go in and digitally blurr Peter's face so you can't really see it.

The Real Ghostbusters DVDs would appear to be a joint release between Sony and DiC, now that they're finally cooperating.

Yeay for Heathcliff, Inspector Gadget, Super Mario, and Dennis the Menace (especially Dennis the Menace). but I dunno if I really care much for some others on the list. Also, I found the show the Littles being absent, so I wouldn't rule out Sonic SatAm just yet.

Now, what I want to ask a few rhetorical questions here.

Does this mean:

We'll see the entire run of Gadget, including the infamous Capeman episodes on disk?

Mario 3 and Mario world (provided they can get the permission for the Captain N segemtns) will be available? (and if the N's aren't negotiable, will SMW be cut into 6 1/2 half hours)

There's more to the list than just the ones mentioned?

They'll rerelase the Heathcliff movies on Disk? I'm pretty sure there's 2... I know one was, but I haven't been able to get it.

They could make a deal with certain companies and release stuff like Alf the animated series (2 episodes were on season 2 of the DVD sets)?

And one more thing. Did DIC animation handle the last episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks?

Good for DIC.

Hopefully we will finally get all those shows on DVS as well as their G.I. Joe seasons.