G.I. Joe - Season 1.1 DVD
 

Four discs... Shout Factory... July 21st... My question, what are the chances that history will repeat itself, and they will lose the license before completing the series like Rhino let happen?

Shout Factory's also announced Transformers Season 1 to come out around the same time.

It's hard to tell if they complete the series. Shout Factory has been notably fickle in that department, at least in regards to their releases of DiC properties. We got complete Mario, Captain N and Sonic sets, covering all their series from beginning to end. And yet they ditched Inspector Gadget after 1 season and they've stated they have no interest in completing Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

It all depends on sales. I doubt they'll be foolish enough to let their contracts lapse like Rhino did, but if the sales aren't stable enough, they won't finish the series.

The *bright side* to this is that Shout Factory now has access to both Sunbow's AND DiC's libraries, which means if their Sunbow GI Joe sets are a success, we may actually get releases of the DiC series.

It's a longshot, but the best hope we've ever had.

I really hope so. I'm one of the few fans of DiC GI Joe (Despite how silly it was) so I'd kill to get it on DVD.

1) Both GI Joe and Transformers have movies this year so I'm sure we'll see more releases.

2) A lot of people who worked for Rhino founded Shout. It's possible that these are just reissues of Rhino's sets at a cheaper price (thank Mindbender, Primus, Yugi-Oh, or God!).

3) Even if these are reissues, many missed them the first time around and it's nice to see them being released again at a cheaper price. Plus, maybe they'll finish GI Joe this time.

4) I want the DiC Joe series. It's corny and I like a lot of the cental characters like Grid-Iron and Rampart.

5) Did I mention the much cheaper price? Rhino's sets were rip offs in that department.

I wasn't too thrilled with the quality of those sets. I hope they are better. :\

I preferred DiC to sunbow because it wasn't all about the drama, plus, we finally get to see Cobra Commander's face, though you can assume it's still not the same one he kept hidden all through SunBow.

His face is different in most versions. He's a normal guy in the comics, for example. In DiC his face was mutated from the sunbow version.

According to the movie, his face was humanoid before it got burned by some chemiical, right?

Yeah, basically. He was hit in the face with a spore that mutated him (I don't think it showed what the mutation did, other than extra eyes?) And later in the movie, Another spore was used on him as an example of what it will do when Cobra-La released it in to the atmosphere. That's what turned him in to a Snake.

In the DiC mini series "Operation: Dragonfire" He was turned back in to a humanoid form, but kept a snake-like apperance. (Which is probably what you refered to in your post, I can't remember if they showed him with out the mask after the Operation: Dragonfire series.)

Isn't Shout connected to Sony somehow? As in being a sub-company or partner or something to that effect? I'm pretty sure that with the movies coming out and all that we'll see decent sets released. If only all cartoon sets were up to par with the recent RGB set!

Funny thing is, I made a thread on the Transformer set, and said something exactly like this, only to be told, "just buy the possibly bootlegged set."

Yes, Shout is a sub-company of Sony. Which is why I thought it was really bizarre that they didn't use them to distribute the RGB series to begin with.

Now, here's what I'd like to know... do they have the rights to re-release the movies? I made the stupid mistake of not getting the Transformers 25th anniversary edition movie in the less than a year it was in print, and never was able to find it anywhere after that.

Speaking of Transformers... it's listed already via the Shout Store 25 bucks SRP... not bad at all.

The set I mentioned isnt a bootleg. Its essentially the same as buying the Power Rangers sets from overseas. Different countries get different distribution stuff. So, I snagged the complete G1, and offered advice. I'd also tell people to buy German or UK PR DVDs. It makes more sense. In regards to G.I. Joe, I haven't ever seen any other options for finding a set, so yeah, I'll take this as good news. Not so much the Transformers set.

You mean like the UK Next Mutantion and Robots in Disguise DVDs that we obviously don't have, right? I know I've been tempted to do that for NM and Beast Wars (which got REAL extras in Australia), but haven't because I don't have a region free player and it's fairly new.

Eitherway, being available domestically makes things far easier.

Exactly the case. And 25 bucks for the first set SRP (which means, it could be even lower at retail). Not to mention that Shout always goes out of its way for great bonus features. Only reason why the Nintendo sets are skimpy on the features is that Nintendo doesn't pay too much heed to the 1990's DIC cartoons. Of course, I felt the only good bonus feature for Inspector Gadget was the interview with Andy Heyward (the contest for best Gadget drawing winner was basically someone who traced something).

I suppose Shout!'s complete series collection planned for SDCC is their way of ensuring they don't make the same mistake Rhino did. They're just going to release the individual seasons to stores one at a time, very similar to how it's being done with The Real Ghostbusters DVDs.

Anyway, TvShowsOnDvd posted new news on the Season 1.1 set including a beauty shot photo and a list of disc contents. Now you know. And...??

If nothing else, buy the Transformers set so that maybe we can get Region 1 releases of the Takara series without all the NTSC to PAL glitches on the European releases.

And no one has looked into bringing over Beast Wars II or Beast Wars Neo. Give them some incentive.