The original animated series on DVD in Scandinavia

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I thought I'd share with you some information regarding the DVD versions of the animated TMNT episodes available at for example Discshop and Movieline.

After I found them for a couple of weeks ago, I was interested in knowing if the DVDs were available only in Scandinavia. I looked for them at various international sites but found zero. The other day I made some research, starting off with the information given at Discshop, which is the following (translated from swedish):

Information from Discshop.se


Movie information

Swedish title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Original title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Alternative title: Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
Genre: Children and family/TV series
Age limit: 7 years
Movie company: Scanbox


Technical information

Sound: Danish (Mono)
Finnish (Mono)
Norwegian (Mono)
Swedish (Mono)

Image: 4:3 1.33:1
Format: DVD Region 2 (Sweden)
Runtime: 74 min
Color/black and white: Color
TV system: PAL
Date of release: 2002-10-28
Distributor: Musikservice
UPC number: 706111558496
Number of discs: 1
Case: Keep-Case
Cover language: Swedish
Article number: 36627

I started off with visiting Scanbox's homepage at www.scanbox.com but it didn't have any information about the TMNT DVDs. However, I found a link to one of their divisions - Jupiter, (http://www.jupiter.scanbox.com/frames_uk/) which turned out to be a company dedicated to digital remastering and putting the result to DVD. After mailing Jupiter for more information regarding their DVD release I learned that the 7 DVDs contain 19 episodes originally spread out on 10 VHS tapes. The reason for that the DVDs doesn't contain the original, american sound is due to copyright. That's why the DVDs only contain Scandinavian language.

I hope this information was of use to you. And I cincerely hope that we sometime in the future can download these episodes... Maybe I'll buy them and...

I'll end this long post by giving an overview of the front and back covers of the 7 DVDs. I've tried to translate the episodes back to english and by doing so trying to figure out which episodes that have been released. Please help me out if you recognize any of them.

Front and back cover Turtles DVD #1 (I've seen this on VHS and I think it contains almost the whole first season, maybe except "A Thing About Rats". Four episodes also make sense since the runtime is 74 min.):




Front and back cover Turtles DVD #2 ("Pizza By The Shred"?, "Enter: The Fly"?, "It Came From Beneath The Sewers"?):




Front and back cover Turtles DVD #3 ("Invasion Of The Punk Frogs"?, "New York's Shiniest"?, "Splinter No More"?):




Front and back cover Turtles DVD #4 ("The Four Musketurtles"?, "Enter The Rat King"?, "Cowabunga Shredhead"?):




Front and back cover Turtles DVD #5 ("Attack Of The Big Macc"?, ?, ?):




Front and back cover Turtles DVD #6 ("Sky Turtles"?, ?, ?):




Front and back cover Turtles DVD #7 ("Turtes At The Earth's Core"?, "The Fifth Turtle"?, ?):