Please buy Darkwing Duck and Talespin tommorrow, if not the first week of release

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The reason is that if you're interested, even a little tiny bit, please try and grab these shows ASAP this first week to show Disney the support is there. I don't want this to end up like another Gargoyles, where they release part of the show and people wait on it to buy it, and the rest of it never gets put out becase "demand isn't there".

In 2004, the tenth anniversary of its premiere, the first season of the series was released on DVD. The first half of the second season was released in December 2005.

As of June 30, 2006, Weisman announced at the Gargoyles Gathering Convention in Los Angeles, the release of Season 2, Volume 2 is in jeopardy. Wiseman has stated simply, "Volume 1 did not sell enough copies."
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Pulled that off the Wikipedia, but I've heard that often enough to consider it true. I mean, Best Buy has that deal where both boxsets are $40, making it $20 per show for 24 episodes of each, which is awesome. Let's show Disney that the support is there, and not only will we get the rest of these shows on DVD but maybe other shows as well.

I was a huge Darkwing Duck fan back in the day, and it will be a travesty if the rest of the episodes never get put out.
 
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you had me sold up until the whole 20 dollars for 24 episodes thing... thats almost a dollar for a half hr show :(
 
[quote name='BasketCase1080']you had me sold up until the whole 20 dollars for 24 episodes thing... thats almost a dollar for a half hr show :([/QUOTE]

Consider that most TV on DVD is double and triple the price for the same amount of episodes if not less, and it's a damn good deal.

I believe the MSRP on these is $35 as well, and Disney hasn't put things like Ducktales or Rescue Rangers on sale since its release so this will probably be the only deal for a long time.

People pay $20 for a 2 hour movie, $20 for a 9 - 10 hour long tv set is a bargain.
 
Yup, i'm putting mine in the back tongiht when I put them on the shelves after we close. 3 of the 8 or so that we got in, are already spoken for by employees who are coming in at 10am to get them tomorrow morning. Also, Chip and Dale and Ducktales V2's are coming out this fall, and WILL have the pilots on them, since they should have been there to begin with in V1.
 
Yeah, what Roufuss said. $20 for 24 is a good deal if you look at saaay... Curb Your Enthusiasm. $20 for 10 eps. Band of Brothers is 40 for 10 eps. HBO has always been pricey but look at also Lost1 and 2. On the cheap, 40 for 24. MSRP is 60 for the same 24. Desperate Housewifes, etc. 20 for a boxset is a good deal. I'm definitely grabbing both Darkwing and Tale Spin tomorrow at Best Buy. Love those series.
 
[quote name='orochi']Yeah, what Roufuss said. $20 for 24 is a good deal if you look at saaay... Curb Your Enthusiasm. $20 for 10 eps. Band of Brothers is 40 for 10 eps. HBO has always been pricey but look at also Lost1 and 2. On the cheap, 40 for 24. MSRP is 60 for the same 24. Desperate Housewifes, etc. 20 for a boxset is a good deal. I'm definitely grabbing both Darkwing and Tale Spin tomorrow at Best Buy. Love those series.[/QUOTE]

Look at it like this too... I don't know the MSRP on each show, but I'm assuming it's going to be $34.99... hell, even if it's $29.99, if you buy both shows together you're saving anywhere from $20 - $30 right off the bat.
 
don't tell me you believe that shit that because sales were bad for G season 2 part 1 was bad that we aren't going to see a part 2 set. Thats just some lame excuse to get people to buy it and boost sales by making people think, hey if i buy 8 copies, then it will help out... when season 2 came out, it was very hard to find in my area and i didn't get it til weeks later meaning it was sold out :(
 
I'm there.. Or will be there tonight. Though the Gargoyle's issue didn't disappoint me too much, since the cartoon aired around the time I was weaning off Disney Afternoon.

These two on the other hand, genius in television.
 
I saw the Darkwing Duck set at Best Buy Saturday on a cart and was so close to buying it, but I was sure it'd be cheaper else where. I loved that show.
 
meh fuck it.... i guess ill pick this up. I forgot what the show talespin was until rereading on wikipedia. I used to love that show!!


EDIT:: for some reason I thought they showed 2 episodes in a half hours time period like some of the shitty shows on cartoon network now. I guess at this price this is a steal. Thanks op, ill swing by bestbuy tomorrow!

Also, if anyone wants to buy these from me once I am done watching them let me know! Of course theyd be in perfect like new condition since I usually watch a set and then sell it.
 
The Gargoyles bit is absolutely, sadly true. There's very little chance now we'll see the second half of the excellent second season.
 
[quote name='mkelehan']The Gargoyles bit is absolutely, sadly true. There's very little chance now we'll see the second half of the excellent second season.[/QUOTE]

Which is sad, and I'd hate for the same fate to befall Darkwing Duck. I was only mildly into Talespin as a kid, but for an extra $15 I'll definitely check it out (since Best Buy is running each DVD seperate for $24.99, buy them both for $40).
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Which is sad, and I'd hate for the same fate to befall Darkwing Duck. I was only mildly into Talespin as a kid, but for an extra $15 I'll definitely check it out (since Best Buy is running each DVD seperate for $24.99, buy them both for $40).[/QUOTE]

By the way Roufuss, you fucking suck. ;)

I wasn't even thinking about getting either of these but now I'm pretty sure I'm getting Tale Spin and, since its only $15 more, seriously considering getting Darkwing Duck as well.
 
[quote name='NoRain']I'm in on the Darkwing and Talespin, but what about Ducktales do they plan on releasing the rest of that?[/QUOTE]

Season 2 should be out in November alongside Gummi Bears, you know bouncin here and there, and everywhere.
 
Disney is a real bitch when it comes to their shows. Most of their shows don't sell well (Because of the price and the fact there are never ads for them.), and then Disney backs out and won't release the rest. It always happens with Disney.
 
[quote name='David85']Disney is a real bitch when it comes to their shows. Most of their shows don't sell well (Because of the price and the fact there are never ads for them.), and then Disney backs out and won't release the rest. It always happens with Disney.[/QUOTE]

Most of their shows don't have an overarcing storyline so each episode is pretty much selfcontained anyway. According to Wikipedia, only 3 shows even had a formal series finale: Duck Tales, Gargoyles, and Gummi Bears. The rest of their shows just had a final episode that didn't set it apart from any other epsiode The sad part though is that part of Gargoyles appeal was its continuing storyline and by not releasing the whole set, they're really doing the series a disservice.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Season 2 should be out in November alongside Gummi Bears, you know bouncin here and there, and everywhere.[/QUOTE]
Awesome thanks for the info.
 
I dont understand why they just dont release a whole fuckING series, in a season by season format. I mean stringing it out over the course of 3-4 years for some series is just fucking stupid. Sure they can milk the market and build up a huge following. But, after that long most people will lose interest. I would buy more tv sets at full price if they would release them all at once.
 
[quote name='longdillon']I dont understand why they just dont release a whole fuckING series, in a season by season format. I mean stringing it out over the course of 3-4 years for some series is just fucking stupid. Sure they can milk the market and build up a huge following. But, after that long most people will lose interest. I would buy more tv sets at full price if they would release them all at once.[/QUOTE]

Personally, that's what I'd like to see also. I mean there's 65 episodes total for both Darkwing and Tale Spin, these sets are just a few shy of being half of the entire set, why not make them complete and double the price? However, the reason they don't do it is because they want to hook people in with the first season so they'll have a completist attitude toward it and want to buy further seasons. For example, I'll probably end up buying both Tale Spin and Darkwing Duck tomorrow whereas if both of them came out as the complete series DVD, I'd probably only buy one of the two. Now, they've got me hooked in on 2 different shows and I'll probably end up buying both of their next releases...

Roufuss doesn't seem to be posting in this thread very much anymore despite his pleas for our support of the shows...
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Personally, that's what I'd like to see also. I mean there's 65 episodes total for both Darkwing and Tale Spin, these sets are just a few shy of being half of the entire set, why not make them complete and double the price? However, the reason they don't do it is because they want to hook people in with the first season so they'll have a completist attitude toward it and want to buy further seasons. For example, I'll probably end up buying both Tale Spin and Darkwing Duck tomorrow whereas if both of them came out as the complete series DVD, I'd probably only buy one of the two. Now, they've got me hooked in on 2 different shows and I'll probably end up buying both of their next releases...

Roufuss doesn't seem to be posting in this thread very much anymore despite his pleas for our support of the shows...[/QUOTE]

Roufuss has been busy playing Madden ;)

The reason they don't release the whole series all at once on DVD is that it would have an MSRP of something like $80 - $100, and people don't drop that kind of money on a DVD purchase at all. It's found the average consumer is more than willing to pay $20 - $40 per DVD set and have it spaced out every 6 to 9 months... in the end you're probably ending up paying the same amount whether they spaced them out or released it all at once.

I remember when the first Transformers set came out, it was released at something like $60 and it didn't do as well as they thought, because people have trouble dropping that kind of cash on something all at once, espically a DVD since normally they aren't nearly that much money. They ended up splitting the later Transformers series so they'd be cheaper... I'm not sure if they sold better, but I assume they did.

I mean, honestly, you guys really think $20 - $25 for a 24 episode cartoon set is bad? People pay $40 - $60 for things like 24, Prison Break, and Desperate Housewives with the same amount of episodes, and most people pay $20 alone for a 2 hour long DVD movie... you're getting like 8 hours for that same price.

While I would have liked to have seen Disney only do two sets for Darkwing Duck and Talespin (like they are doing with Gummi Bears), I guess they wanted to keep things even. I guess it would have cost extra for them to bump it up to 34 eps a set, and they didn't want to take that risk because they aren't sure if these will succeed or bomb at retail (I've got to assume Gargoyles bombing had alot to do with this).

Honestly though, I'd rather pay $20 a set now and then say another $25 a piece for the next two sets then $80 all at one time.
 
I'll buy em if I can. I really wnat to, but wierd thing is the Ducktales and Rescue Rangers sets were scarce when they came out, so I assume Darkwing Duck and Talespin will be too. I wont be abekl to get them until Friday. :(

So I'm hoping I can find a copy of each. $40 for both is a steal.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']Perhaps if the fucksticks at Disney didn't stop releasing the Boy Meets World seasons, I would buy this.[/QUOTE]

You can blame poor DVD sales for that too... if nobody buys the DVD's, Disney assumes the interest isn't there, which is true.

It's funny how nobody buys the DVD's (not you per se, but the general public) but then gets all up in arms when Disney says "Well, this series is selling horribly, we're not going to bother making anymore".
 
Well, I hope you're happy Roufuss. I ended up buying both of them. 2 days ago I probably wasn't going to buy either of them and now I have both, ah well.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Most of their shows don't have an overarcing storyline so each episode is pretty much selfcontained anyway. According to Wikipedia, only 3 shows even had a formal series finale: Duck Tales, Gargoyles, and Gummi Bears. The rest of their shows just had a final episode that didn't set it apart from any other epsiode The sad part though is that part of Gargoyles appeal was its continuing storyline and by not releasing the whole set, they're really doing the series a disservice.[/QUOTE]


And Gargoyles will not have a finished set because Disney pulled out.

And I agree, they should just release a complete series boxset.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Well, I hope you're happy Roufuss. I ended up buying both of them. 2 days ago I probably wasn't going to buy either of them and now I have both, ah well.[/quote]

QFT
 
Hell yeah, I got them too. sweet deal also. 2 for 40. I think its a good price. Im definitely not a CAMB (cheap ass movie buyer). The Oz and Homicide sets kill me. Same with The Wire. But god damn, when you want something you have to have it...
 
My BB was sold out of DW, so I didn't get in on the deal. They said to check back later in the week, but I think I may just PM.
 
[quote name='botticus']I can't believe I forgot Launchpad was in this show.[/QUOTE]

likewise, thought he was just in ducktales
 
It'd be sweet if Disney offered to sell the rest of Gargoyles online at the very least in some sort of limited release. From what I saw, the first 2 sets of Gargoyles were pretty much limited releases as I only saw them in stores for about a week and never again.
 
I'd just like to point out that while people do drop twice as much for shows like 24, prison break, desperate housewives and lost, those shows also have the same amount of episodes but are twice as long, so you're getting twice the material, so I feel they are justified in their pricing, also I do think that 20 dollars for darkwing duck and talespin is a good price and picked both up along with arrested development which is overpriced for 13 episodes, but i had to have it seeing as it is the best show ever made.
 
[quote name='BasketCase1080']you had me sold up until the whole 20 dollars for 24 episodes thing... thats almost a dollar for a half hr show :([/QUOTE]
I think if you timed it, without the commercials it comes out to 22 to 23 minutes.
 
If you wanna get technical, you get 27 episodes in each set. The pilots and are multiple episodes long (tale spin is 4, darkwing duck was 2) and then they fill the 3 discs up with as many episodes to make it 27 total. 9 on each disc.

Darkwing Duck and TaleSpin look AWESOME sitting next to Chip & Dale and Duck Tales. The fact that somebody mentioned that C&D and DuckTales are both getting volume 2 releases and that Gummi Bears is also hitting DVD made my freaking night.
Sad that the only thing they've done for Goof Troop so far was some shitty 3 episode DVD. 3 friggin episodes...and it was like $10 at that.

And I still bought it.

I miss my youthful days of the Disney Afternoon. Wonder if Bonkers is next.... :D And while it's not Disney related, since Animaniacs and Pinky & The Brain got DVD releases, I wonder if Tiny Toons and Freakazoid are coming soon too...
 
It'd be nice if the video quality in Darkwing was better...it looks like it's broadcast quality at best, and I was hoping that they would have at least attempted to clean it up a bit. I haven't opened up Talespin yet, so nothing to complain about there...yet. ;)

Even so, the set is still more than worth owning. :D
 
[quote name='Gothic_Walrus']It'd be nice if the video quality in Darkwing was better...it looks like it's broadcast quality at best, and I was hoping that they would have at least attempted to clean it up a bit. I haven't opened up Talespin yet, so nothing to complain about there...yet. ;)

Even so, the set is still more than worth owning. :D[/quote]
I don't have any problem with it... at least it didn't get a bad transfer, they just didn't improve upon it.

Shit... people keep reminding me that I need to look into Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, and Gummi Bears. Disney's gonna get expensive in a hurry.
 
I'm going in when my Best Buy opens on Wednsday. Hopefully they still have some left. I know Talespin will still eb there.....but I dunno about Darkwing. I wonder if Wal-Mart will match the deal.
 
I'm still miffed at Disney for releasing the Ducktales first season without the damn pilot. Those were my favorite episodes in the entire series. I bought Gargoyles season 1 the first day it came out, but now it looks like I'll end up with an incomplete series due to Disney being more worried about their profit margin than their fans. I highly doubt they are taking a loss releasing the DVDs, it's probably just not as lucrative as they originally hoped. I doubt I'll get Darkwing now since the same thing will probably happen.
 
see I dont buy that it costs them a lot of money, hell the product is already made. I dont really see the pressing of dvds and the casing cost that much money. It just seems that they arent making enough money so they stopped making them.
 
[quote name='kaw'] I doubt I'll get Darkwing now since the same thing will probably happen.[/QUOTE]

It'll be with this type of attitude that it dosen't get released... I took this type of wait and see attitude with Gargoyles, and I feel bad about it now.

It's not just Disney that does this, many DVD publishers will axe a series if the demand isn't there.

It's not just the pressing and casing of these things, but its advertising, cleaning up / restoring the old picture, lots of other little factors going into this.
 
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