Nostalgia Available on DVD
With almost every television show quickly being released to DVD, it was a matter of time before everyone’s favourite childhood memories started showing up.
Volumes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider-Man, Thundercats, Transformers and other retro television shows have already been released with more coming in the near future.
Everyone’s favourite barbarian hits store shelves Oct. 18 when He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Season One Volume One is released to stores. The second volume of Thundercats first season will land in time for the holidays with a Dec. 6 release date.
The first volume of Thundercats is currently one of the hottest selling DVD sets available.
“We’ve actually completely sold out of it,” said Marc Ibarra of Square One’s Starstruck Entertainment. “When it comes to television DVDs, it’s our best-seller. Usually we get a lot of 20-somethings buying it, but we usually get a lot of guys buying it for their kids as well.”
The past few years have also seen steady releases from Hanna-Barbara, creators of perhaps what are history’s most famous animated series. Nov. 15 will see the release of The Flinstones fourth season, as well as the first volume of The Huckleberry Hound Show. Already released from the studio are collections of Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, and Wacky Races and Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, all affordably priced in the $30 to $40 range.
Fans of the hugely popular Transformers will be happy to know (if they don’t already) that the entire series run is available to own on DVD, as is the 1986 movie released theatrically.
Little girls looking for a role model in the late ’80s found one when Jem hit television screens in 1985. Although the show was originally designed by Hasbro to market a line of their dolls, its pop star concept at a time when MTV was everywhere made it a fan favourite among young girls.
“I remember I wanted to be Jem, like very badly,” said Jenna Patton, first-year radio broadcasting student. “I had pink hair at one point, and it was totally because of Jem. I made a Jem and the Holograms T-shirt because I wanted one so badly.”
Although the shows lack the polish sported by today’s current animation, it’s the nostalgia factor that has students like Sean McNamara, also in his first year of radio broadcasting, coming back to them years later.
“They’re almost more entertaining to watch now because you notice how a lot of the animation is really cheesy and it makes you laugh,” McNamara said.
PUBLISHED IN HUMBER ET CETERA 10.06.05
