Comic-Con sees official Real Ghostbusters DVD announcement
Posted on July 24, 2008
Time-Life has sent out a press release on the Real Ghostbusters DVD set, now that the official announcement has been made at the San Diego Comic Con today. And while we’ve heard some of these details already, it’s good to get the official list. I’ve highlighted the stuff that caught me eye - it’s all good stuff, but there are some real notables in there;
THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS: THE COMPLETE SERIES
Ship date: November 20, 2008
Online pre-order: July 23, 2008
List price: $179.99Online Exclusive Collection includes [contents subject to change]:
* 25 total DVDs packaged in a specially-constructed box. 24 DVDs contain 134 episodes of The Real Ghostbusters, a special double-length alternate episode, and 13 episodes of Slimer!
* 5 DVD digipak subsets with individual covers, each packaged with a 16-page booklet, including episode synopses, trivia, and art.
* 1 Bonus DVD contains over three hours of bonus materials, including extended interviews, the never-before-seen promotional pilot (with commentary and storyboards), and more.
* 5 Documentaries spotlight Creating The Real Ghostbusters, Animating The Real Ghostbusters, The Heroes of The Real Ghostbusters, The Creatures of The Real Ghostbusters, and The Green World of Slimer.
* 21 innovative on-camera commentary tracks feature producers, writers, artists, voice actors, and other The Real Ghostbusters personnel. Watch the commentary participants as they interact, while inset screens show the episode and a dynamic slideshow.
* 86 special episodic introductions showcase the talented people behind The Real Ghostbusters.
* Exclusive interviews with Joe Medjuck (Executive Producer), Michael C. Gross (Executive Producer), J. Michael Straczynski (Writer & Story Editor), Len Janson (Writer & Story Editor), Maurice LaMarche (Voice Of ” Egon Spengler”), Laura Summer (Voice Of First “Janine Melnitz”), Kath Soucie (Voice Of Second “Janine Melnitz”), Kevin Altieri (Director & Storyboard Supervisor), Kathryn M. Drennan (Writer), Michael Edens (Writer), David Gerrold (Writer), Pamela Hickey (Writer), Dennys J. McCoy (Writer), Francis Moss (Writer), Richard T. Mueller (Writer), Marc Scott Zicree (Writer), Marsha Goodman (Voice Director & Voice Casting), Gabi Payn (Character Designer - Heroes), Everett Peck (Character Designer - Monsters), Michael Diederich (Designer), Brad Rader (Storyboard Artist), Dan Riba (Storyboard Artist), Michael Swanigan (Storyboard Artist), Rich Arons (Animator), Darrell McNeil (Layout Artist), Derdad Aghamalian (Color Key Artist), David S. Karoll (Color Key Artist), and James Eatock (Publisher of cereal:geek Magazine).
* Multiple image galleries of Character Designs, Backgrounds, Model Sheets, Promotional Art, Advertising Art, and more.
* Selection of dialogue-free “Music & Effects” episodic audio tracks
* Original series bumpers and textless “clean credits.”
* DVD-ROM Material: Series Bibles, Episodic Scripts and Storyboards in PDF format (Mac/PC compatible).
* Exciting material from the Sierra Ghostbusters; The Video Game
* More features to be announced.
“The Real Ghostbusters has had a strong and vocal fanbase for years, and the series has been one of the most requested shows for DVD release” says Jeff Peisch, head of Time Life’s video division. “Time Life has a long history of releasing classic properties in a way that viewers appreciate, and we intend this Complete Series release to be extraordinary. From the digitally restored episodes to the extensive bonus materials, this set will have fans calling for the Ghostbusters again and again.”
To produce the most comprehensive selection of extra materials ever seen for a complete animated television series box set, Time Life has engaged the services of Special Features producers Andy Mangels and Reed Kaplan. Mangels is a best-selling novelist, author of Animation on DVD: The Ultimate Guide, and the producer whom TVShowsonDVD.com called “legendary.” Mangels and Kaplan are producing the five documentaries, 21 commentary tracks, and a multitude of other extra content surprises. The duo were assisted by James Eatock of cereal:geek magazine. “I hope that fans will be spooked by how much cool material we’re putting together for this set,” said Mangels. “We’re including everything we can, short of duplicating the keys to the Ghostbusters car, the Ecto-1.” Covers for The Real Ghostbusters set and its interior cases will be by comic artist Emiliano Santalucia and MVCreations.
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Sometimes I wonder what we did to deserve all this wonderful GB stuff that’s coming out this fall. This DVD set is the stuff of dreams.
We hung in there for 25 years?
Good one!
I’ll second that castewar!
Wow, this fall is going to be amazing.
And “Alternate Episode”?!
D:
Now that’s just spooky (pardon the pun), Emiliano Santalucia was originally slated to provide a varient cover for the first monthly issue of the 88MPH Comic.
And now, he’s going to be doing cover artwork for the series… I can’t wait to see his representation of the RGBs. :)
I’m certainly intrigued by that ‘alternate episode’ note… especially being billed as ‘double length’. I wonder what it could refer to…
I really can’t get *any* sleep this days. There’s so much going on, I could miss something…
I was wondering if it didn’t mean the prime-time special.
I’m soo jealous of everyone at comi-con having the opprotunity to to be that close to the ghostbusters game..lol..ah well..I’ve waited almost 10 years for a good GB another 2 and a half months isn’t gonna kill me…lol
So… does anyone know if this was the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT that was advertised so long ago? It’s strange that it was made prior to the Ghostbusters panel… does this mean that we have yet to hear the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT?
There is a good chance this is the big announcement - we’ve known about it for awhile, but we (as big fans) are right on the bleeding edge of news. The rest of the world is still tuning into the news, and most won’t know about it until standard news outlets cover today’s press release. As I understand it, the pre-order info, etc. went out a little early, as well as the details that were already leaked. Keeping secrets are hard in the internet age.
There may yet be surprises coming out of the show (the IDW comic was a nice surprise and there’s the panel for the video game tomorrow, etc.), but we should also be prepared that this is it or that the big news is something we’re already familiar with.
I’m more than happy with what’s already on the table. Never in all my ghostbusting dreams have I even imagined the score we’re about to get this fall.
the special features alone are worth it.. it is going to be an awesome set…
someone saying…”there has to be a teaser trailer!!!!! it will be today on youtube!!!”
# Ben King July 24, 2008 5:12 pm
Now that’s just spooky (pardon the pun), Emiliano Santalucia was originally slated to provide a varient cover for the first monthly issue of the 88MPH Comic. And now, he’s going to be doing cover artwork for the series… I can’t wait to see his representation of the RGBs. :)
Don’t expect for some wildly different interpretation. I’m pretty sure that he’s going to have to draw them on-model, or pretty darn close.
I’m certainly intrigued by that ‘alternate episode’ note… especially being billed as ‘double length’. I wonder what it could refer to…
It’s the 1-hour version of “Deja Boo”, which is included along with the 30-minute version. It’s nice that Time-Life is making special note of this alternate. Hopefully the other alternate episodes (redubs, Tahiti music, Attack Of The B-Movie Monsters brief alt footage, and Short Stuff voices-only production tape) will be included as well.
(Chris, please delete my first post as I left some things out of it. Thanks.)
I expected this would be the big announcement.
As I knew it would slip early on. Just knowing how the internet is and how things “get out there”…..
With that being said, this extrordinary (sp?), PHENOMENAL!
Learning that the complete series was suprise enough. But Time-Life is going BEYOND the extra mile. I’m very appreciative. This is pure BLISS!
Please, a french track…Or at least, french subtitles…
They have a French subtitles from the previous releases (or at least I seem to recall the Ghostbusters 2 disc was the single most translated version ever), so I’d be surprised if it didn’t have at least the French subtitles.
And we know the discs are being produced for Europe, so there’s a good chance of a version in French too. We’ll know more as the disc listings start to appear on web retail sites all over.
This is the BIG announcement?!?! WhereS the trailer for Ghostbusters CGI ?? :(
WE WANT SHUKI LEVYS MUSIC!
[...]* More features to be announced.[...]
Please… spanish subtitles… PLEASEEEE!!!
UNFORTUNATELY, I suppose that dream-set will not include any other audio track… spanish (LATIN) for example.
I am a spanish (LATIN) speaker and I’m a loyal fan from Ghostbusters and Real Ghostbusters from ’80s.
In fact, in Southamerica, Real Ghostbusters seasons were aired -continuosly- from 1987 until 1996.
But I think is 99% sure that this incredible-set doesn’t include spanish (LATIN) audio track.
For this reason… I can’t dream with this fabulous-DVD-set.
(sigh…)
c.v.
# castewar July 25, 2008 1:18 am
They have a French subtitles from the previous releases (or at least I seem to recall the Ghostbusters 2 disc was the single most translated version ever), so I’d be surprised if it didn’t have at least the French subtitles.
And we know the discs are being produced for Europe, so there’s a good chance of a version in French too. We’ll know more as the disc listings start to appear on web retail sites all over.
Sounds to me like you forgot this topic is about the RGB DVD set and not the movie DVDs. Don’t sweat it, we all get a brain freeze sometimes :-)
As for foreign language tracks, there’s always a possibility, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up if I were you. I think you’d be better off hoping for foreign language subtitles instead, though that’s assuming that Time-Life is willing to pay for people to do the translations since I doubt that any already exist (unless they happen to find some old foreign language closed-caption tracks they can convert to subtitle format).
Marathoning makes me feel good!