Dic’s Animated Christmas Blast
Celebrate The Season with The Best In Animation
Includes 5 Episodes Featuring Today s Most Popular Characters
The Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog: Sonic Christmas Blast
Join Sonic The Hedgehog in an adventure to rescue the spirit of Christmas from the clutches of Robotniklaus and bring joy back to the world!
What-A-Mess: Santa What-A-Mess
What-a-Mess first Christmas finds him questioning the truth about Santa and the holiday.
A Hollywood Hounds Christmas
A country guitar-playing dog learns cultural tolerance and understanding when he teams up with a sax-playing canine and a timbale-playing cat to form the multi-ethnic pet singing group: THE HOLLYWOOD HOUNDS.
Bump In The Night: Twas The Night Before Bumpy
It s the night before Christmas, and Mr. Bumpy is determined to get all the presents in the world! Bumpy and his best pal Squishy embark on a zigzag world tour in their attempt to reach Santa s citadel. Jingle Bell Rock
This family Christmas special, starring comedy legend Milton Berle, introduces us to a troubled Santa who will soon be facing bankruptcy unless he can find some quick cash!
Customer Review: Two discs for only five shows?!
At first glance, Shout! Factory would have a good idea making a release like this. Considering they seem to be the ones in charge of putting most of DiC Entertainment’s cartoon library to the DVD format and doing it right, making a 2-disc compilation of the company’s Christmas material sounds rather natural. Heck, it’s a release I’d have liked to see from Warner Bros. and/or Nickelodeon.
But they’ve by now announced the specials included on the set, listed here:
# Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: “Sonic Christmas Blast”
# What-A-Mess: “Santa What-A-Mess”
# “A Hollywood Hounds Christmas”
# Bump in the Night: “Twas the Night Before Bumpy”
# “Jingle Bell Rock”
That’s it?! Only five shows? How exactly does this constitute as being two-disc-set material when it’s barely even enough for ONE disc? Why couldn’t Shout! Factory put more on this? I guess I can understand the exclusion of “Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” since they lost the Inspector’s video distribution rights to FOX (unjustly in my opinion), but frankly, I see no excuse as to why they couldn’t put the Mario Bros. Christmas episodes (”Koopa Klaus” and “The Night Before Cave Christmas”) and the “Sabrina: The Animated Series” Christmas Carol parody on this set. Maybe then the SRP of $15 would be justifiable. But no, instead we only get five specials that somehow manage to take up two discs. Adding to that, there don’t even appear to be even bonus features to compensate for the lack of material, so unless you’re an obsessive DiC cartoon collector (in which case you may have already gotten the individual DVDs these specials were released on in the past), I can’t see any reason to waste more than $11 on this. “BUY NOW”
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