With the Toy Story 10 Anniversary Edition grabbing headlines today, Warner Home video is hoping there’s enough family entertainment dough to go around for a couple of its animated releases. Following its premiere on Disney channel on Aug. 27, the animated feature, Trollz Volume 1: Best Friends for Life, hits home video shelves today, along with a second offering titled Trollz Volume 2: Magic of the Five. In addition, fans of the ’80s toon series, The Adventures of the Little Prince, can pick up the complete series on DVD.
Trollz is a contemporary version of the world-famous spiky-haired dolls originally created by Thomas Dam in Denmark more than 50 years ago. This new teenage lifestyle brand revolves around five teenage best friends— Amethyst, Onyx, Sapphire, Topaz and Ruby—each offering her own unique style in personality, color and fashion. Together, they form the “Magic of The Five,” to ward off bad spells and extol the virtues of friendship and forgiveness.
Extra features found on the direct-to-DVD Trollz titles include a digital journal for girls to write down their daily adventures, a personality quiz, two music videos and printable bookmarks, door hangers and notecards. The Warner Home Video discs carry a suggested retail price of $19.98.
The Adventures of the Little Prince: The Complete Animated Series is a four-disc set containing all 26 episodes of Nickelodeon show. Based on the children’s book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the series chronicles the exploits of a young royal who lives on the distant asteroid B-612. With the help of a space bird named Swifty, he learns to hitch rides on passing comets and visit far off galaxies. Released by Koch Vision Ent., the DVD set lists for $49.98. Also available are the single-disc releases The Adventures of the Little Prince: Higher Than Eagles Fly and The Adventures of the Little Prince: Somewhere in Space, which each offer three episodes for $9.98.
There’s also some visual effects fun to be found in Lost: The Complete First Season, a seven-disc set containing 24 episodes of ABC’s breakout hit series. Extras include the original pilot, a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, audition tapes, bloopers, commentaries and roundtable discussions. Buena Vista Home Entertainment has it listed at $59.99.
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