Classic cartoon action meets new animation based on old favorites as the sixth season of The Flintstones and two volumes of Cartoon Networks’s Gerald McBoing Boing arrive on home video. Also on disc today is Jim Henson’s Fantasy Film Collection, which includes the recently released, CG-laden MirrorMask and two other fan favorites. Meanwhile, Godzilla fans will be rushing out to pick up Gojira, the original Japanese classic available on DVD for the first time in North America.
The Flintstones: The Complete Sixth Season is a four-disc set containing 26 episodes of Hanna-Barbera’s prehistoric comedy from the 1960s. Among the extras is a featurette titled The Flintstones Meets Pop Culture, hosted by Stephen Baldwin (Barney in The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas). There’s also a look at the creation of one of the show’s most famous guest stars titled The Great Gazoo’From A to Zetox. The Warner Home Video release carries a suggested retail price of $44.98.
Classic Media today released two discs featuring episodes of Gerald McBoing Boing, Cookie Jar’s new cartoon series based on the Dr. Seuss book and the 1951 Oscar-winning film that introduced audiences to the little boy who communicates with sound effects. Gerald McBoing Boing Adventures and Gerald McBoing Boing Fairytales each offers six installments and comes with a mini-reprint of the Dr. Seuss book. They can be had for around $12.98 apiece.
Sony has packaged together the Jim Henson Co. productions The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and Mirrormask, and is selling the set for $49.95. The two earlier films bring strange and wonderful characters to life through the kind of puppetry Henson became famous for, while MirrorMask creates a fantasy world with CG. Directed by Dave McKean, the film was completed on a shoestring budget with a crew of 15 British animators right out of art school. Famed fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman was commissioned to write the tale by Jim Henson Co. co-CEOs Lisa and Brian Henson, who wanted something that was equal parts The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. In addition to the three films, the set offers a 16-page Tokyopop Manga book.
Two years after its 50th anniversary, the Japanese monster classic Gojira is finally set free to wreak havoc on DVD. The two-disc set contains both the uncut, original Japanese theatrical release and the Americanized version, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which was re-cut to include footage of Raymond Burr. Both versions have been digitally re-mastered in HD. Fans can pick it up for the list price of $21.98.
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