http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=194&itemid=13268

I hear a lot of hopefull discussion about finally releasing the G1 Japanese TF series in North America..... my question is.... Why now that Hasbro reaquires them is this possible??? Not that I'm complaining but, The U.K. has had them on DVD for years, and yesterday there was an announcement that Madman would release Victory on DVD for Australian R4. Why couldn't Rhino have released these previosly??? --Oh well, the one hope I am still clinging to is that now "perhaps" North America can get a legitimate dub as well as subtitled versions of these series.
(Still holding on to my staright Japanese VHS & English/Cantonese DVD copies until we get them though...)


On a side note, lets bring on- Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends on DVD already!! :)

Yay! It's about time! I hope to see the G1 series released again... and perhaps see the other Japanese versions.

The deal is for Sunbow's Library and as far as I know Sunbow never had anything to do with the Japanese shows. In any case, I hope we get new, less expensive, DVDs out of this.

EDIT: What does Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends have to do with anything? It wasn't even made by Sunbow and Disney currently owns it.

Woo hoo! This opens up the potential for a dvd release of Visionaries!

yes, and many many more...

It'd be nice to get the full set of Inhumanoids, too.

And I need the rest of my GI Joe box sets!

Oh for the love of Destro, please finish the G.I. Joe DVD sets!!! I just recently rewatched them all and hate how I can't finish up Season 2. I'd want the 90's ones to be put out as well. This seems like great news.




.....Wait Sunbow isn't connected with the 90's G.I. Joe is it?

Here's another article. They mention Visionaries and Inhumanoids. Not great news though.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Transform...res-Rights/9624

Their info is incorrect. There were 2 DVDs of Inhumanoids released. The 3rd DVD was not released, so Inhumanoids was incompletely released, like Jem.

Truly, truly outrageous.








:rimshot:

Jem is a whore.

No, the 2 "post movie" seasons released in 1990 & 1991 were produced by DIC (think Inspector Gadget). Although shunned by most GI:Joe fans, I liked how they were ale to draw some sort of "continuity" from the old series, and some of the original voice actors were used as well. "Operation Dragonfire" the first mini-series of that run was pretty darn cool as I recall

I had no idea that Rhino had incomplete releases for so many series (other than Inhumanoids). Hopefully now we can get full sets as previously stated, as well as Visionaries, Bigfoot, and all those other cool short-run sunbow series.

Oh btw.... were Dino-Riders & Robocop Sunbow or Marvel??? ---By the way BR, about your reply, you are partially right. Sunbow re-distributed a lot of the early 80's Marvel toons for syndication in the early 90's, however rights have since been held by Saban then- Disney (Jetix)

Man... We'll never get the 90's Joe seasons on DVD..... Although I have a high quality VCD of the Dragonfire Miniseries. Dragonfire was awesome.

Have you guys seen this?

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=9&itemid=12989

5 DVD sets each with 3-4 figures, dioramas, Mass Device peice, and DVD with a 5 part mini-series. There are only 5 miniseries that lenth throughout GI Joe. They are:

"MASS Device" (The first mini-series)
"The Revenge Of Cobra" (Weather Dominator)
"Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" (The first of season 2)
"GI Joe: The Movie" (It was split into 5 episodes)
"Operation Dragonfire" (The first of the DiC series)

Link above shows the first 2 sets. Here's hoping for a Sgt. Slaughter in one of the others.

So, yeah, all the main points of GI Joe will be out by the end of this year. Hope they do this kind of thing for Tranformers' 25th line :D

Sadly that is where GI Joe trounced Transformers, in epic 5-part episodes. While GIJ had 5, TFs only had "Five Faces of Darkness" and the movie (Which I don't count as it was released as a "Movie" both in for and quality but it's included anyway). I'm not sure, Blade or Archangel can probably conform this, but I think GI Joe had more 2-3 parters than Transformers also.

Transformers had:
"FFoD" (5)
"TF:TM" (5)
"The Ultimate Doom" (3*)
"More than Meets the Eye." (3) (to be included with 25th Annivarsy Optimus Prime)
"Rebirth" (3)
"Key to Vector Sigma" (2)
"Return of Optimus Prime" (2)
"Megatron's Master Plam" (2)
"Dinobot Island" (2)
"Desertion of the Dinobots" (2)

Hell, I"m pretty damn sure "Ducktales" had more 5-parters than Transformers! Though you could count "The Ultimate Doom!" as a four-parter if you inlcluded "Countdown to Extintion".

While multi-parters in Transformers were less often than in GI Joe, it made it seem that much more special when it DID happen.
Actually, IF Hasbro goes the DVD pack route, they may included DVDs from other series.

EDIT: and the DVD packs will include the ENTIRE mini-series?!! I was under the impression Hasbro would be a bastard and included 1 episode per set!

I think I read that a few of those DVD packs would just contain a few favorite episodes on a few. And then Mass Device, Revenge of Cobra, Pyramid of Darkness... I didn't read anything about Operation Dragonfire. Still it would be a good sign if that did happen.

Meant to post weeks ago that I checked my source and it was just guesswork. Anyways, today proof came out on what each set is and which M.A.S.S. Device peice is.

Set 1 The M.A.S.S. Device - Console & Element Containers
Set 2 The Revenge Of Cobra - Generator
Set 3 Arise Serpentor Arise! - Control Turrent
Set 4 Pyramid Of Darkness - Transport Chassis
Set 5 G.I. Joe Best Of Episodes - Beam Emitter

Still no clue what figures come with Sets 3-5, but here's hoping for Sargent Slaughter.

Source: http://www.hisstank.com/gi-joe-news/25th-a...ge-update-7397/