More Garfield DVD News - NOV/DEC UPDATE

[toonaspie]

According to Best Buy:

Aside from the obvious, that being Garfield and Friends Volume One will be in stores on Tues (WHEEE!)

The second in a series of Garfield specials being released on DVD (the first being "Garfield As Himself" will be "Garfield Holiday Celebrations" which will no doubt consists of
-Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985)
-A Garfield Christmas (1987)
-Garfield's Thanksgiving (1989)
Will be available on Tues October 26

And marketing-it-up is the Garfield Movie which will be available on DVD a week earlier (Tue October 19)

Surely, more info to come

[Loomis]

Yes, I just got information for the Australian release (September 29).

"Contains three classic Garfield episodes plus and inside featurette showing footage from GARFIELD THE MOVIE."

No cover art yet, only for Garfield as Himself.

[Grandmaster C]

I can't wait to have this one just for the Christmas special and the Halloween special with the scary old man that scared me when I was a kid. Awesome stuff.

Here's the cover art...

[Papa Bear]

my Garfield and friends season one set shipped on Friday from Wal-mart.com!!!

[toonaspie]

I love you, Grandmaster C.
Now tell me where you found that pic!

[Disney Guru]

Hey That Sounds Cool.

Another DVD Release I might be buying. I better start getting my Video Collection Converted To DVD, and then sell the videos. So I can have money to buy these new releases.

[Grandmaster C]

I love you, Grandmaster C.
Now tell me where you found that pic!

Awwww shucks.

I got it from the TV Shows On DVD website. They always seem to be the first to get cover artwork and stuff like that for upcoming TV releases. Add it to your favourites.

[toonaspie]

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

from animated news.com

Garfield and Friends Volume 2 will be out on Dec 7
(just in time for Christmas) DING DING DING

This link tells you all the episodes that will be on Volume 2!!!
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2101

Volume 3 is due around May 2005

These people are getting them out pretty quick...I love them!!!

[Prince Adam]

I can't wait to have this one just for the Christmas special and the Halloween special with the scary old man that scared me when I was a kid. Awesome stuff.

Here's the cover art...

I can't wait for this one! I've only seen the Hallowe'en special once years ago, but the Christmas special is a holiday staple, which I have taped from 1994.

[MickeyMousePal]

Cool!!! I love the art work!!!

[Squirrel]

I got the "Garfield & Friends: Volume One," and really enjoyed it ... not having seen the show since I was a child. It's really very funny (and I love the things like the self-references). I'm definitely going to get the next set. Can't wait!

[2099net]

Here's the specs for the UK movie disc (I don't think the US one has been announced yet)

20th Century Fox have announced the November 26th release of both the standard and 2-disc Special Edition DVD sets of Garfield The Movie. Both sets will have the 77mins movie presented with an anamorphic widescreen transfer and DD5.1 English audio.

The single disc release will be a bare-bones affair and will retail at £15.99.

The 2-disc Special Edition will boast a Garfield Inside Look; Find Odie Maze and Mixing Moments set-top games; an audio commentary with Peter Hewitt and John Davis; deleted scenes; a Garfield The Cat To Life featurette; a Grab A Number 2 Pencil multi-angle featurette; a Gone Nutty featurette; The Birth Of Garfield featurette; The Rise Of Garfield featurette; Garfield: From Strip To Script featurtte;an Illustrated Technical Commentary; 5 multi-angle Garfield Composite Workshop segments; and 4 Multi-angle storyboard-to-film comparison segments.

The Special Edition will retail at £24.99.

Edit: Found the specs for the US release (single disc) and the UK sound much superior:

The disc will carry both 1.33:1 full frame and 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfers along with English Dolby Surround 5.1, Spanish Dolby Surround and French Dolby Surround tracks. Extras will include an audio commentary by Director Peter Hewitt and Producer John Davis, the Baha Men "Holla" music video and trailers for Cheaper by the Dozen, Dr. Dolittle, Like Mike, The Sandlot, Strawberry Shortcake. You can also expect a few sneak peaks.

[Edge]

Good to see some Garfield fans here.

First set was great, though this next set probably represents the peak for the show. Every season was great and the show never jumped the shark, but volume two in particular seems to be the pinnacle of the show.

Also can't wait for the tv specials on dvd, right in time for my favorite three months of the year.

I was impressed with how well the show looks after 16 years especially considering it is a saturday morning cartoon. CBS gave the show a nice budget and it obviously shows with the quality the show put out. Had they not wanted to cut the budget during the "let's destroy saturday morning" phase networks went through in the mid 90's, it would have been on even longer.

Still it represents the peak of saturday morning cartoons {CBS has the highest quality lineup IMPO}. It's a welcome addition to my dvd collection.

[toonaspie]

LOOKIE! LOOKIE!!!
from DvDanswers.com:

Fox Home Entertainment has kindly sent over artwork for volume two of Garfield and Friends which will be arriving in shops this December. The set, which contains around 528 minutes of Garfield cartoons, will be available to own from the 7th December this year. The retail price will be set at around $39.98. The cartoons themselves will be presented in 1.33:1 full frame along with English Mono tracks. English and Spanish subtitles will also be included. As far as we know, the only extra material will be a trailer for the recent Garfield movie. We've attached the first look at the official region one artwork below:

I was just watching my volume 1 set over the weekend and it occured to me how much I just cant wait for this to come out!!!

[Squirrel]

I'm looking forward to it, as well ... one of the few things on my list for the remainder of the year.

[toonaspie]

http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/694

Garfield Travel Adventures, the third in the series of TV Specials on DVD.
February 15, 2005

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