After the disappointing release of the Warner Brothers Saturday Moring Cartoons: 1980s earlier this year, I’ve been in kind of a cartoon on DVD funk. Included on that set was a single episode of the series Thundarr the Barbarian, which though I had fond memories of watching it as a kid, I didn’t realize just how damn cool that show was until rewatching that one episode. Because Warners was moving away from full series and season on DVD in favor of cheaper anthology releases, I figured I’d never get a chance to see the rest of the episodes in a format that I really love.
Well, I’m really happy to say that my funk has been broken because the Warner Archive Collection, the company’s print-on-demand arm, has announced that the complete Thundarr the Barbarian will be shipping starting today, September 28th, 2010!
I was excited a year or so ago when the WAC first launched as I was hoping to secure copies of some out-of-print flicks on DVD, but I didn’t hold out any hope that they’d start releasing TV boxsets, let alone of classic cartoons. But last month saw the WAC release of long overdue series on DVD from the 90s, Pirates of Dark Water…
…and from what I’ve gathered from the WAC twitter feed, it looks like a slew of other cartoons are also headed to the POD format…
“We have only just begun to delve into the animation library! We’ve got a few more series in 2010, +/- 2/month planned in 2011”
Also slated for release are Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space and the 1973 Addams Family cartoon. The idea that they’re also planning on around two additional releases per month next year is fantastic! Do I hear releases of the Herculoids, Grape Ape, Speed Buggy, Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles, and Mr. T on the horizon? I sure hope so!
