THE Best Rankin/Bass Productions blu ray release to date!

In 2023, UMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT released a spectacular blu ray release!  The BEST Rankin/Bass Productions blu ray to date, with Rankin/Bass' The Daydreamer, also starring Boris Karloff (Scorpion/Kino Lorber) and The Year Without A Santa Claus (2008 WB Edition) running a close second and third.   This is what you get on the NEW Mad Monster Party blu ray: 

  Extras:
NEW! 2023 colour-corrected master in correct aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and also alternate full frame 1.33:1.
NEW! Audio Commentary by Rick Goldschmidt (historian/biographer for Rankin/Bass Studios)
NEW! Introduction by Rick Goldschmidt.
NEW! Easter Egg starring IT (King Kong)
NEW! RANKIN/BASS Trailer Collection
MAKING OF A CULT CLASSIC featurette
IT'S SHEER ANIMAGIC! featurette
GROOVY GHOULS! THE MUSIC OF MAD MONSTER PARTY featurette
UNEARTHING A CLASSIC featurette
2 Sing-Alongs
Stills and Poster Gallery
Original Theatrical Trailer

    Now, if only other companies that are releasing the Rankin/Bass Productions TV Specials would take note.  Imagine my horror and shock, when I recently discovered, that the unoffical, unauthorized Rankin/Bass Documentary that was made in 2018, with none of the people that worked with or for Arthur Rankin, Jr. or Jules Bass, included several of my copyrighted photographs and film clips, without my knowledge or consent.  I am working expeditiously to resolve this unfortunate situation.  This doc appears on the Rudolph, Frosty, Santa Claus Is Comin' to town, etc blu rays and collections that carries the Rankin/Bass name, with no official involvement.

 

I am getting all sorts of bad reports on the 4K blu rays and dvd set...

     Many fans are complaining to me of Mastering errors and of course, historical errors with the new 4k blu rays and dvd releases.  I don't own them.  After Universal's failed Blu Ray releases of The Little Drummer Boy (16 mm print with black fades right in the middle of scenes) and their Here Comes Peter Cottontail (They issued the syndicated, time compressed version and it is missing 8 minutes of the special), I gave up.  I was willing to help with these and the Producer they hired, wanted me (we had several long discussions about how to do these right), but politics and budget took over.  I guess I could say, "I told you so!"  I would rather see them done right, so until that time, they do not have the Rankin/Bass Productions seal of approval.  I really wish they did!  I have the original 1964 color ending of Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with the elf throwing the packages out of the sleigh, with the credits on them.  That would be a wonderful extra for fans!  In fact, I have lots of great things that could be extras for all of the Rankin/Bass titles.  I had a friendship with every key player at Rankin/Bass Productions, and could have shared this in commentary, as I did on The Daydreamer blu ray.  The best documentaries to date are the ones we did for The year without a Santa Claus blu ray and for the Mad Monster Party blu ray and dvd.  I will do more for Kino Lorber/Scorpion.