Another blu ray snafu!

I picked these up at Wal-mart tonight (after my event) and returning them all tomorrow! Universal is batting 1000 on their blu ray releases! So bad, I don't know where to start. This is the syndicated edited version, missing so many parts I couldn't list them all. Fades to solid black, credits edited, songs edited, etc. So careless, I have no idea how this was issued. As the Rankin/Bass historian/biographer, I wanted to make sure fans are aware and don't waste $. #easter #herecomespetercottontail #rankinbass The last HI DEF DVD, which was perfect, clocks in at 51 minutes. This blu ray is clocking in just over 42 minutes. As Evil Irontail says to Peter, "Careless, careless."

December press release, in case you missed (click to enlarge)

Who created Rankin/Bass' The Island of Misfit toys? Hermey the Elf? Yukon Cornelius? the Bumble? Sam the Snowman?

 

Romeo Muller, Jr.

I have been doing tons of interviews already this season and I get asked about why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the others have lasted so long?!   Not hard to figure out why with the great writer Romeo Muller, who created the Burgermeister Meisterburger, the misfit girl doll, the Heat Miser and Snow Miser, etc.   Look for the article in REMIND MAGAZINE's holiday issue and more!   I will be on the radio and TV coast to coast again talking about the creator and creators of these beloved classics!  

I am scheduling my Holiday radio interviews now....

 

 I will be returning to many of the radio shows I have done in the past!   If you would like to schedule a radio, newspaper or television interview, you can fill out our media request form at www.miserbros.com

or you can email me at Rickgoldsc@aol.com  We will be talking about my new book on the making of Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town and The Daydreamer, book #6 coming in 2019, AMC airing the ABC Family Rankin/Bass specials, My new TV series appearance, the horrible Rankin/Bass blu ray releases of 2018 and more! 

Hermey the dentist! (Created by Romeo Muller, Jr.)

Still getting cool Halloween 🎃 mail! Always nice to get a free corrected replacement! Universal is the worst overall though! #revengeofthecreature #creaturewalksamongus #film #bluray

More problems from Universal...a friend of mine said they were the worst when it came to blu rays

But we’re already getting word of a problem with the Blu-ray 3D release of Revenge of the Creature (1955) that’s included in the 30-Film and Creature sets. Readers are reporting that the 3D presentation has been improperly authored, causing the 1080p 3D image to be badly compromised. The film was beautifully restored in 4K by Robert Furmanek’s 3-D Film Archive and was considered the highlight of these sets and something much anticipated by fans. But it’s been included on the disc in such a way that the left and right-eye imagery is presented side by side (and not one on top of the other, per the Blu-ray spec). That means it’s not full 1080p 3D as it should be. It also means that the second film included on that disc in 2D, The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), isn’t full 1080p either. Both are 720. This appears to have been done as a deliberate choice by the studio to reduce replication costs, but it’s a HUGE mistake, is completely unacceptable, and seriously compromises the presentation of both films. We’ve learned that Universal is “looking into the matter” but here’s the deal: Universal... this is a mistake and you guys need to correct it and make it right with consumers. Author a proper 1080p Blu-ray 3D of Revenge of the Creature and a separate standard Blu-ray of The Creature Walks Among Us and make them available to everyone who has purchased these sets. The Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection currently sells for $137 on Amazon, while the Creature set is $27 for just three films. That is WAY TOO MUCH to pay for compromised quality. Make it right, guys... by redoing it right.

For our readers: We strongly suggest that you all contact the studio’s Customer Support team – via this e-mail link and Facebook – and POLITELY ask them to address this issue.
As soon as we learn more about this, we’ll let you know

Thursday booth C-46

August 18th!

Art Clokey

Big! 🇺🇸

Sunday 🎨

This was a Chicago Tribune spotlight from December 22, 2002. You can see my Animagic figures in the background!

2003 interview clip by Rick Goldschmidt with R/B composer Maury Laws