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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 8, 2019 17:15:23 GMT
The animations will likely never all be done and certainly we can't expect more than one animated story a year, so the CDs being in print and also available digitally via Audible is a very good thing. If nothing else it stops people who want them having to fork out silly prices for OOP editions.
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 8, 2019 23:20:44 GMT
Probably not every one of them but enough of them. Glad I bought them when they first came out. Guess that an advantage of being older, I was younger when they first came out
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 9, 2019 14:00:17 GMT
Weren't we all... As for the animations, if we get as many as another four or five I'll be very surprised.
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Post by John Wall on Apr 9, 2019 14:13:27 GMT
I hope for more.
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Post by scotttelfer on Apr 9, 2019 15:48:18 GMT
Weren't we all... As for the animations, if we get as many as another four or five I'll be very surprised. If the sales hold up (all signs are positive there) then this could keep going for a decade easily. I could certainly see all of Troughton's run being animated one day. Hopefully the biggest threat to the range will be something new (like the Deep Fake tech) coming along and redirecting their attention rather than something more existential like the range collapsing.
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 9, 2019 18:39:44 GMT
Sooner or alter they may also opt to re do some of the previously released ones as well. I would rather have new animations first though.
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Post by scotttelfer on Apr 9, 2019 20:05:09 GMT
Sooner or alter they may also opt to re do some of the previously released ones as well. I would rather have new animations first though.
Given the time and cost of these animations there's only one reason I could see them going down that road and that's if a previously animated episode comes back and it disrupts the rest of the animation.
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 9, 2019 20:21:39 GMT
I was refereeing to the ones done back in the days when the Restoration Team was producing DVDs. As the quality of the newer animations continues to get better, I can see some one wanting to take another look at some of the early ones. For example a special edition of "The Tenth Planet" with the animation in the same style as "The Power of the Daleks" just to name one
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 9, 2019 22:18:05 GMT
I suspect that any story for which an animation exists will not be considered for a second bite of the cherry, even if there were no more stories left to animate. Non starter.
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 9, 2019 22:35:33 GMT
I would never put it past the BBC to improve the currently available product. I would suspect stuff of this nature will be done when they do some kind of season box set in HD format and compare the animation from The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase to The Power of the Daleks and The Macra Terror. Never put it past the BBC to try and sell us an uupgrade.
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Post by scotttelfer on Apr 10, 2019 15:46:04 GMT
I would never put it past the BBC to improve the currently available product. I would suspect stuff of this nature will be done when they do some kind of season box set in HD format and compare the animation from The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase to The Power of the Daleks and The Macra Terror. Never put it past the BBC to try and sell us an uupgrade. They simply won't have the time. If they were going at a faster rate possibly, but at one animation a year and 3/4 Blu Rays a year, they'll still have other priorities.
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Post by Sofia Fox on Apr 10, 2019 17:36:30 GMT
By the way, since this thread has blown up due to the re-releases. I have the original releases of 1, and 3-5. Even TV Episodes Collection 6. And I can even get Collection Two for a decent price. Got them for $100 or less. 5 I even got for about 25 dollars.
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Post by Alan Hayes on Apr 10, 2019 17:44:11 GMT
I would never put it past the BBC to improve the currently available product. I would suspect stuff of this nature will be done when they do some kind of season box set in HD format and compare the animation from The Tenth Planet and The Moonbase to The Power of the Daleks and The Macra Terror. Never put it past the BBC to try and sell us an uupgrade. They'll spend the money elsewhere. Selling a second animation to a consumer base who are mostly perfectly happy with the first would be very difficult indeed. And it's not as if animation is cheap or quick.
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 10, 2019 20:46:13 GMT
Like I said when they get around to doing a full season box set which I suspect will be a few years before they do any Hartnell - Troughton seasons with many missing episodes. As for people being happy with the early animation efforts I seem to remember quite a lot of comments about how they could have been so much better. Now as the animations improve sadly the earlier ones start to look worse (do to the passage of time). Perhaps they might consider colorizing the early animations when they come up for release on the season sets ?
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Post by scotttelfer on Apr 11, 2019 2:10:32 GMT
Like I said when they get around to doing a full season box set which I suspect will be a few years before they do any Hartnell - Troughton seasons with many missing episodes. As for people being happy with the early animation efforts I seem to remember quite a lot of comments about how they could have been so much better. Now as the animations improve sadly the earlier ones start to look worse (do to the passage of time). Perhaps they might consider colorizing the early animations when they come up for release on the season sets ?
Those animations are three years of work to do properly, the Blu Ray range could very well be complete in six years time (by the most optimistic estimates). That's just not in anyway practical to do, they just don't have the time to waste.
I'm fairly certain everyone involved would rather be working on something new and to get more content onto those discs.
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