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Post by barneyhall on Oct 23, 2023 1:15:47 GMT
I think the most exciting and anticipated release must be The Daleks Masterplan animation,preferably as a stand-alone boxset.The sheer number of episodes and extras would make a remarkable addition to the animations-as long as it's done properly of course! I won't deny that would be fantastic. Its 10 episodes though. It'd be an expensive and massive project. Maybe it they bundled mission to the unknown in with myth makers or used the uni recon that would help. But I think if they did it they would animate all 13 eps as they have with everything else think your tight about a box set. Would be an easy way to increase the price on something like this too like £40 for a multi disk set. It'd be steep but that story is always going to be an up hill struggle....could even go the target books route and split it into 2 6s and sell each one for £25 £30 before combining them in a collection later. Lots of possibilities
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Post by stevehoare61 on Oct 23, 2023 4:40:33 GMT
and thats the big point isnt it Jaspal, as long as its done properly. Expanding on sets, changing peoples features, deleting little bits and even altering the baddies images, doesnt really make for a reconstructed animated version. Stay as absolutely as close to the original as is possible. Thats the entire point especially as the vast majority of buyers will be fans that want as near a complete collection as is possible.
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Post by mattg on Oct 24, 2023 12:18:11 GMT
and thats the big point isnt it Jaspal, as long as its done properly. Expanding on sets, changing peoples features, deleting little bits and even altering the baddies images, doesnt really make for a reconstructed animated version. Stay as absolutely as close to the original as is possible. Thats the entire point especially as the vast majority of buyers will be fans that want as near a complete collection as is possible. ‘Expanding on sets’ - I find this particular embellishment to be especially unnecessary, even jarring at times. Nowhere is this dubious refinement more overt than in Fury from the Deep in which the original rig control room was little more than a closet compared to the virtual football pitch sized version seen in the animation! Accordingly the story’s claustrophobic atmosphere becomes largely redundant by dint of the original audio, compressed as a result of being recorded in limited studio space (as well as being an amateur off air recording of course), no longer matching up with the new expansive, sweeping visuals of the animation… Sadly I doubt these contentious creative decisions are going to be discarded anytime soon...
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Post by RhysH on Oct 24, 2023 22:28:52 GMT
Finished off my season 20 set over last couple of nights - watched the 40th anniversary version of The Five Doctors last night (1 month to the 60th!), and really enjoyed the enhanced effects and sound quality. All versions available, so it’s fab we get the chance to have an upgrade. This evening has been the remaining extras and these definitely feel like saving the best to last! The road trip to Germany for Peter, Sarah and Janet was great fun - hope we see more of those type of things on future sets! And the visit to Amsterdam with those 3 plus Mark was fab also. Really well made, lots of banter between them all and lots of nice stories and locations revisited.
Great set - big thanks to all involved! Looking forward to the next one already!
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Post by timmunton on Nov 16, 2023 0:18:18 GMT
Re: The new colour abridged version of The Daleks -
It's been announced that it'll be released on disc on 12th February 2024 & will additionally include all 7 unabridged episodes in the original black and white.
I assume these episodes will be newly scanned & newly restored: Can anyone please confirm if this is the case? (though I can't imagine they wouldn't newly restore them as no doubt that would be deemed necessary as the basis for the new colourisation).
I'm not really interested in it in colour but if the original 7 b&w episodes are being freshly done that's something I'd love to see. And presumably it will fully utilise the better quality source material for some parts, that's been unearthed since its DVD release?
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Post by John Wall on Nov 16, 2023 0:30:44 GMT
BBC 4 7,30 on the 23rd.
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Post by timothyk on Nov 16, 2023 2:30:40 GMT
Re: The new colour abridged version of The Daleks - It's been announced that it'll be released on disc on 12th February 2024 & will additionally include all 7 unabridged episodes in the original black and white. I assume these episodes will be newly scanned & newly restored: Can anyone please confirm if this is the case? (though I can't imagine they wouldn't newly restore them as no doubt that would be deemed necessary as the basis for the new colourisation). I'm not really interested in it in colour but if the original 7 b&w episodes are being freshly done that's something I'd love to see. And presumably it will fully utilise the better quality source material for some parts, that's been unearthed since its DVD release? Episode 7 has been newly scanned & restored from the original negative discovered at the BFI - it's suppressed field though so still low resolution but an improvement Episodes 1-6 are upscales of the DVD restorations with some additional work I have no idea if any of these new HD versions will be used in full for the blu-ray, I've seen it mentioned the b&w episodes are on DVD only so it could just be the existing DVD masters, I really don't know!
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Post by barneyhall on Nov 16, 2023 13:07:49 GMT
To be fair it wouldn't shock me if they just include the standard dvd quality black and white eps. At the end of the day the point of the release is it being in colour. That way when they announce the season one collection it can be in HD for the first time and newly restored....we all know how much aunty loves a double, triple, quadruple dip.
And this isn't really a dig at the end of the day if fans will buy the releases and it makes money then why not
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Post by markperry on Nov 16, 2023 21:14:49 GMT
Looks like that implies Season 1 won't be coming any time soon.
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Post by barneyhall on Nov 16, 2023 22:30:35 GMT
Looks like that implies Season 1 won't be coming any time soon. well tbh I'm not expecting it any time soon. I think there is a good chance Marco will get an animation one day, and they won't do it till the licensing issues with Unearthly child is sorted. So I think we've got lots of time to wait
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Post by timmunton on Nov 17, 2023 18:24:15 GMT
Re: The new colour abridged version of The Daleks - It's been announced that it'll be released on disc on 12th February 2024 & will additionally include all 7 unabridged episodes in the original black and white. I assume these episodes will be newly scanned & newly restored: Can anyone please confirm if this is the case? (though I can't imagine they wouldn't newly restore them as no doubt that would be deemed necessary as the basis for the new colourisation). I'm not really interested in it in colour but if the original 7 b&w episodes are being freshly done that's something I'd love to see. And presumably it will fully utilise the better quality source material for some parts, that's been unearthed since its DVD release? Episode 7 has been newly scanned & restored from the original negative discovered at the BFI - it's suppressed field though so still low resolution but an improvement Episodes 1-6 are upscales of the DVD restorations with some additional work I have no idea if any of these new HD versions will be used in full for the blu-ray, I've seen it mentioned the b&w episodes are on DVD only so it could just be the existing DVD masters, I really don't know! Thanks for that timothyk. I'm suprised they didn't do new scans for 1 - 6, as a basis for the new colour version, as the dvd was quite a long time ago now. Hopefully it will be made clear soon-ish officially & for definite, or maybe from one of the people on this forum who knows about these things, as to whether new work has been done for the 7 b&w episodes on the forthcoming February 2024 release. If they're the same as on the DVD release I'll give the new set a miss & wait for the eventual Season 1 Collection. Be nice if they were brushed up now though as it's a while since I last watched them. Musing further; I guess it's likely that - for those who like such things - there'll be an unabridged 7 episode version of the colourised version when that Season 1 Collection is eventually released? Just as the animated Shada eventually got the full separate episodes treatment - though I realise the previous animated version of that only really omitted the individual start/end titles & recap bits. Whereas The Daleks is grossly cutdown to a mere 75 minute "Movie" version. So a lot more left of The Daleks to be potentially colourised - & at quite a lot more expense I'd imagine (if it hasn't already been done now, ready for future usage).
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Post by markperry on Nov 17, 2023 18:36:06 GMT
To me it will feel like a double dip the same as Shada: buy now, season later
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Nov 17, 2023 22:39:10 GMT
I've received The Underwater Menace blu-ray steel box but it is as yet shrink-wrapped and sitting on my shelf.One of my favourite DVD features is the production notes which I always have on whilst watching every serial (apparently you shouldn't have this on whilst at the same time listening to audio commentary!).Looking at the features on the steel book,production notes are not mentioned.For anyone who's started watching TUM,is this just not listed or are there really no on-screen production notes for this release?
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Post by timmunton on Nov 20, 2023 12:35:00 GMT
I've only watched the b&w animated episode 1 (actualy generally very good) on Disc 1 & unfortunately there's no on-screen production notes on that episode. I doubt they put notes on the recon for episode 1 but will check for them on that & the 2 original episodes when I resume viewing, & update you here if no one's updated you before that.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Nov 20, 2023 22:20:44 GMT
I've only watched the b&w animated episode 1 (actualy generally very good) on Disc 1 & unfortunately there's no on-screen production notes on that episode. I doubt they put notes on the recon for episode 1 but will check for them on that & the 2 original episodes when I resume viewing, & update you here if no one's updated you before that. Thanks so much for your efforts Tim!
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