[Rookie99]

Kind of piggybacking on the predictions thread and apologies if this has already been talked about, but do we think there will be anything major to celebrate Real Ghostbusters this year? Seems like last year we got some stuff that would fit an anniversary, like the artbook and Mondo figures, but could they do anything else? Is there anything you want Sony or Ghost Corps to do for the anniversary?

[RealGBVenkman]

Yes, I would love to see more reissues of the Kenner Real Ghostbusters toy line. I have enjoyed getting a majority of the Kenner Classics reissues so far (Never had Bugeye Ghost or Fearsome Flush during my childhood). Also, I have my fingers crossed that Sony and Ghost Crops will reissue the series on physical media this year. I still fondly remember when Time Life was selling the series on DVD. Additionally, from what I have seen owning either the Time Life DVD set or the Region 2 Blu Ray pressing from Turbine Media is the only way to watch the entire run of 140 episodes.

[camdudetenger2018]

what i would like to see is a re re release of the entire real ghostbusters cartoon where all the episodes are uncut unrated and uncensored plus have extended verisons of all the episodes and also have a bunch of speical features and extras

[zeta otaku]

Unrated? Uncensored? You think the show was censored?! They aired the second Boogieman episode with a ghost's wang exposed...

[timeware]

The detail was so small the FCC missed it the first airing.

[GuyX]

The detail was so small the FCC missed it the first airing.

Makes one feel bad for Mrs Boogieman

[mrmichaelt]

C'mon! You all went to that right away?

[zeta otaku]

I mean, if someone is asking for uncut and uncensored episodes...

[Rookie99]

I'm starting to think this discussion was a mistake...

[Broccoli]

I hope Sony does a re-release of it. Either on DVD or Blu-Ray. I would like to get the series to add to my collection. I know you can get bootlegs out there, but that is such a role of the dice on quality (and which version of the episodes they used since they had Coulier apparently redo some of Music's voice work).

An official release would be ideal.

[camdudetenger2018]

Unrated? Uncensored? You think the show was censored?! They aired the second Boogieman episode with a ghost's wang exposed...

well what if theres lost footages of the real ghostbusters that were unrated and uncensored

[Chicken, He Clucked]

Maybe they could somehow get permission to replace Coulier’s line reads with an AI Lorenzo Music, re-record Laura Summers’ Janine, Arsenio Hall… then I might be able to watch episodes past Hole In The Wall Gang…

[timeware]

Eh, Is AI really there yet? Peter Cullen might be a better fit. (If you're looking for something robotic. Lol.)

[robbritton]

Maybe they could somehow get permission to replace Coulier’s line reads with an AI Lorenzo Music, re-record Laura Summers’ Janine, Arsenio Hall… then I might be able to watch episodes past Hole In The Wall Gang…

Who needs AI when Parker Simmons exists? https://youtu.be/RsQCAkbLhwQ?si=NY4ajFEzBSamMoOn

[zeta otaku]

Or we respect the actors who were hired to do a job and not do something ghoulish like replace their work with cheap, lifeless AI.

I wouldn't mind a BR release of the series

[Rookie99]

I'd say using AI to replace performances and resurrect the dead is NOT a way to celebrate. Ew.

[timeware]

Didn't the animated series the Critic touch that subject at one point? I Yeah, the all new Mr. Rogers AI videos are very creepy.

[Light em Up]

I think the Mondo figures will likely be the centerpiece of what we get this year. Ghost Corps have said they have something planned for the anniversary, but I don't have high expectations. I'd love to be wrong, because it would be great to see something like the series getting a restoration.

On a side note, I noticed that Sony's Youtube channel from India has started posting full episodes (in English). Perhaps the GB Youtube channel will begin posting their episodes once again for the anniversary. That could help with their inactivity as of late.

[camdudetenger2018]

i might rewatch the real ghostbusters lol

[Chicken, He Clucked]

The Mondo hype seems to be taking a hiatus. Maybe just for me as I'm not planning on getting Louis & Grundel. But for the first time we don't really know what's next. My bank balance is grateful, of course. And the Visual History was last year, so...

And as far as I'm concerned AI Lorenzo Music is less ghoulish than most of Dave Coulier's line reads...

[mrmichaelt]

We already have seen some social media i.e. Sony India's youtube start up. We'll probably see more of that across Sony's various accounts.

May, Mondo's Ray & Ghash ship at some point.

Gotta be some reveals in June on GB Day otherwise c'mon what are they doing over at Sony? Like last time I'm sure Hasbro at least will be there to show off the Ecto Glow line again, maybe tease what's next.

July for sure. At Comic Con, they'll likely reveal the next figures for Mondo and then Hasbro's Ecto Glow Copter will be con exclusive it's looking like + whatever the plan is for Ecto Glow Louis.

Even if it's DVD, I'd love for them re-release a complete RGB + Slimer! + pilot boxset. Some of my discs from the Time Life set have succumbed to disc rot and while I did buy the incomplete set a few years ago for steal would be nice to have all of them. A Blu-ray transfer would be cool but eh.

[J.D. Cooper]

If they ever do an anniversary re-release box set of the series, would love to see them include a CD of all the original soundtrack music by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy. That'd be pretty sweet...

Hey, I can dream

[Light em Up]

The videos from Sony Pictures Entertainment India have now been made private. Perhaps they were uploaded prematurely.

[mrmichaelt]

Perhaps they will reappear closer to September when the series premiere anniversary is.

[Razorgeist]

Not expecting much but my ultimate wish would be a Masters of the Universe: Revelations style sequel mini or animated movie.

[Kingpin]

I anticipate a new collected media release, given the Time Life set has been out of production for years. I'd speculate it'd probably be a Blu-Ray release (but likely without any substantive improvement in picture quality over the DVD sets) and would carry over the special features from the TL release that can be cleared by legal.

[camdudetenger2018]

if dvds and blue rays were still around i think there would have been a real ghostbusters complete animated series 40th anniversary super sized box set

[GuyX]

Maybe this has been answered before but where are all the film elements to this show?

While an AI upscale is possible there’s got to be some film material somewhere from this show? All those episodes over how many years? Even if it’s in 16mm. AI isn’t what I’d want since most of the time it looks like slop but there’s been the rare “mediocre” result.

I’ve seen Extreme Ghostbusters done in HD but that show had terrible animation done on the cheap. RGB had some good stuff. That pilot that was found and remastered is just beautiful. Obviously the whole show wouldn’t be that fluid and dynamic but the VHS masters used for dvd aren’t holding up.

[mrmichaelt]

Presumably destroyed. Maybe a few could be in DiC or Sony's archives. But for the former, WildBrain owns them now. Not sure where DiC archives are, either Burbank or WildBrain's headquarters in Toronto. But then again, neither had the RGB pilot and by luck Robert Barbieri stumbled onto the pilot's film reel.

However, I'm pretty sure to save on storage costs and space, once film copies of episodes were transferred to broadcast beta tapes, the originals were destroyed. The tapes I think are the most original source left.

edit: Robert mentioned it a few times:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3214495 ... 0013504643
"speaking of Film copies, I can officially confirm they just dont exist. DIC was cheap after moving many times in the 80s and decided to lose some dead weight and save storage money and film copies of the episodes were discarded once they were transferred to supermax broadcast beta tapes."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQL4CFu ... G9Jat2F2Al
"As the Director of this pilot told me, DiC had moved their storage so many times, at one point they decided to cost cut and get rid of some clutter basically. They had the U-Matic broadcast tapes so the heavy film reels which were also a potential fire hazard as learned by the fire at the Universal Studios lot where the BTTF2 2015 set got destroyed. DiC discarded their expensive liability of film stock."

[Kingpin]

"speaking of Film copies, I can officially confirm they just dont exist. DIC was cheap after moving many times in the 80s and decided to lose some dead weight and save storage money and film copies of the episodes were discarded once they were transferred to supermax broadcast beta tapes."

Bugger... Though it's useful to have that confirmation.

It's a bloody shame, but companies like DiC and the BBC just had no way of knowing that there'd be demand to rewatch these shows years/decades after their broadcast, or that there would be superior options for clearer picture quality than the 1980s and the 1960s had available.

If only we had a time machine.