http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000A6T212/002-7543403-3665660?v=glance&n=130&n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance Inspector Gadget has been one of the more infrequently active 80s' cartoon properties, making the occasional comeback every so often, ever since the underrated but critically panned first movie starring Matthew Broaderic was released, there have been multiple attempts at an accurate interpretation from Buena Vista, each often always coming short in some way. The animated movie "Gadgets' Last Case" was their finest hour, they NEARLY got everything right with that one, barring the talking Gadgetmobile and Quimby acting like his movie persona, Claw acted like...Claw, Mad Cat was no longer a white persian Blofied novelty act, but a slightly bulkier, emo clad fashion disaster, and Penny had evolved from one of the guiltiest pleasures in terms of perverse animation idolisation into a shorter pig tailed, eneretic, and playful teen. Following this, the designs were retained, but Brain was dropped, for the series "Gadget and the Gadgetinies", in which Gadget now worked for a military divsion under the command of Col. Noiseheir (or "Colnel Nosehair" as Gadget prefers to misinterpret it), another example of trying to restore Gadget to his roots, but completly missing the boat by miles. This latest offering from Mainframe (you know...the canadian group responsible for Reboot and Beast Wars, but who now seem content to mass produce half assed Barbie movies), is now available from major DVD retailers, the question remains though...is it finally what many fans have been expecting of Gadget? More or less...yes. Gadget is now no longer in his dark coat, he does'nt work for some french lutenant, nor is he assisted by two bumbling cyborg duplicates. Now voiced by newcomer to the role Bernie Mac, Gadget returns to his grey trenchcoat, and Brain returns to the fold Gadgets' Last Case sees many of the characters, barring Gadget, retain their character designs from Beuna Vistas' versions (probably because they leased Mainframe the rights to create this film), the writers have stayed true to the Gadget concepts, and Quimby is given more than a handful of self destructing assignment notes in this feature. The Gadgetmobile still talks however, and hes' undergone another makeover, hes' returned to his grey and blue format, but still resembles LITTLE of his original format, the series' roots are maintained throughout, with Gadgets' bumbling, and MADS' perserveriance in tharwting him, for Mainframe, the story is a pretty average affair, but given they have not heard of the word "excellent" since Reboot was cancelled for the final time, this is way above "Barbie" and its' numerous sequels currently up against Land Before Time in terms of "how many crappy sequels they can mass distribute", Claw is also characterised perfectly, sitting there on his throne, observing Gadget, contacting his agents, smashing his desk in anger, and proclaiming he'll get Gadget next time. Thats' all Claw needs to be. Not Rupert Everret. Not an outgoing chamelion in disguise, CLAW. Gadgetinies did this, Greatest Caper follows suit. An enjoyable, redeeming feature, finally, Gadget has been given the proper treatment, its' not perfect in terms of proper apperances, but given the franchises' record of near misses and blown oppertunties since the movie, a welcome relief that somebody finally has gotten it right. This Message Will Self Destruct.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-10-27-takei-gay_x.htm?csp=27 ...Sooner rather than later George, I think we all knew by this point, anyone mad enough to dance around half naked pointing a large sword in cavalier fashion was just itching for a finger to start pointing.

Felt the need to return to TZ and live up to my promise of addressing FBs' reputation, not only have I succeeded, hes' contemplated fleeing from the forum, I have since apologised for resorting to that, but I felt at the time the guy finally needed to learn he is going to piss someone off eventually with the way he carries himself, either an ex-member contributing again or a regular or new member I've since used the gullibility of the site to arrange a job with the G.K.A Times and will be posting there soon with a few articles and reviews on numerous subjects as it attains to animation or live action. So much for the "pathetic blog from my parents' basement" I'll always be back guys, it has nothing to do with personal grudges, it has nothing to do with trolling, its' about a trait we both share, we are all animation fans. I can be sociably difficult to handle, true, in that sense, F.B is a little more restrained than I am, and thats' what warrants my multiple bannings, but you know I'll be back, and you'll know I'll bring good conversations. 'CAUSE THATS' HOW I ROLL http://peepulation.ytmnd.com/

TV.COMs' own Chris Mcfeely comes through with a fairly good review of the complete box set release of the first pure Takara Transformers series, scheduled for exclusive release in the United Kingdom, this set, horribly dubbed in 1980s' canucker langauge, is quite a fasincating step by step guide into how you don't translate Transformers from Japan to an audience you clearly should never treat like morons http://forums.transfandom.com/invboard/index.php?showtopic=31410&view=findpost&p=296279

VARIETY reports that Genndy Tartakovsky (creator, SAMURAI JACK, DEXTER'S LABORATORY; director, STAR WARS: CLONE WARS) has left Cartoon Network and become the creative president of a new San Francisco fx studio called Orphanage Animation Studios. "After 14 years in TV, I was burned out and wanted to express longer stories and experience them with an audience," Tartakovsky tells VARIETY. "We'll do family comedies, but we also really want to push action-adventure beyond where it has been." The piece says that Orphanage is planning to do animated features for a hefty pricetag of $50-75 million apiece, which frankly, at least to me, already sounds like a troubling sign. At those prices, they'll likely be inclined to play it safe and emulate the formulas of other successful studios, instead of having the freedom to take artistic risks and attempt breaking new animation ground. The studio aims to release its first film in 2008, followed with a new film every 18 months thereafter. The VARIETY piece suggests that, "Orphanage Animation is being built on a model similar to Pixar, with execs hoping Tartakovsky will be the John Lasseter figure who will helm the first film or two and then oversee a team of inhouse creative talent developing future pics." Best of luck to Genndy, and here's to hoping a good new studio evolves out of this. Yeah, and why do I get the suspicion Samurai Jack getting the gulletine without an ending had something to do with this? Burn-out with politics and creating shorts for other peoples' franchises...what a way to go..sad tale of the industry folks, lets' hope he gets to do what he wants with this posistion. Genny, thanks for Dex, thanks for Jack, and thanks for Clone Wars, aka the shorts that put the prequels almost to complete shame barring ROTS, which put Volume II to shame, It was evident from watching that alone that I could easily tell something was'nt motivating you, you ain't no corporate shill, better to jump off the Titanic, lord knows its' not the only sinking ship in the industry, Kids W.B, and Disney, be warned, ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD.

Seriously, I do NOT pander to nerds, if you honestly think I'm going to sit on my desk approving TWENTY SEVEN SUBMISSIONS, you seriously need to redirect your priorities to the door leading outside.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4273 ...Well...blow me down...this will likly be volume one of the series' immesurably long third season, but at least the April gag is finished...they obviously realised eight more years worth takes just as long as one month a year releases

As some of you may have realised...I've left T.Z roughly alone for quite some time now...for many reasons, one of them being their finally wising up, giving the 80s' a fair break, not completely, because that would imply brick walls do not collapse with just one swing of the wrecking ball, but their snide attitude has become commendably MANAGABLE. Which brings me around to the worst member next to Wilson...Fone Bone. The seemingly most bendable brick of the bunch. And that’s' saying something, Duuke, sorry bud, I know you probably like the guy, and I hope you can find time to approach me and defend some of his crap, but its' time this bone was broken Check out this tosh: THANK YOU! I had been trying to make a similar point in another thread but you put it SO much better than I could have. Yes, kids are stupid when watching crap on TV but ALL OF US DID THAT! How do I know? I grew up in the eighties. Complaining about future generations growing up without a good sense of humour is a REALLY stupid argument considering all of the crap from the eighties I see defended on this board to this very day. They may have done something right in terms of QUALITY to get to that level you narrow minded jackass, thats' why you see it defended, not out of blind alleigence, but clear objectivity, one prop I'll always give the T.Z vets is there now knowing when to let their grudges go to allow broader discussion from many walks, BUT YOU, represent the system of that site I will always be against I have bad news. Loonatics is a VERY bad show. But it is still better animated, plotted and has better dialogue than the original Transformers. Flame on Translation: Having been completely unable to grasp more people on TZ, and beyond, have more brains than I do, I am saying anything I can to get attention. Congratulations Fone, you got it. Again. Because its' only through thrashing decades that owns the majority of crap you watch that warrants you ANY merit on that forum, I have seen NOTHING positive from you, NONE, when it comes to those cartoons you hate. I hate certain cartoons, I can point out at least one, two, or three episodes of any I could watch and make a habit of praising. You cannot. I've seen three good Atomic Betty instalments, in a row, that’s' a modern day miracle. This is what we call "objective judgment", its' what makes you an animation reveiwer, and therefore, if you happen to not grasp that aspect, then you don't possess it. I do, I follow that pattern of objectivity, I follow, therefore I lead or help to lead, the measuring stick of animation fans that can watch ANYTHING, and find something good in it when the need arises. I'm currently in the stages of returning to the Zone again, and I'm not going to hide it this time, I have butts to kick, points to make, props to give out to the right people, but above all else Phoney, I'm coming back to expose you I've annihilated him at least three dozen times on T.Z during three previous comebacks regarding TF, and lessons are never learned, he rants on and on about TF sucking, yet when confronted about it, WITH good examples, WITH good reasons, WITH more people on T.Z to back that up in various threads, implies he may check it out again, or dismisses these opinions rudely. When I made points as "Phoenix Gaia" about Captain Planet actually being GOOD, he COMMENDED me on it. No ATTEMPT to argue against it. No spine, I can count Beatiddga among others that argued it with me for a while before I silenced them, HE CHOCKED. During the Macduffie fiasco, he flat out insulted the forums for the behaviour being allowed to happen and called out the mods. He apologised for both, I would've only have done the latter, the guy only has a backbone around when noones' there threatening it. We'll see how you cringe and back down for the umpteenth time when I return "Flame On?" Ppppft...more like Clobbering' Time just went by.

If you thought "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue" was the final word in extremist, morbid animated exploitation of your favourate childrens' characters, the Smurfs have risen again, and like many 80s' revivals, seems far darker written...heh, heh, what happened? Did Jhad Smurf feel the need to plow into Washington? http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/08/wsmurf08.xml

With Eisner gone, the panic buttons still seem to be on where DVD releases are concerned, there has been constant criticisms over the neglected content of the Ducktales and Rescue Rangers Voluume One Boxsets (no pilots), and some minor edits, where as Greg Wiesmans' Gargoyles remains virtually unscathed and undamaged as it prepares for its' second season releases. I was part of Roys' campaign to push for a fair and balanced order of box set releases, this is a concern of mine. A HEAVY concern, I mean, not even the current 4.1 rating of Loonatics is a top priority in light of this. We are on the verge of breaking through redtape, can't we cut the ribbon still?