http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Greatest:_The_Adventures_of_Muhammad_Ali DVD box set. NOW, its' allegedly, to quote, Ali, "So bad it makes medicine sick" So Wikipedia is officially a more reliable and informative site on animation than certain others I could mention...

Finding sites for the grossly underrated N.A He-Man cartoon produced in the 90s' by DIC is like looking for Hasselhoff classics anywhere else...you can only find them in Germany http://www.new-adventures.de/fans_details.php?nr=39&rubrik=0

Reading the same link below should also notify you Marvel have requested that the leaked character designs for the new F.F cartoon to be taken down, although the designs have since been uploaded through Photodump sites and posted on various forums.

In light of the financial (but not critical) success of the Fantastic Four movie, the decision has been made to not only prodcue a sequel, but to also animate the first family of Marvel once more, only now with a more edgier "extreeeeeeeeeemeeeeee" psudo-anime look reminiscent of Battle of the Planets and Voltron (because, you know, every series HAS to be that style now) Whislt this may be dated news in certain regions, the latest previews of the character designs are quite recent, comic book resources gives us a sneak preview of what will be Marvels' first animated telivision endevour since the presently cancelled MTVs' Spider-Man. http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=5911 Also a new series of Iron Man is being animated in France, shceduled for 2006, this will mark the first time these two cartoons together have been revived since the Marvel Action Hour of the 1990's, they were both paired together to form the block, two abysmal seasons and two excellent ones afterwards respectilvy.

Theres' a lesson one needs to learn: Never plug a guy out of hatred for a site first, and listen to him second. From what I can tell, this is the same a-hole I've feuded with for years and not some different Ronixis, which I was hoping for, his run downs on the new season were laced with blatantly no reasons given as to why he actually liked/disliked them, calls Maxie Zeus a transexual for cautioning people to be paitent on Loonatics, and spends minutes ranting about the site in a poltiical aspect. A POLITICAL aspect. Seriously, I consider myself a liberal, and hes' blaming them for Loonatics. Unbeleivable. This guys' clearly delusional, which is a shame, I feel he can actually contribute well to animation if he was'nt so much of a biased twit. So humble apologies for even giving the guy my time of day

When asking veteran animation writer Larry Parr about the Transformers episode "Changing Gears", I got about a billion different answers to unasked questions Larry Parr: You're going to find this strange, I'm sure, but I never saw the "Changing Gears" episode I wrote. I also got screen credit as a story editor on 65 half hours of "G.I. Joe" when, in truth, I only story edited 10 or 12 episodes when Steve Gerber was on vacation. Me: rich and loving it? Larry Parr: Live action TV writers get a royality every time an episode of a show they wrote airs anywhere in the world, or any time a VHS or DVD of their work is sold. Unfortunately animation writers (technically we're not even "writers" we're "story persons") are "Work for hire" so we are forced to sell our copyright to the studio and therefore are not entitled to royalties. Me: That does'nt sound very fair, is it because the studios expect live- action shows to be more acclaimed by the majority? That's a pretty wrong assumption on thier part if it is, given that Cartoon DVDS and Video sell like hot cakes. Larry Parr: I think a large part of the problem with residuals stems from the fact that the studios pretty much own the guild that is suppose to protect the writers. That's why the guild allows us to be referred to as "story persons" and not as writers, and why they allow the studios to force us to sign Work For Hire agreements before we can work for them

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=dvd-uk&field-keywords=Defenders%20of%20the%20Earth/ref=xs_ap_l_xgl/026-4641918-1412461 Sadly, none of them contain the complete series, and monthly releases usually don't last for long, as I strongly suspect two differing companies hold a specific amount of rights for the cartoon that is preventing it being released in its' entirty

I just never seem to grasp the behaviour of people who complain when programmes are preempted or banned for a certain period of time due to the nature of a national crisis. Wrestling fans were irritated because "Friday Night Smackdown" was down for an hour (the first of which had very little to really miss, all the top matches were in the second) because of the furuther coverage of Katrinas' aftermath. Now I hear Lilo and Stitch had an episode pulled in the wake of the hurricane, and people are complaining about that. I don't condone networks for making sensetive decisions, you leave the handling of networks to those with a fandom dedication, you'd see Muhamad Hassan as a world champion whilst London blows apart around us, they'd think it was "sociably conscious" to have a champion of his calibure at that present time. Lilo and Stitch is'nt the first to have an episode held back, it will not be the last, and if it airs, expect Disney quality edits as usual. Glaring and distracting, you know theres' something there, and you can place where, and that upsets the viewing experiance. Just watch the 90s' Spider-Man, there were times you could learn to tolerate the repetitivness of the recycled footage to appreciate the excellent writing at hand, until something came along blatantly that just made you want to slap Graz hard across the face.

With Greg Wiesmans' work on W.I.T.C.H about to showcase our screens, and given its' (absurd) popularity, lets' take a glance at what I consider the greatest female animated cartoons of the industry, past and present. 1. She-Ra: Mattels' overblown doll figures combined with the He-Man Hoarde range crafted for us an animated series that firmly established the female action/adventure genre, this was the Red Sonja of the industry, another classic 80s' toy commercial that transcended its' commercilist sources and at times, was better written than He-Man. Beggining with a five part mini-series that is better remembered now as the animated feature , "Secret of the Sword", top pioneers of the present, Bruce Timm, J.M Strazynski, all worked on this epic series. The stories portrayed Adora as the premeire warrior princess long before Xena took up the live-action reigns, it was also the first real cartoon where the hero was the underdog, leading a rebellion against oppresion from The Hoarde. 2. The Powerpuff Girls: Whilst shows like Totally Spies sets females back 1,000 years, this show pretty much pushed the gender forward a billion in terms of being the first real masculante girls show of the 90s', this probably was helped by the succss of Buffy, inspired by anime and pop culture walks of both America and Japan alike, PPG balanced this and incoprorated them into its' acclaimed structure. Depsite its' last two seasons generally met with fan and critical disdain, five seasons and one prequel movie carried more than enough substance, humour, and memorable lines to remedy the illness at the tail end of its' lifespan. 3. JEM: No real suprise there, defionatly broke the mould of series before, and possibly after, character development out of its' earhole, and a solid degree of amazing music, fiven care and attention, and that fit into the episode like a glove. Arguably the queen of the cartoon soundtracks as opposed to the king, held by the soundtracks used in the chase sequences of Scooby Doo. 4. Kim Possible: Two seasons ago, this would'nt have ranked so high, Possible gets in purly because it improved beyond all measure in the final season, and moved towards a sense of finality with So The Drama, which might very well be the best finale Disney have had since roughly Gargoyles' "Hunters' Moon", and even THAT was defiled by The Goliath Chronicles. Possible is a strong female, with an equally stronger role and stronger sense of confidence. The writing began making her less also of a tomboy, and more in touch with the need for companionship, to strengthen her resolve in saving the world, she needs someone to share it with, a message portrayed in series like this needs to be addressed and emphasized in many of its' like, and theres' just too few girls cartoons presently that'll bother carrying that. 5. Princess Gwenevere And The Jewel Riders: I know, I know...what? For the enlightened, this was basically a weaker version of She-Ra meets Power Rangers, why it ranks so highly is because it has an arc-driven structure, one of the first "quest" series to have a resolution as opposed to start with something and end after 65 episodes or a brutal cancelation. Remember 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo? They went thirteen episodes, and no finale, instead they carried on as if they had to capture a fourteenth or fifteen ghost. On topic, Gwen (also known as Starla outside the states), provided a good degree of background to the characters, human and animal alike, the villain, Kale, was given a good amount of detail, particuarly in "DreamFeilds", in which SHE is the good opposed to the evil represented by the Dark Stone corrupted Gwen. (The sunstone having brought out the intial good in her soul), whilst it was'nt always perfect, it is a rare case of a show trying things before the mainstream really caught on to what it was doing. W.I.T.C.H is magic-based, and gets new viewers, so Gwens' failiure was due to bad timing. People had already seen She-Ra, they had already seen magic-based cartoons (which were BARLY popular in the 90s'), by then, Power Rangers was killing everything also.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AA4F2E.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://media.dvd.ign.com/media/763/763299/img_3056861.html Yup, we've got some news on the Legend of Zelda box set, the front kind of betrays the customer to the inevitable animation quality and tone present on the discs, they are set in thier specific decade, 80s', so I'm cautious about the generic art throwing new viewers off, I'm also dissapointed with the calibure of the artwork, for true authenticity, it would have been rather original to have current Zelda artists work on it, this just makes it look rather second rate, almost the kind of thing you'd find serving as the cover of a Disney rip off movie. This is'nt true however, of the rather impressive menu screens, where you can see original character sketches behind the stature of Link walking away from them, one can only presume the possible extras on the final disc will shed some light on a hopeful option of viewing these character designs. The "Play With Wild Thing" segment has to be the most curious of the extras...or one of the most inappropriatly named extra features I've ever heard