On the G1 cartoon dvd re-mastered, there's an appearance by Peter Cullen in one of the extras segment. The opening applause by the people in the room was uplifting & uneffingbelievable.![]()
Vintage G1 MIB
20th Anniversary MP
25th Anniversary TFU Re-Issue
You're nuts! Don't get any of those signed.
On the G1 cartoon dvd re-mastered, there's an appearance by Peter Cullen in one of the extras segment. The opening applause by the people in the room was uplifting & uneffingbelievable.![]()
Compare:
Original opening
Kid Rhino opening
And from TFwiki:
In 2002 Rhino remastered the Generation 1 cartoon series for release on DVD, to subsequent controversy. As the original broadcast masters (the tapes used for broadcast) had degraded to an unacceptable level of visual quality over the years, Rhino opted to use pre-broadcast masters that had far superior clarity and picture quality. Unfortunately, as these pre-broadcast tapes used unfinished animation, the episodes included on Rhino's DVDs suffered from animation errors, missing special effects and colouring mistakes that did not occur in the original 1980s broadcasts.
Additionally, Rhino contracted post-production studio Magno Sound & Video to remaster the monaural soundtrack to a 5.1 surround soundtrack worthy of a DVD release. Unfortunately, Magno's engineers added in some 30 tracks of new sound effects to this new soundtrack, and once again Rhino's DVDs introduced new elements that were largely seen as undesirable. Rhino representatives rather disingenuously attempted to claim that these sound effects were there all along and that fans had simply been unable to hear them before, despite evidence to the contrary.
The new sounds include abnormally loud and glossy stock sound effects for lasers, explosions, and swooping jets layered across numerous scenes. The show's commercial bumpers were also altered, with motor, laser, and transforming sound effects added where there had originally been only music and Victor Caroli's voice.
The added sounds are just downright annoying!
The first Madman release was Kid Rhino's audio on top of a transfer from some broadcast tapes. The current Madman release and Shout Factory's equivalent are a 2.0 soundtrack (not sure of the source) that is faithful to the original (no machine gunning Seekers, yay), but the video is a mishmash (mostly in season one) of Kid Rhino's video and the broadcast tapes from Madman's first release. I'd hardly call the season one video remastered, more like re-edited. But yes the audio is fixed.
I have a list of all G1 characters that have been released in CHUG form. You can find it here. Please feel free to let me know if I got anything wrong so I can fix it.
I'd get my 25th anniversary reissue signed because it is still MISB and could get the box signed, I dont own a MIB original one. Of course my 20th Anniversary one is MISB too so I could get that done but not as much signage space. I'd probably get one of my dozen or so different Prime t-shirts signed as well.