Review: The Famous Studios Champion Collection: Some Novel ‘Toons

[wonderfly]

The News Team's "Leviathan" has a new review up on the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Review: The Famous Studios Champion Collection: Some Novel ‘Toons"​

"After seeing the classics of Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, and Walter Lantz get their dues with splendidly restored cartoon collections, the new label Cartoon Logic delivers a fine sophomore effort by extending deluxe treatment to the cartoons of Famous Studios, often neglected in animation history.

Famous Studios was the result of a hostile takeover of Fleischer Studios, the studio that introduced Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the screen, by their distributors Paramount Pictures. Famous Studios would develop a stable of stars of their own by adapting Little Lulu and introducing the likes of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, Little Audrey, and Buzzy the Crow to the world. The disc serves as an all-star sampler of Famous Studios’ best work. All the aforementioned characters get some representation on the set."

Read the full article here.

 

[Classic Speedy]

I ordered my copy last week, hopefully it ships soon. I'm not very well-versed in the Famous library so this'll be interesting.

 

[harry580]

looks like one of the not talked about classic animations is finally getting the spotlight

I hope Walter lantz or screen gems gets books next

 

[Classic Speedy]

Has there been a delay for this by any chance? I got a notice saying that the next estimated delivery date wasn't until 5/24.

 

[Leviathan]

Where did you order it from? Amazon has gotten to be pretty unrelaible with new disc releases as of late.

 

[Classic Speedy]

Where did you order it from? Amazon has gotten to be pretty unrelaible with new disc releases as of late.

Amazon.

 

[Leviathan]

Amazon.

Yeah, Amazon has become really unreliable with discs. Lots of people have been complaining about disc shipments through them.

I ordered through ClassicFlix directly, and got it early enough that I was able to have the review up in time for street date.

 

[Classic Speedy]

This still hasn't shipped for me, BTW. Two months after ordering it. I don't know whether to blame the manufacturer or Amazon on this one, but you can't blame me for ordering through Amazon rather than directly because pretty much every other classic cartoons release shipped on time. So I'm not sure what's going on with this one.

 

[Leviathan]

A lot of it is because ClassicFlix is a much smaller, indie botique operation compared to the big studios. botiques are going to get lesser treatment.