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The Real Ghostbusters One of the greatest cartoons made!, August 29, 2000
This review is from: Real Ghostbusters, Vol. 5: Bird of Kildarby [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This tape holds three episodes LOST AND FOUNDERY, NIGHT GAME & THE BIRD OF KILDARBY. In the first one the Ghostbusters are chasing a ghost in a steal mill and accidently send the ghost into a vat of steal. The ghost becomes harder to catch when its been split into many different metal properties all over the city! In the second episode something strange is going on with the New York baseball team. When Winston witnesses ghosts coming out of the baseball diamond he decides to take matters into his own hands but falls to ghosts game when he has to play for the fait of his soul! In the third a new castle has been brought to Manhatten island and the ghost of the nights who died in it are still huanting. When the Ghostbusters show up to solve the problem its up to them to stop the bird of Kildarby from chewing up New York! See it to believe and don't wait a minute too sooner to see The Real Ghostbusters in their newest wave of action!
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Why aren't these episodes on DVD?, October 7, 2004
This review is from: Real Ghostbusters, Vol. 5: Bird of Kildarby [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The Real Ghostbusters was one of the most original cartoons of it's time. I still laugh at the 80s background music by Tahiti and Peter's numerous zingers. This was one of the few cartoons that wasn't cute like Carebears (How that merchandise managed to get back on store shelves is a mystery to me). This particular tape has some classic episodes. The tape I purchased, which was by a different manufacturer, was recorded on EP mode so sadly the quality was too poor to save onto DVD. If you're a child of the 80s chances are you loved this cartoon as well. I only hope we see these classics on DVD soon.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Who Ya Gonna Call?!!!, January 17, 2003
This review is from: Real Ghostbusters, Vol. 5: Bird of Kildarby [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Okay, I know that was a lame thing to do, but someone had to say it! The Real Ghostbusters was a hugely popular cartoon series from the 80's, back when I was a kid, and I loved it! All of us kids did! Why? Because it was so loyal to the awesome live-action movie it was based on! They even made major adjustments to the cartoon when Ghostbusters 2 came out in order to keep some continuity. Of course, the earliest episodes were the best! And that's what we have here, though these may not be the cream of the crop, they ARE early episodes. Volume 5 contains 3 classic episodes of the Real Ghostbusters TV series. The first is "Lost and Foundry," where the guys accidentally fuse a ghost with some steel while doing a job at a steel mill, eventually causing the whole city to go haywire as items made from that same vat of steel spring to life and attempt to reunite! The Ghostbusters have to figure out a way to separate the ghost from its various steel pieces long enough to trap him! The second episode is called "Night Game." In this episode, Winston heads out to cheer for his favorite home team at a local baseball game and discovers some strange paranormal goings on at the ballpark. When he goes back to check it out, he ends up playing in a ballgame with a lot of ghoulish characters, Good verses Evil, with one human soul at stake. But it's not Winston's soul, like everybody thinks. So who's is it? And how can Good beat Evil when only Evil is allowed to cheat? The last episode we have is the one that gets title credits on the video box, "The Bird of Kildarby." Here we see a new castle being opened as a Tourist attraction on Manhattan Island. But, to the Mayor's dismay, the Castle is LOADED with angry Irish ghosts! The Ghostbusters are brought in to deal with the situation the best they can, but this time they are vastly outnumbered. They'll have to take a dangerous gamble and make a devilish deal to make both the Mayor, and the Ghosts happy. But can they survive the wrath of the Bird of Kildarby?
Of the three episodes, "The Bird of Kildarby" is definitely the best, however they are all good examples of why the show was so popular, even if there are much better examples in existence. The tape is not the best quality by any means. The program is recorded on LP, so picture and sound quality are pretty bad, but hey, with these awesome 80's cartoons you take what you can get. Hopefully we'll see some DVD releases someday, and maybe even some for the equally excellent (if far too politically correct) sequel series, Extreme Ghostbusters.
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