Thundercats - A New Beginning [Unknown Binding]

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Aura Entertainment (2004)
• ASIN: B0007G9E5Y
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,479,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bootleg - this is NOT official, BEWARE!, April 17, 2005

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Dynamo of Eternia (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thundercats - A New Beginning

This is a bootleg DVD. It is likely transfered from a 20 year old VHS tape or something. If you are looking for a full quality, official version of Thundercats, then do Not buy this, because it is not what you are looking for.

***EDIT***
This addition to my review is in response to the recent review by Stan Donte:

Whether or not this DVD is a bootleg is yet to be determined. The product description was not specific enough in anyway to prove this as not being a bootleg. The word "import" does not prove this one way or the other. If this is a DVD from region 2 or 4, as Stan Donte suggests (which I don't know where he got that info from, since I still don't see that info listed anywhere in the description), it would not just magically play in any region 1 DVD player. The whole point of region coding is so that a DVD from 1 region is not able to be played in a DVD player from another region. If this is "factory sealed" - I would figure is come from a factory that makes knock-off items (I don't know for sure, but I'm basing this on what I can see here). This still does not appear to be an officially licensed product, and if it was made for other regions (i.e. 2 and 4), then someone had to copy them and change the format slightly for it to work in a region 1 DVD player. Perhaps DVD-Rs weren't used if this is from some kind of a factory that produces these kinds of things.
Even if this is not transfered from a VHS tape as I suggested the possbility of earlier, it still raises questions.

Still not convinced? Well,take a good look at the packaging, for example. The picture of the characters is very stretched out and skewed. The Thundercats logo is very shotty. Based on its appearance, it looks as if someone either created it using a program like Photostop, or badly cut it out from some other Thundercats image using Photoshop. The white that usually surrounds the letters is missing. Plus, there is no trademark symbol of any kind by the title, which is something that any official DVD (regardless of what region it is from) should have. The "DVD" logo is all sckewed and streched out.
This DVD is listed as "Thundercats - A New Beginning" here on Amazon, but in no way are the words "A New Beginning" listed on the DVD box. There isn't even a volume number or anything.

Maybe I am wrong about this being a knock off, but nothing in the product description or image proves anything.

And to address something that Stan Donte said, implying that I "might" be someone who sells bootlegs on ebay, I am not. I've never sold anything on ebay, actually, and I've only bought a few things. I happen to be a member of a rather popular website that fans of He-man and She-ra go to, and this DVD along with a similar knock-off looking She-ra one was brought to the attention of many members, including myself. We too are fans of these old 80s cartoons, and we want buyers to know what they are likely getting into.

If this DVD, the She-ra DVD, and others like is are actually official and not knock-off products, then some kind of proof would be nice, since the image and product description are not nearly enough to prove this to be the case.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bootleg-Don't Buy!, April 17, 2005

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transfan80 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thundercats - A New Beginning

This disc is NOT an official release. It is an illegal bootleg. Want Thundercats? Wait for the official Warner Brothers box set that's due this year and don't waste your cash on this imitation.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bootleg all the way., April 18, 2005

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Brent W. Patterson (Virginia, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thundercats - A New Beginning

I bought this and while it was shrinkwrapped it WAS NOT factory sealed. It is infact a bootleg, aq very good bootleg, anyone these days can go and use ANY of the DVD authoring software and Photoshop and create there own DVDs that look just as good as store boughten stuff, it all depends on the source of the video. But this along with She-Ra and many others here on Amazon.com are bootlegs Warner Borthers is the only company releasing Thundercats, BCI is the only company releasing He-man and She-Ra DVDs. Please save your money. Go to websites like: http://www.tvshowsonDVD.com and do a search beofre you buy your fav cartoon, make sure it has a real release they will have the news there first.