Customer Reviews

Thundercats: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The only thing I think is lacking on Amazon's reviews is that they're not making it clear enough that with this set you're getting yourself all the ThunderCats material out there. Season 1 (the original season from where the Cats landed on 3rd Earth (the famous 'Exodus' episode) right to the last on 3rd Earth in which their greatest enemy Mumm-Ra not only has to face the Cats but is threatened by the ancient Spirits of Evil themselves!

And next you have the 2nd season which played on New Thundera. The Cats have returned to their original, yet new, home with new friends (The 'new' ThunderCats) and new Cat treasure like the Book of Omens and such. And this is also where the series eventually came to a stop. I can't comment on the exact details since I haven't seen all of those episodes yet myself. But that will soon change now that I ordered this set :-)

Some people complained about this release not being remastered, re-dubbed, etc. and quite frankly I consider this to be a big pro instead of a con. In my opinion nothing can beat the original. When companies start re-doing stuff you'll always be left with something missing or "not entirely right". Simply because you may have remembered (or lived) it completely different. So my advice would honostly be: "Now is your chance to grab the entire original series at a very decent price, go for it while you can!".

ThunderCats HOOOOOO!

If you are a fan of these classic cartoons then you would surely appreciate this collection.From arthur rankin and jules bass comes this great story about a group of characters called thundercats and their adventures.Glad this was released on dvd and also glad amazon had them all. Five stars all the way

Tied with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Season Two, Vol. 1 At 130 episodes; The Thundercats are equally matched with the same everlasting grandeur and stature. Difficult to separate which one I prefer. How could any kid of the 1980's NOT love The Thundercats?

A great collection of episodes (it competes only with its older cousin, MOTU, for its historic staying power of two full seasons [130 episodes]). While this was a great series, it was not without its faults (particularly, throughout the last half of the second season). Still, here it is for all of us to enjoy!

Audio: The audio seems to translate very well to DVD on most episodes. In some instances, however, the background music is completely LOST throughout the entire episode ("Unholy Alliance" springs immediately to mind). With the audio of many episodes translating so well, it does nothing for the Warners' credibiity that the attention to details of other episodes is so lax that they are completely missing the background music!

Video: There have been some complaints that the video on some of the episodes was not cleaned up since their original airings. Whether or not this is true, it serves two purposes. For one, to have not cleaned up the footage only restores the retro feel of watching these classics on television in our youth. For another, if the video footage was not fully restored, it does give fans ample excuse to complain about aging, dirt, or scratches on the master film (though, this is not nearly as notable as some of the older cartoons from the sixties). In the case of these discs, I personally haven't noticed any problems with aging.

Special Features: Mostly interviews from the artists.

Episodes: I've touched on this above just a bit but there are a lot of complaints about some of Season 2's episodes being a tad bit lame at times and resorting to old storylines/footage. However, this of course is not the fault of the DVDs if the episodes themselves were poorly written. A fair advanced warning: I hate to belaver the obvious but we watched this when we were younger and not every show translates well as viewers grow older. For me: it's still a great show and the one problem that I took with the discs is that I really thought that the five-part "Lion-O's Annointment Trial" should have been packaged together back-to-back (of course, not everyone would agree with me, as this would have placed the episodes at the disadvantage of being out of the order in which they originally aired. You be the judge).

Packaging: I was a bit suprised by the packaging. I like the concept art on each DVD case (the outer layer and each individual case) and I particularly like the outside of Season 2 with its "metamorphic" image outside of the case. However, I have been spoiled by BTC/BCI's treatment of the Filmation library, and almost expected each volume to have a comprehensive episode guide to tell us what was on each disc of each volume (something that backs of the cases already did) and with a brief summary of each episode.

Overall: a fair attempt by Warner Home Video to release this gem from Lorimar/Rankin-Bass for old fans and a new generation to enjoy. "THUNDER CATS, HO!"

I ordered the complete seasons of the Thundercats in 2010 as a personal Christmas gift. I had two dvds so far out of the set that will not work in any of my dvd players and blu-ray player. I have a Xbox, tv-dvd combo, and a blu-ray player. I have watched Season 1 and Season 2. There may be more defective dvds within Seasons 3 and 4.

I couldn't wait for the price to be reduced for this collection, I just bought it. I find this remastered version of the Thundercats very faithful to the 80s version and cannot complain about the quality of image or sound.

My being a student of Comparative Literature, and studying the network of media/knowledge/power, I couldn't help but notice how the cartoon reflected many of the aspects of the American political culture through cartoons aimed at younger viewers. "Third Earth"? hello? couldn't they be alittle subtle about the message their trying to convey? It is just so blunt.

Nevertheless, the cartoon cannot be discredited just because it reflected (consciously or unconsciously, implicitly or explicitly) the age's political tendencies towards the "other". I Do not claim to know much about the history of cartoons or Anime, but I have noticed that this may well be the first intermarriage between the American cartoon (best seen in He-Man) and Japanese Anime. The fact that Thundercats is a coproduction between American and Japanese artists is often forgotten. One could easily detect strong traces of Japanese Anime mixing with American cartoon.

I appreciate this collection very much and would have rated it with 5 stars had it avoided the following:

1. The makers of this collection managed to make English captions for all the episodes in this series; except for Season 2, Vol. 2, in which it was given up for some sort of game to be played as part of the extra features.

2. The Extra features are very disappointing in that they do not show you except very little insight into the history of the Thundercats. Thundercats through the extra-features seems as if it had been enjoyed by only a few kids and some nerds. (With all due respect to all Nerds out there).

3. The packages are too big. One volume contains 6 DVDs in traditional old DVD cases; this could have been avoided by smart designs of compact packaging like the one found in the X-files collection (the UK/Region 2 version) in which 7 DVDs was packed in a small DVD case half the size of this one.

Nonetheless this is a collection you cannot not buy! It would be enjoyable. I certainly did enjoy it.. I watched it all over a period of one month.

One last WARNING:
If you watched this as a kid, you may find it extremely stupid. Some of the episodes are so lame, you could just predict that they took some voice recordings of older episodes and just stuck them together and passed them to you as an action-packed episode, when it is so bad of a story.. or non-story. You will find this very evident in the second season where they are desperate to put ideas together; Lion-O is always saved so easily that there is no fun for those of us cheering for Mumm-Ra. Deus ex machina is used at the beginning.. but it is later over-used and abused.

So do not expect to be thrilled the same way you were when you were a kid. You certainly are not going to cheer for Lion-O now... but for the unconventional Mumm-Ra.

This product ia exactly what I ordered.With the only exception was that it got lost in the mail and ended up having to be re-ordered which took a total of 30 days to get here. That was the only problem I encontered. Amizon was very good about it and got the situation taken of. I was very pleased with amizon and wouldn't hesitate ordering from them again.

The shipping took the maximum amount of shipping time available and I did not recieve what the picture showed. It shows 4 boxed sets and I got 3 with some loose dvds. My box sets were also bent and the disks were loose inside the cases. The packaging was very poor.

Bought it on may 20 and they said it would be at my house on June 14. It's June 21 and still no thundercats

The theme song was lousy written and performed. The animation looked bad, and the plot, well it did not have one. Nuff said.