Pink Panther Cartoon Collection

DougWright · 04-12-2007, 06:09 PM

I was not sure where to put this since it started as a Theatrical cartoon, but since it was the TV cartoon of the Ant and the Aardvark that made me post I decided to put it here.

I bought the 5 disc cartoon collection and then I saw the individual discs coming out. I checked out the first couple and saw I had all the cartoons so I was ignoring the individual discs until I saw disc 5 on sale the other day. It is all the Ant and the Aardvark cartoons.

I went back and checked out disc 3 and 4 of the individual releases and they look to be all in the 5 disc set, but this one is not.

So my question is, am I missing something, why only 4 individual discs? Also are any further cartoons in this line to be released that I should look out for.

Thanks for anyone's help.

Corey3rd · 04-12-2007, 08:12 PM

at some point they should put out The Inspector, Texas Toads (although they might put out an alternate soundtrack so they are the Tijuana Toads voices), Mr. Jaws.

Mick Hyperion · 04-12-2007, 09:29 PM

They seem to be handling the Pink Panther very strangely all the way around. Or maybe they're just trying to give people a lot of choices.

Here's what they've released so far...

- The complete box set on DVD with all of the Pink Panther cartoons in chronological order. Nothing but Pink Panther shorts here (no Inspector, no Ant & Aardvark).

- Season 1 of The Pink Panther Show available only on iTunes, exactly as it aired on television. These are roughly half-hour shows, complete with opening/closing /interstitial sequences unique to the tv show. Each episode includes one of The Inspector shorts.

- Individual single disc volumes of Pink Panther cartoons on DVD, not in the tv show format and in no particular order (as far as I know) with Volume 5 now containing the complete Ant & Aardvark collection. None of these contain any of The Inspector shorts yet.

There's really no rhyme or reason to it. It's kind of schizophrenic. I don't think any other tv show or cartoon series has ever been handled this way, especially with all of these being available at the same time as they are right now.

PaulP · 04-13-2007, 08:50 AM

This should belong in the main forum, since these are theatrical shorts we're talking about. But never mind that. If you pick up the big Pink Panther collection and the Ant & Aardvark disc (which is highly recommended), you won't be missing anything.

Mick Hyperion · 04-13-2007, 11:48 AM

Actually they are a combination of theatrical and tv shorts. Many of the Pink Panther shorts have never been shown theatrically and certainly none of the tv show related shorts have ever been (The Inspector, Ant & Aardvark, etc). iTunes is selling strictly the tv show, though some of the PP shorts that made up the tv show were once theatrical releases, but far from all.

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Chris S · 04-13-2007, 12:47 PM

Wow, thanks for pointing this out! The Ant & Aardvark are some of my favorite cartoons and I, like you, had just assumed the individual disc releases were just the same as the collected set.

Firebee · 04-13-2007, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris S

Wow, thanks for pointing this out! The Ant & Aardvark are some of my favorite cartoons and I, like you, had just assumed the individual disc releases were just the same as the collected set.

I definitely enjoyed the Ant and the Aardvark, too...which is why I leapt at the chance to buy this set when it was announced, since I already had bought the Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection. Forgot about the Inspector, but I'm guessing that will be released in another volume.

Jay Pennington · 04-14-2007, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Mick Hyperion

Actually they are a combination of theatrical and tv shorts. Many of the Pink Panther shorts have never been shown theatrically and certainly none of the tv show related shorts have ever been (The Inspector, Ant & Aardvark, etc).

Actually those were theatrical, too.

MarioJ · 04-21-2007, 09:01 AM

Pink Panther is so funny

Sumnernor · 04-22-2007, 10:41 AM

It has been a while since this subject came up (in the GAC forum). From what I have seen, the first 4 DVDs in the 5 disk PP Box are the same as Vol 1 .. Vol 4. I would suggest looking at Amazon.com site for that. As was mentioned earlier, if one has the 5 disk PP Box AND the newly released "Vol 5" - one has everything. I hope that Vol 6 will come soon with the Inspector.