'Willie Whopper' from Thunderbean being released this week! (1 Viewer)

The long awaited 'Willie Whopper' Blu-ray set comes out this week. We'll be sending the pre-orders later this week. The 'Official' announcement (and article) will be on our weekly Cartoon Research post, but it may be on Amazon sooner. Here's a quick sneak peak at the cover.


Snafu is in replication and will follow soon. Thanks to everyone for your support and patience!

Where did that star come from?!?!?!

Well it appears to be coming from his..... Oh never mind.

Steve,


Welcome to the forum....... finally...... from a lot of us animation aficionado's on this forum

Thanks Dana,


I've been reading the forum for a while and enjoy the talk here... I'll put updates on the projects as here as we get them done. Very happy to have Willie Whopper finished, and the Blu-ray of Private Snafu will be here in the coming weeks as well. Glad to see the animation folks are here!

Steve Stanchfield said:

Snafu is in replication and will follow soon. Thanks to everyone for your support and patience!

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Hope that set doesn't meet with any . . . uh . . . snafus.

Ok,


how is the Van Buren set doing as well, didn't think that was right, that the replicator did not follow through and you had to eat the cost to get it corrected, waiting on that as well,

All is moving forward... finally.


VB set in line to replicate-


Snafu is...er, happily Snafu free. very happy with it.


Here is Willie on Amazon (just listed!) Look for Cartoon Research post on Thursday with clips from the films too..


http://www.amazon.com/Ub-Iwerks-Willie-Whopper/dp/B015YUSA7K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1443582728&sr=8-2&keywords=willie+whopper

send me one! can't wait to see it!

This is great news! Put me down as another that cannot wait to watch this one.


Keep 'em coming, Steve!

Can't wait for the next ones to be ready to go too- so many cool things on the new sets!

I got my copy yesterday. I had a hand in the restoration of 8 of the 14 cartoons on this set, and it's surreal seeing them completely polished on my digital projector setup.

Going through them one frame at a time gave me a new appreciation for films I'd mostly written off. The drawing and movement is generally superb, with Grim Natwick leading a team of unsung animation heroes like Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster, Robert Stokes, Norm Blackburn, and Bernie Wolf. Keep in mind I went through these mostly with the sound off, so I missed out the first time around on some catchy music. (There's also startlingly detailed liner notes on the soundtracks by Chris Buchman in the booklet.)

It's a nice, satisfying little package that's well-worth the ridiculously low price Steve is charging. Proud to have been part of this one!

I'm really excited. I finally get to the the films that go with a lot of my Grim Natwick drawings in great prints!


VIVA WILLIE!