Notice anything strange on the Space: Above and Beyond main menus? (1 Viewer)

[RickER]

Jay, your work is BETTER than the Space Above and Beyond menus.

 

[TravisR]

Those are all pretty funny but the M*A*S*H*/stealth bomber menu is priceless!

 

[Eric DiPiazza]

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

Make that much better. My first reaction to the SA&B menu was to think that it was a Photoshop prank put together by a not-very-skilled fan.


Joe

 

[Katherine_K]

The SAAB menus are pretty horrible, but frankly i'm just happy to have the series on DVD. I didn't think it would ever come.

But just to show you how important Babylon 5 was apparently to the menu designer...

 

[JohnAP]

this is too funny! I'm planning on picking this set up soon, to be honest I hadn't realized it was already out. Perhaps later this week.

 

[Bill>Moore]

I'd read about this elsewhere, but hadn't seen it until this thread. Too funny. I'll be picking this set up in the near future.

 

[ravma]

I've just gotta recommend this.
Best Buy has a sale right now. When you buy SAAB, and a Season of Millennium, X-Files, or Firefly, you get 20 bucks off. If you havent seen Firefly yet, this is the perfect way to get the set cheap. With Serenity out on the 30th, now's the time to watch!
The total's around $63 + tax, which isn't that bad I think.

 

[Will_B]

One of the seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD used the font from the imitation series Charmed. But that was pretty subtle compared to this.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

Although the station image is certainly protected by copyright, it probably isn't protected by trademark - which means WB risks nothing if they turn a blind eye to this sort of minor infringement. Copyright does not require the kind of affirmative defense that trademark does. When I drew JMS's attention to a "generic" SF themed display at a national store chain that included a slightly modified picture of B5 (along with signature ships and the like from several other series with the logos removed) he said it was not the kind of thing that WB responded to. As long as nobody was delibreately misrepresenting something as being a B5 product, they had bigger fish to fry. I seriously doubt they would do anything but laugh about this and enjoy Fox's embarassment.

ravma:

Great tip about Best Buy. I only watched a few episodes of S&AB when it aired, and have never seen Firefly at all, so this might be a good way to check out both series "on the cheap".

Regards,

Joe

 

[RickER]

The Bits was reporting a lot of people were having trouble with the 2nd episode freezing up. I didn't have a trouble, anyone know what the deal there is?

 

[Marko Berg]

This thread is hilarious.

I think WB would be pleased rather than annoyed at this quite unexpected opportunity to market the B5 DVD releases -- at no cost to them.

 

[Yee-Ming]

Curious minds want to know: does the porn star that appeared in S:AAB in a recurring role appear in those menus?

 

[Katherine_K]

If you go back a page you'll see all the menus.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

JMS finally responded to the second thread opened on the moderated newsgroup. This is what he said, in its entirety:

Now that's just screwy....



Regards,

Joe

 

[Ric Easton]

LOL! Thanks, Joe! I'd still like to know who the dim-wit was that put it on there... Or maybe he was a B5 fan.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

Based on JMS's reply, I'm guessing the guilty party was - a rabbit!

Wegawds,

Joe

 

[David_Blackwell]

Not the greatest menus since it has that B5 gaff on them.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

As a long-time B5 fan I have to say that the two are not necessarily mutually-exclusive.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Ulkesh]

This is kind of an off topic, but here's another strange combination of two different universes. In my country the cover of the translation of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation's Edge" looks like this:

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(couldn't write the url correctly as this is my first post here and there seem to be some strange restrictions)