Here's the reason I first signed up with ebay 11 years ago. I think it all started with the lunchbox :)
There might be a few things not show in these old photos. I repeated a few things like at the bottom right to show what exactly came in the Busy Play Bag. A couple nice cels and animation drawings in there too. Two full size Brisby plushes, and a large Jeremy, and a mini version of each.
Don't forget to go out and buy the Family Fun Edition of Secret of NIMH on DVD if you don't know about it. That's the latest release that's from a newly remastered 1080p edition and offers both widescreen and fullscreen (even though fullscreen shows more). I can't wait for a blu-ray release.
There might be a few things not show in these old photos. I repeated a few things like at the bottom right to show what exactly came in the Busy Play Bag. A couple nice cels and animation drawings in there too. Two full size Brisby plushes, and a large Jeremy, and a mini version of each.
Don't forget to go out and buy the Family Fun Edition of Secret of NIMH on DVD if you don't know about it. That's the latest release that's from a newly remastered 1080p edition and offers both widescreen and fullscreen (even though fullscreen shows more). I can't wait for a blu-ray release.
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woah.. now that's impressive ^.^ I have a nightcrawler collection and a panda collection :P
Nice set, Justin is sooo cute. Too bad you have to go non-cannon to see him with the guys ^_^
that's a wonderful collection! I've loved that movie so much since I was very young.
My God I don't think I've ever seen a NiMH shrine quite like that before. :)
I got the... Family Fun edition. The movie rocks just as much now as it did when I first saw it as a small child. But... the covers of the case and the DISKS look terrible. I actually printed out the movie poster so I could replace the (thankfully) easily removable covering. The disks however, I had to tape plain white paper over them. They look THAT bad. I watched it like this and it works so I don't have to look at them. But that's just me.
Yeah. Those new covers are horrible. For NIMH and American Tail. And that American Tail cover is even worse by using Tanya's design from the sequel, where she's older, different hair and clothes.
I should probably swap out the cover for Secret of NIMH with one of the older DVDs I have. Maybe scan it in for those who want to print it. I sure hope they don't embarrass the film further with that bad cover for blu-ray. The original posters for the two films are amazing. And it's kind of false advertising. Like NIMH is really dark and scary, no where near as bright and cheerful they make it to be, and not exactly Family Fun edition eitherl.
Speaking of posters. I need to scan in a copy of a concept poster from Secret of NIMH that was made before the final one. Very similar looking. I just got an old animation auction catalog that used it for their cover. They priced it somewhere around $15,000
I should probably swap out the cover for Secret of NIMH with one of the older DVDs I have. Maybe scan it in for those who want to print it. I sure hope they don't embarrass the film further with that bad cover for blu-ray. The original posters for the two films are amazing. And it's kind of false advertising. Like NIMH is really dark and scary, no where near as bright and cheerful they make it to be, and not exactly Family Fun edition eitherl.
Speaking of posters. I need to scan in a copy of a concept poster from Secret of NIMH that was made before the final one. Very similar looking. I just got an old animation auction catalog that used it for their cover. They priced it somewhere around $15,000
Yeah, I had a choice between the boxart from the VHS or the original movie poster. I went with the movie one, where the Great Owl and Nicodemus look BAD. ASS. The Quality of the pic is kinda crappy cuz I had to shrink it down so it would fit in the plastic casing, but it was a necessary sacrifice and it still looks cool.
These horrible DVD covers are what's keeping these movies from being taken seriously. It's like the "All Animation is Disney" fiasco all over again (or did it ever truly end?" in that if it doesn't look cutesy, then the bigwigs think Mommy and Daddy won't buy it. It doesn't help much in that since Don Bluth doesn't actually OWN rights to his movies, crappy sequels are made (American Tail 2 wasn't so bad, and neither were the first... 2-3 Land Before Time sequels, but I'm sorry in case you liked it, Timmy to the Rescue was GOD HORRIBLE).
Hope you get your poster.
P.S. You did bring up a good point, Secret of NIMH is kinda dark, but I still enjoyed it when I was 5, I thought it was more awesome than scary (tho the Great Owl, Spider, and the creepy ass rat guard scared the shit out of me). Even though it can be enjoyable for most anyone, does it warrant the title "Family FUN Edition"? Not only does it make it seem more kiddy, it seems REALLY out of place. Were it up to me, I would have just called it "The Remastered Edition" cuz I think they restored some stuff like the UA logo in the start and it has an interview with Bluth.
These horrible DVD covers are what's keeping these movies from being taken seriously. It's like the "All Animation is Disney" fiasco all over again (or did it ever truly end?" in that if it doesn't look cutesy, then the bigwigs think Mommy and Daddy won't buy it. It doesn't help much in that since Don Bluth doesn't actually OWN rights to his movies, crappy sequels are made (American Tail 2 wasn't so bad, and neither were the first... 2-3 Land Before Time sequels, but I'm sorry in case you liked it, Timmy to the Rescue was GOD HORRIBLE).
Hope you get your poster.
P.S. You did bring up a good point, Secret of NIMH is kinda dark, but I still enjoyed it when I was 5, I thought it was more awesome than scary (tho the Great Owl, Spider, and the creepy ass rat guard scared the shit out of me). Even though it can be enjoyable for most anyone, does it warrant the title "Family FUN Edition"? Not only does it make it seem more kiddy, it seems REALLY out of place. Were it up to me, I would have just called it "The Remastered Edition" cuz I think they restored some stuff like the UA logo in the start and it has an interview with Bluth.
I caught the NIMH sequel on tv and I'm just trying to forget ever seeing it. On the Family Fun Edition, when they released that, it was actually the 25th anniversary, so it was so disappointing that they didn't use that. But like you said, Bluth has very little control over these things and I think was surprised to have been involved with the remastering.
But at least all of a sudden he seems to be active again. They just got Banjo the Woodpile Cat remastered and released on DVD with a bunch of extras. And seems like they are starting a wonderful site called donbluthanimation.com that will be all about learning drawing and animation. There are already a few samples on youtube if you search. From what I saw, after figuring out a simple way to get past the coming soon screen, that it will have some free stuff, a lot of tips, questions and answers, a forum. But pay stuff, like a small club fee for special access, starting at a month and other options up to a year. Or single video purchases too.
Oh, the way I recall seeing Secret of NIMH was very sad. I didn't know it at first that I had seen it, but I recall being over at a friends when I was real young and this must have been on in the background. We were not sitting watching the whole thing and I recall watching parts of it on and off, and was surprised how emotional it was for being a kid. What made it worse was that I recall thinking Timothy in the cinder block died when it fell, I must have wondered off again before he was saved :) Wasn't to I was much older and got into animation thanks to the Lion King that a book I checked out from the library, before the good old internet, that told the story of Don Bluth and brought this film to my interest. When I finally saw it I just loved it and suddenly those early memories came back.
But at least all of a sudden he seems to be active again. They just got Banjo the Woodpile Cat remastered and released on DVD with a bunch of extras. And seems like they are starting a wonderful site called donbluthanimation.com that will be all about learning drawing and animation. There are already a few samples on youtube if you search. From what I saw, after figuring out a simple way to get past the coming soon screen, that it will have some free stuff, a lot of tips, questions and answers, a forum. But pay stuff, like a small club fee for special access, starting at a month and other options up to a year. Or single video purchases too.
Oh, the way I recall seeing Secret of NIMH was very sad. I didn't know it at first that I had seen it, but I recall being over at a friends when I was real young and this must have been on in the background. We were not sitting watching the whole thing and I recall watching parts of it on and off, and was surprised how emotional it was for being a kid. What made it worse was that I recall thinking Timothy in the cinder block died when it fell, I must have wondered off again before he was saved :) Wasn't to I was much older and got into animation thanks to the Lion King that a book I checked out from the library, before the good old internet, that told the story of Don Bluth and brought this film to my interest. When I finally saw it I just loved it and suddenly those early memories came back.
Impressive collection.
Do you think this secures the title of #1 fan?
Do you think this secures the title of #1 fan?
The amount of jealously is staggering
Amazing collection
Amazing collection
My God!!! you have a huuuuuuge collection!!! Congratulations!!! I'm a little envy!!!!.....
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