Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: 100% Complete Bull
I picked up the Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: 100% Complete Bull box set recently...
There is also a light yellow envelope with a flap lock and inside is a ribbon award that says on it "Exceptional adequacy award for helping promote public apathy toward the Bullwinkle show". On it also is a pin button with Bullwinkle on it.
Overall, the packaging is quite nice, but, it does have some drawbacks. The first major drawback is that the discs are packed in cardboard sleeves -- not unlike the new re-release of Avatar. This type of packaging makes it easier to scuff and scratch the discs. The other annoyance is that season 2 is on double-sided discs. Also, for those of you who have already purchased the earlier individual season releases, please note that the new set does not fix any of the issues already identified with the individual releases -- just repackaging. But, aside from these issues, I still like having the series.
After some consideration, I repackaged the set using a number of thin-pak multi-disc cases. The entire set fit into the original box with no room to spare. Of course, the original cardboard sleeves would not fit in the case along with the thin-pak cases.
The box itself is nice-- the way it opens up, and inside is a book titled "FROSTBITE FALLS FIELD GUIDE" by Keith Scott. There is a page at the start written by Kimberly Ward. The book has photos and is filled with info on how the show was started and other interesting stuff. Also, there is an episode guide of what's on each DVD.Now here's something you don't see everyday, Chauncey. It's the complete first season of one of television's smartest, savviest, and most subversively funny animated series, ranked by TV Guide as one of the top 50 series of all time. Like the animators at Warner Bros.' Termite Terrace (birthplace of Porky, Daffy, and Bugs), producer Jay Ward, his partner Bill Scott (the voice of Bullwinkle), and the cracked writing staff did not write down to children. The dialogue is witty and sharply satiric. Characters break the "fourth wall" between the screen and the audience. They make sly references to the show's creators and the television network. They hurl barbs of mass destruction at Washington, D.C. politicians. And then there are the godawful puns. This 18-disc set contains the entire series -- it's the whole shebang, featuring 91 trips in the WABAC time machine, 38 attempts to catch Snidely Whiplash, 91 tales fractured and 50 bits of wisdom from Mr. Know-it-All.
Linking these cliffhanging episodes are such hilarious segments as "Fractured Fairy Tales," which upend familiar storybook favorites (Red Riding Hood, for example, is a predatory fur merchant after the unwitting wolf), "Mr. Peabody," the canine genius who travels through time in the company of his boy, Sherman, and forthright Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, who must contend with his own horse for the affections of sweet Nell. Bullwinkle gets extra credits as Mr. Know-It-All and as the host of Poetry Corner. And watch him pull a rabbit out of his hat! These cartoons are as fresh and funny as when they first aired more than four decades ago. Boomer-era adults will be amazed at the jokes that no doubt soared over their heads as children.
There is also a light yellow envelope with a flap lock and inside is a ribbon award that says on it "Exceptional adequacy award for helping promote public apathy toward the Bullwinkle show". On it also is a pin button with Bullwinkle on it.
Overall, the packaging is quite nice, but, it does have some drawbacks. The first major drawback is that the discs are packed in cardboard sleeves -- not unlike the new re-release of Avatar. This type of packaging makes it easier to scuff and scratch the discs. The other annoyance is that season 2 is on double-sided discs. Also, for those of you who have already purchased the earlier individual season releases, please note that the new set does not fix any of the issues already identified with the individual releases -- just repackaging. But, aside from these issues, I still like having the series.
After some consideration, I repackaged the set using a number of thin-pak multi-disc cases. The entire set fit into the original box with no room to spare. Of course, the original cardboard sleeves would not fit in the case along with the thin-pak cases.
