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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 16:38:38 GMT -5
Mill Creek Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights for all Ultraman movies and tv shows and will begin releasing them on bluray and their Movie Spree streaming service beginning in October. Not sure if there are a lot of Ultraman fans here, but I really like a lot of what Mill Creek has been putting out over the years, and I am interested enough to check out some of this stuff come October. -M
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Post by brutalis on Jul 10, 2019 17:25:03 GMT -5
Good news, means that perhaps some of the pricier imported newer stuff may become affordable enough to check out and enjoy. I have The original Ultraman and Ultra Seven sets already but any new Ultra goodies are nice!
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Post by The Captain on Jul 11, 2019 12:09:04 GMT -5
I loved Ultraman when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it in years. May have to check it out this fall.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 14, 2019 9:53:00 GMT -5
I have the original Ultraman series; but never came across an Ultra Seven one. The movies would be nice.
I still prefer Johnny Sokko, though; lot more gonzo fun. I got introduced to both, though, went I spent a week with my grandparents, during the summer, who had a Chicago-based UHF station, on their tv. Their weekday afternoon lineup had the Marvel Super-Heroes, Speed Racer, and then alternated Ultraman and Johnny Sokko (Ultra M,W,F and Sokko Tu, Th).
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 19, 2019 21:52:40 GMT -5
I was never really a big fan of Ultraman (I did really REALLY like it's spin-off, Denkou Choujin Gridman/Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, growing up)
but I'm very happy to see it get a wider audience through crunchy roll and home video releases |
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Post by Calidore on Jul 20, 2019 14:26:42 GMT -5
I have the original Ultraman series; but never came across an Ultra Seven one. The movies would be nice. I still prefer Johnny Sokko, though; lot more gonzo fun. I got introduced to both, though, went I spent a week with my grandparents, during the summer, who had a Chicago-based UHF station, on their tv. Their weekday afternoon lineup had the Marvel Super-Heroes, Speed Racer, and then alternated Ultraman and Johnny Sokko (Ultra M,W,F and Sokko Tu, Th).
You don't give a timeline, but in the mid-late '70s, that would have been WSNS, channel 44 (before it went all-Spanish later). I don't remember the alternating days, but I remember they ran Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and Space Giants.
Never happy to see Mill Creek's name on anything; they're too indifferent to their product. Crowning example may be their 2-DVD set of the 1979 Flash Gordon cartoon by Filmation, which inexplicably contains only the first 14 of the 16 serialized episodes and calls it a day.
Earlier DVDs include the Japanese audio as an option with English subtitles. I can't recommend enough watching this show with the English dub _and_ English subs, because the dub dialogue veers from matching the subs closely, to kind of roughly, to having nothing to do with what they're actually saying. It's a complete riot. Wonder if Mill Creek will keep these options.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 20, 2019 15:10:44 GMT -5
I have the original Ultraman series; but never came across an Ultra Seven one. The movies would be nice. I still prefer Johnny Sokko, though; lot more gonzo fun. I got introduced to both, though, went I spent a week with my grandparents, during the summer, who had a Chicago-based UHF station, on their tv. Their weekday afternoon lineup had the Marvel Super-Heroes, Speed Racer, and then alternated Ultraman and Johnny Sokko (Ultra M,W,F and Sokko Tu, Th).
You don't give a timeline, but in the mid-late '70s, that would have been WSNS, channel 44 (before it went all-Spanish later). I don't remember the alternating days, but I remember they ran Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and Space Giants.
Never happy to see Mill Creek's name on anything; they're too indifferent to their product. Crowning example may be their 2-DVD set of the 1979 Flash Gordon cartoon by Filmation, which inexplicably contains only the first 14 of the 16 serialized episodes and calls it a day.
Earlier DVDs include the Japanese audio as an option with English subtitles. I can't recommend enough watching this show with the English dub _and_ English subs, because the dub dialogue veers from matching the subs closely, to kind of roughly, to having nothing to do with what they're actually saying. It's a complete riot. Wonder if Mill Creek will keep these options.
It would have been late 70s/dawn of the 80s and I think you have the channel correct, as 44 seemed like the number. My grandparents lived in Bloomington, IL and their tv came from Peoria and this station, from Chicago. I don't recall seeing Space Giants, here; but, maybe I missed it. Seems like Speed Racer followed the Ultraman/Johnny Sokko timeslot. I bought the original Flash Gordon set and heard about the Mill creek reissue only having half. At first I thought, "What's the big deal? That just means it didn't have the crappy second season." Then, i looked at my set and saw that the final episodes for the original season carried over into that second half of the set. So, yeah, I would be pretty pissed. I have the Mill Creek Ultraman and watched it. Quality was good and I did watch it with Japanese dialogue. I used to have a tape of part of the show, in Japanese. I also had the Orion Johnny Sokko VHS tapes. I later acquired the entire series on dvd, along with the movie compilation. I have only seen a couple of episodes of Ultra Seven (when it was on TNT); but, would love to see the whole thing. I also used to have Ultraman vs Kamen Rider, which had retrospectives of both series, with actor and creator interviews, then a crossover between the two characters, in a short feature, at the end. That was the biggest exposure I had to some of the other Ultra Shows (I had the Hanna-Barbera one on VHS, plus the opening episodes of Ultraman: Towards the Future), as well as the rest of Kamen Rider (I had a tape of Kamen Rider X episodes and the first 4 episodes of Kamen Rider Black and the last four of Kamen Rider Black RX, plus the KR ZO movie). Picked up some of that at conventions, from bootleg dealers, then some others from mail order, from an ad in Comic Buyer's Guide. For that er, my Holy Grail was Gatchaman, as I loved the Battle of the Planets version. I got bootlegs, then bought the Rhino releases, then the ADV Films collections. |
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