davelipscombe
Crustacean
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your right... its vol2, just without the background...
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GreyThinkyWhale
Professor
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« Reply #209 on: 04-30-2005 20:55 »
« Last Edit on: 05-07-2005 00:00 »
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Originally posted by winna: I'm for sure gonna pick this up. You and me both! I think that cover might be it though, here's a larger picture: Edit: That's the picture they use on Fox, so it's gotta be real.P.S. Have you seen Futurama's microsite? Lookin' good considering I thought they no longer had one... 2nd edit: Now that I think about it, the cover art they show on that site for The Simpsons Christmas 2, and gone wild look nothing like what mine look like... ------------------ Bite My Squishy Human Ass!
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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On that site's Futurama page, what's that thing on the right side?
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Nasty Pasty
DOOP Secretary
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Meh, that DVD cover is deeply disapointing...
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OhSnap
Delivery Boy
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« Reply #215 on: 05-06-2005 04:05 »
« Last Edit on: 05-06-2005 04:05 »
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Dont know anything about futufan, or whoever, but I do remember reading a post of his that I always found somewhat unbelievable.
He said something along the lines of: "I didnt make a play all button until the third season because the budget was too small."
This makes no sense. Adding that button costs nothing. It is simply the cost associated with someone writing the source, which amounts to about five minutes work (source that is like ten lines long, and a black frame that states there are several minutes of black between eps). And the DVD's certainly dont cost more money to produce with a play all button.
And given the production value of the futurama dvds (i.e. they've gone to the trouble of, and spent the money to, record audio and create animation) i find it hard to believe they didnt have the scratch for that little difference.
Now maybe my understanding of how dvd's work is all wrong, but I am living in LA making my livelihood in filmmaking, and I think I understand alot of the concepts of editing, computers, production, and even DVD production, and this seems to not make any sense to me.
Now, as I said, I havent read any of his other posts, and maybe I read his post wrong, or have misremembered it, but it always struck me as fishy.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by DotheBartman: That's really strange....why would they go out of their way to create really cool artwork, and then pull out this generic, recycled thing? Hopefully its just a "placeholder" cover or something, until they get the real one up.
Futufan....if possible, and if the cover artwork you saw ends up being scrapped, anyway you might be able to post it here for us to see? Maybe it'll get used in the 2006 Calendar...
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LessThanHero
Poppler
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The current cover art could easily be some kind of quick mock-up made before the real one is released.
This looks nice, but I don't think I'll buy it.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #223 on: 05-08-2005 13:06 »
« Last Edit on: 05-08-2005 13:06 »
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Originally posted by OhSnap: Yeah, well as I said, I dont know him at all, really, and havent seen any advance news or inside info he's given. If you read some of the pre-release Season DVD's threads, you'll find lots of inside news and predictions from him, all which later turned out to be true. No offense intended to his devoted followers. You make it sound like it's a cult. futufan is respected and trusted by the community, simply because he is friendly and everything he's posted in the last 2½ years have been proven right. If he says adding a play-all feature was impossible due to financial reasons I see no reason to doubt him on that. And having a play-all is the best thing since sliced bread!
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futufan
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by OhSnap: Dont know anything about futufan, or whoever, but I do remember reading a post of his that I always found somewhat unbelievable.
He said something along the lines of: "I didnt make a play all button until the third season because the budget was too small."
This makes no sense. Adding that button costs nothing. It is simply the cost associated with someone writing the source, which amounts to about five minutes work (source that is like ten lines long, and a black frame that states there are several minutes of black between eps). And the DVD's certainly dont cost more money to produce with a play all button.
And given the production value of the futurama dvds (i.e. they've gone to the trouble of, and spent the money to, record audio and create animation) i find it hard to believe they didnt have the scratch for that little difference.
Now maybe my understanding of how dvd's work is all wrong, but I am living in LA making my livelihood in filmmaking, and I think I understand alot of the concepts of editing, computers, production, and even DVD production, and this seems to not make any sense to me.
Now, as I said, I havent read any of his other posts, and maybe I read his post wrong, or have misremembered it, but it always struck me as fishy. I had to go back and re-read what I wrote regarding this -- sorry for anything that may have been misleading. It is true, the budget has nothing to do with having a Play All button or not. It is also true that the budget was very small in the beginning and got slightly larger as we went along given the numbers of DVDs that Futurama sold. The comment I made about the Play All wasn't supposed to be directly related to the budget comments that came before it. It may have appeared that way, but it really wasn't. Basically, just to set the record straight, the whole story behind the Play All button was this: When work was started on Futurama Season 1, I wasn't in a position at my job to suggest anything that wasn't asked of us by Fox (even though I wished for the button, I couldn't really suggest it at that point). By the 2nd season, I was in the position to suggest it, and I did, but it went on deaf ears, so to speak. By the 3rd season, I just went ahead and worked it to the designs of the Main Menus myself and Fox, obviously, didn't seem to mind. By season 4, it was included in Fox's specs. Believe me, not having a Play All button on all 4 seasons is one of the things I regret about the 4 sets out there -- something I wish I could go back and fix. But, alas, there's not much I can do about it now. So that's the true history of the Play All button as far as the Futurama DVDs go (riveting stuff, huh?). Sorry for any confusion regarding the previous comment. By the way, I hate to say it, but you can now expect some delays with the release dates due to some post-delivery tinkering. No official word on how much of a delay as of yet. I don't know anything more about the cover either. I really want to believe the boring image posted above is just FPO though. Time will tell.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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An image easter egg? Perhaps a picture of a poster that says "Futurama: Un-Canceled"?
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JDB
Professor
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Maybe the Easter Egg is the picture that Futufan said was going to be on the cover?
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jamdav86
Crustacean
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Actually it's out on May 30. That 'Neavers' bloke is some dirty stinking rotten liar that makes me ashamed to be British!
SOURCES: amazon.co.uk, hmv.co.uk
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