Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series

Excellent classic cartoons

The delivery was late by three days even with a two week window (June 9 to 21). The blu ray was fantastic quality and looked better than these shows ever did. Too bad they are shutting down Warner Archive .

Bought this product on a whim as I've always liked Superhero cartoons since I was a small boy. This series came and went before I was born, but I was very familiar with Space Ghost. When I was a boy, they repackaged and syndicated the Space Ghost shorts in other programs on Saturday Mornings and Weekdays. In the 80's they created a show called Space Stars which featured all new adventures of Space Ghost along with other heroes. Finally, in the 90's there was Space Ghost Coast to Coast from Cartoon Network where the hero was turned into a rather doltish talk-show host who interviewed live-action celebrities of the time. Basically, Space Ghost has been around my whole life.For those of you who don't know, Space Ghost was a superhero living in some far distant future. He had a space ship, The Phantom Cruiser, and was teamed up with a pair of teenage siblings known as Jan & Jayce and a pet monkey named Blip. His powers included flight, the ability to survive and talk in space, "Inviso-Power" which enabled him to turn invisible by touching a button on his belt and his "Power Bands" which were gauntlets worn on his wrists which could fire various rays such as heat-beams, freeze-beams, force beams and the like. Jan, Jayce and Blip also had Inviso-Power belts and flew around on jet-packs or in their little "Space Coupe". Together, they encountered many space villains and monsters which are just too numerous to list here.The show also features segments of Dino-Boy. This was a modern day kid who parachuted out of a crashing plane and landed in some Lost World where dinosaurs and primitive tribes of cave-men still existed. He befriended a Neanderthal named Ugh, a small Shetland Pony-sized Brontosaurus named "Bronty" and together they faced the strange monsters and dinosaurs that populated this land. Why are there dinosaurs and cave-men living together? Every kid just knew that there had to be a Lost World or Lost Continent somewhere on Earth where these creatures and people still lived. It was just accepted. Don't question the Science.Each episode of the series is divided into three segments about 7 minutes long. They begin with a Space Ghost segment, followed by a Dino-Boy segment and complete with a final Space Ghost segment. There are 20 episodes in all.These shows are just pure entertainment and adventure. They get right into the action and wrap up in 7 minutes, then it's on to the next segment. They don't provide back-stories or origin stories, and frankly, kids back then just didn't care. We didn't ask how Space Ghost got his powers, how he was teamed up with two kids and a monkey or who he was under his cowl. We didn't question why some kid who landed in a world full of dinosaurs decided to rename himself "Dino-Boy" (we never know his actual name) or why he just accepted life in a jungle with a caveman and a brontosaurus. All we cared about was the action, the creatures and the pure spectacle. The action was great, the aliens and monsters were amazing, and the worlds were extremely colorful and just great to look at.The Blu-Ray package is really good. Like all of the Warner Archive releases, the packages are fairly bare-bones releases. They mainly just feature the episodes, English Subtitle options and that's about it. No booklet with the package, but every episode name is listed on the two discs. There is one special feature on the second disc and it's a 78 minute biographic documentary on the late Alex Toth. He was the artist and cartoonist who designed Space Ghost among many other creations. I've only watched the first few minutes of this documentary as of this writing, but it looks interesting. Overall, the cartoons look great. Bright, full-color restorations with no hint of speck or scratch.Very glad I bought this package and I highly recommend it. It's good that Warner is releasing these old series because they need to be preserved. Cartoons and children's entertainment in general is going by the wayside in terms of quality and messaging, so it's good to keep these series alive so that we can remember what good old-fashioned entertainment used to be. I would also recommend getting these shows if you have children today. There is nothing objectionable whatsoever and I'm sure that kids of any age will find these shows entertaining. Plus, the more of these series we buy, the more we are sending a message to Warner that we like these shows and that we want them to release more from the vaults.

Aunque la carátula del estuche y las ilustraciones de la cubierta de los discos son de buena calidad, los discos en sí son copias quemadas en DVD+R.

Great to see a rerelease of this on single sided disks after the 2007 double sided DVDs stopped working due to poor design and packaging back then.This set has all 20 episodes of Hanna-Barbera's first serious super hero show, including the 6 part crossover at the end, which was designed to introduce the stars of other shows: Herculoids, Shazzan, Moby Dick and Mightor.Alex Toth's fabulous art work and Hoyt Curtin's great score make for real entertainment.

Loved the cartoon when I was younger still great to watch