No Fraggle Rock DVDs in the U.S.

[Traveling Matt]

Hey guys-

Some very sad news: I e-mailed Henson.com about Fraggle Rock coming to DVD, and this was their response:

<<Dear Billy,

While it is true that Fraggle Rock will be released on DVD in France, there are no current plans to re-release Fraggle Rock on DVD or VHS in the United States. Should there be a decision to do so, it will be announced first on www.henson.com.

However, Your email has been forwarded to our Marketing group so thanks for your input.

Thanks for writing and regards . . .

The Jim Henson Company>>

Very, VERY, bad decision. I cannot possibly think of a reason for this misaction.

- Billy

[Warrick]

We obviously need to send our requests to Marketing.

And show them the DVD Petition link !

See ya

[Luke]

Is there any word yet on how the English/French barrier is going to be overcome on the French Fraggle DVD's. If i'm going to buy them i didn't particularly want the French Doc and Travelling Matt bits - i want the UK ones.

[Warrick]

I dont know, I should think it woudl be french with Subtitles or Dubbed ?

It could get nasty if they left the French Docs and used the English Matt soundtrack - LOL

See ya

[Traveling Matt]

I was hoping I'd catch you before I left, Warrick

Please, definately send (or re-send) your link and signatures from your petition to them. They apparently don't know what this opportunity means to Fraggle Rock fans outside of France

I find it difficult to believe that 3800+ people can be ignored like that.

- Billy

[Traveling Matt]

<<It could get nasty if they left the French Docs and used the English Matt soundtrack - LOL>>

Yeah, that might be a bad situation

- Billy

[Warrick]

Whats the address you sent it to ?

See ya

[Traveling Matt]

Warrick,

It was fanmail@henson.com

- Billy

[Warrick]

Done and Done !

See ya

[Phillip Chapman]

Henson definitely wants to get Fraggle Rock on DVD in the US even if it's a few volumes. The challenge is getting a video distributor willing to put the major bucks behind the releases to make that happen. They've been quietly working on quite a bit of promotion for Fraggle in the upcoming 18 months, so stay tuned. Like everyone's stated before, Fraggle Rock is more than deserving of DVD releases, especially in the post-September 11 world we now live in.

[Warrick]

The Company who produced the 'My So Called Life' DVD Series, Was interested in Purchasing the Rights to Fraggle Rock, Im not sure if Henson wanted to go through with it tho.

But before this i did hear rumours of Next Summer 'Best Of...' DVD's.

See ya

[beaker]

>>>While it is true that Fraggle Rock will be released on DVD in France, there are no current plans to re-release Fraggle Rock on DVD or VHS in the United States<<<

Heck, thats not sad news to me! Makes it more special, heh...THANK GOODNESS for region free pal playable offbrand dvd players!

[pinkfragglegirl]

>>>>>>>>It's not special for people without "region free pal playable offbrand dvd players!!!!!!" haha...I love the Fraggles! I'm obsessed!!! I wasn't aware that I couldn't buy the DVDs here! I'm so upset now... but does anyone know what those DVD collections on Ebay are then?

pinkfragglegirl

[PukkaPukka]

Originally Posted by pinkfragglegirl

>>>>>>>>It's not special for people without "region free pal playable offbrand dvd players!!!!!!" haha...I love the Fraggles! I'm obsessed!!! I wasn't aware that I couldn't buy the DVDs here! I'm so upset now... but does anyone know what those DVD collections on Ebay are then?

pinkfragglegirl

Well, the eBay stuff (most of it anyway) dealing with Fraggle VCDs or DVDs is mostly bogus stuff. There is a lot of valid sale material, I'm not saying you won't get the material, but a lot of the DVD collections and VCD collections are mis-titled as supposedly having "the complete series" (and only stating that there are about 25 or 30 episodes - there are 96 if my count is correct). This should be blatantly obvious to any Fraggle fan that these are bogus in their advertising. But if you want them, I can't exactly stop you from hitting "Buy"....just to let you know before (if) you buy....

Look more at the VCDs though, there are usually more episodes for far cheaper prices (and I'm not condoning this activity in any way, but if you're going to buy, look into these rather than the so-called "DVDs") There ya go!

(Oh and by the way, in case there are a few out there who think I'm into this sorta stuff - buying VCD INSTEAD of the actual media - I'll assure you I will be the first one in the shops here in Boise to buy Fraggle!)

Have a lovely day!

>Adam

[anathema]

Alternatively, don't buy them! Quite apart from the illegality of this, it could lead to Henson cracking down on tape-trading as well. It's happened before.

Incidentally, ALL the shows listed on these DVDs or VCDs are downloadable from the various P2P networks. I (obviously) haven't seen the discs being sold, but from the screenshots being posted in the eBay listings and the suspicious coincidence that *only* the downloadable shows are on the discs, it seems a reasonable bet that the either the P2P networks are the source of the shows, or else the guy doing the discs is also uploading the AVIs. Either way, the picture and sound quality is bloody awful, so they're really not worth bothering with. VHS recordings are much better quality :-)