I’d completely forgotten about the MST Hour wraps for “Gamera” and “Gamera Vs. Guiron” until reading their responses to the extras. Fortunately there is still time to include, so I will. As for the KTMA host segs (or any footage from KTMA), I was not able to include.
Here’s an update Vol. XXI: “MST3K Vs. Gamera” (as it will be called). As you already know it will contain all five Gamera episodes: 302- GAMERA, 304- GAMERA VS. BARUGON, 308- GAMERA VS. GAOS, 312- GAMERA VS. GUIRON and 316- GAMERA VS. ZIGRA. It will be in a tin box. The street date is Aug. 2
The extras will be:
* So Happy Together: A Look Back at MST3K and Gamera
* Gamera Vs. The Chiodo Brothers
* Gamera Obscura: A Brief History by August Ragone (author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters)
* Original Japanese Trailers
* 5 limited edition mini-posters by artist Steve Vance
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What! No Gamera vs. Guiron MST Hour intros! Darn, that’s one of the few episodes I don’t have the Jack Perkins bits for. Some of Mike’s best work.
Still, this collection is great and I can hardly wait to pick it up.
Yay!! two weeks later then normal, but yay!!!
What? No KTMA versions of the Gamera episodes as an extra??? Poopers. :/
Oh well. Glad to hear the release date and extras. Sounds like a decent box set. ^_^
This is a major set! Now we can have a Gamera marathon! I can’t wait. ;)
Hey Sampo. . . (I assume you will read this)
Is there a chance we’ll also see the “Fugitive Alien” episodes and “Time of the Apes”?
Fantastic news. Can’t wait to buy this.
Shout Factory continues to hit it out of the park. First Master Ninja I and II….now Gamera!!!
No date for the preorder yet I take it? Can’t wait!! This will just about complete my collection of the entire series!
I’m gonna have Gamera commin’ outta my ears.
Awesome! I’ve never seen the Gamera episodes, so I can’t wait for this set.
Very happy to hear this indeed! I was kind of wondering the same thing to,if Shout! will try to get both Fugitive Alien and Time of the Apes.Let’s hope they do..Thanks Shout!! :-))
Smirkboy–no way to know until it happens. I hope so!
I know what I’m getting for my birthday!
I am so psych’d for this box set!! I did hope for Candid Gamera trailers, tho – (hint hint, for another day). In the meantime, I’ll be dreaming of turtle meat….
M~
I am most anxiously awaiting this set.
@ “Is there a chance we’ll also see the “Fugitive Alien” episodes and “Time of the Apes”?
Questions like that are best asked over on the Shout! Factory Community forum. When they can answer them, they do. Brian Ward and his fellow staff are pretty good about answering fan questions over there.
This is going to be epic! I still can’t believe that the Gamera movies are actually being released on DVD! Here’s to hoping (and praying) that “Time of the Apes” and the “Fugitive Alien” movies will be next…heck, I’d even love to see “Mighty Jack” come out and I never even cared for that episode.
I’m feeling really good now!
First bin Ladens dead, now a new MST3K set. My life is getting better and better.
(sigh)
I was really hoping they’d have the KTMA episodes as extras. That way it would set the precedent for later releases that may include Fugitive Alien 2 which, if they included the KTMA version, would give us one of the “lost” episodes. Come on, Shout. There is still time to include these. Tell anyone giving you guff that people can’t get mad if they’re included as extras. :-D
Finally a release date. I have all the other DVDs and have systematically been watching all the other episodes on youtube or google, but i skipped these waiting for the box set. Finally I will be able to bask in Gamera glory.
DAMN! They need the MST Hour intro bits. Someone e-mail that guy at Shout! and get him on this.
Yay! We shall feast on turtle meat!
I was talking to one of the Shout producers at the CT Mesa show and asked him if the KTMA episodes would be included in this box set. He told me he was trying to get the host segments from the KTMA’s as extra’s, looks like he didn’t get them. Oh well, this is still an incredible set. Now if they would only include this as an extra…http://tinyurl.com/44dsthr
Am I the only one supremely impressed with the Turtles ref in the bonus content? I must admit I’m giddy with excitement over this set, and hope the Fugitive Aliens are on the way too.
“So Happy Together”. Very nice.
GOTTA HAVE IT !!! :-)) :yes:
@ 22: “Am I the only one supremely impressed with the Turtles ref in the bonus content?”
No, us Turtles fans are out here. And happy that Flo & Eddy regained control of their music catalog over the past couple years with lots of good stuff back in print.
The final track on this collection is a commercial. Warren Zevon can be heard on that track before he was well known.
http://www.amazon.com/Save-Turtles-Greatest-Hits/dp/B001TW68P4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1304478858&sr=1-1
I am waiting patiently for Sampo to present a preferred link that I may use it…
(Sampo: DO IT.)
This is such great news. Way before I actually followed MST3K weekly (in the Sci-fi Channel days), I distinctly remember somehow seeing a Gamera episode. I don’t even remember how I saw it, but I do remember loving it and it helped set the stage for watching MST religiously later on. I don’t care what the extras are; I’m just ready to see all the Gamera I can feast on.
Definitely my favorite MST3K DVD volume. I anxiously await a pre-order.
Not fussed on tins, I don’t use them or display them. Happy to get the episodes though.
OOOOOOOOhhhhh……..tin box.
:-D
While I’d rather have some season 7 episodes this will be
interesting since I’ve never seen any of the Gamera movies.
But 5 seem a bit like taking an overdose. Will interventions
be needed? :doctor:
Tin case, huh? Here’s hoping that the DVDs will be easier to get out of this one than the 20th Anniversary tin!
Turtles referernce? Oh, I get it. Cute. I Like “Gamera Obscura,” too. I see what you did there, Shout. Very clever. You win this round.
SWEET! Glad to finally know the release date and the sure-to-be-awesome extras! :D
Here’s hoping the box is more Turtleriffic then a big colored XXI on the cover.
…Cornjob will be blamed! :fighterm:
Will the KTMA versions would have been a dream for me I’m not surprised or disappointed that’s not happening. However the omitting the MST Hour wraps is a bit weird since we’ve seen those before. I would like them to reconsider on that one.
Also starting use the Dim Lights Where Applicable graphic.
Best set so far, I never though these would see the light of day.
I still want those MST Hour segments.
ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AWESOME, so sweet! Your right Smirkboy, lets get Fugitive Alien and Time of the Apes released on Shout DVD!!!! If they don’t I will go after them with a forklift!
Count me out. Not interested.
“Time of the Apes” and “Fugitive Alien” WITH the unMST3K version included please. Please again. And I DON’T CARE. With Monkey Boy jeans. And frosting on my face to look like a Hostess Cupcake.
Awesome set. I’ll buy it right away.
Excited, can not wait! I love Gamera flicks on their own, the riffing just adds to the enjoyment!
To SuperSwift: HOW THE HELL DOES ANYONE NOT LIKE ( love ) FUGITIVE ALIEN AND TIME OF THE APES MST3K eps!!!!!! Dude, you need some help ( seriously! )
Any Japanese monster movies, great. Gamera — awesome!
FULL OF MEAT
I wonder how much KTMA Gamera we might see in the “A Look Back at MST3K and Gamera” documentary?
Well, with 5 discs, there might be some other extras being prepared. They just might want to surprise us with them, which I won’t complain about. And that Gamera action figure would look great with the bots. They even make a Jet Jaguar one
http://www.amazon.com/Jet-Jaguar-Action-Figure-Godzilla/dp/B000KWYTTG/ref=pd_bxgy_t_img_b
They can’t sell a Gamera Action figure as Daiei owns the Merchendising rights.
They don’t need to sell one, check out this link and buy your own. http://www.amazon.com/Gamera-Movie-Monsters-Action-Figure/dp/B000I3ICZE/ref=pd_sim_t_10