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I admit only have the DVDs as well, but the Time-Life website says that both the VHS tape and DVD releases include Alice Cooper, and I've never heard anyone say that the VHS tapes have only two episodes when the DVDs have three. He's supposed to be on the same one as Vincent Price and Marty...

I noticed that the Muppet Christmas Carol DVD has a blurb on the back saying "buy the soundtrack album!" Disney seems to have failed to realize that the CD is completely out of print. I'm sure they just took the standard credit template from the original movie poster and recycled it; but it's...

I was having similar problems, but after Phillip suggested that I be sure to log in and log out every time I read the forums, they went away - now it precisely remembers what I've read and what I haven't. Be sure to go log out on *all* the browsers you use to read the forums first (I had...

The master used for the DVD is exactly the same as the one used for the VHS release. How can I tell? The dust specks and lint on the film are in exactly the same places. No cleanup of this master seems to have been done at all - I saw numerous dust specks throughout - although at least thanks...

I received my "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" DVD from Bestbuy.com yesterday. I concur with Melissa that it's completely uncut (thank goodness). Unfortunately I would describe the video quality as only fair - acceptable, but fair. It's clearly been sourced from a slightly deteriorated...

(Sorry, kind of off topic) The Snoopy doghouse/pumpkin patch playset is $15.99 at Target... a little overpriced for what you get: a pumpkin patch base that makes two noises, a detactable doghouse, and exactly the same Snoopy figure that's available separately. --Scott

Well, look at the trouble I caused by mentioning the Peanuts figs, and all for nothing because the Rowlf comes with a Beethoven bust too! :) I'm active in a lot of the Peanuts forums, and as far I've heard, Target is pretty much the only place to get them - but even not all Targets have them...

I don't know the answer, but if he doesn't come with the Bust of Beethoven, you can just go get Schroeder from the Playing Mantis Peanuts line of action figures that just came out. He comes with a Bust of Beethovenm and then you can mix and match. :-)

Well, I was completely surprised. The package arrived while I was out of town, so I hadn't been reading the message boards or anything... I just opened it up, happy to get my Vanishing Cream Beaker, and then there was this completely unexpected bonus inside it. Usually I know exactly what...

As far as I could tell, this is just a problem if you're using Internet Explorer on the Mac. If you use Netscape, Mozilla, or Opera, you can see all the pages on MuppetCentral without a problem. (I'm not saying it's anyone's fault for using IE - that's what I use by default too - just...

The previous three movies were released on DVD were released by a different company, Columbia Tristar. MTI and MCC are being released by Disney. Not that Disney hasn't released plenty of kid's movies in widescreen, too. They seem to be using MTI as an experiment to see if fullscreen goes over...

I've got to agree with DrummerMan. Running out and buying it isn't going to send the right message to Disney, and they're going to just continue to foist pan-and-scan releases off on us. At the very least, wait several months before buying it... it'll still be around, but it'll be long...

Thanks for forwarding the details, Thog."Full screen format" is not a feature. Grumble. It's hard to believe they've bothered to get commentary and extras - features aimed at collectors - and yet not put a widescreen version of the film out. Who do they think they're marketing this release...

Oops, I forgot to comment on this earlier. Sorry, it seems I have a comment on everything, don't I? Anyway, I've got several friends with kids, and they say their kids aren't bothered by widescreen at all. As long as the content entertains them, they're happy! So of course I told all my...

Re: ? Thanks for sending in a letter, Jessie! Why full screen is bad is covered in the article linked on the front page of MuppetCentral. But in a nutshell, the original movie was wider than a TV screen; to make the movie full screen to "fit" on your TV screen, they have to chop away 30%...

Of course, saying that putting both versions on a disc reduces the quality is also a cop out when joined with the "this is for kids" argument... young kids are hardly likely to notice the slight drop in quality caused by putting both versions on the disc, are they? I have DVDs (besides the...

Actually, it was Warner Brothers who released "Follow That Bird" as pan and scan, not Disney. Warners has been guilty of this with several "family" titles. Much as we are upset with Disney's decisions regarding the two Muppet DVDs, let's not blame them for other folk's mistakes too! I know...

I'm not sure the fact that your DVD boxes say "widescreen" on them or not is really relevant here. And even though they don't have the word "widescreen" on them, probably they say "1.85:1 aspect ratio" and "1.66 aspect ratio" as one of the features - that means "widescreen." Anyway, several...

Jamie - My understanding from reading DVD web sites and newsgroups is that if you want an anamorphic transfer and the only previous widescreen tranfer was non-anamorphic, they have to do a new transfer. I'm not sure why, and I admit this is just based on what I've read, not because I know the...

Ah, but the laserdiscs were not anamorphic widescreen, so if they wanted to release an anamorphic widescreen DVD (which almost all DVDs these days are), they would have to do a new transfer. Non-anamorphic widescreen makes DVDphiles almost as annoyed as full frame transfers (because of the...