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has nelvana released any shows on dvd tho? man im still waiting for eek the cat..doubt im gonna get 13 episodes of sam and max.. and plus its probably fox kids that owns the rights to the show..nelvana was just the company that made the episodes.. I mean rockos modern life hasnt even been released on dvd..so not much hope for classic cartoons from the 90s it seems
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I am getting this directly from the VHS tapes that were released in Canada but now sit proudly on my desk thanks to someone on eBay who doesn't mind exporting goods to U.S. buyers ...
Sam & Max TM and © Steve Purcell
Series © 1998 Nelvana Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Unless Nelvana has sold the rights since these videotapes were manufactured, they own the rights to the series. Fox Kids licensed them for broadcast from Nelvana, who licensed the rights from Steve Purcell. Just because Fox Kids showed them means nothing. After all,
Star Trek is shown on G4. That doesn't mean that G4 now owns the franchise. There merely licensed the rights from Paramount. Look at it this way, too. Steve Purcell owns the characters. TellTale doesn't own the characters just because they're releasing a Sam & Max game.
With respect to cartoons from the 90s ... when the cartoons were manufactured is not the issue. It's percieved cost/profit/demand that drives the decision to release any entertainment medium. We need to get on Steve's and Nelvana's case to let them know that there
is demand. I'm actually kind of surprised the Steve hasn't gone to them already and asked how much it would cost to buy the episodes. Well, maybe he has. I don't know, obviously.
Remember, Fox beought back
The Family Guy when they saw how well the DVDs were selling. I doubt that
Sam and Max has the same amount of fans - you never knw, though - but if enough of us speak out, maybe we could persuade Nelvana to release them.
Oh, don't bother going to their web site. The e-mail address that they have keeps bouncing back with a failure. /