I’m very happy with The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin releases from MillCreek. While I would have loved some special features, the company obviously knew we were going to buy these up regardless so I can’t blame them for not spending the extra money. The DVD packaging is bright and luckily quite easy to distinguish between the MillCreek and FNP releases. The menu’s and theme music are also much better on these compared to FNP’s. Last but not least, it’s wonderful to have 20 episode blocks rather than waiting 2 or 3 months at a time to get 5 more episodes as we would have had with FNP.
It took a long time to get Teddy back on video. The Yes! people released a few episodes on VHS much in the way WoW had done in the late 80’s. Then we had the 1999 “Teddy Ruxpin: The Movie” a 90 plus minute release that skimmed parts of the first few episodes. Then FNP released the first 10 episodes on DVD and decided to drop future releases. While this series has been very hard to come by before MillCreek’s releases, I’d dare say the first 25% of the series’ episodes may have seen more releases than any other cartoon in history. I was beginning to think anyone who planned to release more than just the first quarter episodes were cursed.
In the late 1990’s, myself and a foreign webmaster began a petition & letter writing campaign to the major networks and to any & all video distributors to please do something with this series again… that there was a demand. FNP even mentioned the petition in an early press release. I think it’s now time to begin one to try to get “The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin” live action movie on DVD. I’ve got an old VHS copy and once in a long while one will pop up for sale on Ebay, but otherwise this is becoming an increasingly rare relic. I would have loved to have seen it included with the television series releases but that doesnt appear to be happening. Maybe MillCreek would entertain releasing it? Let me know what you all think about another petition.
