The Delbert Cartoon Report

  Since his creation in 1940, Woody Woodpecker had brought laughter and joy from his own laughter all over the world becoming one of the most popular cartoon characters at one point in time.  While not as popular anymore due to waning television airings he still would sometimes get around even in Universal and Portaventura theme parks.  In honor of Me TV bringing Woody Woodpecker back to television, here is a lookback on some of the walkaround costumes used over the years Please note that this is not comprehensive, and some of the costumes may not be official.  Names of each costume is given by me; no official names have been given for any of these costumes.  Dates are approximate as track records of these costumes were lost to time. Universal Studios Tour (early 1970's at least-late 70's early 80's) It is unclear what the earliest of these costumes were and what year, but as far back as 1972 we found this from an old postcard from back when Universal was just a...

  In celebration of the return of classic Woody Woodpecker and Walter Lantz cartoons to television, I wish to do an opinion piece and try to answer a question that has been bugging me for the last decade or so......does the general public HATE Woody Woodpecker????!!!!!! First of all I can say for certainty that he isn't a forgotten character.  The iconic laugh, one of the first things to come to mind when you think of woodpeckers is Woody.  The original cartoon series lasted from 1940-1972 outlasting Bugs Bunny by 8 years and the original Tom and Jerry by about 14 years (both series debuted the same year as Woody).  Even when the cartoons went into TV reruns whether it was syndicated or Saturday Mornings, Woody Woodpecker continued to grace the theater screens even if the budget got lower and lower as the years progressed.  Woody Woodpecker at one point became the mascot for Universal Parks and Resorts (now Universal Destinations and Experiences), and many of hi...

  I was born 30 years ago.  I would have been way way way too young to remember even a slither of Turtlemania.  Now, 30 years later, as I research and understand the appeal of the Ninja Turtles for about a year now, I've decided to talk about it from the outside looking in since we have a new movie coming out and also the classic series had a bit of a resurgence. As I said, I was born near the bitter bitter end of Turtlemania.  My mania would have been Barney the Dinosaur at the time, and the Y7 crowd was starting to lean towards Mighty Morphan Power Rangers.  That didn't mean Turtles weren't popular anymore; it just meant that pop culture was changing, and Turtles, for the time being, was no longer top dog.  It would return for a while with a new series in 2003 that would last through the decade, and Paramount took good care of them under the Nickelodeon brand for the next decade at least in terms of brand recognition.   That said, my introductio...

 Following the release of Mickey and Minnie on Blu-ray, Disney continues the trend of releasing classic shorts to Blu-ray for the 100th anniversary of the Disney company with a volume two called Mickey and Friends. Continuing where Mickey and Minnie began back in the winter, this set would be considered just as exciting as cartoon shorts are far and few shown, especially on Blu-ray.  The last great year for classic shorts on Blu-ray was 2018 with Celebrating Mickey.  So when Mickey and Minnie and now this set, Mickey and Friends, were announced, fans were intrigued to buy it in hopes of more releases to come.  Like the last set, the art cover makes it look like a very attractive set with many of the famed characters in their classic form.  It's the same helping as last time however, 10 cartoons, all of which we have seen over and over again.  This time, however, it's not just about Mickey Mouse.  You get Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Daisy, Chi...

  Time for another Blu-ray review.  This time it involves Looney Tunes with a big release, Looney Tunes Collector's Choice vol 1.  How does it hold up?  Let's find out I've been watching and collecting Looney Tunes for over 20 years now.  In fact, it will be 20 years since the Golden and Premiere Collections on DVD which started a revolution of collecting Looney Tunes on disc.  What's more is that Warner Bros. began doing new restorations of these cartoons since many of these were only dubbed versions and some were airing in faded prints on Cartoon Network. But there were cartoons snubbed from previous releases.  While the majority of the releases had a lot of what fans want, it wasn't EVERYTHING that they wanted.  Most of the issues ranged from a mastering issue to just being passed over.  This what we hope to be a new line of sets was to correct that.  20 new to Blu-ray cartoons appear on this disc ranging from 1945-1959 making this al...

  With the 100th Anniversary of Warner Bros. going on, they have been raiding the vaults somewhat with different Blu-ray releases included 4K releases of the Superman Movies, and because of this, they decided to do a separate Blu-ray release of the Max Flesicher Superman cartoons.  But is it worth it?  Let's check it out. [PLEASE NOTE: at the time of me receiving this set, I came down with Covid, and I am still recovering from the left over residue from it.  If I get something wrong, please let me know). It's no surprise that Superman is one of the most well known figures in pop culture, being first in comics then of course, movies, animation, TV, and theme park attractions all over the world.  For this series of cartoons, not only was it the first animated series for Superman, but the first on screen series for a superhero franchise period.  And as far as content is concerned, this is superior.  Some of the greatest cartoons ever made.  They were...

I wanted to tell this story for a few weeks now.  I originally was going to do this as part of the series of public domain posts I have done, but this story for this company outweighed the actual public domain cartoon releases.  Only baby boomers and older generations than that could claim they grew up with the history of animation.  Boomers specifically because EVERYTHING was on TV back in the day.  However, somehow thanks to my sharp memory even when blurred at times made me realize I was lucky enough as well to have grown up with the history of animation.  Quick, brief, but impact memories make for good storytelling such as how as a kid I knew Baby Huey, how often I saw public domain cartoons in school, and a possible bootlegged tape I own.  This may be the most bizarre stories with major mysteries involved I have ever told, and I invite you to go into the rabbit hole right now. So let's go back into time.  It was the summer of 1998, my second trip ...