Post by Sly on Aug 30, 2024 17:57:02 GMT
The saga continues......
To the film community, Thunderbean customers and fans of animation and lost media:
Over the past 20 years, Thunderbean has been releasing Blu-rays and DVDs of classic animation, with particular attention to lost or extremely rare films. It’s been both a professional and personal joy for me to be able to have a part in helping animation history be visible and films available in good quality. The support of the animation fan community has kept this tiny company alive over these years. We’re very grateful for all the support, both financially and with all the great feedback we’ve had on what we do.
Thunderbean releases “Official” sets of restored films and cartoons, and “Special sets”. The special sets are limited releases for the fan base that often consist of raw scans from rare film prints, sometimes cleaned up, often not. The special sets are always extremely limited runs- and on occasion we’ll offer the older ones again.
In these two decades, we’ve been fortunate to scan, restore and release many ‘holy grails’ that were long-sought after; some were genuinely lost, others just not accessible for viewing. In this time, there has never been a film we’ve managed to gain access to that we haven’t eventually released. That, however, has now changed.
For the special set “Public Domain Mouse Adventures”, we planned to release “Uncle Walt” as part of the set. Because of several factors related to the film, we have made the decision to not release “Uncle Walt” as part of this set. We’ll still be releasing the set without this one short film.
We understand the disappointment of the film and animation fan base, especially the lost media wiki people. It’s one film among many that may or may not be unearthed to the larger public at some point.
Since we understand that many people have purchased this set just for that one film, we’re offering refunds for the set. We’ll be sending an email shortly to everyone that purchased this set with a form to request a refund if you would like one.
We’ll continue our mission moving forward, restoring films for Blu-ray and streaming. We believe access is everything— it allows old films to stay alive. We know the community really wanted to see this film, but hope springs eternal.
Sincerely,
Steve Stanchfield
Thunderbean
Yikes