August 17, 2004
From Ask Greg at Station Eight
(Excerpted from Greg’s Gathering
Journal)
Buena Vista's
7-Point PowerPoint Presentation Slide Show, which I've transcribed here [with a
few comments]:
1.
GARGOYLES
2.
"Visually Stunning and Dramatically Stirring, Gargoyles Defines
Fantastic."
--Ray
Stackhouse, TV Guide
3. A
Mythical World
--An Animated
Series About Ancient Creatures Who Come to Life at
Night to Protect Manhattan from Evil
--10
Year Series Anniversary
--Voiced
by Well-Known Talent from the Star Trek Franchise Including:
*Jonathan
Frakes
*Michael
Dorn
*Brent Spiner [who doesn't actually
appear in the first season. whoops.]
4. A
Loyal Fan Base
--Gargoyles
Was the 23rd Most Requested Disney Title of Q2 '04 [certainly, we can do better
than that, right?]
--Chat
Rooms and Fan Websites Are Buzzing with News of the Upcoming DVD Release:
"OMG! I
can't wait. 10 long years and finally my fave cartoon
will be on DVD!" - SportyShorty, IMDB Fan
Posting
--Annual
"Gathering of the Gargoyles" Convention Attended by Thousands of Fans
[If you add 'em all up, sure.]
--Gargoyles
Airs Every Night on TOON DISNEY CHANNEL and Saturdays on ABC FAMILY
5. A
Product Fans Are Clamoring For
--Two-Disc
DVD Set
--Includes
All 13 Episodes of the First Season of Gargoyles [uncut, I should add]
--Special
10th Anniversary Edition [as opposed to all those other editions, right?]
--Bonus
Features:
*The
Gathering of the Gargoyles [original documentary filmed at G2004]
*Original
Show Pitch by Greg Weisman - Show Creator [previously available ONLY by
attending the Gathering]
*Audio
Commentary on Origanl Episodes 1-5 [Originally, I had
been hoping for commentary on all 13 episodes. Budget constraints made that
impossible, as Buena Vista truly has no idea how well this will sell. (We'll
have to show them, won't we?) They came back to me saying they could only
afford commentary on two episodes, suggesting either the first two episodes or
the first episode and "Deadly Force". I went back to them, protesting
that our pilot was five episodes and that it would just be weird not to at
least have commentary on the whole thing. They discussed it and agreed. So we
wound up with five episodes with commentary instead of two, more than doubling
the budget. I then tried to convince them to do "Deadly Force," but
they ignored me. Oh, well.]
6.
On-Air Synergy Support
--Synergy
Support from:
*TOON
DISNEY CHANNEL
*ABC
FAMILY
7.
Pricing and Timing
--Perfectly
Timed for Holiday Gift Giving and Gargoyles 10th Anniversary
--U.S.:
Two-Disc DVD $29.99 SRP/$19.95 MAP
--CE:
Two-Disc DVD $36.99
--NAAD:
December 7 [THAT'S RIGHT!!!! THAT'S THE BIGGEST NEWS OF ALL. An official
release date: DECEMBER 7th, 2004!!!!!!]