WHEN THE 4 SCRAPPY DVD'S WILL BE RELEASED ?

Here's the quick runup of the problem:

Right now most of the HB library is owned by WB. WB has two releasing systems for DVD. Warner Home Video and Warner Archive. WA serves as the way for the less popular shows to get on DVD without having to ship them to stores and press out millions.

Most of the HB shows original sets didn't sell well after the initial first batch (as most of the consumers that want them are collectors who bought them when they first came out making a huge drop off), so WHV decided to put those season sets on hault.

Now WA has most of the HB shows, but they don't have the major ones such as Scooby Doo, Smurfs, and Tom and Jerry.

WHV still is holding those series as "maybe we'll release them or maybe we won't." But the good news is that they are slowly going back to put out some of those sets, so we have to hope Scrappy will be out there.


As far as those sets, we know the first two Seasons of the shorts era will be combined with Richie Rich, but the third one raises questions. We thought this tied up the Puppy to them too but it seems WA has now gotten their hands on Grape Ape, which was to be having the same problem with Tom and Jerry.

We aren't sure how much WHV let go to WA, if anything more than Grape Ape (and probably Mumbly), but we have to wait and see.


The longterm good news is that if 10 years from now WA has finished releasing the HB library they have, WHV should have realized by then people would buy thoese Scooby season sets. Keep the hope alive. Superfriends fans are getting their wish to finish their sets done. It can happen for Scooby too!

I refuse to argue on IMDB until the general populous actually uses their brains

Ruby Spears itself is now a part of Hanna Barbera, and WB does in fact own the Puppy, why CN never aired it, remains a mystery since WB seems highly intent it will one day be released. (and that includes the specials the season with scooby and the season without scooby)

However the WB doesn't like Scrappy part seems a bit more exxagerated by the same revisionist internet tropers just as much. While it is true he is not shown or mentioned on Ghoul School or 13 Ghosts, he is mentioned on the Reluctant Werewolf box and the Scooby Doo/Richie Rich volume 1 box. He is shown on the box for Boo Brothers.

On the digital download sections of his seasons, he is shown in the picture and named in the title. And all the random episode season sets all have no problem featuring Scrappy episodes. The only way someone can really say WB is scared of releasing Scrappy or promoting him no longer holds weight. Given he's available and promoted far more than he isn't.

However on this note i did have a thought not long ago that i'm starting to believe holds more weight. Since it's blatantly obvious WB has faith in the library to sell at well since some of the lesser titles did well in the Archive. Since you can't really expect me to believe WB really is going to feel safer with Roman Holidays and Sealab 2020 on DVD but not with Scooby seasons?

But let's think about the theory here. There are only X amount of Scooby season sets they need to release before it's done. So in theory if the collectors buy them all, they are done. Meaning those random episode sets are going to sell less without that portion of the market. So what if the reason is to draw out the money. Why would they do this?......Hmmmm isn't there one season set that still requires celebrity clearances??? Oh yes there is. Since it's also very apparent in WHV loses faith in something to not do well in the store model they go to WA, but they won't release the Scooby sets to them. WHV released a sampler set of HB cartoons but gave most of the season sets to WA, so they could easily split them if they lost faith, so if they didn't lose faith there has to be a logic behind why they have stalled them. To date Scooby Doo Where are you, WHat's new scooby doo, a pup named scooby doo and mystery incorporated were put out in more than one release format. So again there's little to no reason to not expect those seasons to be abandoned.

And to strengthen my theory take a look at the smurfs. The show has nine seasons. They release the first one and started the second before halting them. When WA had them they told us their resources were a mess. Now take a close look at all those random smurf episode sets. They all ONLY have episodes from season 1 and some of season 2. That has to be too much to be a coincidence, as perhaps they are making cheap sets while the movies are popular to draw money to afford to finish fixing the masters. And in the same vein they know they can make money on casual scooby sets to draw up money to give the collectors the sets they want just at a slower pace.

WHV has returned to doing HB season sets. This year they finished out Super Friends and started Tom and Jerry Kids. I really do think at this point we have a lot of reasons to stay positive that they do have a plan to deliver. Since also at the end of the day the worst case scenario here is honestly that WHV gives up on them and they go to WA. I'm sure WA would jump at the chance of finishing Scooby season sets if they get the chance. So really i think it's just a matter of time and money before it all comes to pass.

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Given that one of them is already out, a second is coming in April, a third was partially started, the odds are greatly in favor it's an eventually not a never.