DVD Release?
Has Johnny Bravo ever been released on DVD?
shareYes, in Australia.
shareFirst season yes, rest of the series is stuck in a limbo that was put upon them by the idiotic decisions of CN.
Warner Home Video has pretty much given up on the cartoon network older shows as a brand on DVD. There audience is no doubt smaller than a lot of the other older cartoons that have passed on, (and given the time period that hows like Johnny Bravo were rising is also the time CN slowly dropped distribution hence for a lot of people may not have given it a chance)
Long story short, WHV says "not enough people intersted for retail release, go to WA" CN says "what? No clearly they are popular....aren't they?". WA says "Let us have them please." CN still says "What? No clearly they are still popular....aren't they?"
As someone who grew up through the 90s, i saw a lot of CN's original shows develop up, and while i enjoyed lots of them, they weren't my favorites overall, but it's a damn shame that they can't get US DVD releases through the Warner Archive because of CN's stupid choices. There's nothing wrong with going MOD, it's pure profit on production and eliminates the one major huddle when you get right down to it for DVD.
So now alot of CN's brands might get even smaller because they aren't going to make many new fans. There fanbase is probably mostly people who saw them in childhood in the late 90s to early 2000s, and unless new kids get them on recordings or can get Boomerang (or watch the incredibly lame bumpered Cartoon planet) how are we going to make new fans of older and young people?
No other WB-owned cartoon brand is stuck on this. WB Animation, Hanna barbera, MGM, DC, etc all of them are all being released on DVD and other forms to help keep their brands alive.....where are the Cartoon Network ones?.....oh yeah dying a slow sad death to being forgotten.
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Season 2 was released in Australia over 2 years ago . If you have a multi region DVD player then it is easily ordered from any Australian DVD company, which is what I did when it was released - along with Dexter's Laboratory, Courage and others. I agree with all you say though about CN.
shareSo we can add to this now that some time has passed. CN did finally send TWO shows to the archive. One being Fosters, the other being Gumball. Courage got another set in stores (but mostly due to a lot of stores carrying that set for release).
But considering now that we are this far removed from those releases and the Archive doesn't seem to be caring much at all, seems to indicate the earlier theory was right on the money.
As much as I want a lot of these shows in their own section in my library, the chances of that seem to get grimmer. At the very least though CN does try to get some of it's shows on streaming services, so that might inspire some new fans, but the seemingly apathy of these brands by WB is a bad sign that CN did some history puffing and are reaping what they sew.
Which as I said, to me is clearly sad, this isn't quite the legacy anyone saw coming for these shows.
SideBar: The Powerpuff Girls is kind of an outlier in this general discussion. As while they had a season one, they also got a whole series nerdier marketed set. Which the optimist POV is that the PPG were the best so they are out completely. While the pessimist POV is that the absence of the rest of season set options which WB loves to milk to the public is a sign their series set was just a matter of luck and timing.
To me, i'm inclined to think both have merit. Conventional wisdom said PPG was the most marketable one of the Cartoon Cartoons. But at the same time if Dexter, Johnny Bravo and the Eds are having so much trouble... would the PPGs not be in the same boat if that anniversary set didn't come out?
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