Rating: 
Summary: Great Value
Review: Here it is! All the Gumby episodes packed into one collection. It is great to be able to watch all the episodes of Gumby, and they are even in chronological order. However, the set could have been put together way better. It receives four stars because it is a Gumby box set, the first time all the episodes were put together like this. Here are some notes on the features of the set:The Soundtrack: This is a partially annoying part of the set. They used the synth track made in the 80s for the episodes. I have many VHS sets made by F.H.E. and they used the original soundtracks. So, its not as if the original sound was lost or anything like that. However, Gumby's voice is done by the same person and the rest of the voices are done well enough. Episodes: I hate the way the episodes are cut up into different parts. The original 22 episodes were 12 minutes in lenght and then cut up to make 44 6 minute episoeds. This is not done by Rhino, but was done by the studio way back when. I have no idea why they did it, but it is annoying. Packaging: The DVDs do fold out in an awkward way. I like it though because it is different and makes it unique. The set also comes with a Gumby figurine. Special Features: There are several of Clokey's original clay featuers that are cool to watch. The interview with Clokey himself, however, is very boring. The interview with the voice of Gumby is better. It almost seems as though the voice of
Gumby likes the series more than the one who created it. Bad points: The menus and navigation in the set is very annoying. The Rhino introduction is retarded. Between each episode there is an introduction to the next one. The intros are repetetive and really stupid. I don't like the new gumby song that plays during the menus. I hate the children singing it. The navigation is so overly childish that I think even children would be annoyed by it. Overall Value: The value of having all these gumby episodes availible in this way makes this set worth everything. The packaging and presentation could have been way better and I have no idea why they chose to go with the soundtrack that they went with. Maybe they thought modern children would enjoy it more. Who knows?
Rating:
Summary: Great Value
Review: Here it is! All the Gumby episodes packed into one collection. It is great to be able to watch all the episodes of Gumby, and they are even in chronological order. However, the set could have been put together way better. It receives four stars because it is a Gumby box set, the first time all the episodes were put together like this. Here are some notes on the features of the set: The Soundtrack: This is a partially annoying part of the set. They used the synth track made in the 80s for the episodes. I have many VHS sets made by F.H.E. and they used the original soundtracks. So, its not as if the original sound was lost or anything like that. However, Gumby's voice is done by the same person and the rest of the voices are done well enough. Episodes: I hate the way the episodes are cut up into different parts. The original 22 episodes were 12 minutes in lenght and then cut up to make 44 6 minute episoeds. This is not done by Rhino, but was done by the studio way back when. I have no idea why they did it, but it is annoying. Packaging: The DVDs do fold out in an awkward way. I like it though because it is different and makes it unique. The set also comes with a Gumby figurine. Special Features: There are several of Clokey's original clay featuers that are cool to watch. The interview with Clokey himself, however, is very boring. The interview with the voice of Gumby is better. It almost seems as though the voice of
Gumby likes the series more than the one who created it. Bad points: The menus and navigation in the set is very annoying. The Rhino introduction is retarded. Between each episode there is an introduction to the next one. The intros are repetetive and really stupid. I don't like the new gumby song that plays during the menus. I hate the children singing it. The navigation is so overly childish that I think even children would be annoyed by it. Overall Value: The value of having all these gumby episodes availible in this way makes this set worth everything. The packaging and presentation could have been way better and I have no idea why they chose to go with the soundtrack that they went with. Maybe they thought modern children would enjoy it more. Who knows?
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Summary: To Kylemonger
Review: I agree but as a baby b0oomr who grew up in the Sixties and Seventies and who remembers the (freelanced) Capitol Records-Licensed (incl. among others, the Sam Fox, MuTel (sic), Langlois and others) library music-you'll still hear it on (among MANY others!!!!) Jinks, the Huckster and others on Hanna-Barbera's early, 1958-59 HUCK show, on Quick Draw (also a Hanna-Barbera production), a host of Universal (like HITCHOCK and BEAVER) and Columbia (DONNA REEDIt isn't just the music replacement issue, the music itself IS (as someone said), a "lame Barney mix"--Continuiny seems odd esp.in the 1995 flick with Gumby going with a EW girlfriend Tara, when he still has Goo Mermaid (Voiced by the late, beloved Norma MacMillan of Sweet Polly (UNDERDOG) immortality, and also a sixties voice of CASPER the FRIENDLY GHOST when veteran Mae Questel left for other things).Also the classic "If you got a heart" sixties them is gone!! The aforementioned canned score (a book by historian Jon Burlingame, TV's BIGGETS HITS from 1996, about the time of the Gumby flick, mentioned the stock music in chaper one HOI YO SILVER< and the music on Gumby, without any reference to the show itself, from Capitol, is mentioned on pp.11-12,with words from Jack Cookerly, a composer of this music as was the great W.G.Loose. It's Wm.G.Loose who did a lot of themes for Columbia/Screen Gems in the late 50s like DENNIS THE MENACE and DONNA REED..both of which were hanging around before). the Music on Gumby atually made the show, when we're talking about the how as it sounded in the fifties and sixties anfd reruns thru 1988.(I am veyr happy to have the earlier videos of the show, three of them, as they were done..)
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Summary: I GIVE THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL 5 STARS. THE DVDS, 0.
Review: I agree with Rick's review. I grew up with the original Gumby shorts. I found this collection here at Amazon a few weeks ago and preordered it. When it arrived today, I eagerly popped disk 1. To my dismay, after watching a few of the shorts, I found out that the original music had been completely replaced by a new synthesized score. Also, some dialogue had been added and/or replaced, as well as, what I could tell, new SFX. I've been sad and disappointed all day. I'm not displeased that they released the Gumby shorts, and I'm not displeased with the packaging or the extras. But I am displeased that they would replace most of the original audio. Like previous reviewer Rick said, I can't watch the shorts. I just can't. It's not the same. Unless the come out with another version, which is 99% guaranteed not to happen, I will just watch my worn copies on VHS. I expected more than this from Rhino.
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Summary: Bad Rhino !! Naughty, naughty
Review: I always like the original of anything. These DVD's stink. Sorry folks. To the reviewer who speculated that maybe the original music was lost ..... Impossible. I have 16MM copies of a couple of episodes that are completely intact. If nothing else, Rhino could have gone that route. Yes, the masters are usually the best, but if a 16MM is the only original left, then please use it. Thank you.
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Summary: Super Gumby Rific!!!
Review: I don,t see why some people think this is bad.Gumby is one of the greatest tv cartton characters created.I,m glad this is on dvd.I loved gumby ever since i was a child.I,m going to buy it in the middle of August.This dvd is spectacular!!
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Summary: Man I love gumby but this box set almost makes me cry
Review: I got this box set as a gift from my lovely girlfriend, but when I went home and started watching the episodes something wasn't the same. I thought maybe gumby wasn't as cool as i remembered. but then i pulled out an old gumby vhs out and eureka!! the music... now i see everyone is on here agreeing that the entire mood of this magical series has been ruined. I have a hard time watching this. the music was 50% of the gumby nostalgia. i just went to a local dollar store and picked up a $1 dvd of 8 orginal episodes that gives me a full gumby experience. the only thing missing from the $1 dvd is the opening theme song..it just starts up
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Summary: Gumby's overdue for a comeback
Review: I have fond memories of Gumby being in syndication on independent stations during my 1970's childhood. Almost all the Gumby episodes of the '50's and '60's are here on this 7 disc box set. Curious as to how comprehensive this collection is, I did some research on the internet, and found that only a mere handful of episodes from around 1967 are not included. I assume these will eventually be released in a future collection. The half hour episodes, with Gumby's sister Minga, from around 1988 are not included in this collection with the exception of one episode on the "bonus disc" which showcases a live action comedy short about plumbers and a runaway bathtub. ...I too would have preferred the original period music over the score created for the 1980's syndication market as the former seems to fit the time period on which this box set is focused. ... I'm going to be a lot more charitable towards this collection and give it four stars as the inclusion of Clokey rarities as Gumbasia and Mandala on the bonus disc greatly outweighs my reservations over the revised score and besides we finally have a Gumby collection, and a nearly exhaustive one at that, on DVD. I would give it five stars if they would at least put that 60's theme referred to earlier on that bonus disc with the other old bumpers.
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Summary: Shame On Me For Not Researching
Review: I have had my heart set on owning this box for months...however, I didn't realize until today when I finally had it in my hands and in my player that I had not once checked any Amazon reviews. I guess I would never in my wildest dreams imagine that Rhino would screw up so badly, and mis-lead (by mentioning nothing) so severely. It's true that finding these treasures so de-faced can cause severe depression and feelings of being betrayed in a middle-aged collector. The fact that they managed to collect almost all the cartoons and the art pieces in one box is impressive and admirable -- but the nauseating scores and re-dubbed voices make it almost impossible to maintain the gratitude. What's even more depressing, it is completely unlikely that this will ever be corrected. Ah, life is a bitter mystery!
Rating:
Summary: Shame On Me For Not Researching
Review: I have had my heart set on owning this box for months...however, I didn't realize until today when I finally had it in my hands and in my player that I had not once checked any Amazon reviews. I guess I would never in my wildest dreams imagine that Rhino would screw up so badly, and mis-lead (by mentioning nothing) so severely. It's true that finding these treasures so de-faced can cause severe depression and feelings of being betrayed in a middle-aged collector. The fact that they managed to collect almost all the cartoons and the art pieces in one box is impressive and admirable -- but the nauseating scores and re-dubbed voices make it almost impossible to maintain the gratitude. What's even more depressing, it is completely unlikely that this will ever be corrected. Ah, life is a bitter mystery!
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