Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is a series of Christmas-themed animated stories, in which each of the beloved PEANUTS characters star in his or her own charming animated vignette. Bonus episode: Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown - New-to-DVD! Linus must break the devastating news that his family is moving. Charlie Brown and the gang make their goodbyes and prepare for Linus and Lucy's departure.
Last fall we
filled you in about Warner Home Video's arrangement to release
Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales exclusively in the stores of one retail pharmacy chain...and the reports from our readers was that it could not even be found at every location! By the way, it's things like this which have strongly turned us off here to these "timed exclusives," where one retailer gets to sell a TV-DVD title for a while, before it gets a general release and becomes available at other sellers. Another reason is because of people who take advantage of reselling them at inflated prices while they are still hard-to-find (this particular title currently goes for at LEAST twice the street price it could originally be purchased at...and one seller is now asking $80 for it!). So you may have noticed that during the past year we've simply stopped reporting about these exclusive situations, whenever possible. Instead we'll talk about these titles whenever they "go wide."
Like this one. Warner has announced that
Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales, including the bonus special "
Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?," will get a general retail release at last on
October 5th. Don't pay the inflated costs in the used market; Warner's list price will be $14.97 SRP, and retailers such as
DVDEmpire are discounting pre-orders from there (at the time of this writing their charge is just $9.80!). The disc and it's contents are identical to last year's limited release, too, with both specials presented in the original full screen video, English mono audio, and with subtitles in English and French. Package art, front and rear, for the "wide" release is shown below. The only difference we can spot right now is that a top-of-the-spine mention that this is a "Remastered Deluxe Edition" has been removed; we speculated last year that this was going to happen because it was meant to be removed from the spine (as it had been from the front). The quality is great, though, as this is a rather recent production that simply didn't need any remastering. No worries!
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