The Real Ghostbusters - Exclusive Sample Screens for the Bonus Material from Time Life's Complete Series

Yesterday we had a great update report for you about The Real Ghostbusters - The Complete Series, coming to DVD on November 15th, exclusively available from Time Life (see the button link above). This 25-disc set will come in 5 SteelBook™ cases, slid inside of a collectible firehouse package. Now we've received some additional material for you to check out!

Yesterday's report listed the commentaries that will be included on this release, and the original studio press release listed all of the other bonus material on this set. Today we've got a look at one of the Special Feature menus on this set, followed by a look also at the Options screen which results from choosing the Visual Commentary Track on the "Take Two" episode (on the second disc in the set).

Below that you'll also see 4 exclusive screen captures from the actual Visual Commentary on the "Take Two" episode, followed by an exclusive screen capture from the Visual Commentary on "Slimer Come Home" (storyboard artist Brad Rader is in the center, and artist/animator Gabi Payn on the right), and finally one more exclusive capture, this time of the Visual Commentary from the episode "Adventures in Slime and Space". On that last one, you can see the episode's writer David Gerrold (Star Trek's "The Trouble With Tribbles", The Martian Child), alongside Real Ghostbusters DVD Producer Andy Mangels (both great guys). Before we go to the screen captures, let's look at a statement from Andy about what you're looking at, and how it came to be:

"When we were designing what The Real Ghostbusters: The Complete Series would contain for commentaries," says Andy Mangels, the producer of all special content on the DVDs, "my production partner, Reed Kaplan, had an excellent idea. As you'll see from the following pictures, the commentaries are an immersive visual experience. Participants were filmed with two cameras and headset microphones, enabling them to converse freely with each other while viewing the episode. Reed designed the screen so that there are four constantly moving elements: two 'panels' with the commentary participants are at the top, while the lower right corner has the episode playing in realtime. The background of the widescreen image is also the episode playing, in a highly blurred fashion, essentially adding moving wallpaper. Finally, at the lower middle of the screen is a slideshow from each episode, which changes at least once per minute. We think that the Visual Commentary package looks stupendous, and it will be interesting for fans to be voyeurs to the process of creating the commentaries as they watch the people who created the series, who are in turn, watching their creation and sharing fascinating behind-the-scenes stories!"