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12/4/2007 6:01 AM
dvddemon
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Member since: 12/4/2007
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa on dvd
I collect loads of dvd sets and Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa is a fantastic series. Witty and entertaining. The bootleggers are all over this show and you can find it readily available. That speaks volumes. Hooray for them! They know a good show when they see one. It lasted 2 seasons when most shows get canceled after a couple months. Besides the WWCBofMM is basically a spin-off of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wikipedia says it was created by a guy who worked for Mirage Studios, home of the Turtles, and the C.O.W.-Boys appear in the TMNT comic books as friends of the Turtles and are official canon to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe. Hell, they even made a cameo in the Ninja Turtles television cartoon show. I mean that's great media exposure. I'm sure they occupy at least a corner of the Turtles fanbase ( if not more!) which is frickin' huge so I'm sure if an official release ( and a rigorous ad campaign) of the WWCBofMM show was available it'd sell no problem. The konami video game was a great game also. Wish that was available as an official release!!
12/5/2007 6:40 AM
trustkill01
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Member since: 4/9/2007
RE: Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa on dvd
I hope Shout would consider putting it out on dvd, i have started posts on here months ago about COW Boys....i mean Shout is the only one that can put it out right because they are in with Dic, it was in a way almost like a Disney toon, not 100% but in a sense it kinda felt that way.
4/4/2008 7:31 PM
Kris
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Member since: 12/6/2007
RE: Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa on dvd

I'm pretty curious to see this, goofy as it may've been.  I was house-sitting a couple years ago and the owner's son had a VHS of Street Sharks, so I finally got to see some of that (just the inital opening one, two, or however many multi-part episodes began the show).

You could make a whole cartoon collection out of mutant teams (almost as prevalent in the `90s as boy bands were).

After the original TMNT toon (which yes, I know is nowhere close to the original comic, compared to the edgier 2003 series which borrows more heavily in look and feel), I was too quick to criticize copy-cat shows to offer them any sort of chance.  So I missed COW-boys, Biker Mice From Mars (which sure has a larger and more devoted fanbase than I would've guessed, but again, I've never seen it so I can't say a thing about its' quality or nostalgia-power), and Street Sharks...were there any others along this line ?  With either teams of teens mutated into animal-dudes, alien animal teens, or animals turned into humanoid versions of themselves ?  I guess Thundercats counts as the original in that vein (though it didn't have the cheese-tastic, `70s-film-spoofing, slapstick flavor of TMNT and all that jumped on that bandwagon).  Plus there was TigerSharks...

6/29/2008 8:56 PM
Kris
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RE: Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa on dvd

Just posted this in another thread for this cartoon much further down (that had about 20-something posts in it discussing the viability of Shout releasing this series), didn't realize there was a more recent topic for it.  So, re-post:

I gotta say...you advertise this in the right anthropomorphic (ie "furry") fan communities (especially where artists and their fans dwell and draw things like muscular minotaur-dudes among other things), and it'll sell.  There're well over 15, 000 folks in that fandom (I have no idea the actual number, just a callback to BW's minimum sales figure), though I dunno how many were into this cartoon in the `90s or would be willing to give it a try.

Sorry if that disturbed anyone, but it's true.  Furries will buy a whole lot of anything starring animal-men and mutants.  Street Sharks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thundercats, Biker Mice From Mars, etc...It's a niche market, but worth catering to somewhat (same as you'd advertise on gaming sites like IGN and whatnot...actually come to think of it, game companies are advertising to furry fans, perhaps unknowingly, on a constant basis by continually putting tons of beastmen playable characters in their titles and even having things like the Bloody Roar fighting game series and Altered Beast and the like).

I didn't see Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa (long enough title?) when I was a kid, I passed on it for the same reason I originally passed on Street Sharks and Biker Mice--had been obsessed with TMNT, had my fill of that sort of thing at the time (action-comedies with frequent parody elements and lotsa slapstick, plus usually inept villains), and didn't have to be too perceptive at the time to guess at it being a bandwagon opportunity thing...I dunno, maybe it was good.  I'd definitely be willing to give it a try, sight-unseen, if Shout released it.

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