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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Movie - Capsule Monsters, Part 1
$14.98
This DVD contains episodes 1-6 edited into a 95 minute-long movie-like presentation. If you have never seen the episodes themselves, then the DVDs are great to watch, with an excellent story and moral. If, on the other hand, you liked the humor and flow of the episodes, then the DVDs tend to be dissapointing. Many scenes are noticibly spliced, many pieces of dialog and backstory removed, and the deleted scenes archive on each DVD doesn't even touch all of the little things they cut out just to make the movie a few minutes shorter. Horror of horrors, they even spliced the infamous "Victory Dance" scene, perhaps one of the most popular moments in the whole mini-series. On the other hand, if you liked the mini-series and want to own even a badly cut copy of your own, the DVDs are the only official release and the only way to get a DVD of Capsule Monsters. It would have been great if someone in the office of the DVD manufacturer had considered this and made the DVDs with an option to watch it in the more complete "episode form", but since they didn't, you are left with a choice of buying these DVDs or downloading the episodes at the cost of video quality. Hopefully next time the people who make these DVDs will remember that some fans like the shows just they way they aired on TV, without many humorous comments removed and scenes heavily spliced.

An example of the editing:
Tristan: Friend of yours?
Tea: (nods) Uh-huh, it's that monster from the board game. Isn't he cute?
Tristan: Sure. But the stubby mutant lizard, not so much.
Thunder Kid looks exasperated.
(DVD stops here and cuts to the next scene, but the episode continues)
Tea: Tristan was just kidding, _wasn't he_?
Tristan: ...Of course...
Tea: You see?
Thunder Kid dances around happily.
Tristan sighs.

10,000 Maniacs - Time Capsule (1982-1993)
$14.98
I am a true Natalie fan. I see her every chance I get and have every album. This DVD is NOT up to her usual standards. I was very disappointed.