The Official T&J Spotlight Complaints Thread

I got this idea from GAC, who have consolidated all the threads and posts which discuss this heinous abomination in their own Forum into one single thread.

Bruce, Dave, other mods, what do you guys think about that; can we close the previous threads in our Forum and then just link them through this one for the sake of simplicity?

Since Mezz inadvertently deleted the previous thread dealing with Warner's hypocritical press release on Tuesday; I figured this was as good a time as any to do this.

Anyway, here's what one poster over there had to say about a possible boycott of T&J Spotlight, Vol. 3. I think what he says makes a lot of sense. I happened to be thinking along the same lines yesterday, before I read his post; in that, even if we had 10,000 die-hard fans willing to boycott the DVD set, it would only amount to just under $250,000.00 in lost revenue to a multi-million corporation like Time-Warner... hardly a drop in the bucket, if you ask me:

Three dozen fanatics organizing a boycott on an enthusiasts' online forum won't register the teeniest blip on the Warner corporate radar... with the recent admission that cartoons were deliberately left off, it's clear that the WB family division is concerned only with maximum sales, and that's done by chasing the soccer-mom demographic, where there is exactly ZERO discrimination, and no complaints registered or discs returned over quality issues.

The better course of action is to solicit a compelling spokesman such as Jerry Beck to sell the suits on the notion that MGM cartoons need to be moved over to the collectors / archives division... starting with a Tex Avery box.

The ace in our pocket is that the very-nicely-done Popeye and Looney Tunes are (presumably) selling well enough to justify such a move... a Tex box should sell comparably well, paving the way for a proper 6-disc T&J box a few years from now once the shoddy Spotlight sets are played out.

Me?... I dunno... I bought T&J v2 (used), ordered a replacement disc that hasn't shown up yet... guess I could stick with my laserdiscs, but if I find used Spotlights for cheap, why not?

Waving my arms in indignation over 'the unacceptable T&J situation' seems as valuable as WB hinting we should buy the Droopy set to ensure delivery of an Avery box – i.e., pointless... better to petition for better future product.

It seems to have worked for Popeye... and Woody.