Here's wishing you a merry ducky Quackmas!Just a quick post before I go to bed.
I've got plans in my mind for Duckyboos which involves moving the news and updates section from the main site into here not only to make it a pinch more active, but also to make the previous news posts more organised, and for future ones more easier to post. It'd save me having to knock one out of three posts, which I hand type into the index file, everytime I update, and from making new pages as the old news archive grows. Should I?
Good news for Duckula fans in South America, the second season has appeared to have been released!
Source: TruCinePortal.comGot hold of my copy yesterday. Same price, same store, you get the drill.
Again, there are no extras on this DVD, and the menu is exactly the same as those in the previous DVD set but coloured blue, but there's a twist - despite the name of the DVD, which is "the Complete Third series", the last seven episodes of the series, known widely as 'season 4', are included as well! So now the whole series is available on DVD in the UK, result!
Also for some weird reason, the inlay displays the episode "A Christmas Quacker" as episode 62 [the 4th from last one on the second disc]. So now we have a new mystery - is this the real episode order, or has either Fremantle, CITV or even the Internet got it mixed up? Who knows...
Either way, I enjoyed the episodes I haven't seen [I really liked it when the Crow Brothers were being upside-down 'mushrooms' in "The Show Must Go On", and I remember parts of "Prince Duckula" being used in an old advert for the cartoon they used to show on Nickelodeon back in 1995/1996.], and the fact that it's all there is all that really matters.
I just discovered a new DVD release for Australia that is to be released on the 10th October 2007. Although the box contains 3 discs, only 18 episodes from the first season will appear on this release unfortunately, and the cover design isn't that great either. Still, good news for you Aussies that might have been unable to get hold of the first season from the US and UK.
Source.
Meanwhile in the UK, we're just days from our 3rd series set. I hope to get my copy cheaper this time, usually DVDs in ASDA are up to half the price of those sold in HMV and Virgin. The new choice would be whether to buy it before or during my holiday to Blackpool which will be on the 10th next month.
Screenshots from the episode "One Stormy Night" have been added to the Gallery. I've also created galleries for up to the 9th episode as I'm going through the first disc of my series 1 boxset, these have yet to be filled with screenshots which I will work on tonight and in the next few days.
We fellas in the UK are getting the third series of Count Duckula on DVD on September 3rd. No image yet [Play.com briefly used a photograph I took of the series 2 box from here!], but like the series 2 set, this will be a 2-disc DVD, but there doesn't seem to be any sign of special features... well, I don't know how they're going to divide this one up then if the third series only has 13 episodes...
Since I've barely done anything major for the site in about a month as I'm still waiting for the third series to come to DVD, I've decided to give a couple of my DVDs a review each [nothing too long at the moment, but they're there], and to make those accessable I've opened up a new page with info on VHS, audio and DVD releases of the cartoon.
I've also added a new Duckula blog called Crazy About Count Duckula to the Links section, be sure to check it out ;)
Just a few secs ago, I moved the Duckyboos fansite to a new location which can be found here. It was initially a mirror of the original at Fateback.com I made soon after I discovered that I had some ad-free webspace on my own ISP, Virgin Media [formerly known as NTL]. It was only 55MB, 5MB less than the original host, but I decided to take it on anyway to see if it made the site work for someone who couldn't view the original.
Fateback was horrible - it disallowed the uploading of MP3 files or any files more than 200KB [which was why I decided to host related images onto my Livejournal account], and it had this ad at the top of each page that interfered with my CSS. Not even Firefox's Adblock could block it. So in the end, I created a redirection page and wiped everything else off, while keeping the new host open.
I feel really bad... like, I'm rushing things without telling anyone, and it comes to a point where I feel that I don't know what I'm doing, but I do. I dunno...the Duckyboos project is my pride and joy, but I just feel like a crappy admin.
One thing's for sure though, the fansite won't be coming back to Fateback at dawn, Transylvanian Standard Time.
Yep, just like the way Duckula transports his castle to another location by simply entering his coffin, Duckyboos has moved to a new piece of webspace. This is because I'm no longer satisfied with the old host, and that certain visitors were unable to view the original site. I've also updated the FAQ with a few new questions, and I've been adding some old unfinished artworks I've made within the past year to the gallery.
We greatly apologise for any inconveniences caused by the move.
As the Duckyboos Blog celebrates its first birthday this week, another empty space is filled on the fansite - the products page. However I've yet to compile the pages within that! [groan], but I've complied a little guide about looking for and buying Count Duckula merchandise, like do's and don'ts and so forth.
I've also updated the About page slightly to suit current events about myself ^^;
It's been a year now since I opened up this blog and made its first post, which as a reminder can be found here. Within then we've had visitors from over 40 countries, and over 3,000 hits since I started counting in November. I want to thank everyone who's visited for their great support for this fan project, in which I hope to better for years to come!
I bought my copy of said DVD today. It costed me £18 from HMV, which I wasn't too happy about paying, but I had no other choice since I currently can't order online without Paypal. It contains two discs that are compacted into one DVD case, as you'll see below. 
Heh, the first disk caught a reflection of my computer's desktop and my VHS collection. 
Very unfortunately, there are NO special features on this DVD. It's a massive letdown, because they could have easily squeeze up to about half hours worth of things like interviews, especially when they managed to fit the last episode on the second disc.The clock just turned midnight here, and Count Duckula: The Complete Second Series, is now officially available on DVD!
Where to buy
You can either buy the DVD online at the following websites:
Just to let everyone know, that I've finally got a new page up, that page being the Special Thanks & Credits page. Just something to show my gratitude to all of you guys who've shown their support for Duckyboos, all good sites have them.
My good buddy Kroc has also helped me fix some bugs that had mostly affected Internet Explorer 7 users, and clean away some scrap coding. It's all so mind-boggling for me, no wonder I made so many mistakes!
[Image blantently nicked from Amazon]Right, I've had a good long think about this, and I decided to call off the Downloads section, because I don't think there's much point having it right now, what with the gallery and everything. I'm also NOT hosting full episodes for download, because not only is it illegal, but also a tiring job for someone to upload each file on a not-so brilliant broadband connection. Well, either way it's definitely going off for now, we'll see how things get on after I actually fill in the missing gaps. So instead, I've given this space to a "character bios" page.
I've also uploaded a load of screenshots from "No Sax Please, We're Egyptian" and "Vampire Vacation" to the gallery, along with creating the History page. Check 'em out!.
The things I do for cartoons eh?
So yeah, this morning we woke up to a rather fine blanket of snow, which is gone now. To savour the moment, and to take some time offline while my mother was away, I decided to take my camera and take a few shots in the park. Sadly though, by the time I really wanted to take a shot of a bit of snow that had absolutely no footprints, the camera battery went flat.
Hoping to pass time getting a little battery energy back, I decided to build a Snow Duckula. Using just my frozen hands and my front door key, I tried to make it look as much like Duckula as I could, until I realised that my camera wasn't going to start working again. So I had to take the snow model home.
Obviously I had to go inside for a little while to warm up, because I couldn't feel anything afterwards. I then went back outside to take photos of the model when I realised that I forgot to take my key! I could climb over the back gate, but it seemed way too dangerous, so my only choice was to grab some bricks and step on them to open the gate and get back inside through the back.
Then I went back out again to take the shot above, with my key in hand this time. It's probably melted by now...
If it snows again I'm gonna try and make another, more accurate looking model.
I've just launched a nice new forum on the Duckyboos fansite, so we call all come in and talk about our favourite vegetarian vampire duck! Make sure to read the rules before posting! I'll be working on little things like more Duckula-ish emoticons and other little icon thingies as soon as I get my commissions done and dusted.
OK, really sorry about the sudden shutdown of the old "guestbook". It was after I actually tested it and found that I couldn't delete comments [which is rather important to control abuse]. All is not lost though, for Duckyboos has a nice new one which can be found here. If there's still anything wrong with this or any other part of Duckyboos, please let me know.
I bet it's the bit you've all be waiting for, he he... Via Livejournal I bring you the Duckyboos Gallery, already packed with more than 200 pictures! More will be on the way soon once I get round to scanning and screencapping...it's hard work you know ;) I just thought it'd be much easier to have used Livejournal that's all. Hope you enjoy everything the gallery has to offer!
I also digged up and added a very old fansite into the Links page, for those who want to see it.
Well, it's the year 2007 now, at least in the UK as I speak. The contact page and the FAQ is now up, so get cracking in with the feedback and the questions! Duckyboos would really like to hear from you!
