Season 2 release for Latin America

Good news for Duckula fans in South America, the second season has appeared to have been released!

Source: TruCinePortal.com

Apparently there will be 19 episodes on this DVD, but this source doesn't tell whether or not there is anything else on it like features and stuff. What I do find interesting though is that the picture of Duckula on this cover is derived from the cover of the 1991 Annual. It seems that whoever designed these seem to have done them better than whoever designed the UK DVD covers.

Count Duckula: The Complete Series 3

Got 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.

Australian DVD release

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.

New screenshots added

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.

Just so we know...

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...

A brand new update

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 ;)

Why I moved the fansite to NTLWorld

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.

Heads up, we're moving!

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.

Another empty space filled

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 ^^;

The Duckyboos Blog's First Birthday

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!