Hmmm. I think I did this better on April 1st.

[marycrawford]

OK, so the house of ill repute that is the Hercules store (owned by the same people as the equally ill-famed Highlander store) now has something for sale they call the Hercules Action Pack DVD collection, for $39.99.

It's a mishmash - two of the TV movies (Lost Kingdom and Amazon Women), the Xena trilogy (Warrior Princess, The Gauntlet and Unchained Heart), the Young Hercules movie and the animated movie. These are all for sale separately, on DVD and VHS, and the first five are all on the Hercules season 1 DVD set, which would be a much better buy if you ask me.

But what caught my attention is this bit of marketing speak:

"the legendary action comes alive with loads of new features like behind-the-scenes documentaries, deleted scenes and outtakes, alternate endings, and other cool stuff as well."

No details on what any of the cool stuff actually is, of course. Maybe they just stuck some of the DVD season set extras on there? Maybe the extras are entirely legendary, like the famous 'European extended scenes'? Anyway, I just wanted to give you the heads-up - if any of you actually see this in stores, I'd appreciate more details.

Comments

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

I'd be fairly surprised if there's anything on there that hasn't been already released on the box sets. And the only "deleted scenes" I've seen photos of are for The Enforcer and Just Passing Through. Alternate endings, I kind of doubt, unless it's for that horrible animated movie. (That crappy animated thing was like an apology!fic junkie's wet dream. Even thinking about it makes me a little ill.)

And also, these are the people who advertised that Michael Hurst did commentary on season 2, and are still advertising it, even though, he was never even asked to. So you may be right, there may be no extras at all.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the animated movie, and I don't think I ever will. I've never seen anything good said about it, that's for sure.

And also, these are the people who advertised that Michael Hurst did commentary on season 2, and are still advertising it

Eeesh. Yeah, the more I think about it the more I wonder if there's anything added to the set at all...

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

You watched the animated movie?! Wow. You've a stronger stomach than me, that's for sure. :->

And since you've seen photos of deleted scenes, do you have any idea of what was actually deleted?

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

In The Enforcer there were more scenes of Iolaus, Hercules and Nemesis having fun at the festival. The one picture I've seen is of the three of them in an archery contest. I can't remember if there were anymore, but they were taken out so we could have endless shots of the woman who played the enforcer in her rubber bikini. In Just Passing Through there was a bunch of stuff deleted to insert the icky jester scenes. In the original version you get to see Autolycus stealing the gem in more detail, and there's more scenes of Herc and Iolaus around camp, doing laundry, that kind of thing. I haven't seen photos but Bruce Campbell talked about the scenes on his web site, adn I think Michael Hurst might have mentioned them in one of the post-show interviews.

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Aw man. They always cut the good stuff. :-(