> I was doing some offhand research and happened upon the interesting
> fact that The Last Unicorn is going to be released in a new anamorphic
> widescreen/5.1 Dolby Sound special edition for Region 1 as of Feb 6th,
> 2007. This will represent a significant improvement over the 2004
> R1 release of the movie, which was full-frame and stereo.

> I was doing some offhand research and happened upon the interesting
> fact that The Last Unicorn is going to be released in a new anamorphic
> widescreen/5.1 Dolby Sound special edition for Region 1 as of Feb 6th,
> 2007. This will represent a significant improvement over the 2004
> R1 release of the movie, which was full-frame and stereo.
>
> http://avplay.avforums.com/index.php?newsid=599
>
> The best price I've found yet on pre-ordering it is DeepDiscountDVD,
> which has it for $12.38 with free shipping.
>
> http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=LGE020423
>

> On 27 Nov 2006 20:58:16 -0800, John Fiala gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> Any significant improvement in Peter Beagle getting the money that's
>> due to him?

>
> Conlan Press hasn't posted any new news in a while about the "eminent
> third party" negotiations that started in June. But they haven't
> called for the write-in campaign to resume, either, so I'm going to
> assume that it's going as well as can be expected until I hear
> otherwise.

> I sure hope it'll be uncut. Heard the previous release was worthless
> for some of it's edits and the only version I could live with was it's
> German release a friend made a copy of for me, but it was one of those
> films I watched WAY too much as a 6 year old.

>I was doing some offhand research and happened upon the interesting
>fact that The Last Unicorn is going to be released in a new anamorphic
>widescreen/5.1 Dolby Sound special edition for Region 1 as of Feb 6th,

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:20:06 +0100, Martin Kaletsch wrote:
>

>> So the German version is uncut? Or just not cut hat much?

>
> As far as I know, the German version is completely uncut. And in
> widescreen, and 5.1 surround. I own it, and have for years. Thank
> goodness for computers that can easily work around region locking and
> PAL encoding.

>> Btw. did you know that Chrisopher Lee also did the German voice of
>> King Haggard (sp?)?

>
> Indeed I did. Did you know that The Last Unicorn is traditionally
> played yearly on German TV as a Christmas special? (This is why the
> slipcover for the German DVD has a "Christmas present" motif.)

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:47:38 GMT, David Given cowlark.com> wrote:
>

>> Oh? Can you go into more details about what got cut out?

>
> According to Wikipedia...
>
> | The first American DVD, released in April 2004, was made from
> | poor-quality masters and the video and audio both suffer. That
> | release was also fullscreen, not widescreen, and at least some
> | copies were from a manufacturing run in which two instances where
> | characters say "Damn" have been muted. (This was done to appease the
> | store buyers at Wal-Mart and other mass distribution outlets, some
> | of whom had received complaints from conservative parents.)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film)
>
> I don't know of any other edits apart from that.

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:05:54 GMT, Doug Weller ramtops.removethis.co.uk> wrote:
>

>> Is it likely that it will never be released to Region 2?

>
> Region 2 already has one--the German R2 PAL release that features
> English and German audio in 5.1, anamorphic widescreen, and a whole
> bunch of extras (in German, alas :).
>
> http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=3015
>
> http://www.amazon.de/Das-letzte-Einhorn-Arthur-Rankin/dp/B0002GTRGK/sr=8-1/qid=1164748814/ref...

> On 28 Nov 2006 15:23:26 -0800, Chris Sobieniak gmail.com>
> wrote:
>

>> The Germans were very lucky to get that release early, and so for
>> the soundtrack recording that was never made available in the US

>
> I imported that, too. :) What I found interesting is that they
> actually replaced Mia Farrow's atrocious so-called singing voice on
> that album with someone who actually could carry a tune in a bucket.
>
> I only wish they'd done that for the actual animated feature! :(
>
> --
> Chris Meadows