Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Shadow Chronicles DVD in Australia


Today, March 14th, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles DVD is officially released in Australia by Madman Entertainment. This DVD doesn't include anything really new or different from the American release except the DVD menus are different as we saw from Darkwater's post. This DVD is PAL/Region 4 only. Just like the American release, it ended up in fan's hands a bit early. So, leave a comment and tell us what you think from down under.

Madman Entertainment is Australia's leading distributor of home entertainment and has been, what seems to be, a main source for Robotech related items in Australia of recent date. They have released both the Remastered and Original Robotech TV series in Region 4 DVD. Madman also sells some of the Toynami toys and new Robotech t-shirts.

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Video Format: PAL DVD Region 4
Release Date: Wednesday, 14th March 2007
Rating: PG
Mild Animated Violence
SRP: AUS$29.95DVD

FEATURES:
"Making of" production documentary
Anamorphic widescreen transfer
5.1 Surround sound

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Notice that Madman Entertainment has finally removed the misquote of Darkwater's Ain't It Cool News review, and the ludicrously inappropriate "Newtype USA" quote that actually came from Tommy Yune's own mouth.

Unfortunately, that means that Madman had to replace those famous news sources with the less well-known AnimeonDVD.com and the positively obscure Pegasus News and Gamerz Edge. (We know it's hip because of the "z.")

Anonymous said...

Anyway, Madman have started to plugged Shadow Chronicles along with their other March releases in this month's newsletter, and have a number of a wallpaper up:

http://www.madman.com.au/actions/wallpapers.do?method=browse&videogramId=4776

But disappointing that they tuned the trailers on the disc towards show they think buyers of TSC would also like like Battle of the Planets, Beast Wars and Gundam Seed, but none for Robotech. Of course they could be operating under the assumption that most of those buying TSC have also bought both versions of RT and the original series and don't need to be sold upon them...

The Masters said...

Thanks cyc. Love those wallpaper. Gonna make a post for others to get them.

Anonymous said...

Update: One of the few sites that Madman Entertainment and Harmony Gold could quote for a positive review on the Shadow Chronicles was shut down, and has been shut down for about a week. A month after its Shadow Chronicles review, the Gamerz Edge is completely gone, with only this message:

Gamerz-Edge is no longer available.

This is where the review used to be.