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What's New, Scooby-Doo? - The Complete First Seasonx$11.48
  (19 reviews)
Best Price: $19.98 $11.48
Clever sleuthing has led you to treasure: the very first season of What's New Scooby-Doo? Enjoy all 13 episodes of spoofy hilarity and mystery with the crime-busting gang --from scary snowboarding in There's No Creature Like Snow Creature to the season finale The Unnatural, with the voices of real-life baseball greats Mike Piazza and Luis Santiago. As Scooby-Doo fans know, popular stars often lend their vocal talents in such takeoffs as Riva Ras Regas (co-starring teen pop singer Lindsay Pagano) and American pop idol JC Chasez from super group *NSYNC. But everyone knows who the biggest heartthrob of the show is really...who else? Scooby-Doo!
Mystery, suspense, and crazy chases abound as Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo renew their commitment to solving mysteries in this 2002 sequel to the original 1969 Scooby Doo television series. Marking a return to the mystery gang's initial five members after several seasons that included additional characters like Scooby-Dum and Scrappy, the What's New, Scooby-Doo series plays much like the original series despite being animated by Warner Brothers Television Animation rather than Hanna-Barbera. Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo show some signs of maturation and growth since their inception, but the mystery gang is essentially still the same quirky, tight-knit group that stumbles inadvertently into one mystery after another and plunges in to investigate and unmask the villain(s) behind each strange happening. What's new in this 2002 series is the gang's utilization of high-tech gadgets like global positioning devices and laptop computers (though they still drive the same old mystery van) and their foes' crafty use of technological innovations like wireless remote controls and virtual reality gear. Add in updated popular music and guest stars like baseball great Mike Piazza and teen pop singer Lindsay Pagano and What's New, Scooby-Doo becomes attractive to a whole new generation of fans. The thirteen episodes in season one span the globe from icy snowboarding slopes to the jungles of Costa Rica, glitzy hotels of Las Vegas, and a game preserve in Africa. Bonus features include bloopers and a bonus 2005 episode "A Scooby-Doo Valentine" that stars NSYNC's J.C. Chasez. (Ages 5 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
MPN: HBRDH3274D - UPC: 014764327426
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Good price if you haven't bought the individual discs.
By A42GFMF12V7XR on 2007-03-03
What's New Scooby Doo is the first Scooby Doo sequal that equals the quality of the original "Scooby Doo Where Are You?" series. The animation style may be updated somewhat (the original was not great animation anyway), but the stories are just as good. If you only liked the first series and hated Scrappy & the others, I suggest you give this new series a try. The original gang is all here on their original rolls.
This set contains 13 episodes from the first season (all have been previously released with bonus material NOT included here) plus one special from 2005.
SEASON 1:
2002 episodes:
Sep.14 There's No Creature Like Snow Creature (previously released on "Volume 1').
Sep.21 3-D Struction (previously released on "Volume 1').
Sep.28 Space Ape at the Cape (previously released on "Volume 1').
Oct.05 Big Scare at the Big Easy (previously released on "Volume 1').
Oct.26 It's Mean, It's Grean, It's the Mystery Machine (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.02 Riva Ras Vegas (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.09 Roller Goaster Ride (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.23 Safari, So Goodie (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.30 She Sees Sea Monster at the Sea Shore (previously released on "Volume 3').
2003 episodes:
Feb.01 Toy Scary Boo (previously released on "Volume 4').
Feb.15 Lights! Camera! Mayhem! (previously released on "Volume 8').
Feb.22 Pompeii and Circumstances (previously released on "Volume 7').
Mar.22 The Unnatural. (previously released on "Volume 5').
Bonus 2005 Special:
Feb.11 A Scooby Doo Valentine (previously released on "Volume 8').
About Time...
By A3CUVI42W9P42E on 2006-11-08
This Scooby Doo series is not the best, but it's nice to finally see WB releasing this in seasons. If they could only add better extras on DVD's like this though.
Back to basics
By A3E832FY3AIKFT on 2007-05-30
After adding characters (Scrappy!!!!!!!!!), playing for 'laughs' (Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy go to the beach etc), roping in celebrity voices and making a string of poor quality TV movies, Scooby and the gang got back to what they do best in the movie Zombie Island. Several more movies followed (with diminishing quality) and the surprising thng is how long it took before someone realised that they should make a TV show again. Using the tried and tested formula of Scooby Doo Where are You?, this show delivers what Scooby fans have wanted since the late '70s - Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma solving mysteries!
Now that the fan-baiting Shaggy and Scooby Get a Clue seems set to ruin the Scooby legacy again, make the most of this return to form for Mystery Inc.
And if you bought the 4-episode releases as they came out - I expect that the release of the complete seasons will have you grinding your teeth. Oh well...
Can't wait for this to come out
By A3FAQN49B9GECF on 2006-12-21
I can't wait for this to come out. It's great you can buy Scooby-Doo in seasons. The kids will love this!
Can't Wait
By on 2006-12-24
I am looking forward to getting this dvd. The special features may not be good, but at least we are getting the season (better than the volumes)!
- The Real Scooby Doo, Where are You?
By A38K3QOIBP5SNQ on 2007-04-28
What an awful show. The voices are NOTHING like the original, and the plots are lame. WB was trying to fix something thats wasent broken! William Hanna would be disappointed. I am. A Pup Named Scooby Doo, The (now not so) New Scooby Doo Moovies, and Scooby Doo Where Are You are classics compaired to this garbage. Why did HB sell to WB?!
- What's New, Scooby-Doo The Complete First Season
By A1S0DLUAL5HC2L on 2007-03-29
An exceptional update to one of the greatest cartoon series ever created. Scooby-Doo is timeless. My daughter and son will sit and watch them together over and over again. What a value!
- Yay, Scooby!
By A29PTGOY4HW6KI on 2007-04-06
Okay, we love Scooby-Doo in my house so we were thrilled when the first season came out. Although we already own most of these episodes on the other dvds.
- Excellent show
By A2B92055Y8NXQG on 2007-11-15
What's New Scooby Doo is the best adaption of Scooby Doo Where Are You!! It follow the exact same format. After years of trying to tinker Scooby Doo, they finaly decide to return basis, go to back to the classic formt, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
It is updated to the 21st Centruy, it is the original Scooby gang. There is some differences in Fred, Daphne, and Velma. In the old show, they were all serious, except for when Velma loses her glasses, they rarely had anything funny to say. But here they have their own personalties, that is funny in its own right. Scooby and Shaggy are the same as always. You see that in the 1st season for sure.
The difference in this show and current direct to video movie series, is it focuses on the kids more, gives them more of the spotlight. On the old shows, Scooby was always the focus. Here it is more of an unsumble, Scooby has his moments, but there are episodes in which you bearly notice Scooby is there, yet it is enjoyable.
I have the season 2 DVD, and can't wait till season 3.
- The completr First season
By A265H2NCWVT3RV on 2007-05-13
It arrived here fast and the it was great
- Try what's not Scooby Doo....
By AU8552YCOO5QX on 2007-06-24
With the WB animation now doing the shows, I can tell you that the concept is dead. This is not your parents's Scooby Doo, it's something else. It';s just another dumb cartoon. You better laughs by watching SpongeBob Squarepants.
- Scooby Doo lover
By A2AZFFY9O382F on 2007-08-04
I really enjoyed watching this it still is such a good dvd to watch even at 27 years old! Anyone can watch this dvd and it definitely keeps your interest. Super fast shipping also!
- Not the old Scooby Doo!
By A2ZM2MDA1GRQAF on 2007-09-25
I bought this thinking I was buying the old scooby doo that I watched when I was a kid. I wish I had looked closer because its a "new" version of Scooby Doo and they have "new" language too - like "jerk" and "stupid". I was not impressed. I will probably lose this DVD and buy the real first season.
- Not as iconic as the original -- just a whole lot better
By A3OA1CBIQ275VM on 2008-02-18
Imagine you were a career biologist in your 30s or 40s. A general interest magazine asks you to rewrite a long bio report you cranked out in the middle of seventh grade on a typewriter while doing stuff for your other six or seven classes. How much will you be able to improve on the original report now that you're wittier; know more about the subject and have a good gauge of what the general public knows of the subject; will be working on a laptop; have access to noted, interesting people in and around your field for interviews on the subject?
That's why, just considering it as entertainment, What's New, Scooby Doo? dusts the original Scooby Doo, Where Are You? and The New Scooby Doo Movies from 1972-73.
This isn't some Gen Y kid engaging in presentism. I'm a Gen Xer who was in the first generation to grow up watching the original Scoobies on Saturday mornings. Fine enough entertainment for most of us, though it was a weakly-animated, formulaic product of the Hanna-Barbera made-for-TV assembly line. Our standards were pretty low at the time.
In doing the update, the current creators did the job that some of the Scooby Doo movies from the 1990s began. They fleshed out the characters, giving them backstory, interests, families. Velma (voiced by "Facts of Life" star Mindy Cohn) is a brilliant scientist with the kind of "smart girl" wit we always suspected she had. We find out where Fred's from and even what he can bench. Daphne was moved from the Danger Prone Daphne of the original toward being a resourceful, style-conscious Buffy the Vampire Slayer-type. (Coincidentlaly, Sarah Michelle Gellar, TV's Buffy, played Daphne in the two live-action Scooby Doo movies, and Buffy's pals called themselves "The Scooby Gang."). Shaggy, still voiced by Casey Kasem, and Scooby still are forever hungry and scared, but even Shaggy gets a few interests we didn't know he had before.
The animation, undoubtedly assisted by better technology, isn't movie studio animation level, but is superior to the stiff stuff of the original.
The plotting is improved. For example, whether the gang is in Egypt or Las Vegas, there's a reason they're there. Most of all, there's a willingness to poke fun at pop culture, each other, themselves and the original Scooby formula while still following it. Like much of the best animation, the humor works on the kid level and on the adult level.
Because of balkanized TV viewing and the varying circumstances of viewing -- some on DVD, some on Boomerang, some at night, some during the day -- it's doubtful future generations will consider this version of Scooby Doo as a piece of bonding, iconic nostalgia that Gen Xers consider the original. It'll just have to settle for being much better.
- A.K.A Scooby Doo Back In Action!
By on 2008-01-19
At first I didn't think this series would be as good as some of the movies
like The Loch Ness Monster & Chill Out, but I then bought Volume 8 and saw it was better than I thought. With the return of the original cast from some of my favorite Scooby Doo movies (Frank Welker as Scooby Doo/Fred, Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Grey Delisle as Daphne, & Mindy Cohn as Velma) and 13 great mysteries, this compilation of Season 1 of What's New Scooby Doo, is probably one of the best 2-disc sets ever! Each mystery is different:
THERE'S NO CREATURE LIKE SNOW CREATURE
The series debut, a snow monster is badly injuring contestants in a snowboarding competition. (co-starring an Olympic Gold Medalist Snowboarder)
SPACE APE AT THE CAPE
Velma wins a science project contest in Cape Canaveral and it will go
into space but it is trying to be stopped by an alien believed to have been hatched from an egg.
3-D STRUCTION
Down in Costa Rica, a dinosaur monster comes out of a sacred tomb, believed to be a ghost, due to the removal of some sacred bones.
BIG SCARE IN THE BIG EASY
The gang heads to New Orleans to solve the mysteries of the ghosts
of Civil War enemies, the Leland Brothers.
IT'S MEAN, IT'S GREEN, IT'S THE MYSTERY MACHINE
Despite having their van fixed, the gang has their van chasing after
them believed to have been driven by the ghost of Flash Flannigan.
RIVA RAS REGAS
When the gang goes to Las Vegas for some vacation, it gets interrupted
by the ghost of the late magician Rufus Rocous, they solve the mystery with the help of real-life teen pop star Lindsay Pagano.
ROLLER GHOSTER RIDE
A sneaky ghost is haunting and ruining the attractions at a theme park, and Shaggy's roller coaster he designed is just being finished building.
SAFARI SO GOODI!
The gang heads to the Amazon jungle, where they face some ghost animals
that have been feared by South Americans.
SHE SEES SEA MONSTERS BY THE SEA SHORE
The gang tackles a mystery of a sea monster attacking a beach on a tropical island, and to save the seas turtles!
TOY SCARY BOO
Some toys come to life in a toy store and wreck things all around, the gang is even in danger!
LIGHTS, CAMERA, MAYHEM!
The ghost of late movie star Rip Bannon, believed to be the faceless phantom, is haunting the set of his movie remake.
POMPEII & CIRCUMSTANCE
The gang visits Italy for some time off solving mysteries. But they spoke
too soon as a mystery of a Zombie Gladiator, believed to have survived Vesuvius, unfolds.
THE UNNATURAL
Luiz Santiago is ready to break the all-time home run record, but a ghost of the currently all-time home run record hitter tries to stop him and the gang. (Special Guest Appearance by Baseball great Mike Piazza)
BONUS EPISODE: A SCOOBY DOO VALENTINE
The gang comes home in time for Valentines Day, but they get accused for the teenager kidnappings at Lovers Lane. And even worse, Shaggy's former girlfriend is dating a celebrity. (Co-starring NSYNC star JC Chasez)
If you love Scooby Doo, then this is the set for you!
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