Metrodome Update

Friday, February 11th, 2005 5:35AM CST

Category: Toy News
Posted by: Raymond T. Views: 21,417

I have just come in contact with someone working for Metrodome. Through a personal E-mail I was updated on the current status of the next releases in the UK.

"I've no news of the 20th Anniversary of the movie I'm afraid but we are planning a summer release of Takara - Headmasters.

We've managed to track down all the original 1991 Japanese Takara masters for Headmasters. These are better quality than the ones we have in the US and they are complete. Tracking them down has been a bit of a job.

My plan at the moment, is to release a 4 disc DVD using these original Japanese masters with the original Japanese audio and we'll create accurate English subtitles. The original dubbing by Star was pretty dreadful, so my thoughts are to keep it intact, as it was originally broadcast in Japan.

However, I am also looking into the possibility of copying the English audio dub from the US masters and placing it as an optional audio track on the DVD. This is only possible if they are exactly the same so we'll have to do technical comparisons and configurations etc. and this may end up being too expensive and the US master list is not complete so we won't be able to do this to all at the moment but I am looking into it.

As for re-dubbing. I've dismissed that for the moment as I think it will be far too expensive."

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