Lucky. Lucky. Lucky.

Sounds fantastic! Just a quick note; a pencil test is what happens before the drawings are scanned and cloured.

All the key frames are drawn, then all the other drawings are added, and played in a computer to see if the animation is good enough - this is a pencil test, so it will be like a better-moving animatic. Once the penicl test is approved then it (in Futuama's case) is scanned into a computer where it is 'inked' and digitally coloured.

Hope that helps!

Im just scared to see how long it will take for the DVD set to come to the US... Damn those seperate DVD reigons.

Can't.....wait.

man i cant wait till they get it in u.s i just cant stand it

I can't understand why they won't just realese them in the u.s.a they are complete it would take them a month maximum to make them and box them. hopefully you will get them all soon. but i can't wait for season 4 to be realesed.

If you want to make your dvd player play
region 2 / UK dvds goto www.vcdhelp.com then click on dvd hacks which will be on the left hand side of the site. then enter the make of your dvd player eg. sony , alba , bush etc and the site will tell you if your player can become multiregion and give you the hack to make it multi region. hope this helps you get your hand on the futurama dvds a bit quicker.

Sweet I guess. Maybe Fox suits are responible for making us suffer. I don't know. I think it sucks that US gets the sets much later than in other parts of the world. After all, the shows are produced in US but made in Korea so those two countries should get the dvds first. Sorry everyone else but that is just how I feel.

My dvd player is my Playstation 2. The only hacks for it don't seem all that great. You need some strange cable for some, and a mod chip for others, and I don't like either of those options. I guess I will just have to wait for the R1 dvds to hit the US. I am just happy that R1 season 2 is coming out very soon, and hope they don't take too long to release the last two!

On an unrelated note, Futurama comics #14 was released. I bought mine at the local comic store 2 days ago, so it's time to open up the reviewing.

I'm using a program called RemSelec which allows region-free operation of your DVD drive using most player programs. (I can vouch personally that it works with Power DVD). I had a link on the Turanga Pages to the Remote Selector site for quite some time prior to the release of Season 3. If anyone's interested, write me, and I'll see if I can dig it up for you.

As an alternate plan of attack, eBay is usually just crawling with region-free players, many well under $100. I bought one which not only is region-free, but you can specify whether you want the video output to be NTSC (North American standard) or PAL (most everywhere else).

I suggest taking one of these paths to beat The Visionaries at Fox at their own game!

"My dvd player is my Playstation 2. The only hacks for it don't seem all that great. You need some strange cable for some, and a mod chip for others, and I don't like either of those options. "

I don't know if it works with American PS2s, but there's something called DVD Region X available in Europe - it's just a cartridge (plugs into the memory card slot) and a disc, no modchips or cables are required. It doesn't convert from NTSC to PAL or vice versa though, so you'll need a TV with PAL support to watch the Futurama DVDs.

"the animatic for Obsoletely Fabulous"

im just curious as to what that actually means? is it similar to what the did with "Space Pilot 3000" on the Season 1 set?

Yeah it will be the same, a moving pencil drawing without colours or sound effects. Also, the animatics so far have had a few extra lines that were fully animated, and then cut out right before the ep was finished. The don't always use the proper actors for the animatics either (you'll see what I mean on the Season 3 set).

a pencil test is the stage of production,where the first rough pencils are photographed and animated to see if the movements`s flow is allright.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!!!!!!!
I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahem sorry (wooh!)

If there actually was a production season 5; chances are Europe would get it on DVD before they even aired all the episodes on the US...

Anyone know when season 3 DVD set will be realesed in the US

Season 3 DVDs will be released in February at the very earliest. But there are no definate dates as of yet. Just remember we didnt have a final date for Season 2 until about a month ago.

hey early imformation about the 4th box set sound gr8 animatics 4 Obsoletely Fabulous woooooooooooooo play.com r still wrong about the date lol liked spanish fry and i cant wait 4 bend her next week u lucky americans hav only got 2 more episodes 2 go the series finale is gonna rule marc r u gonna do a review on futurama the game due 2 realese in the the uk on aug 1st ??? i mite get the game it looks fun but then i fink ami wating 40 quid mabey when it goes down 2 20 i mite get it lol oh well bye ps sum1 should email play.com 4 there mistake they mite get a prize or sumthin id do it but i cant be botherd lol :D

I have the season 4 d.v.d!

I just found out that Season 4 has a release-date of 01/09/2003. That's less than a month away! JEEPEE! (Info found on www.play.com)

I dont think that its going to come out on the 1st. If you look on www.amazon.co.uk you will see that the set is not even listed. On top of that I dont even think that the last eps will have finished airing in the UK by then.

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