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Amblimation Widescreen Laserdisc Preservations

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Well, it’s only just an idea or a suggestion, but is there anybody out there who’s interested in any letterboxed widescreen laserdisc preservations of any, if all, of the following three films that were made by Steven Spielberg’s short-lived, London, England, UK-based Amblimation Studio (the one with An American Tail’s Fievel Mousekewitz on the studio logo at the end of each film, and which is also the ancestor of today’s DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind Shrek, among other such films): 1991’s An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, 1993’s We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story, and 1995’s Balto (the only Amblimation laserdisc release to be certified by THX ltd. (then part of Lucasfilm))?

Well, yes, I do remember Fievel Goes West not only just for featuring James Stewart’s last cinematic performance (as the voice of the dog character Wylie Burp) before he passed away in 1997, but also, if primarily, nowadays, for featuring the Powerpuff Girls’ Blossom’s original voice actress Cathy Cavadini as the new voice of Fievel’s big sister Tanya in Fievel Goes West, as well as for the two lovely songs that Tanya (through Cathy Cavadini’s beautiful singing chops) happened to sing in the movie itself (Dreams to Dream and The Girl You Left Behind, respectively); Yes, I do remember We’re Back! for featuring the Coen Brothers’ collaborator John Goodman voicing a cartoon T. rex; and yes, I do remember seeing Balto (the best movie that Amblimation ever did besides Fievel Goes West) in high school.

And I know it’s just an idea or a suggestion, but what’s your word?

P.S. Fievel the mouse sure looks cute in the above picture.

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Correction:

One of the Amblimation widescreen laserdiscs that I’m talking about – as in 1991’s An American Tail sequel, Fievel Goes West, is already ripped.

So all we’re left with now as far as the Amblimation Widescreen laserdisc preservations are We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story (1993) and the only Amblimation laserdisc title ever to be mastered or certified by ex-Lucasfilm property THX Ltd., Balto (1995).