I take it the main reason to keep the Zig-Zag/Tack fight has to do with the completed animation of Zig-Zag falling into the hole? I'm kind of annoyed since Zig-Zag is supposed to scream when he falls, rather than stepping on a tack (Calvert's invention). At least it's sort of a good addition, even if Williams just wanted Zig-Zag to fall into the hole. Too bad Calvert couldn't stick to decent additions like this and the thief being raised up instead of adding the terrible songs.

Did you get the actual tape (or a DVD-R burn)? The AVI on emule has too much compression.

The best thing is that it lacks all the halos on the 2nd gen tape, not to mention that with a bit of color correction on the yellow tint, it looks actually better color-wise than Miramax's DVD. Also, some of the sound effects in the workprint are vastly better than in the Princess version. For example, when Phido comes back and is swatted by Zig-Zag, there's a really neat effect when his "multi-purpose cane" extends into a flyswatter (and later some prods).

Although... now that it's so clear, all the scratches, hairs, and dirt are more obvious than before. Would you be able to remove them? Even if that's too elaborate, it would be neat if you could at least paint out the few reel change cue markers (both on the workprint and the Miramax DVD).