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Info Wanted: Any PLANET OF THE APES preservationists here?

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Reading about the new Apes boxset due for release in a couple of months (details here: http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/planet-of-the-apes5.html), it occurred to me that I’ve never seen any additional footage or other rarities other than that included in the official DVDs.

This new set doesn’t appear to add much new over previous releases - just the longer cut of ‘Battle’ and the animated ‘Return to the POTA’.

I remember letters pages from the Adventure comic series in the early 90s, that mentioned bootleg tapes of old featurettes, trailers, outtakes etc. Has all of this stuff now found its way into official discs (like the 2-disc Behind the POTA from Image), or is there still more material to be hunted down?

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I'm also a huge "Planet of the Ape's" fan, and I just went Ape (pun intended) when I found out that the original soundtracks for "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" & "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" had been officially released by - Film Score Monthly - not too long ago. This is a mail order site, and I believe this official release is very limited. If you need to have these soundtracks as I did, you may want to go to the F.S.M. site and look for them.

Film Score Monthly

P.S. I've got the 3 volumes of "Man From U.N.C.L.E." original soundtracks from them too!

FF

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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I've purchased a number of soundtracks from FSM, including the 2 POTA CDs available there. I'm a POTA fan, and annoyed that Australia isn't going to get the animated series in our version of the ape head.

Interestingly enough, I thought the same thing about material that might be out there but not on the DVDs. The first thing I did was check LDDB for any stuff from the laserdiscs. When I saw that 'Battle' has a longer cut, my first thought was to post on here to have someone preserve it. The following day it was confirmed that this longer cut would appear on the new DVD.

To contact me outside the forum, for trades and such my email address is my OT.com username @gmail.com

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Damn after reading this I just went to amazon and pre-order the set for around $125, that is $200 more then I have
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Originally posted by: segaflip
Damn after reading this I just went to amazon and pre-order the set for around $125, that is $200 more then I have


http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000E6ESG2.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
But man, that ape head looks worth it!

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison