Toxic Crusaders - The Complete Series (1991) Blu-ray (Troma Films)

[MifuneFan]

Troma Films will be releasing the short-lived animated series Toxic Crusaders (1991) on Blu-ray on December 10th. It's been digitally remastered, and will include several extras, including a feature-length documentary about the making of the video game.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Toxic...lu-ray/367468/

Extras

• New introduction by Lloyd Kaufman
• Original Toxic Crusaders toy commercials and TV spots
• Feature length documentary about the making of the Toxic Crusaders video game from Retroware
• Long lost archival footage of your favorite mop wielding mutant
• Bonus cartoons

Watch the classic Saturday morning cartoon like never before! Based on Troma's cult classic smash The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Crusaders animated series follows the adventures of that lovable deformed creature of superhuman size and strength, Toxie! Along with his new friends Yvonne, No-Zone, Head-Banger, and Junkyard, watch as Toxie stands up for truth and justice against the evil r. Kilemoff and his hoards of heinous henchmen in this complete series collection!

The Toxic Crusaders Intro - YouTube

[Q-Tip]

Can't believe this is coming to BD. Great news!

[Dragon78]

While not on my wish list, it is on the even longer list of things I would never expect to see get a blu ray release.

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

I remember watching this on TV. Along with having a few action figures and even the video game.

[GP Legend]

I had a Toxic Crusader action figure as a kid.

[Serpentor78]

Originally Posted by GP Legend

I had a Toxic Crusader action figure as a kid.

They have an anniversary reissue in Deluxe packaging at Walmart in the DVD asile. It's around $25

I'll probably end up getting two copies of the Bluray and gifting one to my brother for Christmas. He loved this show as a kid.

[mrlanphear]

Originally Posted by Serpentor78

They have an anniversary reissue in Deluxe packaging at Walmart in the DVD asile. It's around $25

FYI, it's not a reissue. It's a larger scale (5") and new sculpt inspired by the original figure.

[deltatauhobbit]

Didn't know this show existed even though I watched the movies as a kid. It's giving me some Saturday morning Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle vibes that I'm down for. If only TMNT and Captain Planet were heading to blu-ray too, all three shows would make the ultimate Saturday morning marathon for months to come.

[Sopranogl]

Originally Posted by GP Legend

I had a Toxic Crusader action figure as a kid.

I had one, too -- the guy with two heads -- but I thought that he was from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe...! I had fifty Turtles toys.

[GenPion]

I've never seen it before but I am intrigued by it. Looks like an animated series I might enjoy. Troma produced cartoon? Should be interesting.

[CelestialAgent]

Based on the Toxic Avenger thread and Justin Silverman’s Twitter, this is an AI upscale to 4K.

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Based on the Toxic Avenger thread and Justin Silverman’s Twitter, this is an AI upscale to 4K.

This is a Troma release... I expect it to be 3rd generation VHS captures dumped on a single disc and even with the special features included, taking up no more than 10gb total of disc space.

In all seriousness though, don't be surprised if they've just downloaded these youtube rips and are putting them on disc.

Toxic Crusaders ep8 p2 - YouTube

[mrlanphear]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

This is a Troma release... I expect it to be 3rd generation VHS captures dumped on a single disc and even with the special features included, taking up no more than 10gb total of disc space.

In all seriousness though, don't be surprised if they've just downloaded these youtube rips and are putting them on disc.

I don't blame you for thinking that but no. The original master tapes were sent to Retroware and they spent months fine-tuning the upscale and fixing issues. It looks far better than it has any right to look. Bonus features are also included that have never been seen before.

P.S. Check out our 4K release of The Toxic Avenger Collection, which looks incredible.

[Nailwraps]

Oh we know the 4K collection looks incredible!

Some of us are just wary because of the use of AI (I don't mind upscaling, but when AI is involved it's a red flag). If you're saying though they've gone back and fix the errors that were affected by AI, at least that's something.

Maybe if you gave us some more details, it'll put our minds at ease.

[gbm82]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

This is a Troma release... I expect it to be 3rd generation VHS captures dumped on a single disc and even with the special features included, taking up no more than 10gb total of disc space.

In all seriousness though, don't be surprised if they've just downloaded these youtube rips and are putting them on disc.

Toxic Crusaders ep8 p2 - YouTube

Troma is bad, but they're no Dark Force

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Based on the Toxic Avenger thread and Justin Silverman’s Twitter, this is an AI upscale to 4K.

I'm guessing they couldn't find the negatives? Also:

Toxic Crusaders - YouTube

Originally Posted by PegasusKenshiro

Here's hoping for a Blu on that one. MeTV Toons (free OTA TV station) has been showing a brand new HD remaster of the series.

Captain Planet? Was it from the negatives or an upscale from video masters?

Originally Posted by Dragon78

I want more 80's and 90's cartoons to get blu ray love.

Impossible when certain fans hate restoration via AI. I posted comparison shots on reddit of TMNT in 4K and they went ballistic, complaining about my carbon footprint and that the show belongs in VHS quality.

[mrlanphear]

Originally Posted by pferreira

I'm guessing they couldn't find the negatives?

Troma never had them to begin with. We only had the tape masters, which were the best source to use because the show was edited on tape.

[Nailwraps]

Originally Posted by pferreira

Impossible when certain fans hate restoration via AI.

You can't blame them. The Jaws 3D and Terminator 4K shows you why AI should NEVER be used in restoration (less proper measures are taken to ensure none of the abnormalities because of that are present. Even so, it should never be sued). Unless the negatives can be found (including TMNT), there's unfortunately nothing we can do. We should be lucky those cartoons at the very least are on DVD.

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by Nailwraps

You can't blame them. The Jaws 3D and Terminator 4K shows you why AI should NEVER be used in restoration (less proper measures are taken to ensure none of the abnormalities because of that are present.

Yeah but I was proposing AI be used for animation, not live action. Of course no one wants AI to upscale live action films and TV if it can be prevented.

Originally Posted by dr. wai

There are 6 episodes on the first disc and 7 on the second. The special features are pretty evenly spaced out with the feature length doc about the game is on the second disc.

I'm surprised considering it's the cartoon they devoted a feature length doc for the video game but not the making of the cartoon?

Originally Posted by dr. wai

One of the guys talks about the move sets each character has (which he does twice. Once at the beginning and then 45 minutes or so later. He is describing these move sets which is the time we should be seeing footage of these move sets. The pacing is also off. They will be talking about something, move over to something else, and then come back to it but with no rhythm. This thing is all over the place and is boring as hell.

Typical Screenwave. They have casual nostalgia to show off and do it in a juvenile way. They must have realised it's not Screenwave viewers who will buy this, it's Toxic Crusaders viewers.

Originally Posted by mrlanphear

Troma never had them to begin with. We only had the tape masters, which were the best source to use because the show was edited on tape.

That's probably the second best source to upscale from unless you do what I was proposing above which would require the AI to be trained a lot. However it's certainly an easier option than reanimating the entire show even if that's the ideal solution.

[uVSthem]

Originally Posted by Nailwraps

You can't blame them. The Jaws 3D and Terminator 4K shows you why AI should NEVER be used in restoration (less proper measures are taken to ensure none of the abnormalities because of that are present. Even so, it should never be sued). Unless the negatives can be found (including TMNT), there's unfortunately nothing we can do. We should be lucky those cartoons at the very least are on DVD.

Discotek Media has a bunch of SD on Bluray discs and they look fine to me. Much better than when companies try to use all this upscaling AI
crap. The higher bitrate and 264 codec has the video looking much better than it would on DVD.