THEY LIVE
AGAIN
Gargoyles
comes to DisneyDVD on December 7th, 2004!
For more information, please visit
For six years this website has been collecting comments and glowing
praise for this show, and while I may not have been particularly punctual about
updating them, I still have every single one of them. With the release of the DVD, I feel the need
for this site has diminished. I
encourage fans to submit a review on Amazon
and to sign the guestbook
at GargoylesDVD.com. Most importantly, purchase
a copy of the DVD! If ordering from
Amazon, please place your order on
December 7th in coordination with a fan movement to raise the
DVD’s sales ranking on Amazon.
Why Gargoyles?
“It was just a cartoon,” you say. “Sure, it was a good show, but there are lots
of good shows that get cancelled. Why
make such a big deal about this one?”
Gargoyles was a Disney cartoon show that debuted in 1994. It was
targeted for 6-11 year old boys, but it was so skillfully done that it appealed
to teens and adults as well as children. This was not your average children's
cartoon. It did not feature two-dimensional characters and slapstick or vulgar
humor. It did feature fully-rounded, respectable characters with believable--
if fantastical-- lives and personalities. They were more "human" than
cartoon characters, if you can apply such a term to a cast full of gargoyles,
robots, cybots, dragons, aliens, mythic deities, clones, immortals, and the
Fae.
Gargoyles aired for 65 episodes on the Disney Afternoon, then
was followed by a spinoff series on ABC called Gargoyles: The Goliath
Chronicles. After a change in creative
staff, the show went downhill and was cancelled 13 episodes later. And across
the United States and around the world, faithful fans that had devoted two
years to Gargoyles were suddenly alone and abandoned.
But they fought back.
They created websites. They wrote
fanfiction and filks. They created
fanart. They published online zines and
held art contests. They signed
petitions. They went out into the world
to convert new fans. And in 1997, they
held the very first Gathering. They refused to mourn their show quietly and
move on. They refused to forget.
And after ten years, Disney has taken note.
On December 7th, 2004, the first season of Gargoyles will be
released on DisneyDVD. No one at Disney
knows how well it will sell. No one
knows how many fans there are, or how much demand there is for the DVD. If it sells well, the second season will
probably be released. If that sells
well… The sky is the limit.
Shows have been resurrected on the basis of DVD sales. Feature films have been developed. It’s happened before. If we want new episodes of Gargoyles, now is
the time to prove it.
Now is the time. On
December 7th, they live again. And I
want to be along for the ride.
Kaylle