Back at the 2016 Nurember Toy Fair, LEGO announced there will be a special LEGO Minifigure series dedicated to the German national football team, DFB (Die Mannschaft). It looks like our friends over at PromoBricks has some more details on these minifigures from a press release that was sent to them. On April 12, there will be a live stream to reveal the players for the LEGO DFB Minifigure Series (71014). There’s no hints or rumors on which players will be included so far but everything will be confirmed in a few weeks. Some more details we already know about of the DFB Series include them being available starting on May 14 and will be retailing for €2.99. However another thing that is unknown is whether or not they’ll be available worldwide or just in Germany. Thanks to Michael for the heads up. 22 used & new from LEGO Scooby-Doo!: Haunted Hollywood (includes Limited Edition LEGO Minifigure) [Blu-ray] [2016] [Region Free] Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.
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Feature-length animated adventure following Scooby-Doo (voice of Frank Welker) and the gang as they team up to investigate another mystery, this time in LEGO form. After Scooby and Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) win a burger-eating contest, the gang are invited on a tour of Hollywood's Brickton Studios, famous for producing classic monster movies. But when they get there, they discover the owner, Chet Brickton (James Arnold Taylor), is being forced to sell the studio because his latest features are being sabotaged by ghostly monsters. Can Scooby, Shaggy, Velma (Kate Micucci), Daphne (Grey Griffin) and Fred (Welker) solve the mystery before Brickton Studios is forced to close its doors forever? Set in a LEGO world, the Scooby gang try to rescue an old movie studio, which is not only threatened by developers who want to tear it down, but by a series of movie monsters, which are suddenly haunting the place. See all 13 customer reviews mrs sarah l jones See all 13 customer reviews (newest first)
A must for any scooby doo fan Great addition to both the schoolboy archive and the lego range. I love the DVD and the free toy of scooby it a studio DVD & Blu-ray > TVMummy Museum Mysteryproduct_label_list_price_accessibility 17 ReviewsWarning!FIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISBuildingsInvestigate the Mummy Museum Mystery with Scooby and Shaggy!The LEGO Group is a family-owned company based in Billund, Denmark, and best known for the manufacture of LEGO brand toys. The company was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The word Lego is derived from the Danish words "leg godt," meaning "play well." The word "lego" also means "I put together" in Latin, and "I connect" or "I tie" in Italian. In the first half of 2014, the Lego Group became the world's largest toy company by market value, surpassing Mattel. On January 23, 2015, the Lego Group and Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced that they were manufacturing licensed products of Scooby-Doo, beginning at five sets and to be sold in stores from August the same year.
In addition, Warner Bros. Animation will produce a 22-minute TV special, to be followed by a series of direct-to-video films by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, in the years to come. ↑ Keene, Allison (January 23, 2015). "First Official Look at the New SCOOBY-DOO LEGO Set; Animated Special to Follow". Since 1969, a Great Dane dog named Scooby (full name Scoobert), his loyal human companion Shaggy, and three of their teenaged friends have been on TV in many configurations, using a vehicle called the Mystery Machine to solve mysteries. The first series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, aired Saturday mornings on CBS and lasted two seasons and 25 episodes. In 1972, the show returned as The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Ken Spears and Joe Ruby created the Hanna-Barbera show and have watched it go through more than 12 different series, including A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, and current series, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, which airs on Cartoon Network. Besides all of the TV shows, the show spun-off into several TV specials, two live-action movies, 25 direct-to-DVD movies—including last month's Lego Scooby-Doo!: Haunted Hollywood—and 21 video games.
Here are 13 meddling facts about the iconic animated series. TV executive Fred Silverman told Emmy TV Legends that “I had always thought that kids in a haunted house would be a big hit. As a kid, I would go and look at Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and movies like that.” Silverman pitched CBS a show called Who’s S-S-Scared?, but the dog was in the background. “I was convinced this was going to be the biggest hit that we’d ever had, even though nobody knew what the hell it was,” Silverman told Emmy TV Legends. He pitched then-CBS president Frank Stanton, who told him, “We can’t put that on the air. That’s just too frightening.” Silverman had to rework the concept of the show and made it more about Scooby. “And our Abbott and Costello will be Scooby-Doo and Shaggy,” Silverman said. “In a matter of two hours we had revised the concept and it worked great.” Silverman told Emmy TV Legends how he was on a red eye flight to L.A. and couldn’t sleep.
CBS had just rejected his idea of a group of teens and a dog trying to solve mysteries, so he was in the middle of coming up with new ideas. “As we’re landing, Frank Sinatra comes on [the PA], and I hear him say, ‘Scooby-doo-be-doo.’ [Note: Sinatra actually says “doobie,” not “Scooby.”] I said, that’s it—we’ll call it Scooby-Doo.” The Japanese-American artist got his start working on Disney films before he segued to the Hanna-Barbera world. Takamoto drew the original sketches for Scooby—along with the human counterparts—and based the dog on inverting a Great Dane. “There was a lady that bred Great Danes at Hanna-Barbera,” he told the Cartoon Network. “She showed me some pictures and talked about the important points of a Great Dane—like a straight back, straight legs, small chin and such. I decided to go the opposite and give him a hump back, bowed legs, big chin and such. Even his color is wrong.” The legendary voice actor currently has 761 acting credits on his IMDb page, but at 23 years old he received his first voice acting gig as the ascot-wearing Fred Jones.
“I could barely read the copy and didn’t know which end of the mike was electrified, which explains why shock therapy has no effect on me,” Welker told Verbicide magazine. “Joe Barbera was fantastic and really gave me a chance; he would give me the opportunity to read for all the characters, not just Freddy, and that really opened things up for me.” Welker has voiced Fred in every Scooby series except A Pup Named Scooby Doo, and he’s provided Scooby’s voice since 2002. The radio host voiced Shaggy from 1969 to 1997, left the show, then returned in 2002. In real life, Kasem was a vegan and he wanted Shaggy to also be one. When Kasem was asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, Kasem protested and quit the show. But in 2002, Kasem convinced the producers to allow Shaggy to become a vegetarian. “Shaggy is one of my claims to fame,” Kasem told The New York Times in 2004, a decade before his passing, “but I think Casey surpasses him a little bit. However, one will last longer than the other, and Shaggy will go on forever.”
In 1979, Joseph Barbera and Mark Evanier developed Scrappy-Doo, Scooby’s nephew, to prevent ABC from canceling the series. Sixteen episodes of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo aired during the 1979-1980 season, but ABC’s Standards and Practices felt Scrappy was not a positive influence on kids. Evanier wrote about the experience on his blog: “Shortly after the last of many recordings of 'Mark of the Scarab' (that first script), it dawned on ABC Broadcast Standards that maybe Scrappy was a bad role model for the kiddos. He was—and one person in that department actually used this term to me—‘too independent.’” The network also thought Scrappy was “too rebellious.” “Mainly, I pointed out that Scrappy, as written, was an effectual character,” Evanier wrote. “He got things done, always (eventually) for the better. Our heroes, Scooby and Shaggy, fled from danger, panicked, hid, trembled, etc. If they contributed to the resolution of the problem and catching the villain, it was only by accidentally crashing into him.
‘Why,’ I asked, ‘do you want to make that the role model Scrappy and our viewers should emulate?’” That seemed to be good enough for Standards, who allowed Scrappy to be left as-is. “Scrappy did exactly what he was supposed to do: He got Scooby-Doo renewed for another season,” Evanier wrote. Guest stars became a part of the new iteration of Scooby-Doo, from the Harlem Globetrotters to Don Knotts. On the 1972 episode “Wednesday Is Missing," a pre-Taxi Driver Jodie Foster supplied the voice of Pugsley Addams, in an Addams Family/Scooby crossover episode. In 2004, the animated show hit its 350th episode with “Scooby-Doo Halloween.” The number of episodes surpassed The Simpsons’ 335 episodes and Tom and Jerry’s 209 episodes. The feat landed the show in the 2006 edition of the Guinness World Record book. The 2002 live-action movie Scooby-Doo, written by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, played upon Shaggy’s insinuated stoner vibe and Velma’s rumored homosexuality.
But because it was a family film, some of those themes had to be toned down. “If you ask me if Shaggy is a stoner, I’ll say no,” Matthew Lillard, who played Shaggy, told the Seattle Times. “That’s what's funny about him: He just seems like that. He acts a little goofy and high. He’s lovable and scared—and just happens to have the munchies.” However, Gunn thinks Velma is definitely gay. “So we had a couple little nods to that in the movie and in the end, again, they were things that kind of (detracted from) the scenes,” Gunn said. Many of the amusement park rides in which characters from the show appeared no longer exist, including Scooby-Doo and Shaggy’s cameos in The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, the simulator ride operated at Universal Studios Florida from 1990 to 2002. Australia’s Warner Bros. Movie World created the Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster in 2002 (it still exists), featuring lasers and sound effects—though the ride doesn’t seem to be very spooky.
And if you find yourself in Madrid, visit the Scooby-Doo spinning cups and a Scooby-Doo Haunted Mansion, which opened in 2002 at Parque Warner Madrid. Canada’s Wonderland, Carowinds, and Kings Dominion dismantled the mansion ride in 2009, but Six Flags Fiesta Texas houses a similar version called Scooby-Doo Ghostblaster. In May, DC Comics released Scooby Apocalypse #1, with a revamped image for the gang. Fred looks like a hipster, and Scooby looks like a cyborg dog. “It’s a multigenerational obsession at this point, and we just thought it would just be really interesting to take the cartoon version of these characters and see where they would be if we took what existed in the very first iteration of the cartoon and moved it into this day and age,” Jim Lee, the book’s co-writer and artist, told Entertainment Weekly about the new line of comics. With the exception of a stream of straight-to-DVD videos, Scooby hasn’t appeared in movies since 2004’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.