Peanuts DVD bargains

The new special Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown hits stores tomorrow, and Amazon is already shipping some copies (knowing they’ll take more than a day to arrive). But at the moment, they’re also offering some tempting prices on other Peanuts animated disks:

Please note that the ones later on the list appear to be the older, Paramount editions of these releases rather than the newer Warner Brothers ones, but the first three are the current releases — including the first two, both of which have me appearing in the special features (which may explain why the price has been lowered…)

Please note that the Blu ray/DVD/digital copy combo pack of Warm Blanket is orderable through Amazon, but not sold directly by them. Apparently, this is a package intended for the Canadian market – but as Canada and the US are part of the same video encoding “region”, those disks should work just fine on your players. There is a just-the-blu-ray edition available through Walmart.com.

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Free Snoopy Weekend

Apple just announced that this weekend, you can watch all of their original programming for free (you will have to sign in for an account, but not a subscription.) This means The Snoopy Show, Snoopy in Space, Camp Snoopy, and the new Peanuts specials that were created for Apple should all be …

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RIP Willie Mays

Willie Mays has died. The baseball great lived until the age of 1993. “Why is that relevant to a Peanuts blog?” I hear of a few of you cry (though many of you know better.) Before Lee Mendelson had any connection to Peanuts, he made a documentary about Mays… and …

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Costco eases out of books

Membership-based store chain Costco has announced that they are backing out of carrying books as a year-round item, the New York Times reports. Those big tables filled with stacks of best-sellers and deluxe and kid-friendly titles will instead just be dragged out for the last third of the year, for …