🎄 Home Video History ❄

Fun facts on the history and evolution of home video| Lover of physical media| Not affiliated with home video companies/film studios| Created by @MEDewald1

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June 7, 1990: Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends: Thomas Gets Tricked and James Learns a Lesson are released on VHS.

These are the first official home video releases of the series in the US. Narrated by Ringo Starr, each video contains seven episodes from the series' first season.

In addition to the standard black cassettes, some copies also came in blue and red cassettes.

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June 1, 2004: SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongeguard on Duty is released on DVD and VHS.

Fun Fact: Despite the last three episodes on the DVD not being featured on the VHS version, the VHS back cover still features a screenshot from the episode Doing Time.

This is also one of the few SpongeBob VHS releases to be released in an orange cassette along with the standard black cassettes.

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May 27, 2003: The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius: When Pants Attack and Time Warp are released on VHS. A DVD titled Confusion Fusion was also released and contains all nine episodes from the two tapes.

These are the first episodic home video releases of Jimmy Neutron following the video and DVD release of the movie the previous year.

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May 24, 2005: SpongeBob SquarePants: Fear of a Krabby Patty is released on DVD and VHS.

This is the first home video release of SpongeBob SquarePants to feature episodes from the series' fourth season.

In addition to the first two episodes of season four, this release also contains six (three on the VHS) additional episodes.

This is also the only SpongeBob VHS to feature season four episodes along with episodes from the previous seasons as well as one of the few VHS releases to feature episodes from said season. This is also the last VHS to feature an episode from the third season (the episode being "One Krab's Trash").

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May 23, 2006: The Fairly Oddparents: Fairy Idol is released on DVD and VHS.

Not counting some Nick Jr tapes released after, this is the last Nickelodeon VHS release. It is also the last VHS release of The Fairly Oddparents. The VHS release only contains the special though the DVD also features two bonus episodes.

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May 23, 2006: Thomas & Friends: Tales from the Tracks is released on DVD and VHS.

This is the first home video release in the US to contain episodes from the series' ninth season and the first Thomas home video release distributed by 20th Century Fox.

This is notably the final VHS release of Thomas & Friends in the US and the only VHS to feature season nine episodes (not counting the special Calling All Engines).

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May 1, 2001: Disney's The Emperor's New Groove (2000) is released on VHS and DVD.

In spite of its relative underperformance at the box office, the film was a massive success on home video, becoming the best-selling Disney video of the year.

In addition to the standard DVD release, a two-disc collector's edition DVD was also released and contained loads of additional bonus features.

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Happy 20th anniversary, Over the Hedge!

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Which Thomas & Friends VHS or DVD would you pick?

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In memory of Tom Kane.

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Fun Fact: The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III" is the first episode of the series to be officially released on home video. It was released on the compilation VHS Nickelodeon Super Toons (alongside two episodes of Rugrats and one episode of Rocket Power) in February 2002, predating the first official SpongeBob VHS and DVD releases Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies by a month. The episode was later featured as the first episode on the VHS Laugh Your Pants Off and the DVD Tide and Seek.

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Happy Easter, y'all!

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Fun Fact: Out of the seven (or nine if counting the Jimmy Timmy Power Hours) VHS releases of The Fairly Oddparents, only three featured regular 11-minute episode segments. The other releases of the series on the format only contained one double-length special episode (though the DVD versions did feature standard episodes as bonuses).

These releases were Superhero Spectacle, Timmy's Top Wishes, and Scary Godparents.

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Some random SpongeBob VHS trivia: Due to the screener copies being produced beforehand, there are some notable differences between them and the official copies of certain SpongeBob VHS releases.

Notable examples include:

On Bikini Bottom Bash, the screener front cover stated there were four additional episodes which was later corrected to three for the final release.

On SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric, the Nickelodeon logo is shortened to Nick for the final release, the SpongeBob logo is smaller, and the artwork is slightly lowered (the full Nickelodeon logo is still used on the DVD disc).

On Home Sweet Pineapple, the screener front cover stated it contained episodes from the first three seasons although it does not have any season 3 episodes on it, this was corrected for the final release.

On Fear of a Krabby Patty, the screener back cover reused screenshots from Sponge for Hire and the episode Shell of a Man is listed by its working title Molted, these were obviously changed by the final release.

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March 21, 2006: Dreamer (2005) is released on DVD and VHS.

This is the last DreamWorks film released on VHS.

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March 14, 2006: A History of Violence (2005) is released on DVD and VHS.

This film is noteworthy for being one of the last major blockbuster films to be released on VHS.

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March 14, 2006: Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2 is released on DVD and VHS.

This is the last Jimmy Timmy Power Hour special released on VHS. The VHS only contained the special, though the DVD also contains five bonus episodes (three from The Fairly Oddparents and two from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius).