Invader Zim DVD
 

I guess there is no official invader zim DVD in the USA. I see what I assume are unofficial DVDs on Ebay and whatnot, claiming to have all the episodes.

Here's my question - is an official Zimm DVD in the works? I would buy one if there is. I'm not real excited the prospect of "stealing" money from Johnen Vasquez by buying something pirated.

What's a DVD-wanting Zimm fan to do?

I have no information the DVD but I would kill for it! ZIM ROCKS!!

"Let's go to my room, pig!" - GIR

Shoot... I want SeaLab 2021 on DVD and the Brak Show...

Just buy the damd thing. If you feel really guilty then just John V. a peice of fanmail with twenty bucks in it. I mean it's not really rocket science. You love his media, you want his media, there is no official way to get his media, so take the grey rout and aleviate your guilt.

Paramount did a Poll on there website on what Animated Show would you most like to see in Dvd Form, They had Invader Zim, Home Movies, Angry Beavers and PJays. Invader Zim won in a land side, grabbing 60% of the vote, with somewhere along the lines of 8000 people voting for it. So maybe a Zim Dvd is closer than you think

Zim: Dumb like a moose dib, dumb like a moose!!!

HA HA

I would give a finger for Zim on DVD.:mad:

I'll try to ask the friends that I have in Nickolodeon Consumer Products and see what they know. Paramount is usually slow out the gate with these types of things... but it's the vision of Sumner and Mel to keep it all tight.

Lets put it this way, Both people I have introduced to Invader Zim, have joined forums for the show.....

ONE of them is a Zimoid.. :D He has downloaded EVERY Episode, ALL of the Scripts, and he even has some that Weren't turned into Cartoons. Heck, he has audio of some people trying to bring the scripts to life.. hehe.

Um.. Oh yeah Topic: Zim DVD.

Give me now, or I start Stabbing. :D

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In the two months since the last post here, has anyone heard any news about ZIM DvDs?

I crave more news of this DVD you must tell me.

I am governement man from the governement. This is a government pig.

Hmmmmm maybe a Zim quote thread.

Invader Zim on DVD
 

http://animatedbliss.com/news.asp?TID=1232

Sweet Jesus. My heart explodes with joy.

Mmm... now I can tape over those Slavic-dubbed black market Zim bootlegs a shadowy gentleman in a FrankenChokey costume sold me. My wallet is already aching in anticipation...:D

sweet monkey of Zion. between this and the Complete Peanuts Collection beginning, I'm gonna have a hard time keeping my wallet patched, from all the holes to be inflicted on it.

cool makes me glad i didnt by those bootleegged discs at the last con i went to, i gues i should set aside a hundred bucks for this.

YESSSSSSZZZZZZZSSSZZZZZZ

Anyone know what Jhonen's up to now?

What season are they up to now? I didn't even realise there had been 3. This is gonna be sweeter than yoohoo.

So, they are releaseing them by season, with two disks to a season? I wonder how much they will be?

Good to know it will finally happen though!

omg
My jaw just dropped.
I'm as giddy as a school girl about this :D

I haven't even finished watching my bootleg copy. sk

Well, He and another artist made a Mini Comic called "Everthing can be Beaten" about a young man named "It" who carries around a Hammer and learns that everything can indeed, be beaten. Last I heard, he was going to start a Comic of Short Stories, much like the "Meanwhiles" he did in Johnny and Squee.


Well, they made two seasons. The first ones all aired on Nick, and I think 2-3 of the Second Season Aired on Nick, but it was canceled. The rest of the Third Season was aired in Brazil (Go figure..) There's been good and bad talk of the second season. Some of the Episodes are great, and some of them seem to be cliché and lacking the style that the previous Episodes had. This can be explained by two things. Firstly, Jhonen and Steve and the rest of the Zim crew were under alot of pressure, The Nick execs were not entirely fond of Zim and were constantly nit-picking things. In a post I read by Steve Ressel (Who was the Art Director.. I think) said that moral was low, and most of them were ready to quit rather than deal with the Censors and Nick, so the episodes suffered. Also, near the cancellation, they made a "New and Improved" Episodes that were simpler with less screaming and less complex plots. The episodes that were not aired in the United States will be on the DVDs to my understanding.

For those of you interested, Here's a list of the Episodes that were aired:

101- The Nightmare Begins (1/2 hour)
102a- Parent Teacher Night
102b- Walk of Doom
103a- Bestest Friends
103b- NanoZIM
104a- Germs
104b- Dark Harvest
105a- Attack of the Saucer Morons
105b- The Wettening
106a- Career Day
106b- Battle Dib
107a- A Room With A Moose
107b- Hamstergeddon
108a- Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain
108b- Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy
109a- Planet Jackers
109b- Rise of Zitboy
110a- Plague of Babies
110b- Bloatys Pizza Hog
111a- Door to Door
111b- FBI Warning
112a- Bolognius Maximus
112b- Game Slave 2
113- Battle of the Planets (1/2 hour)
114- Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom (1/2 hour)
115a- Mysterious Mysteries
115b- Future Dib
116a- Abducted
116b- The Sad Sad Tale of Chickenfoot
117a- Megadoomer
117b- Lice
118a- G.I.R. Goes Crazy and Stuff
118b- Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom
119a- Hobo 13
119b- Walk for Your Lives
120- Tak, the Hideous New GIRL (1/2 hour)

And.. the Never Aired Episodes:

Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars (1/2 hour)
Mortos Der Soul Stealer
Zim Eats Waffles
Fry Cook(1/2 hour)
The Girl Who Cried Gnome
Vindicated!
Voting of the Doomed
Dib Ship
Gaz- Taster of Pork(1/2 hour)

This does not include "Zim's Most Horrible Christmas Ever" since it was made after the cancellation. Jhonen and company begged them to do at least a final Huurah in the form of a Christmas episodes. Which they did. Yup. I am a Cornicupa of Invader Zim info. I have too much free time.

Sweeet!! Thats like the only cartoon on Nickelodeon besides spongebob i like to watch! Cant wait to pick it up

Ahhhhhhhh, must quickly go ride the pig!!!

Best thing I've heard all day, I'm counting the days till it comes out.

It's just too bad that they aren't releasing them before Christmas. I know someone who would pee their pants if they saw this under the tree. Personally, I have never seen the series.

My kids and I were wondering what had happened to Zim. They made a big fan out of me. As soon as that happened they stopped airing it :(

Can't wait for the dvd's :D

I loveded you piggy!!!!!!

Gir owns, nuff said.
http://hs.shelby.k12.mi.us/hs/math/dancinggir.gif

*Angels sing, heaven opens and God himself sends the DVD bounty to stores.*

I just hope it has some good extras. Some Commentary would make me pee my pants.

One of the guys from the Animeworks company posted on a forum saying that the Box Set would have a special disc with extras on it... which is why I must by the box set. Nothing else will suffice.

Slightly off-topic, but while I was not studying the other day I stumbled across the BEST INTERVIEW EVAR:
http://suicidegirls.com/words/Jhonen+Vasquez/

The page is SFW, although the site in general isn't.

Excerpt:
DRE: You obviously made some money from [Zim].

JV: Yeah, but it's all gone. The last thing that I wanted was to be sitting around in this pile of cash, which is what I did for way too long before deciding it was bad. I had this Hefty bag filled with cash that I would get into and have one of my slaves seal twist tie closed. I'd roll around in it, giggling and laughing like a monster baby until I was tired. But it was dirty money, dirty children money printed on the skin of flayed children. I needed to find an evil way to it so that Nickelodeon would be contributing to something unholy in the world.

DRE: What'd you spend it on?

JV: Just whores. Whores over on Sunset Boulevard and Santa Monica. Whores and robots. Some of the whores were robots.

I don't know how anyone can get this cool without cool implants.

True. He is so cool it actually depresses me for being so plain and uncool.

Yeah, I read that interview whats really interesting/sad is that Jhonen considered his time spent at Nick working on Zim and the worst time in his life.

How the Hell did Todd Mcfarlane manage to get a show on HBO, and Jhonen gets a show on Nickelodeon? That's just stupid.

Fuck you Mr. Bear! You speak lies!!!!

This is the only show I Never thought I'd see released on DVD.
The tallest themselves must have come to earth to order the release of the ZIM dvds.
thank you, oh my tallest.

Yea. I read that interview a while back. Suicide Girls does some great interviews. The ones I can recall off the top of my head are, of course, Jhonen, Chuck Palahniuk, Jason Shwartz and the Creator of Diesel Sweeties. Good stuff.

My favorite Quote from the Johnen Interview:

DRE: Did you have an office you had to go to when you were working for Nickelodeon?

JV: Everyday I would report to a neon green and orange building in Burbank, California with gigantic statues of The Rugrats and Hey Arnold on the top. The giant Chucky would spew molten lead at passers by and cackle insanely while Arnold would occasionally vomit out some half digested little brat who pissed off security.

Nipples! I HAVE NO NIPPLES!!!

This is pure sweetness!!.. Now, If only I could get ahold of those radioactive rubber pants... ;)

Invader Zim coming to dvd
 

Linky
This is my favorite childrens tv show. ALL HAIL JHONEN VASQUEZ!

this is great i cant wait

YAAAAAAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

VASQUEZ IS A GOD!

Re: Invader Zim coming to dvd
 

Children´s??? That show is so freaky.

Gir rules this is a happy day for me. Oh my head fills up with Zim quotes...

I've been waiting to hear this for so long.. this is awesome news

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True, but being on Nickelodeon, it technichaly a childrens show. Even so, i think adults apreciate it more. I VANT TO ZUCK YOUR FUDGE! BLAH! name that quote lol

Nickelodeon has a history of airing great, mature cartoons, and then cancelling them. Remember the original Ren & Stimpy show and Rocko's Modern Life?

My favorite Zim episode had to be when Zim was sent to the school nurse, and he went around stealing organs from the other kids so they wouldn't find out he wasn't human. " "More organs means more human. It *will* work."

What are some of your favorite Invader Zim episodes?

My favorite one was the one with the space babies. That was twisted.

repost, but still great news none the less. I can't wait :D

Can't beat the one with Zim harvesting organs. I know Vasquez had to put up with a lot of restrictions from Nickelodeon when he worked on the show, and that's why I'm so amazed that one even got made.

There is news on the horizon... looks like they are going to start releasing them on DVD

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=942

http://www.badbadrubberpiggy.com/ima...zim-dvd-ad.jpg

And a potential mock up for the set

http://www.badbadrubberpiggy.com/ima...dboxmock01.jpg
http://www.badbadrubberpiggy.com/ima...dboxmock02.jpg
http://www.badbadrubberpiggy.com/ima...dboxmock03.jpg http://www.badbadrubberpiggy.com/ima...dboxmock04.jpg

I also found this link

http://www.media-blasters.com/zim.cfm?ScrW=988&ScrH=732

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I Believe that is count cocoa fang. I cant fucken wait until this dvd comes out.

The cover to the first disk is out now:

http://www.roomwithamoose.com/dvdcover.jpg

Found over at:
http://www.roomwithamoose.com/

The only thing that would make the cover better is if it didn't have the "Nickelodeon" sign plastered there. Facist Bastards.

For those of you on the edge of your seats, these are the extras so far:

Unaired Pilot Episode (a half-length short starring Billy West of Futurama as Zim) - Commentary with Jhonen Vasquez (Zim Creator, Head Writer, Art Direction)
The Nightmare Begins - Commentary with Rikki Simons (Voice Actor - Gir and Color Artist), Wally Wingert (Voice Actor) and Jhonen Vasquez
Bestest Friend - Commentary with Rikki Simmons, Ian Graham (Storyboard Artist) and Jhonen Vasquez
NanoZIM - Commentary with Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Parent Teacher Night - Commentary with Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Walk of Doom - Commentary with Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Dark Harvest - Commentary with Eric Trueheart (Writer and Various Voices) and Jhonen Vasquez
Attack of the Saucer Morons - Commentary with Eric Trueheart, Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Planet Jackers - Commentary with Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Rise of the Zitboy - Commentary with Eric Trueheart, Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain - Commentary with Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Bad Bad Rubber Piggy - Surprise Commentary!
A Room with a Moose - Commentary with Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez
Hamstergeddon - Commentary with Eric Trueheart, Ian Graham, Rikki Simmons and Jhonen Vasquez

There will also be a featurette on Volume 1 which includes interviews and other "strange" footage.

Additional supplements (commentaries or other extras) are tentatively planned with cast/crew members Melissa Fahn (Voice Actor - Gaz), Roman Dirge (Writer), Danielle Koenig (Writer), Kevin Mathei (Music Composer), Bryan Konietzko (Storyboard Artist), Chris Graham (Storyboard Artist), and Jason Stiff (Post Production). Some of those names may not show up until Volume 2, or even Volume 3.

Yip! All information here was gathered from: http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=942

New ad for the dvd

http://www.roomwithamoose.com/dvd_ad2.jpg

YAAAY

who needs an OFFICIAL DVD? i have all the eps, but it's all mpeg's/avi's, i would definitely get the dvd if it was around

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That could be none other than count coco fang, lmao

I love the little tacos. I love them so.