Problem Solved! · 12:13am Jul 28th, 2016
In 2010, I got myself a DVD of the Powerpuff Girls Movie off Amazon.com. But, 5 years earlier, it was at a Bric-a-Brac shop that I found the VHS version of the film. (This was released on Nov. 5, 2002 alongside the DVD, since they still made VHS copies of movies back in 2002.) But that had no case.
Until now.
In 2009, I dug it back out as part of a box of VHS tapes that was one of a few our various VHS tapes were in once we moved to our present apartment complex. We moved there in 2006, but we didn't open them until '09.
After that, I started rooting around looking for cases suitable for the tape. Then, today, I found one, and it was the official box that I recreated for the tape. How did I achieve that? It was via this site:
The site at one point boasted that very slogan and is now known as one of the more obscure cover archives. They stocked cover art for CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, video games, etc., before going inactive in 2011. (it's now http://www.universal-covers.com - the cover art for the Powerpuff Girls Movie tape isn't there however.)
I had to get the image off of Internet Explorer, since I couldn't get the image off of my normal Firefox means anymore. I then took the back cover and the spine-to-front of the cassette and put it on Microsoft Word, where I then printed the two out (I attached the front-to-spine onto the white spot on the back and had to size it exactly and correctly as it originally came from the WHV Factory.
Otherwise, the clamshell holds the same tape that I got at that Bric-a-Brac shop back in '05. The tape had a print date on it: September 25, 2002.
I will put over here the opening and the closing of the tape if you want. As for scans, you'll have to wait until I can land them over on DeviantArt (same site where Calming Moon lands all her photos/scans.)
AS FOR THIS PICTURE . . .
I thought it was pretty good. I like how deeply it got into the Powerpuff Girls (as photographed from the front of the tape, respectively, Buttercup, Blossom, Bubbles) and how they got their start. I like how it established Mojo Jojo and how he went into enemy territory despite initial friendship with the girls. Unfortunately, it's best-known as one of the casualties of the failed AOL-Time Warner merger that was ignited in 2000 and lost steam by 2003. But . . . if you're steeped deep into the history of the Warner Bros. studio, then you'll know why it bombed. It bombed because of ANGRY PARENTS who howled like crazy over the violent content of the film, which even I can see as being too violent for a family film of its day (and a huge reason why this was rated PG, not G). But, otherwise, it's a pretty good film.
WHAT ABOUT THE REBOOT?
I do not intend to see the recent reboot of the series, which began airing on Cartoon Network in April. There have been enough people who have said it was supposed to be god-awful. There might be some fans of the reboot, but they seem to be few and far between in my eyes.
