Question of the Week #1
This is one of a couple features I’ll be introducing on the site over the next week. Each week, I’ll ask a new poll/question. This week’s is “What made you a Scooby fan?”. I was first introduced to Scooby Doo way back in 1997 when I rented this “Scooby-Doo and a Mummy Too” video from a local Blockbuster. And it all went from there.
Warner used to release these “Classic Scooby-Doo” videos with two episodes a tape and a bonus episode from a Cartoon Network show.
And now a few words from Scooby-Doom…
My mom and I were walking through walmart when I said, what I normally said and still do to this day, I’m going to look at the books. Now I don’t remember 100% when this was, but I’m thinking it was late June of 1999, it was definitely ’99 though. So I was looking and saw nothing and was headed back to ma when I spotted the book that changed it all, “Scooby-Doo! and the Howling Wolfman” by James Gelsey which was the fifth in the series.
Always a fan of dogs (what kid isn’t?) I grabbed it off the shelf and flipped through it, liking the looks of it I went to find mom. I showed it to her and asked the question of destiny (I know I’m making this sound very epic, but it really was life changing) “ma, can I get this?” To which she said something like “oh wow, I remember watching S cooby when I was little. Sure, if you like
it we’ll find the others.” So I read it and loved it, the gang really popped out at me. The giant dog and his hungry friend. The smart girl with the glasses, the pretty girl ;), and the leader. I was hooked! Thankfully that was when the DTV’s started. So to wrap this up I think I should say thank you to MR.James Gelsey, for opening the door to the, now, 40+ years of scooby.
Thank you sir, whereever you are.
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Oh my gosh! That's the very same Scooby movie I first owned. I remember having my parents buy it for me at Sam's Club. I know I watched Scooby episodes on Cartoon Network before that, but that movie that you just displayed is the very first one I remember owning.
Afterwards, I was fascinated with Scooby-- and I distinctly remember going into a WB store and getting a Scooby-Doo playset (similar to the 90s tiny polly pocket dolls) with Scooby & the gang + Scrappy, a haunted house, and a small wind-up train that would go around the spooky mansion. (90s toys were the best!) And I had a Scooby doll...and we would watch classic Scooby cartoons all the time. My favorites were always "The New Scooby Movies" with the celebrities, even though I never knew who any of them were, so my parents would explain most of them. And then there was the dawn of Zombie Island. And that became my favorite Scooby movie ever. Still is (one of my favorite movies).
I had that playset as well. Truly that was a good time for Scooby merchandising, nowadays it seems like we get nothing but crap.
I would settle for crap, but sadly I can't even find that!
Other then the comic and the DTV's I see very little Scooby merchandise.
Aw, I miss the WB Store. I don't think I ever got any Scooby stuff from there.
I became a Scooby fan when I was probably around 5. I watched the show on Saturday mornings. I wouldn't say I was a die-hard fan then, but I loved him and wished he was real so he could be my pet!
I miss the WB store too! My mom would go to Atlantic City all the time and she would always bring me something Scooby related from the WB store! I only ever went to the store once or twice myself.
Qvc used to do a warner bros. Show, I got a lot of scooby stuff that way.
Good answers everybody! 🙂