Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (film)
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Premiere Warner Bros. Animation |
| Distributor | Warner Home Video |
| Release date | February 26, 2013 |
| Run time | 1:11:47 |
| Starring | Frank Welker Matthew Lillard Mindy Cohn Grey DeLisle Jeff Bennett John DiMaggio |
| Executive producer(s) | Sam Register |
| Producer(s) | James Tucker |
| Music composed by | Kristopher Carter Michael McCuistion Lolita Ritmanis |
| Story by | Marly Halpern-Graser |
| Screenplay by | Michael F. Ryan |
| Director(s) | Michael Gougen |
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Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon is an American animated superhero comedy direct-to-video (DTV) film based on the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! TV series in 1969. It was released by Warner Home Video through the Warner Premiere label on February 26, 2013. It was written by Michael F. Ryan and Marly Halpern-Graser, produced by James Tucker, and directed by Michael Gougen. The film is the eighteenth installment in the Scooby-Doo 2-D animated direct-to-video film series.
When the Mega Mondo Pop Comic Con-A-Palooza comes under attack by Blue Falcon's archenemy, Mr. Hyde, Shaggy and Scooby must summon the courage to be like their favorite superheroes, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, to save the convention.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Characters
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Organizations
- Mystery Incorporated
- Teen Angels (poster)
- The Impossibles (poster)
- San De Pedro Police Department
Locations
Objects
Vehicles
Production
Development
The film had the working title of Scooby-Doo! and the Curious Case of the Blue Falcon.
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, and Lolita Ritmanis.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 26, 2013 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc
Behind the scenes
- To accomplish its goal of being a true superhero movie, it inherits the majority of the cast and crew of the TV series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
- The film is set in July.
- The comic con is a parody of the San Diego Comic Con International convention.
- The past monsters who make cameos in the opening credits:
- The Creeper from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Jeepers, It's the Creeper."
- The Zombie from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Which Witch Is Which?"
- The Troll from The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Caped Crusader Caper."
- The Ghost Clown from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Bedlam in the Big Top."
- The Ghost of Redbeard from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Go Away Ghost Ship."
- The Black Knight from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "What a Night for a Knight."
- The Spooky Space Kook from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Spooky Space Kook."
- The Miner Forty-Niner from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Mine Your Own Business."
- The Dyrad from The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Caped Crusader Caper."
- Other Hanna-Barbera characters in the opening credits include Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr., Mightor, and Zandor, from Space Ghost & Dino Boy, Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles, Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor, and The Herculoids, respectively.
- Hanna-Barbera's influence is everywhere:
- The comic con is primarily for Hanna-Barbera characters.
- The Blue Falcon/Dynomutt comic has an "HB" logo.
- Reporters work for HB News.
- Blue Falcon/Radley Crowne/Owen Garrison is an even bigger parody of the 1960s Batman, played by Adam West, than he was in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder in 1976.
- The comic con also has Warner Bros.' logo in places such as Space Ghost's poster.
- Bud Shelton makes his debut in standard continuity, originally appearing in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Revenge of the Man Crab." In that episode, he was a villain dressed as the Man-Crab, although here he is a cosplayer dressed as the Man-Crab from an unknown TV series.
- The kid who takes a picture of Scooby and Shaggy after they fall in the dumpster bears a strong resemblance to D.D. from the Clue Club TV series.
Errors
- This movie presents everything in the Hanna-Barbera franchise outside of Scooby-Doo to be fictional. This greatly contradicts team-ups in the cartoon series, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and Laff-a-Lympics, as well as the Scooby-Doo and Laff-a-Lympics comics from Marvel Comics, and crossovers in DC Comics (although DC was prone to go back and forth between either having the HB characters as real or fictional much like in this movie). By the end of the same year, DC had started to publish Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, having the gang help out most of the "fictitious" characters in this film.
- It's odd that the Hideous Hyde Hound did not present any malfunction after almost drowning in the Hotel San De Pedro pool.
- According to Austin, Mr. Hyde's next appearance after episode 3 of the Blue Falcon show, The Adventures of Blue Falcon, is in episode 22, when he creates the Psycho Ooze. But later on, it appears that a giant Mr. Hyde destroys the city in episode 17.
- The back cover of the episode 17 VHS tape incorrectly reads "Episode Three".
- There are Hanna-Barbera posters on one of the walls of the Combat Bots arena, as well as on Jack Rabble's wall of his booth at the San Pedro Comic Convention at the Sheldorf Hotel.
Legacy
- In the DTV short film Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Scarecrow, which was released at the end of the same year as Mask of the Blue Falcon, Shaggy wore the Owen Garrison-style Blue Falcon costume for Halloween.
- In the 2020 DTV film Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!, a man was dressed as the Owen Garrison-style Blue Falcon costume for Halloween.
Marketing and promotion
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the United States:
- February 26, 2013: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon on DVD.
- February 26, 2013: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon on Blu-ray Disc.
- September 8, 2020: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Greatest Mystery Adventures Collection on DVD.
- In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
- February 18, 2013: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon on DVD.
Trailers
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