'97 Remake 'The Love Bug' - Loan Please?

phantom Wolfsburg Wizard

598 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 6 Aug 2009, 6:07 pm

#727861

I would like to loan a copy of the '97 remake of 'The Love Bug', the version that apparently has Horace the black bug in it.

If anyone has it and is happy to loan, I'll pay postage etc. Please PM me, thanks!

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1,075 posts · joined Jan 2006 · 6 Aug 2009, 9:49 pm

#727949

Ill see if i can find it and ill get the old man to copy it onto dvd 👍

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 6 Aug 2009, 10:00 pm

#727956

We have a copy in the Club Veedub library (on VHS), but this tape and all the others too are currently unavailable while we convert them to DVD. It isn't actually a very good copy - it was sent over from the US by a mate, taped from their TV. US TV is pretty crap, with funny colours (blue skin, green sky etc) flicking in and out. We did show it at a club film night back in 2001.

Disney has not released this made-for-TV film to commercial DVD as yet, nor the 'Herbie The Matchmaker' TV series. Maybe one day...

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11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 6 Aug 2009, 11:54 pm

#727982

phantom wrote:I would like to loan a copy of the '97 remake of 'The Love Bug', the version that apparently has Horace the black bug in it.

If anyone has it and is happy to loan, I'll pay postage etc. Please PM me, thanks!

I didn't know that there was a series or other love bug movies....

but there are many tv series that We never see..
I hear about them on the biography channel...
We get very few of their tv series...
maybe they think WE wouldn't watch them.... lol

their NTSC TV system is very inferior to Our PAL system..

LEE

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Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 7 Aug 2009, 8:03 am

#727995

Lee there were five Herbie movies made for the cinema:

The Love Bug (1968)
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)

All of these are available on DVD.

In 1997 Disney made a 'for TV' movie also called The Love Bug. It was not shown at the cinema. It was supposed to be remake of the 1968 original, but in reality it was more a 'sequel'. It changed a number of the themes set in the movie series, and it was the one with Horace the black Bug in it. Not a very good film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119571/

Disney also made a short-lived TV series, called Herbie The Matchmaker (1981). There were only five episodes made before it was cancelled. Jim Douglas runs a driving school in LA, using Herbie. There is a sub-plot about Jim falling in love with a divorcee, and a nasty former husband played by Larry Linville (Frank Burns on MASH). This series is very hard to find on tape and has not been released on DVD. I have a copy of them but, yes, taped from crappy US TV. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186207/

DylanTheDubber Custom Title Time!

1,252 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 7 Aug 2009, 8:46 am

#728000

Hi , I have a copy of VHS but i want to get it put onto DVD before i lend it do anyone because it's my only copy.

DylanTheDubber Custom Title Time!

1,252 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 8 Aug 2009, 8:20 am

#728151

When i get my copy of the new love bug transfered to DVD i will make copys and give them to any one that wants one for free plus postage charges.

Pumba Veteran Volks Folk

2,138 posts · joined Jan 2007 · 8 Aug 2009, 8:36 am

#728152

Dylan put me down for a copy👍 i have all the others but i have never heard of this one??? me and my little boy will love watching this cheers shane.

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eraser Fahrvergnugen

970 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 8 Aug 2009, 11:32 am

#728166

If someone can get me a copy i will convert it and put it up for download 😉

DylanTheDubber Custom Title Time!

1,252 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 8 Aug 2009, 3:21 pm

#728198

eraser, Thanks for that it would be great as i can't find my video copy, it will turn up but could some one send eraser a copy if not i will find mine.

DylanTheDubber Custom Title Time!

1,252 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 17 Aug 2009, 5:08 pm

#729891

Hey can someone send a copy to eraser so he can put it up here for a download so we all can have a copy of it.

eraser Fahrvergnugen

970 posts · joined Mar 2005 · 17 Aug 2009, 7:25 pm

#729935

*waves* and waits.