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Fall under the spell of Hello Kitty® in these happily-ever-after tales!

"Cinderkitty": Poor little Cinderkitty is always up to her whiskers in chores. But with the help of her Fairy Catmother (Grandma Kitty), she'll find fun, adventure – and true love – all before the stroke of midnight!

"Kitty Locks and the Three Bears": She's cute, she's cuddly…and she's just been caught sleeping in someone else's bed! It sounds like trouble, but no one can outwit Kitty Locks – not even three very hungry bears!

"Sleeping Kitty": Hello Kitty falls fast asleep when the mean witch Fangora puts a curse on her. Now it's up to Prince Tuxedo Sam to work some magic and wake the sleeping beauty.

"Kitty and the Beast": Abracadabra! Witch Fangora has turned Prince Sam into a ghastly beast! Now it looks like he'll never be happy again…until he begins a furry-tale romance with the sweet and lovable Hello Kitty.

"Snow White Kitty and the One Dwarf": Evil Queen Catnip sends Hunter Chip to banish Snow White Kitty to the forest for being pretty. There she befriends Dwarf Grinder, who saves her from Catnip's next attack!

Rating : - No Series Opening Titles Or End Credits And A Missing Story!
This is a review of a series of Hello Kitty DVDs released by MGM in 2003: HK Becomes a Princess, HK Saves the Day, HK Tells Fairy Tales, HK Goes to the Movies, and HK Plays Pretend. These five discs have also been bundled together into the Diamond Collection, as well as paired into a Plays Pretend/Saves The Day 2-Pack (alt url). Finally there's a "Triple Feature DVD Set" with the discs for Princess, Saves The Day, and Fairy Tales all in one case (this might be exclusive to Target). Whew! Amazon may display this review on the page of another version of this product, for which this review may not apply. After reading this review, please click on the link so that you can be assured that the product this review applies to is the same one you thought it was for.

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For those who don't already know, contained on this DVD are stories from the 1987 Saturday morning series "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater". You wouldn't know that by watching the disc because there are NO SERIES OPENING TITLES and NO SERIES END CREDITS!!! Yes, you read that correctly. They left out one of the most significant parts of a television series. Remember the catchy theme song? Well, all you'll have are your memories because that theme won't be found here. There's a credits block on the back of the case that lists the voice actors and major crew, but it doesn't list the minor crew members. Pity all of the poor animators whose work on the series now goes uncredited.

The series consists of 13 half-hour episodes with 2 stories per episode (26 stories total). Yet only 25 of the 26 stories appear on these five discs. Keep in mind that's only 5 stories per each 10.00 disc (that's the original price). They could have easily fit the entire series onto two dual-layer discs for 20.00. So not only are you missing a story, and NOT getting the episodes in their original 2-story pairs with the original series opening titles and end credits, but you're being bilked for what little you DO get!

The previous VHS releases in the late 1990s (Wizard of Paws VHS and Kitty & The Beast VHS) were MUCH better than these five DVDs. Sure they only included four stories each, but they included the series opening titles and end credits, which makes them a vast improvement over these DVDs. I can only hope that someone at MGM wakes up and re-releases this series as a proper "complete series" set, but I doubt that that will ever happen.