Talk:Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut

Omit "Donkey Kong Country" from the titles of home media releases of the show

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Okay, I've wanted to start creating pages for the home media releases of this show (so far I've only made two so far.) Yet, I've noticed how home media releases of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! omit the shows name from the articles title (for example, it's King Mario of Cramalot and not The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: King Mario of Cramalot.) The reason I've brought this up is due both this show and the Super Show both use the name of episodes for its home media releases. Therefore I think this change should definitely be consider, for consistencies sake.

Proposer: Starluxe (talk)
Deadline: January 11, 2025, 23:59 GMT

Oppose

1. PrincessPeachFan (talk): The title of the show is literally right there.
2. Arend (talk) I would probably prefer doing the reverse: rename the Mario VHS pages to include the show's title. The reason omitting the title from this particular VHS doesn't work is because it stitches four episodes together and treats the result as a single movie, to the point that it's also titled Donkey Kong Country: Legend of the Crystal Coconut on the title card of the frankenstein'd "movie" itself; making this a bit different from a typical episode compilation. Compare this VHS rip (which does not include the DKC TV series intro even after the distributions logos, and instead has the series logo appear, and have not disappear even as the subtitle fades in, and have the "movie" then fade out and then in to the Inka Dinka Doo temple interior), to the episode rip (which has the one-minute intro play fully before we get to the episode, and the episode's title card does not include the logo, and the episode itself starts at a different point, at Kaptain Skurvy's ship).
3. Camwoodstock (talk) ...Is the idea that the logo of the show doesn't count as including its title in the name? Because unless we could see some contemporary source excluding the name of the show from the full title, we don't really buy that.
4. Rykitu (talk) Per all. We just had a proposal talking about something similar to this with Mario & Sonic.

Comments

The title of the show is literally right there in the cover of the VHS. Not to mention all of the English DVDs as well. PrincessPeachFan (talk) 07:30, December 28, 2024 (EST)

Also, a number of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show DVDs use the show's title and logo. PrincessPeachFan (talk) 07:34, December 28, 2024 (EST)

But the Super Show's title/logo is on most home media covers too. Starluxe 07:55, December 27, 2024 (EST)

If the problem is the inconsistency with how we name the SMBSS VHS releases versus how we name the DKC ones, would it be a good idea to include an option to instead rename the SMBSS VHS articles to include the show's title, if applicable? (e.g. from King Mario of Cramalot (VHS) to Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: King Mario of Cramalot) rend (talk) (edits) 11:02, December 28, 2024 (EST)