Keep Circulating the Tapes Cleanup

Keep Circulating the Tapes is a trivia item that suffers from several problems, including rampant natter, sometimes speculation, and instances of media that is no longer unavailable being listed as still being unavailable.

This cleanup will help deal with these problems and others that are present in the trivia item.

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I'll start with this entry from the Western Animation subpage:

• Higglytown Heroes: Only two DVDs exist. A majority of the episodes are available on Disney Junior On Demand, and episodes can be found on You Tube.

The series is now on Disney+ (at least in America.) Permission to move to "rescued"?

Edited by themayorofsimpleton on Aug 13th 2021 at 9:31:11 AM

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Sounds like a reasonable decision. Feel free to move it with a mention of it being on Disney+.

THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!

You could've called this Keep Circulating the Cleanup.

Anyways, most of the entries in the Atair subfolder of Video Games lack context or something. I also spot first-person in one of the entries.

he/him

Almost the entire Atari folder on KeepCirculatingTheTapes.Video Games was added by one editor, Extreme Wreck 2000, who hasn't been active since 2019. I've cleaned up some of the problems with Word Cruft and grammar, but can't really do anything about the lack of context without researching the entries.

Let me check the Western Animation page... a bunch of shows that are currently available on streaming platforms aren't moved on the Rescued page, but rather people added "It's now on iTunes/Disney+/HBO Max/Whatever" on the examples.

Number one fan of characters that appear only once and ultimately were a recurring character either in disguise or trying a new image.

Not just that, but the Nintendo examples include some third-party games on Nintendo consoles, including some games found on non-Nintendo platforms.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Aug 14th 2021 at 1:19:09 PM

Kirby is awesome.

I found this on Trivia.The Bots Master, while the example seems legit, there's this bit I bolded that concerns me:

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only 6 VHS releases of The Bots Master, each containing one episode of the series and each long out of print, are known to exist. Episodes can be found on YouTube, though.

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Pretty sure stuff like this isn't allowed because it basically endorses piracy.

Sandbox help wanted.

Depends on if YouTube uploads are considered piracy, per se. It's not like the entry is telling people to torrent the episode, but YouTube uploads are a shakier situation.

Maybe a mod can explain?

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The same can be said about Dailymotion, which is full of unauthorized copyrighted material, especially for material that qualifies for Keep Circulating the Tapes.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Aug 28th 2021 at 10:59:38 AM

Kirby is awesome.

Dailymotion is even worse, I've seen entire Star Trek episodes there. We really need a mod to chip in here.

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Considering that I've found entire Doctor Who serials on DailyMotion, including reconstructions of missing episodes (and admittedly it's how I watched the Classic Series back in high school), I'd say that yeah, sending a direct link to the site might be within the same realm as linking to ROM sites for hard to find retro games. That is to say, it shouldn't be done here.

Be kind.

Bunnytown and Johnny and the Sprites are not yet on Disney+, and the only digital store selling them is iTunes. On top of that, I found an Amazon review of the former’s only DVD release that complains about the complete series being hard to find. Are these two shows in the KCTT category if they’re only on iTunes?

Are we human, or are we dancer?

Isn’t it not Keep Circulating the Tapes if it’s rather easily accessible in any form?

back lol

Somebody typed there that Season 2 of the latter is on iTunes, but I found that the first season is also available, and that’s the whole series.

Are we human, or are we dancer?