VHS question?

I'm thinking it definately is a pre-market release tape to start getting kids to go crazy for the show (before the show actually aired). I also have the first episode, but in NTSC VHS. All of the sound effects (laser blasts, explosions, dinosaur roars, ect) are missing, but there is a musical track present along with all of the dialogue.

I also have the first episode on VHS ( I guess thats the the one where they go back in time because of the tractor beam). Mine is fine however, and it has the toy and toy car commercials.

"I flirt with suicide, sometimes kill the pain" Jonathan Davis of Korn

It may be a rare miss print of audio or early version... however it may also be a vhs tape that was meant to be in some early version of surround sound that failed. I think it was emi or some group that where attempting to code audio so it would be detected as left and right chanells, however if you didnt have the right one set up, you only got one channels audio... happened to my vhs copy of AC/DC LIVE AT DONNGTON. There was nothing printed on the cover to iddicate it needed a surround unit hooked up to play that right channel audio, but the guy at jbhifi told me it was a common thing people reported and thought the video was faulty... turned out whoever was trying this method of higher quality sound never recalled the items, notified anything on the covers, or reprinted the videos minus the audio coding. So unless you have a vcr that can read that exprrimental right channel audio failure, you just wont hear it. Unless you crank it up to the max and listen real hard, you might faintly hear it leak through the left channell

I had the VHS as well, it came in a box of laundry soap believe it or not, and it had no sound effects either. As a kid it kinda creeped me out. Espechally the part where the T-Rex blinks and his eyes change colour..