Whatever happened to the "the monsters are REAL" Scooby Do-s?

The line of DTV Scooby Do movies that started with "Scooby Do on Zombie Island"...the gimmick was that this time the monsters turned out to be REAL, not fakes.

They followed up with "Scooby Do and the Witch's Ghost" and "Scooby Do and the Alien Invaders".

There were a couple more IIRC, but they started to bleed back towards "fake mosnters", and there hasn't been one released in the last couple years that I know of.
 
What are you talking about? There have been numerous Scooby-Doo DTVs featuring the Mysteries, Inc. gang facing actual monsters and ghouls for some time now. (Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King being the most recent one.)
 
It's possible that they just ran out of ideas to use for real monster storylines. Beyond getting scared by them and trying to escape, what can the characters do with them? Granted, you can say the same thing about the fake ones-- all they can do is try to unmask them...And that's a big part of why it's such a formulaic franchise.
 
My information may be a bit out of date then...I thought they'd stopped making them.

Is there some place I can get a list of JUST the "real monsters" titles?
 
Like the others have said, the most recent Scooby DTV that has real monsters is Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, which was released last month and aired on Cartoon Network over a week ago. :shrug: I missed it though. :sad:
 
Interesting you bring that up, I posted on one of these forums back in April of this year I believe about the writers and producers of Scooby running out of ideas. I'll say the same thing now as I said then, basically in my mind Scooby Doo is a show more or less about 4 teenagers and a Great Dane solving mysteries around the world, basically to me that means a detective show although not like Kojak or Magnum PI or any of the live action detective shows. Those shows and many other live-action detective shows as well as many Saturday Morning cartoons with teenagers solving mysteries have all had long runs more or less on television over the years, that's also a main reason why Scooby has been so popular since 1969. I do think there are a lot of great ideas for Scooby episodes and movies out there, but I just don't think the writers can think of any good ones. My feeling was check out some of the Scooby comic books especially some of the old Gold Key Scooby comics which i've seen on the internet, some of the stories featured in those would make great Scooby episodes.
 
Didn't they start that "gimmick" much earlier? I recall most of the monsters(if not all) in The reluctant werewolf and Ghoul School being real.
 
WB's put out at least one Scooby DTV a year since Zombie Island 10 years ago. Keeps the franchise alive as Scoob nears his 40th anniversary next year.
 
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