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I have all the Boys' films in 16mm, including an original Kodachrome full-length print of A TREE IN A TEST TUBE.
Including "Hats Off" and "Rogue Song" 
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We too are showing Babes in Toyland at our meeting here in the UK Brats Tent of Sheffield this evening, much to the annoyance of our Grand Sheik! It will be preceded by the silent short Big Business, and followed by The Fixer Uppers.
This is the set I plumbed for:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Laurel-Hardy-Complete-Collection-Features/dp/B00PKEZUE2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418040538&sr=8-2&keywords=laurel+and+hardy+silents
which was out before the ESSENTIALS set, but the UK one was already out. My main reason for getting this at the time was the way it is set out. The UK set is all over the place with everything mixed up into themes, including the dreadful early attempts at colourization. On this Dutch set, all the silents, all the sound shorts and all the (Roach) features in their own collections. For me, the best way to do it. The features are a mixed bag quality-wise here leading to me replacing one or two, but having all the shorts and silents together is great. Each of the three sets were available separately, which would be great if you just wanted the silents. Possibly a little more searching may yield good results.
Anyway Ray, enjoy your evening. We will. Question is though, will you be screening the b/w or colourized version of Babes? We put this one to the vote every year for our Christmas meeting. Sometimes the kids win! And I do feel this is THE one film the boys themselves would appreciate being shown in colour, hence my getting the Legend release. And it is our Christmas meeting...
'Twas Christmas Day in the Poorhouse
And the Boys Were Feeling Blue
The Boys in Grey Were Fighting
A Merry Christmas to You!
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I never thought about the speeding up thing. This means then that my US sets which include the best available versions of Fra Diavolo, Bonnie Scotland and The Flying Deuces must be slowed down. Never noticed.
Yes, it's the ordering that's so nice about my set. All in chronological order. The films have Dutch subtitles which can be disabled. And each of the three sets were available separately, which at the time was better for me financially. The wonderful bastamusic.com, where I got mine from not only sent me the extras disc, which was supposedly only available if you sent in tokens from the three sets' booklets, but also the bigger box for all the sets with my last purchase. It's out of stock there now. But they do have the two lovely compilation cds of classic L&H music, as well as Our Relations complete score, performed by the excellent Beau Hunks.
The real downer is the features. Fra Diavalo (or 'Bogus Bandits'), Bonnie Scotland and Flying Deuces are all pretty poor quality.
All the sets have nice booklets with photos and notes culled from Randy Skretvedt's 'Magic Behind the Movies book, sadly in Dutch.
And am I not correct in thinking if you could get The Silents set on it's own, the timing would be less of an issue? If so, keep looking. I was surprised to see the complete box to be honest.
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I envy you Ray.
Our Brats Tent's first meeting was back in the late 80s, and I moved house in '93 having several years break from meetings. I started attending again post 2000, by which time we had moved to a new venue. But back in the 80s/90s we had several visits per year from an old couple who gave us a 16mm movie show for the evening. To say the difference was amazing is an understatement, especially considering in those early days we were watching vhs on tv most months!
Yes I agree it's a great film, and one I remember being shown around Christmas on tv (along with many L&H films) when I was a kid. I always remembered the Bogey Men and the toy soldiers. Quite why our Grand Sheik hates it so much is beyond me, except it always leads to much mirth on the night. To be fair I'd say the operettas are the least popular for showing. And we VERY rarely screen post-Roach films.
In answer to you Richard I believe this is the best available Babes, not forgetting Legend always include a spruced up b/w 'original' along with their colorizations:
http://www.amazon.com/March-Wooden-Soldiers-Blu-ray-Laurel/dp/B003XSTS4K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418150661&sr=8-1&keywords=march+of+the+wooden+soldiers+blu+ray
unless of course Ray knows better...
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