Generation Kikaida

[Mr G]

I dunno, I saw some box-sets of Torchwood the other day at Newbury Comics for about 30-49 dollars and, would you say "virtually all Americans" know about that? (There was also this 14-disc set that was the whole dang series for like, 104 dollars which I laughed at. No way was I ever gonna have that much money :laugh.

I'd say at least some Americans were exposed to Torchwood through BBC or when its fourth series aired on the Starz Channel. That's where I found out about it.

And as far as the low price of it...who knows. It could be that the license was cheaper, or that it's backed by a U.S. distributor.

 

[Mr. Rhythmic]

I dunno, I saw some box-sets of Torchwood the other day at Newbury Comics for about 30-49 dollars and, would you say "virtually all Americans" know about that? (There was also this 14-disc set that was the whole dang series for like, 104 dollars which I laughed at. No way was I ever gonna have that much money :laugh.

Reaper, Terriers, Lucky Louis, and Lights out all got cancelled for low ratings, and yet you buy those shows for $30-50 each.

 

[Drazic]

Reaper, Terriers, Lucky Louis, and Lights out all got cancelled for low ratings, and yet you buy those shows for $30-50 each.

And those probably still sold at least ten or a hundred times better than GK's DVDs. Plus for a cancelled show the production costs were probably seen as sunk costs while GK definitely has to make their investment money back to survive.

I think you're severely underestimating just how low the sales on these kind of releases are. I'm not sure how much the Hawaiian numbers make up for this but I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't reached thousand sales for the Inzuman box yet outside of Hawaii, and I might even be a bit too optimistic here.

 

[Shynilyte]

Anyway, even if their sets are priced beyond what most of us can comfortably pay for, I doubt you can win a court case against them based on "their prices are higher than average". Not being able to afford things you want is something pretty much all of us has to deal with at some point or another.

 

[KingRanger]

Does anyone else despise this DVD company? It's criminal how expensive the DVD's are. There are no Inazuman subs online, and the only ones are on their DVDs. I would buy it in an instant... If it weren't for the fact that it is $89.95. Not only that, but they won't even release the second series. I was never as crushed as I was when "V3" finally came to market, and was priced at $160. I don't care how many bonus features there are, that's ripping off customers to the nth degree.

I don't think you even know what getting "ripped off" means.:redface2:

 

[Mr. Rhythmic]

I don't think you even know what getting "ripped off" means.:redface2:

To deprive somebody of something by deceit. Just because you disagree doesn't mean you get to demean my intelligence.

 

[Amon]

The reason the DVDs are so expensive is that tokusatsu is a tiny, tiny niche market in the U.S. There is no way that Generation Kikaida could obtain the license from Toei (which is very expensive by the way) and recoup the costs by selling the DVD sets for $40 - $50. That may work with some big series that virtually all Americans know about and is guaranteed to sell thousands of copies, but it isn't going to work with an obscure Japanese series from the 1970s.

What he said. Not to mention most of their money comes from merchandise sales given that GK/JNP is a small company around eight employees from what I can remember cut them some slack.