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If the Ultra Series decides to take a rest at this point, I'm all for it.
DO NOT WANT.
If the Ultra Series decides to take a rest at this point, I'm all for it.
So, they were all "we don't wanna make more money"? Wha?Where's August and Jared when you need em...
Tsuburaya have stated multiple times that Mebius was so successsful for them they feel comfortable putting the TV part on hiatus and doing movies only for a few years, much like in the 80s-early 90s...
I'm kinda worried that, it will be harder for them to gain a sufficient audience if they don't sustain interest in the franshice.If the Ultra Series decides to take a rest at this point, I'm all for it.
DO NOT WANT.
The "Golden Era" was over when Eiji Tsuburaya died. The Silver Age was very prosperous throughout the 70s to about 1980 (but slowed down by the Oil Shock/Energy Crisis), and I think we're seeing the end of the Bronze Age (Tiga onward). So I hardly think the Ultra Series is in a "Golden Era."
If the Ultra Series decides to take a rest at this point, I'm all for it.
So, they were all "we don't wanna make more money"? Wha?
Tsuburaya would need their own momotaros to keep up with the other franchises...:laugh:
Ugh, please no. I would hate to see Ultra get Den-Oed. :nono:
Not... really? Super 8 was their highest-grossing film, like, ever and it only made about 8.3 million - that's not much more than that year's awful Kiva movie, which made about 8 million and it's less than Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, which, at about 10 million, was the lowest-grossing successful entry into the Millennium series of Godzilla films.
Ultra Galaxy Legends grossed only about 6.2 million and assuming it had a higher budget than the previous film (that's what I've generally been led to believe), it's little wonder that TYO dropped Tsuburaya so quickly, even if it did manage to turn a small profit. Compare that with the Rider film it was competing with, Movie War 2010, which took in 16 million.
Then Ultraman Zero the Movie, not to be outdone, only drew 4.3 million at the box office while Rider outstripped it again with 16.5 million. Now, I've been told that toy sales are what really matter to Tsuburaya when it comes to determining the success of a movie or series or not but I dunno... these numbers are kind of sad regardless. Hopefully with the extra marketing, Retsuden, Ultra Zone, AKB48, DAIGO, Takeshi Tsuruno, Dyna, and Cosmos, the film can at least come back to Super 8 levels.
... Actually, though part of this had to do with their respective time slots, Ultraman Max actually had the higher ratings of the two throwback series. ...
Are you referring to the rumors and rumblings we kept hearing about "a new series in the spring?" or something akin to that?
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