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Dr. Wily
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 Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 3:42 pm
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This week, in "What? Why?" news.
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Top Gun
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 4:21 pm
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Genuinely shocked they're putting out a physical release instead of immediately writing the show off.
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Primus
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:00 pm
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| Dr. Wily wrote: | | This week, in "What? Why?" news. |
They're probably hoping the original series still has enough goodwill with casual audiences that they'd see this and go, "Oh, Rick & Morty" and buy it. Or just cater to whatever completionist R&M superfans still exist. We're long past the Pickle Rick/Szechuan Sauce days, so that number probably isn't huge, but it's likely not zero either.
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TheSleepyMonkey
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:33 pm
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I already forgot this even existed.
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MoonPhase1
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 7:31 pm
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| Primus wrote: |
| Dr. Wily wrote: | | This week, in "What? Why?" news. |
They're probably hoping the original series still has enough goodwill with casual audiences that they'd see this and go, "Oh, Rick & Morty" and buy it. Or just cater to whatever completionist R&M superfans still exist. We're long past the Pickle Rick/Szechuan Sauce days, so that number probably isn't huge, but it's likely not zero either. |
True because I mean there is other Toonami series like Housing Complex C and Ninja Kamui which are older than Rick & Morty The Anime but yet haven’t had a physical release yet. But then again sometimes Warner puts a physical release out for some of their shows just before they get write offed as a way to secure a physical release before they do that to be able to at least squeeze some money out of it. That’s what happened to Thundercats 2011 and Beware The Batman.
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Primus
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 7:52 pm
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The Numbers stopped reporting on physical home video sales, but they did track a few seasons of the show. Season 6 sold ~20k units FW combined in 2023. By the time it fell off the chart, it had moved ~53k units and did ~$1 million in sales.
I would not expect this to do as well as the mainline series, but it's easy to think it would still sell more than the other Adult Swim original anime.
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Ashen Phoenix
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2025 2:10 am
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With an animation budging of $7, I can't think of a series that warrants a BD release less.
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