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D00dleB0Y
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I own a copy of Sky Crawlers. It was $1.99 at the F.Y.E. I bought it from. How much money could they possibly make on a movie that cheap???
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DmonHiro
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I was unaware one could run a scorched earth campaign with anime. Then more you learn...
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zawa113
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HA! I rather like that idea of what they did on Cyber City. Actually though, I really enjoyed it, anyone wanting an over the top 90s action with one of those hilarious old-timey dubs where they added tons of curse words just 'cause (but the acting is still pretty good, I think it kind of adds to it in a way), I definitely recommend it, especially at how dirt cheap it is.
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ParkerALx
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Does the Cyber City - The Final Collection DVD still hold up today? As in, is the video and audio quality pretty decent? I'm usually wary of picking up DVDs that are more than a decade old, but Cyber City looks like a fun ride.
As much as I love finding a good deal on a show I like, it is sad when it comes about due to poor sales. |
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PurpleWarrior13
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This happened with Appleseed (the 2004 CG movie). Sentai has long rescued the film and released their own DVD/Blu-ray editions a couple of times, but Geneon's old DVD is still floating out there for cheap. If you get one of RightStuf's "blind box" deals, you are pretty much guaranteed to get a copy of the film. I think what happened with that is that their initial print run sold very well, but they greatly overestimated demand for the second printing.
It happened with VHS too. About 10 years ago, my local Kroger of all places had a $1 bin filled with VHS tapes, most of them were from CPM! It was mostly Slayers, but I picked up Vol. 1 of Utena, and got hooked on the show! It was the first "hard core" anime (non-DBZ/Pokemon/YGO/etc) I ever watched, and I'm still a fan to this day, so these can be a good way to get hooked on shows you may not have heard of. 
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brankoburcksen
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Curious speculation: do you think ADV did the 'scorched earth' thing before its license of Neon Genesis Evangelion ran out? Just wondering what could delay Funimation's "inevitable" pick up of that title.
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EricJ2
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I assume that's similar to Funi's S.A.V.E. line of double and triple-dipped anime series at clearance prices--
Especially for a fandom that used to think double and triple-dipping series was a "conspiracy" to "make" them buy the same series twice. (Which was one of the factors that helped sink ADV, when fans knew the boxset was coming after the single disks.) |
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Zendervai
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I really doubt it, if only because while some of the DVD sets are still floating around, they're all sold in excess of $90. |
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BigOnAnime
Encyclopedia Editor
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The Holiday Edition disappeared a little over a year after NGE officially went OOP, the thinpak took nearly two years. http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/showthread.php?7440-Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-(TV)-going-OOP&p=165010&viewfull=1#post165010 http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/showthread.php?7440-Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-(TV)-going-OOP&p=205352&viewfull=1#post205352 Also reminder of why it went OOP as revealed by Madman Entertainment. http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/showthread.php?7440-Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-(TV)-going-OOP&p=123650&viewfull=1#post123650 Anyway, definitely like some of these bargains you can find, especially since older releases are much, much nicer than most of the releases today. Those inserts, those covers, those thick fat artboxes, those video extras, those DVD easter eggs, and the list goes on. I actually wish anime still got released in singles if it meant that stuff coming back. It's truly amazing how much left of something like Rightstuf has. Back when you could see how big certain counters were on closeout items, I took this screenshot (Late 2014). Shawne has more copies of this than multiple new series combined. I looked at some other ADV and Geneon stuff at the time (They were by far the biggest culprits of overprinting. Overprinting was the death of Geneon.), and so many series Rightstuf still had 500-a few thousand copies left of various volumes. It's going to take him ages to get rid of all of this stuff. http://www.rightstufanime.com/category/DVD/clearance/0.50to0.99 Funny enough, FUNimation later joined in thanks to their constant re-releases. Remember when everything FUNi had would get a new release every single year? Parts, complete set, re-release of the complete set, re-release of that, maybe another re-release of that... Not a good idea considering they're now still stuck with a bunch of old stock because they couldn't wait until the current stock was almost gone before re-releasing a show. They're learning now though, thankfully. |
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Joe Mello
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Hey, I completed my UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie collection through the clearance bin, so the heck with you.
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Top Gun
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The first thing that comes to my mind is that poor Dan-Doh Anime Legends entry on RightStuf. The whole set is down to $5 or so right now as part of the huge sale, but I can guarantee that they wouldn't be moving copies even if they were giving it away. I can just picture Shawne falling to his knees, crying, "PLEASE take these off our hands! I'm begging you!"
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relyat08
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I always have pretty mixed emotions when I see stuff on ridiculous sales. Especially if it's something that I actually was thinking about getting. Like, "why didn't I buy this sooner?!" or "I should have supported this!". I like being able to get things at the best price possible, but I also want to support the industry as much as I can. When I pass up a release of a show that I want and it fails to make money, I always get worried that no one is going to bother licensing something similar in the future. Always particularly worried about that with things like Ping Pong. It almost makes me want to buy multiple copies! |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4556 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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I saw the Bandai Visual/Honneamise releases of the Patlabor movies on the DVD bargain racks at XS Cargo, a now-defunct Canadian overstock store, in 2013. |
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AJ (LordNikon)
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Haven't bought a disc in years, but I do recall in the day before the collapse, Suncoast, BestBuy and even RightStuf use to have a bargain bin. RACS too to clear out overstocks or stuff that just didn't sell. I'm pretty sure Bob still puts things on clearance from time to time to free up space in the warehouse.
I also remember it use to be a thing on the AnimeOnDVD forums where we would post clearance alerts. There was a time that BJ's Wholesellers and some of the dollar stores would end up with ADV and Pioneer stuff that the big boxes couldn't get rid of. Keep in mind this was 10-15 years ago. |
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killa5k7
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Wife and I discovered all of Wolfs Rain, S-CRY-ed, and various Gundam titles from Big Lots for a couple bucks. Was sad to see Bandai disbanded a bit of time after that but was bedazzled by the cheap prices. Who would have thought selfishly wanting cheap product could be a double edge sword.
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