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Shout! Factory Licenses POWER RANGERS and Other Saban Series

Postby kpa » Mon Mar 12, 2012 10:00 am

Shout! Factory and Saban have signed an agreement granting Shout home video and digital distribution rights to Saban properties like POWER RANGERS, VR TROOPERS and BEETLEBORGS...

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2012 ... an-brands/
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Postby wataru » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:09 am

OH SHIT! VR TROOPERS! That shit was dark and gritty!

Does this include Masked Rider?
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Postby Hellspawn28 » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:11 am

Awesome news. Now if Shout! can finally grab the rights to the first three Digimon anime seeing that they don't have a R1 release outside the movie.
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Postby kpa » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:13 am

wataru wrote:OH SHIT! VR TROOPERS! That shit was dark and gritty!

Does this include Masked Rider?


So far, the deal just includes the shows mentioned in the press release.
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Postby Gawdziller » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:15 am

I am soooooooooooo buying these.

Disappointed in no Superhuman Samurai: Syber Squad, though.
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Postby wataru » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:29 am

Id love the original Power Rangers, up until the Shogun-zords, Time Force & Lost Galaxy.

And I must have all of VR Troopers and Beetleborgs!
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Postby o.supreme » Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:35 am

Gawdziller wrote:Disappointed in no Superhuman Samurai: Syber Squad, though.


SHSSS & Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills were produced by DIC not Saban. Saban shows NOT mentioned in the press release: Masked Rider & Mystic Knights All shows mentioned in the press release are currently available to stream on Netflix.

As mentioend on other sites, I dont really care about Power Rangers but I'm sure this media buzz will be great news for fans of the show. I'm just hoping it might generate interest in obtaining the original Sentai series subbed and released on DVD in North America.
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Postby Gawdziller » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:40 pm

Really? I always recalled the Saban logo at the end. Eh. I'm going senile.
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Postby starsteam » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:18 pm

I'll probably get VR Troopers and Beetleborgs. I'm not really interested in TMNT and not ready to get into Power Rangers.
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Postby Dr. Nishiyama » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:27 pm

KPA, do you know if Shout is interested in releasing the Japanese versions of these shows? Sort of like how Media Blasters released the Go Lion Voltron dvds
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Postby o.supreme » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:38 pm

Dr. Nishiyama wrote:KPA, do you know if Shout is interested in releasing the Japanese versions of these shows? Sort of like how Media Blasters released the Go Lion Voltron dvds


MB also release the original Tekkaman Blade not long after the Americanized Technoman series on DVD. I would love this, but some deal with Toei would have to be made.
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Postby kpa » Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:07 pm

I checked with Shout! Factory and the only Saban shows they have rights to are named in the press release. So MASKED RIDER isn't planned (for now, anyway).

The guys at Shout! know tokusatsu fans want the Japanese versions of whatever films/shows they release, so my guess is they've at least asked about it. But Saban has never shown any interest in releasing the Japanese versions so it might not be easy to convince them to do so now.
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Postby Malchik » Mon Mar 12, 2012 4:25 pm

Will these be the original versions or the new bastardizations?
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Postby g2kmaster » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:36 pm

MMPR DVD = Awesome. Bring it on. I'd buy up Lost Galaxy, Wild Force, MMPR, and maybe Lightspeed Rescue. Childhood memories to be enjoyed again. Not to mention some pretty cool villians (Diabolico, Zen Aku).
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Postby shinmattiathekaiju » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:40 pm

Malchik wrote:Will these be the original versions or the new bastardizations?


Bastardizations.
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Postby Gawdziller » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:49 pm

Malchik wrote:Will these be the original versions or the new bastardizations?



Are you refering to Japanese vs. English reedit or original Mighty Morphin vs. that bizarre 60s Batman type thing they did a few years ago?
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Postby Crocodile » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:57 pm

Gawdziller wrote:
Malchik wrote:Will these be the original versions or the new bastardizations?



Are you refering to Japanese vs. English reedit or original Mighty Morphin vs. that bizarre 60s Batman type thing they did a few years ago?


The latter I'm betting

Malchik is smart enough to know they are probably refering to the Americanized version when he saw the name "Power Rangers" and the company "Saban"

Especially on a blog that would probably call Sentai, by well Sentai.
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Postby Gawdziller » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:12 pm

That's what I figured. It was the wording that threw me off, especially since Power Rangers wasn't the only show this thread was about.

I hope it's not the bizarre rerelease. I have no clue what was up with that, and am not sure I want to.

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Postby Hotrod93 » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:16 am

I might Pick up Season 1 of MMPR, Season 2 and on just go blah. More importantly I will insta-buy Zeo.
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Postby Tyler » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:13 pm

If only something like this would happen with Ultraman.
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