[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by Kiryu

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Ultra Series.

There's a few things off, starting here. Ultraman doesn't have a 50th anniversary until 2016. Tsuburaya has a reason to celebrate this year, as the studio has its 50th, but Chaiyo has literally nothing to celebrate right now other than the Ultraman Forever book release. Since no release date is mentioned anywhere, if something was actually tied to the anniversary and not the book/just because, we might not see them for some time. Unless this somehow fits Chaiyo's narrative of Sompote's claim to his hand in Ultraman's creation, there is no 50th yet and Chaiyo is either jumping on Tsuburaya's current branding or are getting started early.

Second is Rising Sun's interpretation of "six seasons". Chaiyo has no legal hold on anything from Ultraman Leo. That series is 100% Tsuburaya's and they can't touch it. This instead would be referring to Ultra Q, which already got released via Shout Factory, followed by Ultraman, Ultraseven, Return of Ultraman, Ultraman Ace, and Ultraman Taro.

Third is the actual lack of claim of a boxed set anywhere on the site! No preorders, no product images or pages, nothing but that banner claiming all six series they can release are coming soon as DVD sets. That could be as simple as "hey, Shout Factory picked up the others, they'll come out whenever" and nothing more (yet). A full boxed set makes some sense as a way to get people in the US to actually care about stuff like Ace or Taro on DVD, because individual series releases would sell like crap, but there's no actual indication of a boxed set. If there's more info, it's not out on the Ultraman Forever website.