[goldblade6]

This is why I rarely buy anything by season and never by volume - because things like this happen. Companies need to learn to just release complete series sets. On series like these, it's the only way to go.

[hellboy18]

Damn, It's basically the same thing that happened to Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego.. Because of low sales, Shout! stopped after it's first release and Mill Creek got the rights after.

Don't be surprise when the same might happen. I want Shout! to succeed in all their titles. I remember someone here saying Shout! should add a 30 second clip to all its individuals PR disc to boost sales. It's a good idea because the general public, children these days aren't expose with older waterdown shows.

For what it was, most children then, are now in their 20's-30's and a complete series release from the start would've been ideally the best. And not make a mass release, but a MOD on Amazon and directly from Shout! would have been perfect imo.

[StevieH]

This is a joke.

Why release 3 volumes of each before calling low sales.

Its a slap in the face of the people like myself who've supported the product and bought all the troopers and beetleborgs sets.

Sometimes its the right thing for a company to release the final part (even if it costs them).

Its not like we're 25% done. We are 75% done on both.

I get that they want more sales to justify it. But telling this to people who have supported the sets is awful.

It just makes me not keen to support dvds until the whole show is out.

[Locke]

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Originally Posted by decepticusprime

Shout cant be that small of a company if they are getting their product into big box retailers, namely Walmart. I hate to say it but what did they expect from kids niche 90s shows that really werent that good then and are even worse nowadays. If they had released the complete series at once in one shot this wouldnt be an issue now would it?

I'm assuming they released it in volumes to test the water. If they went away and put in the effort to create a complete boxset and then sell two of them, the wasted a lot more time and money than if the same happened with a single volume. Yeah it's shitty they didn't follow it through to the end, but I see their logic.

[Mageranger Red]

At least it's all on Netflix?

[Eric]

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Originally Posted by StevieH

This is a joke.

Why release 3 volumes of each before calling low sales.

Its a slap in the face of the people like myself who've supported the product and bought all the troopers and beetleborgs sets.

Sometimes its the right thing for a company to release the final part (even if it costs them).

Its not like we're 25% done. We are 75% done on both.

I get that they want more sales to justify it. But telling this to people who have supported the sets is awful.

It just makes me not keen to support dvds until the whole show is out.

I have to agree, this is rather Matty of Shout! Factory to just up and cancel individual DVD releases until sales improve. They can't be that small of a DVD company.

Oh well, at least there's torrents.

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by Mageranger Red

At least it's all on Netflix?

While I don't speak for everyone, I sure as hell don't want to pay a subscription fee for something I've already bought 3/4 of and actually want to own so the chances of Netflix pulling the plug on it happen all of a sudden.

I don't really want to moan at Shout! because they're a great company, but why only now do they decide to cancel? If they chosen to not release ANY of Metallix, I'd be disappointed but at least there wouldn't be this gaping hole in my collection.

[thunderstrike541]

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