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by DemonRin » Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:22 am
For anyone who is worried the DBoxes might be canceled, relax a little. At this point FUNi would have to be stupid to not release them.
They said in their press release that they have the DBox masters for All 291 Episodes (and the Movies supposedly, but I won't comment on that)
That means they already did all the paying to get the Masters. When FUNi makes deals like this, they buy episodes in Huge Blocks. For example, when they Picked up One Piece, their contract was for Episodes 1-206 and Movie 8. (Because Toei wanted to put out the newest Movie first)
That means if FUNi got the DBox Masters, and they specified in their press release that they were doing Episodes 1-291, then Eps 1-291 were what was purchased in the deal.
The Japanese Version is already done and produced, they obviously don't have to do anything to it, and The Dub Audio track is already done and produced for the Orange Bricks, they just have to carry it over and take the 5 minutes out to make the Track default to Cha-La Head Cha-La instead of that bad Guitar solo.
That means that ALL of the money they have to put out now is just the production costs of the boxes themselves. (Design and Production costs, which will be minimum as the design is pretty much "Copy the Japanese, stretch that design out to 7 boxes")
At this point, they HAVE to release all of them to make back the money they spent on the Masters in the first place, to Not release all of them would actually LOSE FUNimation money, even if the Boxes do poorly.
It's like Detective Conan (Case Closed). They got the rights, but TMS (the Japanese company who owns Conan) forced them to change things (EVERY CHARACTER Except Conan got their name Americanized, the Show's name got changed, etc) so The Show's sales were ABYSMAL, and it got canceled and production was shelved for the series. (NOT the Movies though)
However, even though the series was shelved, they continued to release DVDs. Why? Because they'd already put all that money into producing episodes, so they had SEVERAL Episodes already in the can, but weren't released. even if they would end up losing money overall, they HAD to put out everything they'd already worked on, because they needed to make SOME of their money back at least.
the tl:dr Version:
FUNi already paid for the masters, they would have had to do it all in one deal because their press release said they acquired all 291 Episodes. At this point, they don't have to put ANY money into dubbing, so they HAVE to release all 291 Episodes, even if they don't sell well to try to make back as much money at they can.
This is all assuming, however, that FUNi doesn't decide to do something stupid, but when it comes to Making money for themselves, they're usually very smart (even Mike said the remastered sets were a brilliant Idea from a Moneymaking standpoint)
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DemonRin on Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:27 am, edited 2 times in total.
Thanks, did you really have to remind us of what used to be? There's not a spec of dub music anywhere on these sets, THANK GOD, so why even mention his name?
