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AnimeLordLuis
 Posts: 1626 Location: The Borderlands of Pandora |
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When ever I go to a flee market, dollar store or walmart I always go though what I call the video dumpster. Not that long ago at one of my local flee markets I happened to come across a mint VHS copy of Gundam Wing Endless Waltz for only 10 bucks so I quickly snatched it up and to this day it remains my greatest find.
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Kicksville
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The Marvel anime DVDs seem like they're staples of the standard cheap supermarket DVD stands, alongside stuff like random episode compilation discs of Batman The Animated Series and 2003 Ninja Turtles. They're like eight bucks or less - I'm not surprised they're falling all the way down to dollar bargain territory by now. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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One thing we used to have in the UK was a little rack of VHS tapes and later DVDs in corner newsagents for a pound or two. Somewhere I have a Thunderbirds 2086 tape I found once (along with Fireball XL5 and Fingerbobs). On a holiday in England once I also found a cheap disc with two or three unrelated things on, one of which was Voltron or something similar.
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13567 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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I would imagine this is that Mike Toole would use for his panels on obscure anime English dubs. I have seen such DVDs at Walgreens.
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DrXL
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Surprised no one has mentioned what is undoubtedly the greatest animated film of all time, Raiders of Galaxy.
Joseph Lai's Crown Jewel, it stands as a testament to both the cruelty of man to it's creations and the power of Disco against Blue guys named Andrew. I almost cried after watching the scene where, after enjoying a game of badminton with their robotic companions, two supposedly innocent children skin their friends in the hopes of deceiving a commando team into fulfilling their death wish through a suicide mission! The title in itself stands as a testament to the Nietzschean apathy possessed by the conductors of this abyssal masterpiece. Seemingly without concern for simple grammar, it denotes the nature of the entire film. Rather than being Raiders of a Galaxy they raid the very concept of a galactic union. Nothing can remain united whilst the nature of man tears at even its own facsimiles of life and creation. If only authors such as Kentaro Miura or Makoto Yukimura could integrate these concepts as handily the world might be able to change at even a greater pace than it already has... 
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Just Passing Through
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The company was Artsmagic, traded in R1 and R2 territories. They releases some good stuff, especially live action. They had 9 Souls, Bullet Ballet, Wild Life, great Japanese movies, in terms of anime they also released an early CG called A.Li.Ce as well as Blue Remains. I think Salaryman Kintaro was their only traditional anime, and it was a full series. They were full price releases before the five disc boxset, but I think they overestimated the UK market, which is why those boxsets wound up in the Works for a fiver apiece. One legit Works boxset I recall, or rather two were in collaboration with MVM, who put ten of their titles in each collection, a whole lot of volume 1s, a couple of OVAs, and some movies (Ranma and Urusei Yatsura) and sold them for fifteen quid each, dropping quickly to a tenner each. £1 a disc served as quite a gateway drug into a fair few anime series, and it was my introduction to R.O.D The TV, Haibane Renmei, Bubblegum Crisis, and Gungrave. |
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Primus
 Posts: 2774 Location: Toronto |
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Justin is talking about direct to dollar store DVDs dying out. The stuff a lot of people in this thread are finding are general market, professional releases that have been liquidated down to dollar stores. |
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Zin5ki
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Well remembered! That was the very store in which I noticed them! I kept returning on occasions thereafter to see if any other anime would appear, but to no avail.
Would it be passé for me to make a "mah boy" joke in this day and age? That is very much my inclination. |
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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If that's the case, I'm having a hard time telling the difference, considering those DVDs have no advertisement so I have to stumble across them, and discount stores don't really differentiate between them. |
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FLCLGainax
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The dollar stores near me rarely carry DVDs anymore. The last time I saw an anime one that was direct-to-dollar-store was over 5 years ago. They've pretty much disappeared.
I got my copy of Tekkonkinkreet from one too. 
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PurpleWarrior13
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I remember when Dollar Tree sold these types of DVDs for 50 cents. Yes, they were even discounted there! Most of them were poor copies of old public domain movies. This even included classic movies like His Girl Friday, Night of the Living Dead, A Star is Born, etc, and old Fleischer and Warner Bros cartoons. It's actually how I first saw all of those. Mill Creek used to release a bunch of giant cheap boxsets with 25-100 public domain movies per set. I own their horror boxset, though most of the content has bad picture quality and muffled audio. Actually Mill Creek is the only one of those companies to actually movie onto doing proper releases of major properties. They have a giant deal with Sony that basically gives them the license to all their old catalog TV shows. They do Blu-rays now too.
The only anime I recall seeing in a dollar store DVD is Kimba the White Lion, but it only had a couple episodes, and they had that weird early 90s dub. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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I bought their M@lice Doll, in part because it was by Konaka and in part because they were based in Wales (I later discovered MVM are also, but Artsmagic had their address on a sticker on the box making it stand out)
The CEX near me was stuffed with those discs for years, for a few pound each - even while they were still selling as a whole box for a tenner in The Works. |
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