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Mikeski
Posts: 608 Location: Minneapolis, MN |
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Another problem, with Bandai releases from that era especially, were mis-pressed discs. So they'd print 5000 copies of each one, but it'd take a buyer 3 or 4 tries to get a "volume 4" of Show X that would play. (Much thanks to Robert at RACS for putting up with me during those years, heh.)
So now there's a glut of volumes 1-3 and 5-7, but no 4's to be found. Or you get to buy six discs for a buck apiece, and the last one for $150, and hope it's playable... |
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TarsTarkas
 Posts: 5824 Location: Virginia, United States |
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I believe I have the first two volumes of season one on singles, they didn't release anymore, and by that time the two box sets were gone. Think they were expensive for their time too, which is probably why I was going the singles route. I saw this on E-Bay: Blood+ DVD Complete Series Collection (Episodes 1-50) - English (Anime DVD) For only $29.00, sounds a bit too good to be true. Since they are not showing the pictures of the two box sets, I can only assume this is a knock-off, especially since the seller claims he has sold 63% of what he had already. |
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rizuchan
 Posts: 974 Location: Kansas |
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Color me insanely jealous. I put off buying Zoids DVDs back in the day because I was sure they'd end up in clearance bins all over the place. They did for a short while but then disappeared and now go for ridiculous amounts on ebay and Amazon. I was so desperate for anything of Zoids that wasn't a TV rip with a Cartoon Network logo that I bought the blu-rays, but of course they don't have the dub or even subs. 
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nhat
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Any place to buy these cheap dvds?
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nhat
Posts: 922 |
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Man Zoids, that was actually a pretty good TV series |
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Greed1914
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Yep. Members of my college anime club would go in together on those sales since it was more discs than most people wanted for themselves. I definitely had a few with Best Buy price stickers, too. The first time one of those sales happened, it seemed great. By the second Geneon sale, and the ADV one, it felt more like the harbinger of demise. I've gone through Right Stuf's bargain bin many times trying to fill out an order for free shipping, and at this point it consists of discs I wouldn't have bought in the first place, or random singles of good shows. |
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DangerMouse
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Man, I wish Viz would eventually consider licensing that remastered blu-ray re-release for this show. Would buy it immediately. |
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Afezeria
 Posts: 817 Location: Malaysia, Kuantan. |
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If those nice, cheap original dvd/bd were sold in my currency or my currency has a lot more better values than it is now, I would had at least be able to purchase some stuff or two. As of now, even if $30 seems cheap for its users, certainly that's not the same case for me. Not to mentions shipping cost because there's hardly any original dvd/bd around here.
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13553 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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Perhaps the various Answerman were just too lazy to put it it as "@". |
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1817 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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The point of not just listing the address is to avoid spam. |
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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How in the world were you able to find any anime at all at 99 Cents Only? Any home videos I ever found there were either mockbusters that failed, even for their standards, or releases of old movies and TV shows packaged so poorly they looked just like bootlegs. Big Lots was the cheapest place I ever found anime, and even then it was very rare, and home video would be mostly forgotten family films like Beverly Hills Chihuahua or The Big Green. You'd have to move on up to Walmart for the SUCCESSFUL mockbusters. |
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6867 Location: Kazune City |
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But that well of complete series in bargain-priced single form has pretty much run dry. I've only managed to piece together a few over the last couple of years, like Moeyo Ken, Jinki: Extend, and Zaion -- not exactly top-shelf material. If a show's out of print, then there's always that one or two volumes that're rare and expensive, even while the rest are cheap. And if a show originally released on singles back in the early/mid-00s is still in print, then the newer collection is probably going to be more space- and cost-effective. Until fairly recently, TRSI was offering bundled singles of shows like Melody of Oblivion, Licensed by Royalty, Kujibiki Unbalance, Genshiken 2, and Sadamitsu the Destroyer, but those have been discontinued as stock of certain volumes ran out. |
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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You may be the only person in recent years who has made the effort to collect all of the Zaion releases! I admire your dedication, if not your specific choices. |
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