From: lioconvoy@iwonttellyou.com   
      
   xpeeple@aol.com (XPeeple) wrote in   
   news:20041214135732.11961.00001602@mb-m16.aol.com:   
      
   > I never said the reasons wouldn't or couldn't be multi-faceted. The   
   > fact of the matter is that PR isn't like any other series out there.   
   > The show *is* aimed at the 2-11 demographic, so making a play at a   
   > collector's market would be ill-conceived as the show is well past its   
   > once mainstream popularity; remember the failures that were Power   
   > Rangers OTO and the Power Playback line. With the show's annual series   
   > change, the goal is to sell products as soon as they come out--a new   
   > Lightspeed Rescue toy in 2005 would be as useless and confusing to   
   > promotion as a Power Rangers Ninja Storm DVD Boxed Set when a new   
   > series is airing. The annual change also wipes the slate clean for an   
   > increasingly fickle audience in a time where shows struggle to keep   
   > fans for more than one season (differeing from the quick full-season   
   > releases of serials like 24 and Alias where knowledge of a previous   
   > season's events is necessary to follow the current one). This is   
   > adapted from the Sentai/Kamen Rider business model where the consumer   
   > is *supposed* to forget about the old series so products from the   
   > current one are still appealing. Yes, Toei does release their entire   
   > series on DVD, but the Japanese market is very different--complete   
   > series (not necessarily Sentai) were released on *VHS* in Japan, which   
   > would have been generally unacceptable in the American market. Disney,   
   > the parent company that owns Power Rangers, besides in all likelihood   
   > having bought the series for a steady revenue stream over ten or more   
   > years rather than a quick cash-in, has been noticeably reluctant in   
   > releasing *any* of its dozens of properties in the "season boxed set   
   > DVD" form. Compare that to the many shows that are being released out   
   > of the blue by defunct or repurchased production companies, who   
   > *aren't* producing as much (or any) new programming as Disney   
   > constantly is and you'll see why other companies trying to cash in.   
   > Disney doesn't need to do this, and likely finds the 3-5 episode DVDs   
   > more profitable than a season set, because that format allows more   
   > releases per year, a lower price, and a *higher* price per year for   
   > fewer episodes.   
   >   
      
   Bullshit, think of the money they could make from re-releasing PRLR and   
   other season toys with the DVD releases.   
      
   Dr. Who had more cast changes than PR has, and it's getting released, at   
   least from the 2nd Doctor onward (the originals from the first Doc were   
   destroyed in a fire).   
      
   So quit making your stupid excuses and claiming you know everything.   
      
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