New TF Prime DVD - Ultimate Decepticons

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sol Fury, Jun 3, 2015.

  1. Sol Fury

    Sol Fury The British Butcher Veteran

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    knightmare6 Reflector In Disguise

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    Why? This just seems like a waste of resources? You can easily buy all the seasons still, and depending on how resourceful you are, even probably altogether cheaper than a brand-new set might cost on DVD/Blu-Ray. I'd rather see the money go to something else, like getting the rights to BWII and BWNeo, along with the cost of subtitling...
     
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    Making money.
     
  4. AOEGalvatronRox

    AOEGalvatronRox Collector

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    There is also the possibility that they want "remind" people that Transformers Prime still exists. I mean, I doubt this is the reason but this is probably for those who have forgotten about Transformers Prime, but hunger for a good cartoon rather than having to watch the hideous one they're trying to pass off as one- Robots in Disguise 2015
     
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    Unexpected, for sure.
     
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    Does anyone even care about PRIME any more?
     
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    Some of the better episodes there. I may snag it for the kiddos.
     
  8. Sol Fury

    Sol Fury The British Butcher Veteran

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    I'm pretty sure it's aimed at families, not the ones who buy whole seasons - the price point makes it like the VHS tapes with 3-4 episodes or a story arc I used to have as a kid. I'm no expert but I'm guessing there's a whole market for reasonably priced "selection" DVDs. (Thank you Nerdicon for illustrating my point while I was typing this!)

    And yes, I still care about Prime the same way I still care about Cybertron, Animated, Beast Machines and the rest. And I would put forward that this will sell lots more than any Japanese Beast Wars set will. As much as I want to see the Beast Wars sets, they're a niche within a niche. Probably not profitable at all, sadly.
     
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    I forgot how much I loved this show. My 4 year old daughter and my 7 year old son...and I watched season 1 this past weekend and we were watching those episodes like we've never seen them. Then of course they wanted to play with the prime toys.
     
  10. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    Like what's the point of this when you could just buy the whole show on DVD/Blu-Ray? I personally feel its not worth it.
     
  11. Exodus

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    I do :) 
     
  12. unicronic

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    DVD? How quaint.
     
  13. Sideways77

    Sideways77 #1 flareup simp

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    Awesome, you get 5 shitty episodes from a show that's a year or two old.
     
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    Eh. Crossfire and Thirst make my top ten of Prime episodes.
     
  15. Neko-bot77

    Neko-bot77 Face it, we're doomed.

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    I bought all of this on dvd, so these random episode dvd sets have none of my interest (same goes for MLP). I'd rather they spend their time/resources on getting things not available on dvd like RID 2001, BW2, BW Neo, etc.
    From an economics standpoint i can see why they do this. It's a lot cheaper to make a new dvd of material they already have the files of than get something new.