Update on German Beast Wars DVD box, no more seasons
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 11:47AM CDT
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Well this is a bit of a follow up to that review, Dead Metal mentioned how he believed there was a good chance that Pandavision would release the remaining seasons 2 and 3, well he sent an e-mail to Pandavision asking if they would, this is the response he received:
"Names changed"
German wrote:Sehr geehrter Herr Metal,
vielen Dank für Ihre Anfrage und Ihr Interesse an unserer Serie „Transformers – Beast Wars“.
Derzeit ist eine Veröffentlichung von weiteren Staffeln nicht geplant, da es keine deutsche Synchronisation gibt.
Bei Rückfragen stehe ich Ihnen gerne zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Max Mustermann
English translation wrote:Dear Mr Metal,
Thank you very much for your interest in our series "Transformers - Beast Wars."
There are currently no plans to release any further seasons, due to there being no German dub.
I will gladly stand bye for any further questions.
Respectfully,
Max Mustermann
So there you have it, seasons 2 and 3 won't be released in Germany, lets hope a different European label will release a PAL version, or just do as Dead Metal does now, hack your DVD player and import a complete box set from the US or Australia.
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Posted by Sabrblade on May 9th, 2012 @ 12:00pm CDT
Did the show flop or something back when it first aired in Germany?
Posted by craggy on May 9th, 2012 @ 12:14pm CDT
Posted by Dead Metal on May 9th, 2012 @ 12:14pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Wait, they only dubbed season 1 into German? That's cheap.
Did the show flop or something back when it first aired in Germany?
No apparently it had pretty good ratings and was quite successful even considering it's horrible air slot (around 11 am during week days while children where at school).
Plus the toys where super successful they even made it in a special hasbro promotion consisting of their most successful lines in Germany.
I guess it's due to the same reason Armada only consisted of the first 6 episodes and the Unicron Battles, and Cybertron only of the first 20 episodes, Hasbro rushed the studio to have one or two months worth of episodes as a cheap advertisement for the line. That's just how they role, TF the Movie 07 wasn't even promoted over here save for a trailer that was shown as part of a show that showed the most popular youtube videos of the week...
Posted by alldarker on May 9th, 2012 @ 12:31pm CDT
Dead Metal wrote:(...)
I guess it's due to the same reason Armada only consisted of the first 6 episodes and the Unicron Battles, and Cybertron only of the first 20 episodes, Hasbro rushed the studio to have one or two months worth of episodes as a cheap advertisement for the line. That's just how they role, TF the Movie 07 wasn't even promoted over here save for a trailer that was shown as part of a show that showed the most popular youtube videos of the week...
Sound like par for the course for Hasbro's European marketing 'strategies'.
Here in the Netherlands, English language cartoons usually get subtitled instead of dubbed, which is probably a little cheaper (although Germany is of course by far a bigger market, making dubbing a little more cost efficient)... I think we did get all three seasons.
Posted by Pretender Skywarp on May 10th, 2012 @ 11:51am CDT
It's a shame it hasn't been treated better in PAL land, bak in the day, there were even UK exclusive BW toys that came with some VHS releases...
Posted by Dead Metal on May 10th, 2012 @ 12:01pm CDT
Pretender Skywarp wrote:I was lucky enough to be in Australia last year and picked up their DVD set in a bid to cure me of my Beast Era ignorance, not just a great TF show, but a great piece of TV sci-fi full stop.
It's a shame it hasn't been treated better in PAL land, bak in the day, there were even UK exclusive BW toys that came with some VHS releases...
The Transmetal repaints of Spittor and the squid? Cos those where the only VHS release of Beast Wars over here.
alldarker wrote:Dead Metal wrote:(...)
I guess it's due to the same reason Armada only consisted of the first 6 episodes and the Unicron Battles, and Cybertron only of the first 20 episodes, Hasbro rushed the studio to have one or two months worth of episodes as a cheap advertisement for the line. That's just how they role, TF the Movie 07 wasn't even promoted over here save for a trailer that was shown as part of a show that showed the most popular youtube videos of the week...
Sound like par for the course for Hasbro's European marketing 'strategies'.
Here in the Netherlands, English language cartoons usually get subtitled instead of dubbed, which is probably a little cheaper (although Germany is of course by far a bigger market, making dubbing a little more cost efficient)... I think we did get all three seasons.
Yea, we love our dubbing over here, and Hasbro just sucks in Europe.
Posted by Sodan-1 on May 10th, 2012 @ 12:29pm CDT