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Post by Deadborder on Feb 12, 2006 20:41:37 GMT -5
The Bio-Sesmothingy was covered in the early reports of Genesis that were discussed on the Zoidfans newsgroup, complete with concept art (abliet small, blurry photos). The point stads that it was at least conceived, but never reached anythwrere beyond that.
And while Iunderstand that American sotres may be having some success with Bio Zoids, remember that it may not be indicative of the line's success as a whole. Just becuse an item performs well in a US Store - which buys realtivly small quitities of stock - does not automatically mean that it will do well in Japan. Also bear in mind that US and Japanese collectors often have very differnt tastes.
FInally, just becuse the anime does resonably well (And the ratings havew been "average" not "good or bad") doesn't mean much. If people watch the anime but don't buy the models, then of course it's not going to do well.
In fact, the winding down of the line may explain a lot of the 'filler' eps we've had ofl ate.
Rick R.
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Post by Tilly on Feb 12, 2006 20:43:05 GMT -5
I remember concept art of it too, but it was before I started saving pics. Dangit...
I've heard sales of the models are good, though only from one source. I can try asking about bio versus regular ones later...
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Post by AbsumZero on Feb 12, 2006 20:55:16 GMT -5
That's rather bizarre, isn't it? I'm not arguing, but it does strike me as odd that a major chain (which FAO still was at the time) would act as an importer/reseller for an item in a line with current domestic distribution without the authorized consent of the line's domestic distributor. That could made for for legal issues. And while it obviously wasn't intended to be a full exclusive (since Hasbro did later intend a wide domestic release according to their website and press release) I'm pretty sure the FAO website was advertising it as an ' FAO Schwarz exclusive'.
You're right about the anime, but I assume that if a company is going to fork-over money for dubbing rights that they will release it some form or another, most likely on dvd. Although, the appeal is universal enough that it could see air eventually, even if just on the AZN network if not Toonami.
I don't remember the source, but there was an early concept-art group-shot that contained an illustration of the bio-diplodocus. I see no reason to believe it got any farther that that, though.
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