TMNT Enter Shredder DVD

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Nick just released Korra Season 1 on blu ray. That's the popular Avatar show spinoff.

If they released a blu ray for their own series they would do it for TMNT as they own it. Don't forget the episodes are already in HD on iTunes.

Re-read the very first sentence of my previous post, brotherrrrrrr.... "No, seriously, the fact that Nick may release a scant few full-season sets for a few of their shows in NO way promises that TMNT will get the same treatment."

It just doesn't. These DVD distribution companies don't do anything because it makes SENSE, they do what they think is going to make the most money short-term. Using ONE show that Nick bothered to do a full season set for as an example of how they HAVE to do the same for TMNT is silly, because for every one popular show they did "right" on DVD I could go on wikipedia and pull out 3 or 4 popular shows from Nick that have not and will never be done "right". I already dropped "Clarissa", and I'm actually not going on Wikipedia right now and am going clearly off the top of my head, but I'm reasonably sure Doug, Rugrats, Pete & Pete, Salute Your Shorts have not and will not have complete sets (I know Pete & Pete had one or two seasons released but to my knowledge there were no plans to finish it, as in ever, same as with Clarissa). That's just to name a few of the more popular Nick shows from back in the day who absolutely have fans who would pay far more than $10 for complete seasons on DVD. From that era, only Ren & Stimpy got proper DVD treatment, and that was barely a Nick show at all.

If we want to get away from Nick into TV shows in general, there's an even worse precedent...
-King of the Hill: Very popular prime time network show. Ten seasons in total, only 6 released on DVD, "officially" announced that seasons 7-10 will never be released on DVD due to "lack of consumer interest" (read: not enough people bought seasons 1-6).
-Superboy/Adventures of Superboy: Semi-obscure but very popular syndicated show firmly based on Silver Age Superman comics. Despite DC/WB having released seemingly every bit of Superman-related media on DVD back in 2005/6 for the lead-up to "Superman Returns", they infuriatingly chose only to release the first (and by far the WORST) season on DVD for commercial release. Season 2 exists, and Season 3 is coming, so the fourth and final season looks fairly likely, BUT there was a 7-year gap between the release of Season 1 and 2, and as far as I know, Season 2 and the rest are made-to-order from Amazon and not available in a wide release. A shame, because the show only got better as it went along, but most fans will never get to see it unless they search for it.
-Batman (Adam West version): I know there are issues regarding who has the rights to this, which is why it has not had (and may never have) a DVD release, but money fixes everything and WB is a giant media conglomerate with more money than God, so I absolutely have to think they could fix it if they *had* to. SO many people want this show on DVD, if only for nostalgia's sake, and since there seems to be no urgency on the part of WB about it (seriously, they made it a point to put out BOTH sh*tty 1940s Batman serials, but can't be bothered to re-acquire the rights to the 60s show? WTF?!), I have to figure it comes down to the usual reason: "Don't Give A Sh*t."

Those are just a few examples to illustrate why absolutely NOTHING promises we'll ever see full-season (or eventually complete series) DVD sets of Nick's TMNT cartoon. They COULD do it; they SHOULD do it. I HOPE they do it. But I'm not going to hold my breath for it, no way in hell. I'm going to do the sensible thing: buy the stuff we have available right now, and if they do the right thing in a couple years, I'll upgrade and either re-sell or re-gift the original, bare-bones copies. If everyone said "I'm going to wait for the full set", we'd never get anything. It just doesn't make sense. The regular sets cost around $10, and the complete season sets of the OT only cost $10-$15 when they came out, so really, it's not a grand expenditure to support the franchise by buying into the bare-bones sets and upgrading later if it becomes an option.

EDIT: As a lazy old coot, I tend to use DVD as a catch-all term. Feel free to add the newfangled "blu-Ray" term wherever applicable in the above rant.