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|'''[[Moby]]''', ''[http://moby.com/journal/were-re-releasing-hotel-ambient/ journal]'' (2014)}}
== Anime
* The English-language version of ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]]'' was believed to have been lost after the dubbing studio went bankrupt. However, DVD editions of the entire collection were finally released in 2008, and the whole show is currently{{when}} streamed on Netflix instant.
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* In Australia, [[Madman Entertainment]] successfully licenced the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' dub and put out a pair of boxsets constituting the series' complete run. No word on whether they'll follow up on any of the other ''[[Digimon]]'' series currently{{when}} lacking full dub releases, nor on any such thing for the rest of the world.
** They're YTV's copies, featuring a logo on the openings. 'Sly', an executive at Madman, said this was the best quality one available to them. They don't seem to be missing any scenes, but what happened to the clean originals?
* For the longest time, only half of ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'' was available on a hard-to-find DVD box set. This box set had a good 26 episodes (most series only run that long), but the second season had some of the funniest episodes of the series. There was also almost no merchandise in the US. Cue frustrated fanbase. Until Discotek announced the license of both the dub and original version in two complete box sets<ref>52 for the dub, 54 for the sub which includes the two clip episodes</ref>. Cue happy fanbase. (Even moreso after since the below Power Rangers announcement came the same day.)
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Flex Mentallo]]'' was originally introduced in an issue of ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' as a parody of the well-known "Insult That Made a Man out of Mac" bodybuilding ads by Charles Atlas. Later on, in 1996, he got a mini-series of his own, written by his creator [[Grant Morrison]] and drawn by Frank Quitely. Some time after the mini-series came out someone informed the Charles Atlas company about Flex, and they promptly sued DC (the publisher of ''Doom Patrol'' and ''Flex Mentallo'') for trademark infringement. Since Flex, as an obvious parody, was legally considered to be a case of [[Fair Use]], the lawsuit was [https://web.archive.org/web/20080630104439/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2DC1430F932A0575BC0A9669C8B63 settled in favour of DC]. However, even though the creative team of Morrison and Quitely has later on released some critically praised and popular series (''[[All-Star Superman]]'' being the best known of them), DC has never collected the ''Flex Mentallo'' mini. The origin story of Flex (where the Charles Atlas connection is much more obvious than in the mini-series) was actually collected in a 2006 ''Doom Patrol'' trade paperback, so clearly there is no legal obstacle for DC to reprint comics featuring Flex Mentallo, but it took until April 2012 for the mini-series to be collected.. Only 16 years after it originally came out.
* In mid-2009, Mirage Studios released the "[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|TMNT Collected Book Vol. 1]]": a large TPB with the first 15 issues of the original comics. The book quickly sold out and necessitated a second printing. Later that year, the entire ''Turtles'' franchise was sold to Viacom and the second printing never happened. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110407141041/http://www.idwpublishing.com/news/article/1677
* In [[Turn of the Millennium|2000]], [[Marvel Comics]] finally released a volume of ''Essential [[Conan the Barbarian]]''... which was never followed up, as [[Dark Horse Comics]] acquired the license soon after. Seven years later, Dark Horse started reprinting not only the original Conan ongoing, but also ''Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian'', ''King Conan'', and all the other [[Comic Book Adaptation]](s) of [[Robert E. Howard]]'s works.
* The [[Sam and Max]] comic collection, Surfin' The Highway, was printed in 1995 and went out of print. For years second hand copies were going for a substantial amount of money. However, in 2008, with the success of Telltale's [[Sam and Max]] games, the company was able to rerelease it. As Steve Purcell works for Telltale, the rerelease was greatly expanded.
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== Film ==
* The delay of the DVD release of ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'' is one of the strangest stories in the industry. Producer David Begelman made a shady career for himself as an executive at several major Hollywood studios, including Columbia Pictures and MGM. During this period, he was the target of multiple lawsuits and criminal prosecutions for embezzlement and fraud (including a notorious check-forging scandal that exploded after actor Cliff Robertson discovered that fake checks had been made out in his name, which eventually led to Begelman's being fired from United Artists), and successfully blackmailed [[Judy Garland]] with illicitly obtained medical photos. After being fired from those studios, he founded his own production companies, Sherwood Productions and Gladden Entertainment, where he produced several moderately-successful films, including ''Buckaroo Banzai''. Due to some legal chicanery, he ended up the sole owner of the rights to the film, and because of a falling-out with the writer and director over financial issues, refused to allow any further use of the property. This included blocking a planned television series, a sequel film, and the later DVD release. During this time, Laserdisc copies of the film were selling for well over $100. It took Begelman's bankruptcy and subsequent suicide for the rights to devolve to his largest creditor, Crédit Lyonnais bank, and then to Polygram Entertainment where executive Steve Gelber (a ''Banzai'' fan) pushed for a DVD release; it was finally released in 2002 under MGM's distribution. Begelman's obfuscatory and legally-questionable bookkeeping practices continue to prevent any further development of the Banzai property — such as the long-awaited sequel, or a soundtrack album — as no one is really sure who owns the various rights involved.
* ''[[Tron]]'' lapsed into this after its 20th anniversary DVD release went out-of print several years ago. In 2010, when the sequel ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' hit theaters, the film was reaching prices of up to $215 on Amazon, and even Netflix was having availability problems (the lack of re-release at such a propicious time [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/11/10/tron-dvd-is-hard-to-find/ was questioned], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110922202111/http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/11/16/tron-dvd/ raised] [http://io9.com/#!5690466/is-disney-deliberately-keeping-tron-out-of-print-on-dvd theories], [http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/new-strategy-for-tron-dvd/ and boosted piracy]). But at least it got a re-release, on both DVD and Blu-Ray, when ''Legacy'' hit shelves in 2011.
* Due to rights problems (including song copyrights), ''Hellzapoppin'' has never been released on VHS or DVD in America. It ''did'' get a UK DVD release in 2007, though.
* For nearly 20 years, a copy of ''[[Johnny Got His Gun]]'' was fairly difficult to acquire. Why? Well, [[Metallica]] wanted to use footage from the movie for their video of "One" back in 1988, and found it simpler to just purchase all the rights to the movie...and then do nothing with it. Only in 2009 was a DVD release made.
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* [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''[[Moonwalker]]'' didn't get a Region 1 re-release for a long time, for obvious reasons. It was finally released internationally on Blu-Ray in 2010, albeit with some of the violence in the "Smooth Criminal" segment trimmed.
* The underrated 1981 made-for-TV thriller ''Dark Night of the Scarecrow'', having only been released on VHS in the mid-1980s, was finally released on DVD in September of 2010.
* [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] fans received DVDs containing the movie versions of ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', ''[[Oklahoma!]]'', ''[[Carousel]]'', ''[[State Fair]]'', ''[[South Pacific]]'' and ''[[The King and I]]'' from 1999-2000, but ''[[Flower Drum Song]]'' did not receive a DVD release at this time. It ultimately did so in 2006, partly to celebrate the movie's 45th anniversary, and partly because Universal wanted to cash in on 20th Century Fox releasing remastered DVDs of seven R&H movies.
** Similarly, the widely panned 1962 remake of ''State Fair'' just barely beat ''Flower Drum Song'' to DVD. It did not receive a release until 2005, when its predecessor turned 60.
* The 1995 teen comedy ''[[Angus]]'' was a title demanded by fans to be released on DVD since the format's inception. It was finally released as a launch title for the Warner Archive in 2009.
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* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'''s third season sold worse than expected on DVD, leading Buena Vista to indefinitely delay later seasons. Fortunately, Lionsgate acquired DVD rights, and managed to release the whole series.
* The Belgian TV show ''Buiten De Zone'' was finally released on DVD in 2010, after the last of the music negotiations (over the music from ''[[Twin Peaks]]'') had concluded. The show, which ran for 2 seasons starting in 1994, still has a huge fan following and has achieved a cult status in Flanders. Bart de Pauw, one of the creators, was a soundtrack buff and used music from hundreds of films like ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'', '*[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', and even ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]''. Acquiring all 380 (!) music licenses while keeping the price at a reasonable level was a huge undertaking.
* 1987 - Present British BBC kids show ''[[Chucklevision]]'' suffered this as due to a bad schedule episodes over 20 minutes were not shown after 2004, but recently{{when}} Barry Elliot anounced the BBC picked it up for a DVD release.
* ''[[Crime Story]]'' has been released, but with knock-off tunes in place of the original early-1960s pop numbers underscoring the action. It just isn't the same.
* ''[[The Equalizer]]'' was just that, until recently{{when}} Universal released Season 1 on DVD. And, the funny part with "Complete Season 1" DVD set? It's a rare case of "[[Bad Export for You|Better Export]] [[Averted Trope|For Them]]".
* The civil rights documentary miniseries ''Eyes on the Prize'' was once unavailable on DVD because it includes a lot of music and film footage that was licensed only for a limited time. The license was renewed in 2006, thanks to additional funding from the Ford Foundation. The funding to remaster and rebroadcast the series for PBS came with the stipulation that the DVD release be available for purchase only to schools and libraries, not individuals. However, as of 2010, it is now available to the general public for purchase on the PBS website.
* [[Averted Trope]] with ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'', which got a DVD despite having a soundtrack that included Styx, [[The Grateful Dead]], Cream, and two episodes that used only songs by [[The Who]] and [[Billy Joel]] respectively. One time when [[Too Good to Last]] helped the [[DVD]] release.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' qualified for this for almost a decade until they finally released the first season on DVD. A second season was released in February 2012, more than two years after the first season was issued, giving hope to fans that the remaining seven seasons will eventually be released.
* ''[[Fresh Prince of Bel Air]]'' got Seasons 1-4 (of six) out on DVD, then got stalled...by music rights for the last two seasons. When it originally got made, the amount of licensed songs used was relatively small, but increased during the course of its run. As Warner cleared music rights, fans ended up having to wait six years for a fifth season DVD, and 11 more months for the last season.
* ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'' wasn't available until Shout Factory announced a DVD release of the first season.
* Fans of ''[[The Glass House]]'' had to make do with the DVD that only contained the 2002 best-of episode and the six "Double Glazed" specials and the (very) early morning reruns of Seasons 8 and 9 in 2009-10, as the ABC did not have the rights to replay earlier episodes and did not say if full seasons would ever be released. It's now slowly being released on the iTunes Store from the very beginning and is currently{{when}} up to Season 4 (as of May 2011).
* ''[[FX the Series]]'' skipped the VHS format altogether and finally landed on DVD after 15 years, much to the relief of fans who pleaded with its production company to release the two seasons of the show.
* ''[[Happy Days]]'': Slowly but surely for the first four seasons. The first season was issued in 2004, and it was nearly three years before Season 2 was released. Seasons 3 and 4 were issued during the next 18 months, but nothing since December 2008. Music licensing, slow sales ... no official word has been given as to what the hold up is for the remaining seven years.
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** In an interesting case, however, while you can now find most episodes online (completely legally, through Hulu and Netflix), there are one or two episodes that are withheld from the internet for apparent rights issues.
* A slightly different issue arose for ''[[My So-Called Life]]'': It wasn't that there ''wasn't'' a DVD released for it; it was that it was so rare that the cost to buy it was prohibitive (there were sets for $200 on eBay). Luckily, a new DVD release came out, which dropped the price from prohibitive to merely expensive.
* Under [[Disney]], ''[[Power Rangers]]'' got screwed over with only some episodes (usually from the start of the season) ever getting DVD releases and just about every season, bar the [[
** And now, in March of 2012, Saban inked a deal with Shout! Factory to release all 700 episodes from ''Mighty Morphin'' all the way to ''RPM'' on DVD.
* Before Anchor Bay released the eight episodes of ''[[Profit]]'' onto DVD--four of which hadn't even seen broadcast in the USA--the show's ''creator'' circulated the tapes/DVDs himself!
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* ''[[T-Bag]]'' seasons 5-9. Seasons 1 is available on DVD with seasons 2-4 to be released later on DVD in 2011.
* ''[[Thirtysomething]]'' was this for about two decades.
* After years of being forgotten in its (small) fanbase's memory, ''[[
* The first season of the 80's ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' TV series was only released on DVD after 15 years of waiting and pleading by its small fanbase. It took another five years to get the second (and final season) on the format as well. Talk about a long wait!
* ''[[Witchblade (TV series)|Witchblade]]'', released but with music rights problems.
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* Some people decide to watch a [[Let's Play]] for this reason.
* ''[[Star Control]] 2'' is long out of print, and was unlikely to ever see rerelease as the sequel (which did not involve the series creators) proved to be a [[Franchise Killer]]. Fortunately, SC's creators were nice enough to make the game Open Source in 2002, and a lovingly made fan version called ''The Ur-Quan Masters'' (the title "Star Control" is still under trademark) is freely downloadable.
** And then Atari re-released it on [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114103417/http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/star_control_1_2/ GOG.com] along with the original.
* The Wii compilation ''Data East Arcade Classics'' was a bit of a surprise, since Data East had been defunct for almost a decade by the time of its release. (Data East's assets are handled by a company called G-Mode, who pretty much solely exist to archive their old game library.)
* ''[[Tactics Ogre]]: Let Us Cling Together'': The SNES version of this classic game never made it to the west due to it releasing around the same time the Playstation came into existence, and the [[PS 1]] re-release (which did get localized) was super-rare even at launch. 16 years later, [[Square Enix]] releases an enhanced remake of the game, overjoying fans and enraging speculators the world over.
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** ''[[King's Quest]]'': ''[[King's Quest: Mask of Eternity|King's Quest Mask of Eternity]]'' (which did eventually get on GoG) wasn't in the compilation, perhaps owing to the game's [[Fanon Discontinuity|dubious standing]] among the series fans, making it a case of [[Canon Discontinuity]].
** ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'': Since the collection shipped on just one CD, they had to use the floppy version of ''Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out'' instead of the talkie CD version, and ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail'' is missing entirely, so as far as Al Lowe is concerned, the definitive ''Leisure Suit Larry'' compilation is still the Ultimate Pleasure Pack, which includes the talkie version of ''Larry 6'', as well as ''Love for Sail'' and ''Larry's Casino''.
* ''[[System Shock]]'' was considered one of the very best PC games ever created, and ''System Shock 2'' appeared on multiple "best-of" game lists from Gamespot, PC Gamer, IGN and several more. But the franchise went out of print when developer Looking Glass Games went out of business.
** Both games continued to get mod support well after their release, including music contributions from the game's composer, Eric Brosius. ''System Shock'' also spawned [[Spiritual Successor]] games in the form of ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]]'' and ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]''.
** In 2012, Nightdive Studios succeeded in acquiring the ''System Shock'' franchise from Star Insurance Company, which owned the assets of Looking Glass Studios.
** Both ''System Shock'' games were re-released in 2015, with the first game earning a remake in 2022.
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* Most of the Nicktoons, again. For the longest time, the only Nickelodeon originals with full DVD sets were ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' ([[Cash Cow Franchise]] extreme), ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' (John K. got the rights back), ''[[Invader Zim]]'' (titanic fan demand, though it was released by [[Media Blasters]], who usually deal in anime), and ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. In 2010, DVDs of ''[[Doug]]'' (minus two episodes), ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'', and ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' have hit Amazon, and season 1 of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' was be released in June 2011.
** Netflix has quite a few Nicktoons available for streaming.
** And they'll be released for retail chains starting 2011, with ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' and ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' being the first. And it's not just the Nicktoons, but the old sitcoms as well. ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'', ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'', ''[[Hey
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' season 1 was released on DVD in 2004, and the first half of season 2 in 2005, but Disney canceled the release of the last half of season 2 because they didn't feel that the first half sold well enough. Season 3 has no plans for being released.
* ''[[Goof Troop]]'' and ''[[Quack Pack]]'' have had a few individual episodes released on DVD, but never entire seasons.
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* In late January 2012, Warner Archive released the first season of ''[[Pac-Man (animation)|Pac-Man]]'' as a manufacture-on-demand DVD title.
* ''[[The Jetsons]]'' was among the first Hanna-Barbera series to receive a DVD boxset, but it contained only the original episodes, broadcast from 1962 to 1963. These also became the only episodes to air on Boomerang. The 1980s revival did not come to DVD, or air on Boomerang, until 2009. Even then, only half of season 2 became available on DVD, as well as the theatrical 1990 movie. Fans have to buy the second half of the season, the two concurrently produced TV movies, and (eventually) the third season through the Warner Archive.
* The 2003–2007 ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' series appeared to be in limbo when the series was dropped off Kewlopolis before the 2007 season 4 episodes could air, and rights for the series went from Playmates to Hasbro (and the animation rights went from [[
* ''[[Recess]]'' has since been released on iTunes in Germany. (An iTunes release in the U.S. is unknown, but ''[[Recess: School's Out]]'' and ''Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade'' are available)
* ''[[Godzilla: The Series]]'' still does not have a full DVD set (nine episodes released on DVD, two VHS tapes and the ''Monster Wars'' trilogy on both formats), but the full series is now streaming on Netflix.
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