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* [[Shout Factory]] declaring, in their press release regarding getting the release rights, that they will release ''every single one of the 198 episodes on DVD'', legal difficulties getting the rights to the films be damned. Sure, it seemed like it's all talk--and then ''[http://www.mst3kinfo.com/?p=8126 they secured the rights to and subsequently released all of the Gamera episodes on DVD.]'' '''''AWESOME.'''''
** For those not in the know, the Gamera episodes and in fact most of the show's Japanese-import based episodes have been unavailable for years because the guy in charge of importing them, Sandy Frank, felt personally insulted by the episodes<ref>(Not surprising, considering that one episode had a song dedicated to insulting him, declaring him lazy and "the source of all our pain".)</ref> and pushed the rights fees through the roof, to a sum that no one was both willing and able to pay. For years the prominent fansite MST3KInfo had these films categorized as "Extremely Unlikely" on [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listlikely.html this list of potential DVD releases.]
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