Rodimus2006 wrote:What I wanna know is why is RiD allowed to be out in the UK but hasnt been released here in the USA when we are the ones who made the show. I dont know it seems kinda of unfair.
Car Robots was made in the US?
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Really, I'm not even going to touch that one...
two things both in this wiki statement:
All 39 episodes were scheduled to run during the afternoon Fox Kids programming block on the Fox television network. The third episode, "Bullet Train to the Rescue", was scheduled to air on September 11, 2001, but was preempted in most areas because of the terrorist attacks in America that day. Areas where "Fox Kids" was aired on a secondary station (like KDFI 27 in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX) aired the episode that day. Later episodes were re-edited to remove scenes that might be jarring to a newly sensitive viewing public, causing these episodes to air out-of-order. Other episodes were cut entirely and were not seen in the US. Disney now owns the cartoon through their acquisition of Saban.
It is bad enough that they felt the need to alter episodes and omit some due to the actions of 9-11, but the same sillyness likely rumbled thru the heads of people at Saban that if they put out DVD's in America with the episodes there would be a backlash, but also if they sent out the DVD's without the episodes, there would be a backlash. Fastforward a few years and the House of Mouse buys Saban, and Disney has shown such willingness to distribute materials under their control that has known connections to other media entities.
But in England where the effects of 9-11 didn't effect the media as much and most of the collections were released before Mickey got involved (and the remaining would already have been under production.) Viola, they get what we haven't.