Petition for Saban to buy the Fox Kids library back from Disney

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This is a petition for Haim Saban to purchase most of the currently mismanaged Fox Kids library back from Disney, so it can have more exposure again, both on TV and DVD.

http://www.petitiononline.com/SabanFox/petition.html

I know this won't do any good, but ever since Saban bought back Power Rangers and failed to buy HiT Entertainment, he needs to pay for this library and buy it back from Disney's much underexploited BVS Entertainment division so he can exploit it more than before.

If you are a Fox Kids fan, please sign this petition right away. I'd be glad for it to get much support.
 
I signed it, noting that I want to see uncut DVDs of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, Digimon (with the Japanese version intact) and Space Goofs.
 
Um.......has Saban put his most popular property, Power Rangers, on DVD yet?

The answer is no. So why would he do the same for any of these?
 
I'm thinking he needs to hammer out a deal with a DVD company, and that could take some time. I mean consider that Nickelodeon bought the TMNT in October of 2009, yet it wasn't until April of this year (2011) that IDW announced that they had acquired the comic book license to that property.
 
True.
Plus if he wanted to buy them at all, he would've when he got Power Rangers back.

Why don't they make a petition so they can have Disney release them on DVD instead?
 
Probably because Disney has no interest in releasing most of their own cartoons much less Saban's unless they were Marvel (and not even all of those).

IMO getting another company to buy Saban's library from Disney would be better but I'm not sure who. Maybe Classic Media. They seem to have decent success getting shows on television and DVD.
 
The problems with buying back the old Saban library are threefold:

1) A lot of the older Saban anime titles are owned by outside studios, most notably Nippon Animation. Nippon more or less reclaimed their titles around 2001, after the Disney deal. Stuff like Grimm's Fairy Tale Theater, Tom Sawyer, Li'l Bits, Noozles, and Maya the Bee are no longer under the thumb of Disney. Same thing with Tatsunoko's Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee(Samurai Pizza Cats) and Nina Wolmark's The Engulfed World (Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea).

2) The Marvel library that Saban owned aren't going anywhere. Disney owns Marvel and all Marvel series outright save Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultraforce, and Men in Black, and they're not giving that up. Which brings me to this point:

3) Disney's not selling anything to Saban after being snookered. The only reason Saban got Power Rangers back was because Disney was told Saban was trying to get a deal with The Hub. Had Disney known that Saban was planning to bring Power Rangers to Nickelodeon instead, Disney would still own Power Rangers. It would be nice if Disney sold a lot of the Saban stuff that Saban/Fox Kids actually owned outright, like Xyber 9, Mad Jack and Diabolik, and the non-Saban fare that was a part of Fox Kids like Peter Pan and the Pirates., but they're in a box somewhere at Disney that will do nobody any good.

Shame.,
 
Disney/Marvel doesn't own the Hanna-Barbera Fantastic 4 cartoon from the 1960s or the Thing portion of Fred & Barney Meet the Thing, or do they?

Also, do they the own the DePate/Freleng-produced shows (F4 '78, Spider-Woman, and Spidey '81)?

And doesn't Sony own the CGI Spidey cartoon from 2003 that aired on MTV? And isn't the Fantastic 4: World's Greatest Heroes owned by Fox in the states, and WB overseas?

And finally, who owns the granddaddy of obscure Marvel cartoons: The Japanese Dracula and Frankenstein anime films?

Yet another reason why I find Haim Saban to be decidedly less than scrupulous.
 
But in that case, wouldn't Disney still own the master materials and some rights for the actual Saban dubs for those show?

That would create issues even if the Japanese companies WANTED to reissue those shows in the US again.
 
Nope, forgotten about that.

Considering DePatie/Freleng became Marvel Entertainment, yeah, they have those too.

Forgot about the former. Sony owns distribution rights just as they do for Spectacular.Taffy Entertainment owns the latter, Cartoon Network International distributes it globally.

Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned was produced by Toei, but I think it, like the Spider-Man sentai series, is also owned by Disney via Marvel. Those foreign rights are sticky to say the least.
 
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HA HA! Online petitions!
 
I came across some info that seems to contradict this. Around the time Capcom was preparing the International port of Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom for the Wii, they specifically asked to use the Pizza Cats characters but at the very last minute Tatsunoko backed out of the deal for no reason given. Sources here and here.
 
Not really a contradiction. While the rights were being held up because BVS International had some rights to the franchise, that's in the past. The distribution rights they had are either now expired or set to expire later in the year. Same with Technoman (Tekkaman WAS in the game as well, and that series was also a Tatsunoko/Sotsu joint venture much like SPC). So, yeah, not a contradiction.
 
I think there's been about 130 petitions (yeah, there's way more if you look at the volume, but when you pare it down, consolidate duplicates and variants of the same theme/mission, it's a smaller number than most expect), and the success rate has been about .56% (and that .56% is Winx Club), and that's largely the acts of property owners, not the petitions themselves. It's a 99.44% failure rate on most petitions. People do petitions because they want to have some iota of control over the shows they enjoy when the gravity of realizing they're going away hits them.

Reality, in this case, goes by the wayside to a point of desperation and bargaining. The petition pretty much says "Okay, this is our chance to show these guys we support the show, and maybe if we get enough of us to say that we do, maybe they won't take it away from us."

Petitions don't work. Sales do. You want to support something? Buy them. Buy their merchandise. Buy the releases. Buy the products advertised on the show. That's how you get network executives' attentions. Putting a name on an electronic petition that only exists on the screen isn't going to do anything, especially considering how easily they could be manipulated/edited.
 
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