DVD Talk review of 'MXC - Season Two'
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DVD Talk review of 'MXC - Season Two'
Great review, but just to clarify something...
The episode originally featured people in makeup and crazy outfits as well as people in rubber monster suits and the like. Most of the monsters were characters from the Japanese tokusatsu series Ultraman (1966), created by Eiji Tsuburaya (the SFX mastermind that brought the original Godzilla to life in 1954). Every scene featuring these rubber-suited monsters is removed from the episode on the DVD. The last game of the episode, which featured several incarnations of the Ultraman character from the franchise's history rolling boulders down a sloped plain at the contestants below, is completely absent from the DVD.
There's a very long, complicated legal debaccle between Tsuburaya Productions and the Thai company Chaiyo over rights to various Ultraman series and the character. It basically involves a forged contract based on a rubber stamp and more than a decade of legal battles. Chaiyo licensed the original Ultraman series to BCI last year for a North American DVD release. It created a huge outcry among fans, and even got Tsuburaya Productions' lawyers on action (they've made some breakthrough headway in recent weeks in the Thai courts). Stuart Galbraith IV goes into more detail about the legalities feud in his review of BCI's second DVD volume of Ultraman.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=25024
Amid all of this controversy, it's no surprise that Magnolia went and cleansed this episode of any Ultra references so as to keep their feet dry.
Here's a Google Video clip of the first game of the "Monsters vs. Mascots" episode of MXC, Sinkers & Floaters, as it was originally broadcasted on Spike, Ultra monsters and all.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+monster&hl=en
Originally Posted by Paul Mavis
Just a note here: episode 12 is marked as "edited," on the box and at the beginning of the episode. Why it's been edited is anybody's guess, and that kind of post-broadcast tampering would usually get an automatic "skip it" from me. But since MXC is all about editing anyway, and it's just the one episode, I'm going to let it slide.
There's a very long, complicated legal debaccle between Tsuburaya Productions and the Thai company Chaiyo over rights to various Ultraman series and the character. It basically involves a forged contract based on a rubber stamp and more than a decade of legal battles. Chaiyo licensed the original Ultraman series to BCI last year for a North American DVD release. It created a huge outcry among fans, and even got Tsuburaya Productions' lawyers on action (they've made some breakthrough headway in recent weeks in the Thai courts). Stuart Galbraith IV goes into more detail about the legalities feud in his review of BCI's second DVD volume of Ultraman.
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=25024
Amid all of this controversy, it's no surprise that Magnolia went and cleansed this episode of any Ultra references so as to keep their feet dry.
Here's a Google Video clip of the first game of the "Monsters vs. Mascots" episode of MXC, Sinkers & Floaters, as it was originally broadcasted on Spike, Ultra monsters and all.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+monster&hl=en
