@modulusshift
Arkansas
I'm musicssound from twitter, Eli Hekel from everywhere else, including figment.com, an awesome writer's site that could probably use a few more bronies in it's forums.
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@ponydude2143 A certain stroke of genius I had? Amazon is mainly a conglomeration of different retailers. If we could set ourselves up with them, we could have internationally cleared retail, warehouse space, everything.
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@ponydude2143 I don't see why we couldn't work around them. We can get permission from the original owner of the content, I'm sure. We can work it through the channels. Or pay Shout! even more to do it. (sigh)
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@modulusshift That would be ridiculous, though.
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@ponydude2143 If not, then we're f'd on that front. Hopefully, they do. Or, I imagine we would be buying it for them, assuming enough funding.
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@ponydude2143 We'll of course check with everybody involved, but I think it can be pulled off.
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@ponydude2143 It's worth a shot. There is such a thing as region-free DVD's, after all.
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@ponydude2143 If we can pull this off, even better, we can have Blu-ray, and make it worth it even for the stateside bronies. There's no way to buy content over 720p, and that through iTunes.
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@ponydude2143 Even better, if we are distributing online, we could get shipping international, and finally the international bronies could have a way of buying ponies.
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@ponydude2143 Well, you're more qualified than I am.
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@ponydude2143 But I'd like to see if we could get a few bronies to do it. Poetically, it works better.
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@ponydude2143 Well, that's my biggest problem. I'm 15. I can't pull any of this off. If I can't get anyone to do it, I might look into getting a relative to help sponsor this, and see what happens. As soon as we look even semi-professional, we'll get a ridiculous amount of PR from EqD.
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@ponydude2143 And we can promise copies through Kickstarter as an incentive. We set levels at which the final product will be sold at, and basically promise pre-orders to everybody we took above a certain amount of money from.
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@ponydude2143 The transaction only goes through if we have enough to do the project. That's the point of Kickstarter. They'll take money off of what does go through, but if nothing does, then we don't lose anything. No money changes hands unless we are absolutely sure we can pull it off.
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@ponydude2143 I say we should setup a company just for the initial negotiations, get a ballpark figure, and see if we can raise that much through Kickstarter. No obligations from anybody. If we can supply the funding, we can push through the project the rest of the way.
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@ponydude2143 What difference does it make to them if they're getting paid near the same amount, simply for a smaller run? We'll have to hike up the prices on the consumer-facing end, but the product will exist. In the end, it'll be the equivalent of you simply buying every DVD they make, but with a real promise of the boxset at the end, instead of an implied one like we have now.
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@colfax @ponydude2143 If we could pay enough to pull it off, I still think it's possible. We have to at least make an attempt, go through negotiations and see what's possible. Because if you're willing to buy all of the 10 or so DVD's simply to pay full price for a boxset afterwards, I think we can get enough money to pull this off from the community, or it wasn't going to happen the other way anyway.
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@ponydude2143 @ponydude2143 The main reason they produce huge runs is because only a fraction of what they produce is ever sold by the retailers. If we could pay for a smaller run, we could get all of the money back on our end, due to not having unsold stock. It's not like we're shipping to stores all over the world, most of which will never sell through that stock. We're producing a smaller run we can sell all the way through.
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@colfax @ponydude2143 We can supply enough funding to overcome those problems. We could set up a Kickstarter project to get funding from the brony community, which would supply the initial investments. If we don't get enough from that, then we cancel the deal and do it your way.
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@colfax I'm not saying it's easy, but it is a lot less wasteful than trying to convince retailers used to sales in the high thousands that a group of less than 10,000 bronies are worth selling to.
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@ponydude2143 Or we could become a retailer, and buy it from Shout! the same way other retailers would. Then we can set up an online store, and sell directly to the bronies.
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@colfax We're not demanding it. We're setting it up to sell it ourselves. We simply buy it from Shout the same way Walmart or Best Buy would. Then we distribute it online, and we don't have to deal with a lot of brick-and-mortar problems currently stopping the release.
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@ponydude2143 @problemedpony @colfax Shout is the exclusive distributor of FiM home videos, and we've tried pestering them. They said, they only make what the retailers want, since the retailers are who they sell to. So, what if we set up a little company and become a retailer, and request it from Shout?
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@colfax Easy, yes, but not going to happen. I think we need to take a more active role in the matter.
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@ceruleanspark Yeah. They are all "The Ticket Master"
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@ceruleanspark *heart attack* Link or it didn't happen!
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@problemedpony How about: How to get a boxset of Season 1 released?
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@ceruleanspark ROFL! The 70's, huh? No restriction on gay males, though? Heck of a book.
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@modulusshift That'd be a really interesting job.
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Well, this is a new one. http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/29/2668408/stephen-hawking-technical-assistant-speech-system
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@mushi Don't mind me, just making terrible puns.
