[CharlieRock]

I just watched the Spectacular Spider-Man vols.1-4. I liked the show. I thought it was pretty good , much in the same way The Batman was pretty good as an animated series. But, unlike The Batman somebody up there (in marketing) thinks I want to buy each disc separately. I don't. I hate trying to collect a season's worth of episodes over four separate purchases.
They did it with TMNT ssn. 3 and The Brave and The Bold. I still haven't collected those two series though I have the rest of the Millenium TMNT series since they all came out with at least 12 episodes per set. TB&TB, and even to an extent LoSH I haven't collected for much the same reason. I keep waiting for them to bundle up the set.
I know it is all a money grab so they can get me to buy each disc and they make more money. I'm fine with buying things. Make a complete set and make it $20-$30 or something. It's the headache of trying to find all four volumes or seeing volume one by itself on a shelf I can do without. 

[Roygbiv666]

I just watched the Spectacular Spider-Man vols.1-4. I liked the show. I thought it was pretty good , much in the same way The Batman was pretty good as an animated series. But, unlike The Batman somebody up there (in marketing) thinks I want to buy each disc separately. I don't. I hate trying to collect a season's worth of episodes over four separate purchases.
They did it with TMNT ssn. 3 and The Brave and The Bold. I still haven't collected those two series though I have the rest of the Millenium TMNT series since they all came out with at least 12 episodes per set. TB&TB, and even to an extent LoSH I haven't collected for much the same reason. I keep waiting for them to bundle up the set.
I know it is all a money grab so they can get me to buy each disc and they make more money. I'm fine with buying things. Make a complete set and make it $20-$30 or something. It's the headache of trying to find all four volumes or seeing volume one by itself on a shelf I can do without. 

Yeah, I want the B&B too.

I think they do it (companies release discs with 4 episodes) so that parents can pick up a disc at Wal-Mart or whatever for their kids, like an impulse buy - they wouldn't shell out for a complete season at once. That likely gives some indication of potential sales of season sets for us nerds. So, the company takes a relatively small "risk" for the single discs, and gets a good idea of how the box set will do.

Or they are just insane. One of the two.

[narfstar]

Fireball XL5 is has a complete set I believe. I used to get up early Saturday mornings to watch it.

[CharlieRock]

They used to do this with anime seriies all the time. I remember DB:Z and Gundam only came in single disc or tape sets. I never collected those and I waited until Outlaw Star got wrapped into a set before I bought it.

This is why, for me anyway. When Farscape first started coming out on VHS I started collecting them. The boxes were pretty neat looking and I loved the series. But around episode 12 (sixth volume for the tape, I think) they quit making them. So there I was with a partial set of Farscape. Then everything went to DVD and I gave up waiting on the rest of the tapes to come out. That just irked me enough that now when I see a separate volume for a series I walk right on by it. (that and it took FOREVER to come out with TMNT Millenium series and even then they weren't released in order. I tried collecting those but gave up also and waitied for a complete set)

P.S. Thanks for reading my rant. 

[Geo (R.I.P.)]

Charlie they have done the same thing has been done with the DVD releases. Singles then to whole series.

In fact this is the way they release them in England for some reason, (single DVD only, not the series in one package), but they are released before we get them in the US, (that may be the reason for it). I was looking for some Stargate episodes at the time.

Geo