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Importation Expansion

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Importation Expansion	comment	In the past, it was reasonably common practice for producers to add new scenes to foreign films that they were importing. This was done for several reasons: to add name actors to what would otherwise be a cast of unknowns, to disguise the fact that the film was foreign (at least for the duration of the trailer), to increase the running time, or any combination of the above. The method is most viable when the main action is done by People in Rubber Suits (or Puppets), allowing the adaptation's Greek Chorus (or in some cases its stars) to have similar sensibilities to the importing country. This is also possible in animated media, but there has to be a coordination between the original producers and the dubbers; otherwise, the visuals for these segments would be Off-Model. The "expansion" is related to the adding of new footage, not to the actual length of the "expanded" film. Indeed, the "expanded" versions of some films can be much shorter than their original versions. This has been a Dead Horse Trope for Film since the mid-1970s, when distributors realized that most audiences didn't actually care enough to justify the time and expense of shooting new footage, either for theatrical release or for Direct to Video. However, it's alive and well in Television Series imports, which run long enough overall for the investment of new characters to pay dividends. Note that to be an example of this trope requires substantial original footage; simply adding insert shots of translated signs or the like doesn't count. Neither do repurposed shots used in "And Knowing Is Half the Battle" segments. A subtrope of Dub-Induced Plotline Change. Compare to Frankenslation and the Regional Bonus of video games.
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Importation Expansion / int_1621b97d	comment	Similarly, Zeman's Invention for Destruction got a new introduction by television host Hugh Downs, of 20/20 and Concentration fame, when it came to America as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne.
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Importation Expansion / int_19930ed1	comment	Game of Death: The international version of the 1978 version shows a longer sequence where Billy Lo meets his uncle in a theater. The HK version shows another fight scene with a Bruce Lee double and Korean Taekwonwdo master Casanova Wong in a greenhouse. The ending is also significantly longer in the HK version, where dead Dr. Land is picked up by an ambulance. More information on this here
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Importation Expansion / int_1e5ea45c	comment	Since Boohbah aired on commercial-free PBS Kids in the United States, the American versions of the show add a fourth segment called "Look What I Can Do" - showing children doing their own exercises - after the second Boohbah exercise segment to fill more of the timeslot.
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Importation Expansion / int_2b06665c	comment	Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
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Importation Expansion / int_3740c1d2	comment	Mothra vs. Godzilla contains an additional sequence of a missile attack on Godzilla shot by Toho especially for its American release.
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Importation Expansion / int_40bcb623	type	Importation Expansion
Importation Expansion / int_40bcb623	comment	Since the original version of Tots TV was ten minutes long and the series was acquired by PBS Kids, which doesn't show commercials, the show would run in a Three Shorts format where the segment in between each story would either feature a storyteller named Noah or an animal expert named Jane.
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Importation Expansion / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers
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Importation Expansion / int_464193c6	comment	Perhaps the strangest example of this was Salty's Lighthouse, where 5-minute clips comprised from various episodes of TUGS played as what Salty saw at the harbor.
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Importation Expansion / int_493666a1	comment	King Kong vs. Godzilla had American-shot scenes with "U.N. News Reporters" talking about whatever had previously occurred. At one point, one pulls out a children's book to explain how Godzilla is a mutated dinosaur.
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Importation Expansion / int_496d155b	type	Importation Expansion
Importation Expansion / int_496d155b	comment	The English dub of Mapletown had live-action segments added to the beginning and ending of each episode, featuring a human person named Miss Maple.
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Importation Expansion / int_4b790c7b	comment	Because Iron Man 3 was partially funded by China's DMG Entertainment, bonus scenes were added to the Chinese release of the film, primarily focusing on the character of Dr. Wu (who is briefly introduced at the 1999 party and can be glimpsed in the surgery scene in the American version). In a scene that occurs just before Tony's surgery, Dr. Wu talks to one of his assistants, played by Fan Bingbing (who made her American debut in X-Men: Days of Future Past). Though this caused some discontentment from Americans, the deal seemed to pay off handsomely for Marvel.
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Importation Expansion / int_51a00ae6	comment	Invasion of the Animal People, adapted from the Swedish Terror In The Midnight Sun (Rymdinvasion i Lappland) with added footage of John Carradine sitting at a desk spouting scientific gibberish. Interestingly, the original film was already in English.
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Importation Expansion / int_67afc2e4	type	Importation Expansion
Importation Expansion / int_67afc2e4	comment	The Noddy Shop would show a story from Noddy's Toyland Adventures split into two five-minute parts when Kate Tomten, one of the child characters, told stories to solve her friends' problems. Oddly enough, this version made it back into the United Kingdom and several other countries that aired the original series, like Portugal and France.
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Importation Expansion / int_6c31c39f	comment	Beetleborgs
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Importation Expansion / int_71d6403c	comment	The Soviet animated film The Snow Queen had a live-action prologue added featuring Art Linkletter "reading" the original story to some children.
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Importation Expansion / int_74b796a7	type	Importation Expansion
Importation Expansion / int_74b796a7	comment	The second Godzilla film, Godzilla Raids Again (released in the United States as Gigantis the Fire Monster), managed to avoid this, suffering only the addition of considerable amounts of Stock Footage, and Godzilla being referred to as "the Gigantis monsters", as well as having most of his roars replaced by modified Anguirus roars. However, it was almost turned into a film called The Volcano Monsters that would have been a prime example of this trope. Read about it here.
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Importation Expansion / int_75bd5686	comment	Shining Time Station, a show which framed Thomas & Friends, kick-started this trend.
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Importation Expansion / int_7d169f3b	comment	Varan, the Unbelievable was subjected to a particularly extreme case of this. Its American version was completely rewritten around newly shot American footage with Myron Healey. Varan is an excellent example of a film that ended up shorter despite its Importation Expansion; the original Japanese version runs 87 minutes, while the American version, despite adding 40 minutes of newly shot footage, runs only 70 minutes.
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Importation Expansion / int_8d6c924b	comment	Likewise, Looper is also a U.S.-China co-production, and the Chinese release had more screentime for scenes in Shanghai.
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Importation Expansion / int_938e19ec	type	Importation Expansion
Importation Expansion / int_938e19ec	comment	Fraggle Rock - various markets (including the UK, which didn't redub the Muppet characters) had their own version of Doc. They all had Sprocket, though.
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Importation Expansion / int_95b62321	comment	Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
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Importation Expansion / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The fourth Pokémon film, Celebi: The Voice of the Forest added three scenes to the English version. Two of them served to over-explain a plot point in the story. The other was a comedic Team Rocket scene that served no purpose to the plot.
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Importation Expansion / int_a4ccfbf7	comment	VR Troopers
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Importation Expansion / int_b4feb787	comment	A truly bizarre example of this occurred when New World Pictures brought over Angel's Egg. Instead of giving it a straight dub (which would have been more or less impossible given the nature of the film), they cut the film heavily and added about 45 minutes of live action footage. Retitled In The Aftermath: Angels Never Sleep, it was released in 1988 to mixed reviews.
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Importation Expansion / int_c3a1c8f8	comment	The Italian dub went further on and extended the movie by adding footage of spaceship battles from UFO (1970), turning their death rays into the cause of the color changes.
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Importation Expansion / int_c8691345	comment	Battle of the Planets, in addition to the heavy Bowdlerisation that it suffered underwent when it was imported, featured additional animated footage of the Amusing Alien 7-Zark-7, who cracked lame jokes and explained how everyone got away safely.
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Importation Expansion / int_d6666774	comment	The Return of Godzilla, in keeping with its status as a direct sequel to the original film, had Raymond Burr reprise his role as Steve Martin, as well as product placement-laden scenes where American military personnel crack wise about Godzilla.
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Importation Expansion / int_e548c08a	comment	Several Japanese Tokusatsu series have been adapted in English, keeping footage where the actors are in face-concealing costumes and replacing the rest with new footage with English actors. In a number of cases, the plot changes drastically in the adaptation. Power Rangers VR Troopers Beetleborgs Masked Rider Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
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Importation Expansion / int_e59c7dc4	comment	The Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies. Godfrey Ho was pretty much the king of this - by his own account he made about 40-50 movies this way. He and producer Joseph Lai would buy up the rights to various 70s/80s Asian films which would usually be unmarketable elsewheren (or sometimes were unfinished or never saw release at all), shoot between 10 to 30 minutes of original footage with Western actors (usually as Technicolor Ninjas), then attempt to tie the whole thing together into an vaguely coherent plot via a Hong Kong Dub. Needless to say this was usually unsuccessful.
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Importation Expansion / int_ec3007ac	comment	That shot of Margot and La Môle on the American DVD of La Reine Margot? That whole scene was shot for the American release to strengthen the love story.
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Importation Expansion / int_ee221a4e	comment	The Transformers (Marvel): The Marvel UK reprints added a huge amount of extra stories by Simon Furman in order to avoid overtaking the main series, which occasionally required editing the American material to avoid plot holes. This bonus material was of such high quality that not only did Furman get to take over writing the American series when Bob Budiansky burned out, American fans actually subscribed to the UK series to get the bonus material.
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Importation Expansion / int_ffc3bac4	comment	The French and UK-produced Mr. Men and Little Miss shorts aired in the US as part of a show called The Mr. Men Show (not related to The Mr. Men Show from 2008) made by Summit Media Group note now 4Kids Entertainment where the segments were sandwiched between live-action variety sketches tied into a specific theme like exercising or the circus.
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