History Main / ImportationExpansion

-->'''Officer''' (after watching Godzilla destroy a building): That's one hell of an urban renewal program they got going on over there!

* 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.

* the French and UK-produced ''WesternAnimation/MrMenAndLittleMiss'' shorts aired in the US as part of a show called ''The Mr. Men Show'' (not related to ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' from 2008) made by Summit Media Group [[note]] now Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[/note]] where the segments were sandwiched between live-action variety sketches tied into a specific theme like exercising or the circus.

** The Italian dub went further on and extended the movie by adding footage of spaceship battles from ''Series/{{UFO}}'', turning ''their death rays'' into the cause of the color changes.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow Mr. Men and Little Miss]]'' aired in the US as part of a show with the same title made by Summit Media Group [[note]] now Creator/FourKidsEntertainment [[/note]] where the segments were sandwiched between live-action variety sketches tied into a specific theme like exercising or the circus.

** Similarly, Zeman's ''The Deadly Invention'' got a new introduction by television host Hugh Downs, of ''Series/TwentyTwenty'' and ''Series/{{Concentration}}'' fame, when it came to America as ''The Fabulous World of Jules Verne''.

A subtrope of CutAndPasteTranslation. Compare to the RegionalBonus of video games.

* The 4th ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' film, ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever 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 [[{{Padding}} served no purpose to the plot]].

** Similarly, Zeman's ''The Deadly Invention'' got a new introduction by television host Hugh Downs, of ''Series/TwentyTwenty'' and ''{{Series/Concentration}}'' fame, when it came to America as ''The Fabulous World of Jules Verne''.

* ''Film/GameofDeath'': 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, [[spoiler: where dead Dr. Land is picked up by an ambulance]]. More information on this [[http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=534837 here]]

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* The English dub of Anime/MapleTown had live-action segments added to the beginning and ending of each episode, featuring a human person named Miss Maple.

* The 4th ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' film, ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever 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 [[{{Main/Filler}} served no purpose to the plot]].

* ''Film/LegendOfHorror'' is one of the most extreme examples. Most of the film is newly shot American footage based around a "flashback" that occupies about a third of the movie. This "flashback" is actually the third segment of the Argentinian Creator/EdgarAllenPoe anthology ''Film/ObrasMaestrasDelTerror'', an [[AdaptationExpansion expanded adaptation]] of Poe's ''Literature/TheTellTaleHeart''.

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* Marvel UK's reprint series of ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'' added a huge amount of extra stories by Simon Furman in order to avoid {{overt|ookTheManga}}aking the main series, which occasionally required editing the American material to avoid {{plot hole}}s. This bonus material was of such high quality that not only did Furman get to take over writing the American series when Bob Budiansky [[CreatorBreakdown burned out]], American fans actually subscribed to the UK series to get the bonus material.

* The 4th ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' film, ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever 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 [[{{Main/Filler}}served no purpose to the plot]].

* The 4th ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' film, ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever 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 [[Filler served no purpose to the plot]].

* The 4th ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' film, ''[[Anime/Pokemon4Ever 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 [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment served no purpose to the plot]].

* Because ''Film/IronMan3'' 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 [[spoiler:surgery scene]] in the American version). In a scene that occurs just before [[spoiler:Tony's surgery]], Dr. Wu talks to one of his assistants, played by Creator/FanBingbing (who will make her American debut in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''). Though this caused some discontentment from Americans, the deal seemed to [[http://www.boxoffice.com/latest-news/2013-05-01-china-iron-man-3-sets-new-record-for-midnight-shows pay off handsomely]] for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]].

* When [[Creator/RogerCorman New World Pictures]] picked up the rights to the disaster epic ''Japan Sinks'', they cut it down by 40 minutes, added scenes of [[{{Series/Bonanza}} Lorne Greene]] sitting at a desk, and released the resulting mess as the legendarily awful ''Tidal Wave''.

* ''Anime/AngelsEgg'' was spliced together with new live-action footage to create a new movie called ''Film/InTheAftermathAngelsNeverSleep''.

* ''Horror of the Blood Monsters'' started life as a black and white Filipino caveman epic called ''Tagani''. To make it saleable to American drive-ins, hack director ''extraordinaire'' Al Adamson added color scenes with American actors (including Creator/JohnCarradine) as astronauts exploring a "prehistoric planet". The fact that said "prehistoric planet" (the ''Tagani'' footage) was black and white was solved by tinting the film day-glo colors, which, the newly added footage explaned, was caused by [[HandWave "Involuntary shifts ]][[TechnoBabble in Spectrum Radiation"]].

* For it's US TV release, the B/W British horror film ''Film/NakedEvil'' got 15 minutes of newly shot color framing sequences featuring Creator/LawrenceTierney. The original film was tinted sepia and presented as the recollections of a psychiatric patient in an American hospital.

** ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', a show which framed ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', kick-started this trend.

* Because ''Film/IronMan3'' 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 [[spoiler:surgery scene]] in the American version). In a scene that occurs just before [[spoiler:Tony's surgery]], Dr. Wu talks to one of his assistants, played by Fan Bingbing (who will make her American debut in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''). Though this caused some discontentment from Americans, the deal seemed to [[http://www.boxoffice.com/latest-news/2013-05-01-china-iron-man-3-sets-new-record-for-midnight-shows pay off handsomely]] for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]].

* The Soviet animated film ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' had a live-action prologue added featuring Art Linkletter "reading" the original story to some children.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow Mr. Men and Little Miss]]'' aired in the US as part of a show with the same title made by Summit Media Group [[note]] now Creator/4KidsEntertainment [[/note]] where the segments were sandwiched between live-action variety sketches tied into a specific theme like exercising or the circus.

** ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' would show a story from ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' 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.

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* Marvel UK's reprint series of ''Comicbook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' added a huge amount of extra stories by Simon Furman in order to avoid {{overt|ookTheManga}}aking the main series, which occasionally required editing the American material to avoid {{plot hole}}s. This bonus material was of such high quality that not only did Furman get to take over writing the American series when Bob Budiansky [[CreatorBreakdown burned out]], American fans actually subscribed to the UK series to get the bonus material.

** ''Invasion of the Animal People'', adapted from the Swedish ''Film/TerrorInTheMidnightSun'' (Rymdinvasion i Lappland) with added footage of Creator/JohnCarradine sitting at a desk spouting scientific gibberish. Interestingly, the original film was already in English.

** ''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet''
** ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women''