Line #81 Main/LateExportForYou


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6	When a work from another country or region is released in that region, fans elsewhere are aware of it (usually through the internet) and, either due to an arduously long wait for localization, money/licensing, and/or simply laziness on the part of the creators/distributors, it takes several months or even years to reach other shores. However another reason for the long delay is due to local censorship laws that the content is having trouble navigating through. Since there almost always is ''some'' waiting time involved in an overseas release, examples are limited to when the process takes an abnormally long time and/or gets a significant portion of the fanbase annoyed, or even enraged, by the wait and/or importing directly from the country of origin instead. The wait may also cause a significant amount of FanDisillusionment, especially if the unlucky portion of the fanbase gets exposed to too many {{Spoiler}}s in the interim.
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8	A general example of this occurred in South Korea with Japanese media. Most of the anime and manga from 1980s and early 1990s would get its official release in South Korea after its historical ban on Japanese media was lifted in the late 1990s. Another example of this is because of a ContentLeak, in the case of Hasbro with My Little Pony media during the late 2010s.
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10	This is different from NoExportForYou, when the creators don't plan on releasing it overseas at all, and BadExportForYou, when a terrible localization of a work is released. However, cases of this may overlap. This can often go hand in hand with RemadeForTheExport and CompilationRerelease. Sometimes [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros characters or elements may end up appearing in a different body of work]] before their "proper debut" in their native series.
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12	Contrast ShortRunInPeru, where the work is released somewhere else ''before'' it debuts in its country of origin. Also compare the DenialOfDigitalDistribution variety where the digital release comes much later than the physical one.
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14	!!Examples:
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16	* LateExportForYou/AnimeAndManga
17	* LateExportForYou/VideoGames
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21	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
22	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'':
23	** Season 9 of premiered on [=LeTV=] in China in 2015, followed by the premiere of Season 10 one year later, and then followed by season 11 another one year later, and so on. A few years later, seasons 9 and 10 premiered in Malaysia on Astro Xiao Tai Yang in 2020, followed by Season 11 in March of 2021.
24	** [[RereleasedforFree The Season 10-11 episodes were already available on]] Website/YouTube, but later those episodes were region-blocked after being available there for three to four years for free.
25	* ''Animation/KingShakir'' premiered in Turkey in 2016, but wouldn't land in the United States in any significant capacity until 2023, when ''King Shakir: Recycle'', one of the movies, released on the American version of Creator/DisneyPlus.
26	* Some countries didn't get ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' until a couple years after its original Indian release. Notably, the USA finally saw an official release through Creator/HBOMax on April 29, 2022, six years after the original release. Around the same time, Cartoon Network US started to air the show on the channel as well.
27	* TVB Jade didn't air ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' until 2009 with the Cantonese dub, four years after its debut in China. The same also happened in Taiwan.
28	* Even though it was originally produced in English with the assistance of American animation, 2017 Chinese ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' spin-off series ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' wasn't released in English until February 2018, on the Southeast Asian version of Creator/DisneyChannel, and it didn't see release in the West until December 1, 2018 when it arrived in the United States on the [=DisneyNow=] service.
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31	[[folder:Automobiles]]
32	* The Audi [=A3=] only hit the North American market on its second generation, by that point it was even made in Brazil, funny enough, its VW cousin, the Golf [=MK4=], was being exported since 1999, and by the next year all the units were made in the very same Brazilian plant.
33	* Chevy Colorado, after being discontinued for years, has returned to the North American market, but [[CompositeCharacter it's based off of a Thailand-Brazilian GM project that had been released three years before]]. The Ford Ranger is also from a similar background, only being available to this market [[SequelGap after more than six years.]]
34	* Most of the Corollas made outside of Japan were released two years after its country of origin, meaning that by the time, for example, the '98 Corolla hit the worldwide market, the Japanese already had it for quite some time. Quite [[AvertedTrope averted]] since the 2008 model year, as the car body had to be shortened in Japan to be in compliance with the size tax, despite maintaining the same design and wheelbase. Completely averted by the current generation, as the two models are completely different, but still keeping an two year gap.
35	* Toyota took 13 years for their Hilux, now made in Thailand, to make its return to the Japanese market in 2017[[note]]two years for 8th generation model since the 7th generation model was skipped in Japan owning to stringent regulations and the popularity of wagons and minivans back then[[/note]], owing to the existing users and enthusiast SUV buyers' strong demand.
36	* A big example for Ford: [[SequelGap three decades after the Fiesta was initially discontinued for the North American market save for Mexico]], and after over a decade without any subcompact (with the Mazda-engineered, Kia-built Ford Festiva, later renamed the Aspire, as their last entry in that segment), Ford started exporting Fiestas to the North American market again in 2009 as part of their “One Ford” world car strategy. This also meant that the hot hatch version, the Fiesta ST, and its larger Focus ST sibling (a SpiritualSuccessor to the last hot hatch version sold in North America, the Focus SVT) - and especially the even ''more'' legendary and long-sought-after Focus RS (sold in Europe and Australia since 2000, with its third generation sold for [[TooGoodToLast just three model years in North America from 2016-18]]) - all managed to hit Ford’s home turf for the first time. Regrettably, issues with the Powershift dual clutch automatic unit in the main Fiesta and Focus models made this return short lived, and played a factor in the company’s controversial decision to wind down sales of passenger cars and focus on trucks and [=SUVs=] in the North American market.
37	* Honda debuted the Civic Type R on the 6th-generation [=EK9=] hatchback Civic platform, exclusively in Japan on August 1997. Europe got their first Civic Type R in 2001, on the 7th-generation [=EP3=] platform, not too much of a wait. Where does that leave North America? We didn't get the Civic Type R until ''2017'', on the 10th-generation [=FK8=] platform! It's particularly baffling when considering that the Integra [=DC2=] Type R was released here.
38	* Kia Rio, despite the name, has been delayed for years in Brazil, first announced back at the end of the 2000s, the car still has yet to be released. Recently, production started in Mexico and is also exported to Argentina, signaling that this time, it can be for real.
39	* It took Nissan decades to realize that it would be a good idea to release the Skyline worldwide (after limited Australian release of [=R30 and R31=] models in the 80s), but it was rebadged as an Infiniti and by that point, it didn't have its GT-R trim, which at the same time, Nissan decided to [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] the GT-R nameplate, later released as a complete, [[DecompositeCharacter separate]] sports car instead of a two-door coupe sports version of a sedan.
40	* The Saturn L and its successor Aura were based off the Opel Vectra B and C (as the Saturn brand was, at times, essentially Opel for the North American market), however, they were released five years after their European cousins.
41	* Despite Lexus began selling in Japan in 2005, it took ''13 years'' for them to get ES sedan, one of their export-only models, to be sold in their own market. The smaller HS (and its Toyota equivalent Sai) was made an excuse between these periods.
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45	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby'' and ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'' were both released in Japan one year after their respective release dates in the United States, with the former getting a theatrical release in March, and the latter getting a DirectToDVD release in June.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' was released in the UK on July 16th, 2021, just under eight months after its US release on November 25th, 2020.
47	* ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'':
48	** This happened to many Creator/{{Disney}} films in Eastern European countries. Until the 1990s, many of their films, including the Disney Animated Canon, could not be exported to most of [=COMECON=] countries because of the [=CoCom=] embargo. For example, while ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' (originally released in 1950 in the US) managed to get a Polish release in 1961, the movie wasn't officially released in Russia until 2005 (55 years after the movie's original release and 14 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union).
49	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' premiered in the Netherlands on 25 July 1951, almost a decade after it originally came out.
50	** ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' received a Polish dub in 2017, 32 years after the movie's premiere.
51	** ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' was dubbed into Czech, Hungarian and Hebrew in the mid 2010's, nearly 30 years after its original release.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil'' never got theatrically released in the UK, but it got a UK VOD and DVD release ''eleven years later''.
53	* ''WesternAnimation/KirikouAndTheSorceress'' was not released in the US until 2002 (four years after the original release in France) due to the film's depictions of nudity.
54	* Most Creator/MarcellJankovics films are victims of belated releases as they originally had very little international reach.
55	** ''[[Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse Son of the White Mare]]'' from 1981 did get limited American festival showings as early as 1984 but no official public release. It was slated for a 2020 American and European theatrical release, which was cut down to limited screenings due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and it went straight to video-on-demand services instead. The official Blu-ray finally followed in 2021, 40 years into the film's lifetime.
56	** ''Animation/JohnnyCorncob'' from 1973 was sold to American distributors (Creator/HannaBarbera in specific) for a proposed heavily altered ReCut that got shelved for various reasons. The film thus officially came out in the US for the first time in 2021, as a bonus movie on the ''Son of the White Mare'' Blu-ray.
57	* ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'' was released in Italy only in September 2020, a year and a half after its original release.
58	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' series:
59	** South Korea didn't get the fourth and fifth movies, ''Animation/MissionIncredibleAdventuresOnTheDragonsTrail'' and ''Animation/TheMythicalArkAdventuresInLoveAndHappiness'' (released in China in 2012 and 2013 respectively) until 2020. The seventh film, ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfAmazingPleasantGoat'', premiered earlier in 2019, but that's still nowhere near its Chinese release (2015).
60	** While the Japanese release of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfDunkForFuture'' isn't too far from the Chinese release, having released in 2022 in both countries, it's a turning point for the series as there hadn't been any ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' releases in that country ''at all'' until then. The film premiered well over a decade after the main series' Chinese premiere, the show having premiered in 2005.
61	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': ''Anime/MewtwoStrikesBackEvolution'' is an interesting case. While the film saw a premiere with Japanese subtitles during Anime Expo 2019, the English dub didn't get a release until Creator/{{Netflix}} announced it for streaming outside Japan and South Korea on February 27, 2020. Its release in Japan was July 12, 2019; so many expected the dubbed film to be released in theaters that November, but this never came to be despite some tie-ins with the trading card game and events in ''VideoGame/PokemonGo''.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' came out in France three months after its US release, despite being well into the late 2010s (a time where people are used to Disney movies getting worldwide premieres).
63	* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' is this for Australia[=/=]New Zealand with the movie confirmed to be out in the land down under in September 2023 in theaters there, the same month the movie ''will be out on Blu-Ray and [=DVD=] in the US.'' Japan once again ends up getting the movie way late, in ''December 2023'', a whopping ''SIX MONTHS'' after the US release... albeit straight to digital, and with InvisibleAdvertising as well.
64	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'' was produced in 1976, but was not shown in the United States until 1983, when it was released to capitalize on the success of the Hanna-Barbera series.
65	* This happens to many Creator/StudioGhibli movies in North America:
66	** ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'': Released in Japan in August 1986, released to DVD in North America April 2003, 16 years later. [[note]] The film was [[ReleaseDateChange supposed to get a VHS release in spring 1999]], which would have been 13 years later, but it got delayed for unknown reasons.[[/note]]
67	** ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'': Released in Japan in April 1988, released in North American theaters May 1993, five years later.
68	** ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'': Released in Japan in April 1988, released on a subtitled VHS in North America June 1993, 5 years later.
69	** ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'': Released in July 1989, released in North America on VHS September 1998, 9 years later.
70	** ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'': Released in theaters in July 1991 in Japan, aired on Turner Classic Movies January 2006, 14 years later.
71	** ''Anime/PorcoRosso'': Released in Japanese theaters in July 1992, released on DVD in North America in February 2005, 12 years later.
72	** ''Anime/OceanWaves'': Aired on Japanese TV in May 1993, released in North American theaters December 2016, 23 years later.
73	** ''Anime/PomPoko'': Released in Japanese theaters in July 1994, released on DVD in North America August 2005, 11 years later.
74	** ''Anime/WhisperOfTheHeart'': Released in Japanese theaters July 1995, aired on Turner Classic Movies January 2006, 10 years later.
75	** ''Anime/MyNeighborsTheYamadas'': Released in Japan July 1999, released on North American DVD August 2005, 6 years later.
76	** ''Anime/TheCatReturns'': Released in Japan in July 2002, released on North American DVD February 2005, 2 and a half years later.
77	** ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea'': Released in Japan July 2006, released in North American theaters August 2010, 4 years later.
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80	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
81	* ''Film/CrazyRichAsians'' was released in late November 2018 in mainland China, four months after its world premiere. Warner Brothers have to wait for the approval from Chinese government for the movie to be shown in the country. When the movie was finally released in the country, the home video releases were already available in the market which contributed to the low ticket sales, eventually flopping at the Chinese box office.
82	* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' first came out in 2012, but in Italy it took seven years to get dubbed and distributed on the home video market.
83	* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' was an Italian-produced remake of Akira Kurosawa's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''... which, unfortunately, was done without Kurosawa's permission (and copied a lot of the plot verbatim). The resulting lawsuit (which Kurosawa won) came with an order that the film could not be shown in the United States until three years after it was initially released.
84	* ''Film/{{Freaky}}'' was mostly released in international markets from April 2021 on, over five months after its US release on November 13th, 2020.
85	* ''Film/{{Get Carter\|1971}}'': You would think you could pop down to your record shop and get Roy Budd's soundtrack on a vinyl in 1971, and you could... in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. There wouldn't be a British album release (if you didn't fancy paying expensive import prices) until ''UsefulNotes/TheNineties''!
86	* ''Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster'', a 1964 {{kaiju}} film was released in Germany in 2011, with a deliberately cheesy dub mimicking the weird monster movie dubbings produced in West Germany during the 60s and 70s.
87	* ''Film/GoneBabyGone'', a 2007 movie was not released in the UK until June 6, 2008, nearly 10 months after its US release following the [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents then-recent disappearance of Madeline [=McCann=]]].
88	* ''Film/Hero2002'', which was released in October 2002 in mainland China, didn't receive a North American release until August 2004.
89	* ''Film/MrNobody'' had a world premiere at the Venice film festival on September 12, 2009... but it wasn't until ''2016'' that the theatrical cut of the movie got an official Italian dub.
90	* ''Film/TheRoom2003'' had a theatrical release in Japan in 2020, nearly '''17 years''' after its original release in the U.S.
91	* ''Film/SorryToBotherYou'', which had its domestic release in July 2018, only got a release in the UK in December, by which point it had been out on home video.
92	* ''Here Today'' was released in May 7th 2021 in the US, but wasn't released in the UK until September 3rd and Portugal until October 7th.
93	* ''Film/ThePersonalHistoryOfDavidCopperfield'' was released in the United States in August 28, 2020, over seven months after its UK release on January 24.
94	* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' was, naturally, rather late to release in Japan given its touchy subject matter. They eventually took the plunge in March 2024, to very mixed emotions from Japanese audiences but generally positive reviews.
95	* Creator/WarnerBros' late 2020 and whole 2021 film slates have been made available both in theaters and on Creator/HBOMax due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic and to bolster the latter streaming service, which was only available in the USA back then. People in countries where theaters were shut for months (such as France) had no way to see these films legally for months until the normal schedules for VOD and physical media of theatrical releases had passed. Cue record piracy in these countries for the likes of ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' and ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''.
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98	[[folder:Literature]]
99	* ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'': After it was finished publishing on its online platform, the novel had its traditional Chinese paperback release in 2016 (and later in simplified Chinese in 2018). It took at least a few years for official translations of the books to come out, with the first volume of the English translation coming out in 2021.
100	* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' was originally scheduled to release in the US in September of 1999 after having come out in July of 1998 in the UK, but Scholastic [[http://www.infoplease.com/spot/harrypottertimeline.html released it in June]] instead after finding that people were importing it instead of waiting.
101	* The ''Literature/PeterNoTail'' books, also known as '''''Pelle''' No-Tail'' or ''Pelle Svanslös'' in the original Swedish, is a series of children's books written by Gosta Knutsson as a sort of protest against Nazism was back in the 1930s, but it has received {{Animated Adaptation}}s later on, two of which from the 1980s received English dubs released by Vestron Video and Atlantic Releasing in the U.S. and VCI in the U.K. The dubs have become moderate {{Cult Classic}}s, so you'd think the books would have been translated into English. They were translated... in 2017, '''78 years''' after the first book was released. Even still, not all the books have been translated yet, and one of them, ''Pelle Svanslös In America'' hasn't [[NoExportForYou been translated]] [[NoDubForYou at all]], presumably because the book itself [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece clearly takes place in the '30s to '40s]]. ([[TheFilmOfTheBook The Film Of That Book]] that ''did'' get released in English is an InNameOnly MindScrew of a film.)
102	* ''Literature/RainbowMagic'': The first series, the Rainbow Fairies, were not published in Ukraine until 2022, nineteen years after they were first released in the UK in 2003.
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106	* The South African government would not allow television service in the country until 1976, because Hendrik Verwoerd (the prime minister of South Africa at that time) viewed the television as a threat to the Afrikaans language and the Afrikaner ''volk'', giving unfair prominence to English, and creating unfair competition for the Afrikaans press. This means that some American live-action programmes from the 1960s, such as Creator/{{ABC}} series ''Series/{{Batman\|1966}}'' and ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' and Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'', were not exported into South Africa until between 1976 and 1979.
107	** Also, some British production companies, as well as British Actor's Equity, [[NoExportForYou refused to sell the programs]] to South Africa's main broadcaster, SABC, in protest of the [[UsefulNotes/{{TheApartheidEra}} apartheid]]. This means that some British television programmes from the 1970s and the 1980s only aired in South Africa during the 1990s, after apartheid ended.
108	* A peculiar example with the ''Series/{{Batwoman\|2019}}'' episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2", due to ''Batwoman'' and the rest of the Series/{{Arrowverse}} being on different networks in the UK. After Creator/SkyOne failed to get permission to show the episode as part of the ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' event, Creator/ChannelFour decided to show it at the ''end'' of the season, to avoid interrupting the story arc with an irrelevant crossover (despite the fact a major plot development in that arc ''hinges'' on ''Crisis'' having happened).
109	* In November 2019, Creator/DisneyPlus launched in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands... and that was it. European countries outside the Netherlands had to wait until about March 2020 to get Disney+, while Mexico and Latin America had to wait until near the end of 2020. This was especially problematic given the hype and coverage of one of its biggest shows, ''Series/TheMandalorian'', in an age of worldwide launches for big new TV shows, and it was especially frustrating for fans who didn't live in one of the five countries where it launched first and took major spoilers in the face on geeky news sites. It was especially weird considering [[SpoiledByTheMerchandise merch that involves spoilers]] of said show (namely, toys and T-shirts of the Asset, who turns out to be a baby of Yoda's species) was available for Christmas 2019 in some of the countries that didn't have Disney+ yet. Some resorted to using [=VPNs=] to get Disney+, others used illegal means, with ''The Mandalorian'' being as pirated as ''Game of Thrones'' [[https://www.wired.com/story/the-mandalorian-is-set-to-become-2019s-most-pirated-show/ in only two months.]] The following year, the delayed implementation of Disney+ caused similar things to ''Film/Mulan2020'', which due to [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]] was relegated to the streaming service, with the added burden that few countries still had movie theaters open.
110	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
111	** Australian fans had to wait until May 5, 2023 — seven months after the show's North American premiere (Oct. 2, 2022) — to watch it on the Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation network.
112	** The British television debut on Creator/TheBBC was on Oct. 12, 2023, which is more than a year after the original North American telecast.
113	** Portuguese viewers lagged almost 19 months behind -- the first season began airing on the Creator/{{AMC}} Portugal channel on April 22, 2024.
114	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'', the sister show of ''Super Sentai'', would finally start getting American releases via Creator/ShoutFactory in March 2020, with the original season being the premier show of a new channel dedicated to tokusatsu 49 years after its debut.
115	* ''Series/{{LazyTown}}'' didn't air in much of Eastern Europe, including Poland and Russia, until 2008, almost 4 years after it debuted, when Creator/{{Jetix\|Europe}} began airing the series in that region.
116	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' didn't get mass distribution in the United States until the autumn of 1975 (both the Creator/{{PBS}} presentations and the [[{{Bowdlerise}} heavily-censored]] Creator/{{ABC}} ''Wide World of Entertainment'' specials that spurred a lawsuit), after the show had already wrapped up production in Britain.
117	* The first season of ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' didn't debut in the UK until March 22, after all of its episodes had already aired from from January 13, 2022 to February 17 in the US.
118	* Although the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise had minor notability in Hungary through the theatrical films (released out of order), it was only in 1997 that ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' got a release, with the other series following suit in the late 90s and early 2000s. This inconsistent release schedule meant that the characters' voices varied wildly between the different series and movies.
119	* Creator/{{Toei\|Company}} and Creator/SabanBrands finally started releasing ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' in its original form through Creator/ShoutFactory, the same company that released the first 17 seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', after 22 years of not releasing the seasons officially in the United States. Supposedly, the main reason for the long wait was that when Disney got the franchise, another company wanted to license ''Sentai'' for release in the US, but Disney halted that by buying the rights wholesale for distribution of uncut ''Super Sentai'' seasons. Saban didn't have any problem with sublicensing the franchise after they got ''PR'' back, so in 2014, Shout announced the release and first released ''Zyuranger'' in early 2015. However, they have yet to announce plans for the various movies and V-Cinema crossovers and specials. It's stated that they were a separate license from the show proper. 2019 saw the release of ''Jetman'', the first release with no ''Power Rangers'' adaptation, but then there was a hiatus due to Hasbro buying the rights to ''Power Rangers'' from Saban, and ''Super Sentai'' releases wouldn't resume until 2022 with ''Fiveman''.
120	** While most ''Power Rangers'' series come out two to three years after the ''Super Sentai'' series they adapt, ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'', came out seven years after ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters''.
121	* ''Riding High'', [[https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/riding-high-1995/series a New Zealand produced teen drama serial]] [[https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2011/12/wendy-british-comic-not-published-in.html based on the German comic series Wendy]], was not released in North America until February 2005, nearly ten years after debuting in the aforementioned home countries. That release being on [[http://web.archive.org/web/20050204013749/http://ichannel.ca:80/grid.htm the now-defunct ichannel]]-a Canadian public affairs channel which was arugably [[BadExportForYou among the last places anyone would have expected to look for a show aimed at kids.]] ichannel was also the host network for the North American premiere of CITV drama ''Animal Ark'' (based on the book series of the same name)-eight years after it's original 1997 launch in the UK.[[note]]To add insult to injury, ''Animal Ark'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork lasted only one month on the channel]] before being abruptly dropped and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20050305043215/http://www.ichannel.ca:80/grid.htm replaced by reruns of]] ''WesternAnimation/DogCity''.[[/note]]
122	* While some bits and pieces of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' had made it over to the West, such as DVD releases for ''Ultra Q'', the original ''Ultraman'', and ''Ultraseven'', the infamous 4Kids dub of ''Ultraman Tiga'' briefly airing as part of the "Fox Box" block in the early 2000s, and certain shows ending up on streaming services, much of the franchise (particularly the Showa era shows, including non-Ultra productions such as ''Jumborg Ace'') was locked out due to some very long-running and bitter legal disputes between creator Tsuburaya Productions and other entities, particularly Thai-based Chaiyo Productions. Essentially, after the two companies collaborated on a couple of projects in the 70s (''Hanuman vs. 7 Ultraman'' and ''Jumborg Ace & Giant''), the president of Chaiyo engaged in some legal chicanery to claim the foreign distribution rights to the series, including the use of forged documents. The resulting dispute lasted until 2017, when a court finally ruled in Tsuburaya's favor, and in 2019, they would partner with Mill Creek Entertainment for streaming and physical releases for the entire franchise, with several series of every era of the franchise finally (legally) crossing the Pacific for the first time. Safe to say, it took a while, but it seems the Ultra Series has certainly made up for lost time in terms of distribution in the West.
123	* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' and ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' both premiered in Brazil in 1984, eleven years after its original Mexican release date of 1973. Many episodes were dubbed over the course of four slots until 1992 in completely random, non-chronological arranging, resulting in some two-parter episodes only having the first or second part aired, and several episodes being included in multiple slots resulting in them having multiple dubs. Until the next official Brazilian dubs for a DVD release of several episodes in 2005, many remained either undubbed or with their dub archived, especially remakes or original versions of episodes that were already airing normally (as the series had an habit of [[FleetingDemographicRule refilming the same stories a few years after the original]], so the network found it redundant to air multiple versions of the same episode and, for decades, cherry-picked a specific version of each one to remain airing regularly). Over the course of the 2000s and 2010s, several episodes were dubbed or finally premiered after their dub having been archived for decades, and it was only in '''2019''' that every common episode of both series had been dubbed in Brazilian Portuguese - and that's not counting the [[MissingEpisode lost episodes]] or the 80s ''Series/{{Chespirito}}'' sketches, which still haven't been dubbed as of now.
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127	* Another infamous example is Music/TheAvalanches’ ''Music/SinceILeftYou'', released in the UK and US in late 2001, nearly a year after its initial Australian release in 2000, because of the sheer number of {{sampl\|ing}}es the group had to clear, and the unwillingness of most major labels to get that job done. Luckily, in North America, Creator/SireRecords came to the rescue, and their promotion also helped “Frontier Psychiatrist” become a cult hit in the US.
128	* The first two Music/{{Buzzcocks}} albums, ''Another Music in a Different Kitchen'' and ''Love Bites'', were released in England at different times in 1978. Neither album got an American release until 2001. The seminal singles compilation ''Singles Going Steady'' was released in 1979 instead of the first two albums to introduce the band to American audiences, and in turn became a popular release in its own right.
129	* Music/CocteauTwins' albums prior to 1988's ''Blue Bell Knoll'' were only released in the U.S. through Creator/CapitolRecords in the early '90s. Prior to that Creator/FourADRecords entered into an agreement with Relativity Records to distribute the band's ''The Pink Opaque'' compilation in the U.S., but opted not to issue their individual albums. Their albums were still popular enough imports through airplay on CollegeRadio that they were able to play a handful of gigs in the U.S. before they had an American record deal.
130	* Music/JoyDivision's second and final album, ''Music/{{Closer}}'', took nearly an extra year to be officially released in the United States (March 1981 vs. July 1980 in the U.K.); nevertheless, it still made the 1980 ''Village Voice'' Pazz & Jop Critic's Poll as an import. Their debut, ''Music/UnknownPleasures'', had it even worse. It was released in April 1979 in the U.K. and released in the U.S. in October 1980. It wasn't even released in the States for what would have been the band's first U.S. tour had frontman Ian Curtis not killed himself the day before the band was due to leave for America. Their posthumous rarities/live double album ''Still'' was released in 1981 in the U.K. and was't released stateside until 1985, off the heels of Music/NewOrder's ''Music/LowLife''.
131	* Creator/EMIAmericaRecords declined to issue Music/KateBush's albums ''Lionheart'' and ''Never For Ever'' in the U.S. following the failure of her debut, ''The Kick Inside'' there. The Billboard chart entry and favorable reviews for ''The Dreaming'' there prompted them to finally issue those albums stateside.
132	* Music/{{Muse}}'s 2001 album ''Music/OriginOfSymmetry'' wasn't released in the US until 2005 due to a dispute with Maverick Records.
133	* Music/PublicImageLtd's debut SelfTitledAlbum from 1978 was originally rejected by the band's American label, Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, for being too uncommercial (ironic given that they would later release the even ''less'' commercial follow-ups, ''Second Edition'' and ''The Flowers of Romance'', in the US relatively on-time); it wouldn't be until 2013, '''35 years later''', that the album would finally receive a US release through independent label Light in the Attic Records.
134	* Music/{{Wire}}'s second album, ''Chairs Missing'', was released in 1978 -- but not in America, which had to wait until 1989.
135	* Music/{{XTC}}'s ''Mummer'' album was released in May of 1983 in their native UK, but their US label Creator/EpicRecords rejected it, leaving its American status in limbo. It finally got issued in February of 1984 on Creator/GeffenRecords.
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139	* In Japan, the first color ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' came out in 2008. Except for a few ''Tamagotchi Plus Color'' devices being sold at Toy Kingdom in the Philippines in 2009 and an English release of the ''Tamagotchi [=iDL=]'' in Asia and Australia, none of the color Tamagotchis saw a foreign release until the summer of 2019, when the ''Tamagotchi Meets'' version was released to the U.S. as ''Tamagotchi On'' nine months after being released in Japan.
140	* TOMY released a battery-powered model of Edward from WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends as part of their Plarail line in 1996, but it wasn't released outside of Japan until 2001.
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144	* Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons made during the AnimationAgeGhetto era in the United States fall under this trope in Germany and Austria, while some other Hanna-Barbera cartoons are outright NoExportForYou. This is because of Hanna-Barbera's inability to recognize Germany and Austria, the two German-speaking countries of Europe, due to MoralGuardians, and also, [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany owing to both countries' history of authoritarianism.]] This meant that ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' (for example) aired in Germany in the 1990s, a ''whopping almost 40 years after its premiere''.
145	* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' arrived in Italy on January 8, 2011, 8 months after the series began in the US. To make up for this, the season was aired in a bomb format and ended on January 24.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' didn't premiere in most European countries until 2005/2006. Although it did air in France in 2004, it aired on [=TF1=], while it's predecessor ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' was airing on France 3. This, unless they had seen the ''Rugrats'' special ''All Growed Up'', probably would have made French viewers think that the characters coincidentally had the same names as the ones from ''Rugrats'', not that they were actually the same characters.
147	* Due to "life-of-series" programming contracts, new episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' cannot run on Creator/DisneyPlus in Australia until a week after airing on 7mate, which as of 2023, is up to more than 18 months behind their TBS airing in the US.[[https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/7flix-programs-and-schedules/341/1486]]
148	* Season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' did not officially come to Scandinavian countries until April 13, 2022 on Creator/DisneyPlus, '''nearly two years''' after it originally premiered in the United States and nearly 11 months after it originally concluded.
149	* Not counting a ultra-rare direct to video release in 1997, ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' wasn't shown in Russia until 2003, ten years after premiering on FOX.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' first aired in Germany in 2001, five years after its premiere.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The Japanese Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} network wasn't well-received, so many of the shows were cancelled and the channel was eventually dropped. As a result, ''Avatar the Last Airbender'' originally only ran until Book 2. Years later, Amazon Video salvaged the Japanese dub by dubbing Book 3 with [[TheOtherDarrin new voices]] for several of the characters (Aang, Toph, Zuko, Azula, and Suki being the major ones).
152	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' came to Israel in 2009, 5 years after the show first aired.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/BenAndHollysLittleKingdom'' didn't air in the USA until October 5, 2015, exactly six and a half years after it's UK debut.
154	* The original 1996 ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' was set to be released in Hungary in 2010. Its first season was already dubbed but due to undisclosed reasons the show never premiered. This "lost dub" was only discovered in 2020, 24 years after the show's original release, on iTunes. Still no television broadcast is planned.
155	** ''Blue's Clues'' debuted in Norway in 2012, sixteen years after it first aired in the US.
156	** The show premiered in both Israel and Poland in 2006.
157	* For some reason, the Italian airing of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' on Fox skipped Season 10, which was later released on Creator/StarDisneyPlus on February 2, 2022.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' premiered in Italy on September 28, 2002, a while after it began airing in the rest of Europe.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' premiered in Canada on September 18, 1999, almost a year and a half after it aired in the United States. As a result of this late debut, Canadian copies of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'' VHS omitted the bonus short based on the show.
160	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndPotato'' first aired on Family Jr. in Canada on October 15, 2018 and had aired 31 stories (15 1/2 episodes) before being placed on Creator/{{Netflix}}. Only 10 episodes (20 stories) were released on Netflix at first, but as of November 2019 all 40 stories are available.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' from 1991 didn't get a Hungarian dub until 2004, a fact that nobody outside of the people involved with the dub were aware of, as the show never made it to television. It took until 2022 for this lost dub to surface on Creator/DisneyPlus. As Disney cartoons were tremendously popular during the early 90s and children of that era are even called the "''Franchise/DuckTales'' Generation" in Hungary, it is a mystery why ''Darkwing Duck'' got completely ignored for over three decades. This also lead to much confusion, as ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' was dubbed in the country without the knowledge that a ''Darkwing Duck'' dub already existed, resulting in many characters having multiple different names.
162	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' began airing on Nickelodeon in Japan on July 7, 2006, five years after it premiered in the US and four months before the end of the show's original run.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' came to Israel in 2001, 14 years after its UK debut. It was also in the midst of an 11-year hiatus at the time.
164	** It also took a while for Sam to come to Italy, with the first episode airing there in January 1999.
165	** Some European countries didn't even receive the 1987 version of the series until around the time the 2003 series was airing.
166	* In the United Kingdom, the relaunched version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' was once in a similar situation to what ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica: The Plan]]'' experienced (see NoExportForYou/LiveActionTV), thanks to the Sky network holding an exclusivity agreement on the first release of the show in the United Kingdom, and being convinced that no one was really into ''Futurama'' anymore. However, as of July 22, 2011, Sky started showing the post-''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' episodes.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' seems to have premiered in Italy in 2003, 15 years after it's premiere.
168	* British series ''WesternAnimation/GoJetters'' premiered in its native country in 2015. It didn't get an American release until 2018, when Creator/UniversalKids started to air it.
169	* While most Nicktoons premiered a few months to a year later on YTV in Canada, ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' did not premiere on YTV until 2006, 5 years after it originally aired in the US.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour'' specials premiered in the late 2000s or early 2010s in most of Europe due to a broadcast conflict regarding [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents Timmy's series]]. In countries like Sweden and Hungary, they [[NoExportForYou never aired at all]]. The sole exception other than the UK seems to be the Netherlands, who got the first Jimmy Timmy Power Hour in January 2005, due to FOP always having aired on Nickelodeon there.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' premiered in Japan in 2015, 10 years after it premiered in the United States and Canada.
172	* The Indian feed of Nickelodeon didn't premiere ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' until May 18, 2020, 4 years after it premiered in the United States. And the show isn't airing with a dub, likely due to [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19]]. Likewise, the show finally premiered dubbed on Japanese television after being a sub-only release on April 28, 2021, 5 years after its American premiere, on Nick+ via [=RakutenTV.=]
173	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' premiered in Japan in 1999, five years after its North American release.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'' began airing its first season on October 20, 2023 on both E4, and Creator/Channel4's streaming service, in the UK, after the season had already finished it's initial airing in the US from July 7th to September 1st.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
176	** The Japanese dub premiered on TV Tokyo in April 2013, 2 1/2 years after the series debuted. Only two seasons were broadcast. Even after the change of licensor from Bushiroad to Sega Toys, the rest of the seasons have yet to air, but the ''Equestria Girls'' ones continued on through Netflix Japan. The [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 movie]] was given a Japanese release 1 year and a month later, DirectToVideo, by Pony Canyon. By August 2019, the show was UnCancelled in Japan and is now airing the third season almost 7 years after it originally aired in the US and during the show's final season elsewhere. As of November 2023, they are now on the sixth season.
177	** In South Korea, the first two seasons premiered on Tooniverse in April 2014, 3 1/2 years after its original debut (which was longer than it took for South Korea to release more anime and to release the Nintendo DS Lite after they completely lifted the ban on Japanese cultural products in 2004). Seasons 3 onwards were released exclusively on Netflix. Lastly, the Korean dub of Season 9 was released in around September 2022 on [[https://www.coupangplay.com/content/7c348b19-4bde-4815-8396-ed731411e034 Coupang Play]], three years after its original release.
178	** In Croatia, the series began airing in November 2014, more than 4 years after it debuted, and for quite a while aired just the first season (only getting the second one as well in 2017) and initially came with a number of glaring issues (most noticeably the notoriously common audio mixing errors such as [[HongKongDub careless lip-syncing]] and [[BrokenRecord looping various lines of dialogue]]). A second, newer dub of the show eventually came in November 2017, 7 years after the show debuted and 3 years since the original Croatian dub began airing, and first aired only the first season and then announced new episodes from/up to season 4 for April 2020 which was over 2 years since the new dub first aired and several months after the show officially ended in October 2019.
179	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyPonyLife'': Premiered in the United States on November 7, 2020, while in Canada, it premiered in June 2020.
180	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
181	** Thanks in part to Disney Channel Italy shutting down in May 2020, and to a lesser extent also the COVID-19 pandemic, the series wouldn't arrive in Italy until February 5, 2021, a year after its U.S. premiere, and exclusively on Creator/DisneyPlus.
182	** In the Nordic countries, the show did not premiere on Disney Channel until February 15, 2021, a year after its U.S. premiere. The entire first season did not come to Disney+ in the Nordics until May 28, 2021, nearly 7 months after the show was first added to Disney+ in the United States, and 1 year and 4 months after it first aired on Disney Channel in the United States.
183	** The show was supposed to premiere on Disney Channel in the Czech Republic and Hungary in January 2021 (as the two countries share the same programming), but because of the anti-LGBTQ attitudes of the Hungarian government it never aired on the channel. However, Czech and Hungarian dubs were already made for the show's first season, and they were released on Creator/DisneyPlus in early 2022, about half a year before the service became available in Central and Eastern European markets. As a consequence, ''The Owl House'' first officially came out there over two years after the series' U.S. debut, though it still cannot air on television.
184	* Japan got a dub of ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' in April of 2019, almost 5 and a half years after it premiered in Canada and the United States.
185	* For some reason, The UK didn't get ''WesternAnimation/PigGoatBananaCricket'' until January 6, 2018—2 years and 5 months after its premiere.
186	* Thanks to Nickelodeon Netherlands ceasing broadcast of the series, the final two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' weren't aired in the Netherlands until they aired on Dreamworks Channel in 2022, five years after the series ended.
187	** The series premiered in Italy in mid-2005, and in Germany in 2006.
188	** The show was first dubbed into Hebrew in the mid-90s.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
190	** The series premiered in France in December 2000, 2 years after its US premiere. This is especially strange when you realize Cartoon Network's French feed was launched in August 1999.
191	** Seasons 5 and 6 weren't dubbed in European Portuguese until 2014 for Cartoon Network due to the series being cancelled by TVI before they could air.
192	* Because ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' never aired on Disney Channel in the Nordic countries, it was not officially released there until the launch of Disney+ on September 15, 2020, exactly '''''19 years''''' after its original premiere in the United States! In fact, the crossover episode of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' featuring characters from ''The Proud Family'' premiered '''before''' ''The Proud Family'' itself did!
193	* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' premiered in the United States in 2016. Its Indonesian dub premiered in 2020, while the Sinhala, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Russian dubs premiered in 2021; in all five cases, the dubs premiered after the show had already been cancelled in its native country in 2019.
194	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' came to Israel in 1999, 8 years after the show first aired in the USA.
195	** Season 9 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' premiered on Nicktoons Africa in January of 2019, 17 years after it aired in the United States.
196	** The last 3 seasons (including the ''All Growed Up'' special) weren't dubbed in Italian until Nickelodeon Italy launched in 2004, because Italia 1 stopped airing Rugrats in late 2001. Due to this, ''Rugrats in Paris'' would remain Kimi's only appearance in Italy for 3 years. The dub finally ended season 9 in mid-2005.
197	* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies'': The ''Sabrina'' portion of this SaturdayMorningCartoon was an outright NoExportForYou for countries outside of North America, Latin America, Asia, and selected European countries. However, in TheNewTens, the United Kingdom began to see releases of this show, but on home video instead, almost 40-45 years after its premiere.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' premiered in Bulgaria in 2017, almost 16 years after it premiered in Canada and the United States.
199	* The final season of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' came out in Italy only in January 2022, 5 years after it was first aired in the US.
200	* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' never saw the light of day outside of North America until Creator/DisneyPlus added it in 2020, 47 years after its premiere.
201	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' didn't get a full release in Norway until ''2015'', almost 50 years after it premiered in the States (one episode was dubbed for the "Cartoon Crack-Ups" DVD back in 2001).
202	* ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' premiered in Portugal on April 1, 2017, a year and a half after it premiered in the US.
203	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' didn't make it over to Hungary until September 1998, nine years after its American premiere.
204	** The episode ''Another Simpsons Clip Show'' wasn't dubbed in French until 2006, twelve years after it premiered in the US. This is extremely strange, given that the episode contained hardly any new footage.
205	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' premiered in the USA in 1981, but never aired in France until 2020 when it became one of the titles available on Disney+ at launch.
206	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' premiered in Italy in March 2013, 10 years after it was first aired in the United States. By the time it premiered there, ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider\|Man2012}}-Man'' had already aired every episode of its first season.
207	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' released its first season in Poland in 1987, six years after it began airing on NBC and while the show was on Season 7 in the US. The dub would [[UnfinishedDub not be completed until 2010]].
208	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
209	** While most other Nicktoons did get dubbed and released by either Rai or Mediaset, ''[=SpongeBob=]'', despite its massive popularity, wouldn't arrive in Italy until August 30th, 2004, a few months before Nickelodeon Italy launched.
210	** Similarly, the show first aired in Israel on July 1, 2003, the same day Nickelodeon launched on the country.
211	** In Japan, the special ''[=SpongeBob=]'s Big Birthday Blowout'' first aired on Creator/{{NHK}} in 2022, three years after it premiered in the United States.
212	** The series premiered in Poland on July 10, 2008, almost ten years after it first aired in the United States.
213	** "Best Day Ever" and "The Gift of Gum" premiered in the Netherlands on May 9, 2010, about 3 and a half years after these episodes originally aired on Nickelodeon US.
214	** "Goo Goo Gas" premiered on Nicktoons Africa in January 2019, 11 years after it aired in almost every part of the world.
215	** Season 5's "New Digs" and "Krabs a la Mode" first aired in Israel in 2015.
216	** Around season 13, the United Kingdom started lagging behind on premieres. For instance, "Pat the Dog" premiered in America on July 9, 2021, while it took until October 2022 to air in the UK. This also extends to its SpinOff, ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E4TheYardSale The Yard Sale]]" reached the United States and Canada in November 2021, but it first aired in the UK in August 2022.
217	* "Change Your Mind", the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', first aired in Italy in October 2020, almost 2 years after it originally aired in the US, and almost a year and a half after the previous episode had premiered in Italy.
218	* The 2012 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|2012}}'' series originally aired in Japan on TX Network (Creator/TVTokyo and its affiliates) in mid-2014, but the show failed to gain traction there initially, and only the first season's dub was completed before the show was temporarily shelved. However, in September 2015, the show was added to Amazon Prime in Japan, and the show's dub was completed there. The dub eventually started airing on TV again on Disney XD from May 2017 to September 2019, with the series finale having already been aired in the United States by the time Season 2's first few episodes had aired on TV in Japan.
219	* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' premiered in Greece & Finland in 2001, seventeen years after it first aired in the UK.
220	** The show was first dubbed into Latin Spanish in 1994.
221	** It came to Romania in 2006, more than 20 years after its UK debut.
222	** The show first came out in Israel in 2000.
223	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' premiered in Russia on September 2, 2002, twelve years after it premiered in the US.
224	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
225	** Turkey managed to release the show on May 4, 2015, almost 8 years after it debuted in Canada.
226	** In the wake of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'''s success, the Catalan dub managed to air the later seasons (''All-Stars'' (2013), ''Pahkitew Island'' (2014), and ''Ridonculous Race'' (2015)) in its native language in 2019. The dub initially ended at ''Revenge of the Island''.
227	** If one has Creator/TheBBC iPlayer, then ''The Ridonculous Race'' made its UK premiere on that platform on April 4, 2022. What's interesting is that none of the previous seasons (excluding ''Island'' and ''Action'') that lead up to ''Ridonculous'' aired in the United Kingdom.
228	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' was released in Italy only in May 2017, 6 years after it began and 7 months after it ended in the US.
229	* While not exactly late per se, ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'''s French premiere of September 3, 2018, is definitely late compared to the rest of the world.
230	* Italy tends to be late when it comes to importing Creator/AdultSwim shows that aren't called ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Most of the time it's a case of UnfinishedDub, but ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', which premiered in 2003, didn't make it to Italy until April 2021, with the launch of the Toonami channel on Mediaset Play Plus.
231	* The Italian dub of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' began only a year after the US release, but the dub of season 3 and further took a longer wait to be released than the original. The last two seasons were released on the Italian Netflix feed with subtitles only in January 2021, a little more than two years after the original release, with the proper dub being released only two months later.
232	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wolverine and the X\|Men2009}}-Men'' got released in Hungary on December 20th, 2012, nearly 4 years after it premiered in the United States.
233	* This happened quite often with British children's series in the 90's that [[ImportationExpansion were changed for their import into North America]]. ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' took five years to come over as part of ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'', ''WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures'' took six years to come to the US, where it aired on ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'' appeared in the United States eight years later on ''WesternAnimation/SaltysLighthouse''. The shortest show from Britain to come over to the US that was in a program made to introduce it to overseas audiences was ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie''[[note]] because of the success of ''Thomas'' in the United States, which was also created by Britt Allcroft[[/note]] on ''The Fox Cubhouse''. It also happened to British cartoons which aired by themselves without being expanded. For example, Postman Pat aired in 1981 in the UK and aired on US television a mind-boggling 24 years later [[note]] not counting the DirectToVideo releases of the show in 1999 by Celebrity Home Entertainment, which came out 18 years after its British premiere[[/note]] and ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'', which aired twenty years after premiering in Britain on Creator/{{Sprout}} [[note]] not counting an extremely rare 1987 DirectToVideo release by Family Home Entertainment[[/note]].
234	* ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' was released in Canada on June 6, 2022, a year and nine months after its premiere in the United States.
235	* ''Kiri and Lou'' came to the United States on May 30, 2022, three years after its premiere in New Zealand on March 18, 2019.
236	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Maisy}}'' began airing in the Czech Republic in 2020, a full 20 years after its UK premiere in 1999.
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240	* Pornography has commonly been subject to this. However, the Australian/New Zealand market has been the hardest hit with the second being the UK. For this reason, is because Australian and New Zealand lawmakers have the strictest pornography laws in terms of decency and acceptability by their respective governments. British lawmakers have similar rules but not as strict as Australia and New Zealand.
241	* ''Music/NowThatsWhatICallMusic'' free-to-air 24/7 music video channels ''70's'', ''80's'', and ''Rock'' arrived in the United States though a free TV streaming platform [=LocalNow=] on September 29, 2023, nearly 3, 6, and 1 year(s) after their respective launch. Their cable exclusive channel ''Clubland TV'' remains excluded.
242	* As it both involves both animated and live action movies (and even sometimes TV shows both live action and animated), Japan is the poster boy for this trope. Many factors including timing the releases to specific seasons/events, the time to dub and localize for Japanese audiences, gauging if the movie is a hit in other countries, etc. This [[https://www.quora.com/Why-does-it-take-so-long-for-Hollywood-movies-to-be-released-in-Japan Quorra link]] explains many reasons for Japan being the last to get them.
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