NiCK Crush

So what's the consensus... is the Target release the way to go?

dsa_shea

If you don't want all the extra trinkets then it is the way to go.

Decker

...except that it's already gone (probably). You should get a rain check in case more copies come out later since it's $15 off MSRP this week.

jiggyblau

My receipt says I saved $5 and the regular Target price is $39.99.

Drav3n

i cant find this edition at any target.. ive now been to/called 5 different targets and none of them have it

jiggyblau

Well, take calling them with a grain of salt. I called my local one and they told me they never got them in. I went to the store a few hours later and pulled one off the shelf.

NiCK Crush

I think I'm just gonna get the UCE. I have some reward zone money that will make it less than the Target edition anyway.

Decker

I do wonder what the point of Target obtaining the exclusive rights to the BR-only set and then not making more than a handful available to any of their stores. For some inexplicable, unknown reason, Target vastly overestimates the interest in Christina Aguilera's Greatest Hits and underestimates the interest in a High Def vesion of The Wizard of Oz.
If I hadn't been reading what the folks in the East had been posting, I'd have not gone in at 8AM on Tuesday and I'd probably have missed out too.

Goldberg74

Walmart has is for $20. From what I understand, its just a one-disc edition with no bells and whistles.

b2net

It is basically disc 1 of UCE / Target Edition... The extras listed include stuff from disc 2 which is not in this version. The sticker listing the extras is the same as the DVD version which is a 2-Disc version.

jeffrey r

You picked up a rain check, right? I went to Target Wednesday night this week to pick up Monsters vs. Aliens BD for my kids, and checked on Oz just out of curiousity. They were all out, but I took a rain check slip to the checkout and got a rain check. Kind of ideal as I wasn't sure I wanted to buy this set, but now I locked in this discounted price until November when the rain check expires and I can decide what I want to do.

Drav3n

well i went to my target again today to get a rain check. I look in the bluray section, find nothing. i decide to walk around for a bit to get a few things, and low-and-behold, i find a copy of the target edition lying on a shelf in the picture frame section! haha i went back to electronics and showed it to him and asked "so...i thought u said this store still hasnt received these yet?" he just looked, and i walked away to the register lol stupid target employees.

shelland

We bought ours on Thursday night, and I saw them again today at a different location. So they're out there.

We're in Minneapolis where Target is based - not sure if that affects numbers at all. I wouldn't think so.

yellowlt4

They are out there for sure. I went to two different Targets today (looking for a few clearance items) and found a total of 14 copies of the Emerald Edition Blu-Ray. There are only 13 left now as I grabbed 1 at the first store.

jiggyblau

The Target I got the last one from on Wednesday had two more today.

JoeySeven

Fred Meyer(in-store,In the NW USA) has the 4 disc Limited Edition for $42(that is until 10-10-09,with 30% sticker price)

This is the one I bought,have not opened yet.

stronghold7000

Tempe Marketplace (AZ) had 5 copies of the Emerald Edition on display this evening (4 after I bought one)

AlexOi

I went to Target and trying to get a raincheck. I asked the target employee for a raincheck and he told me the blu-way was not release yet. Then I said it was released on Tue, then he said it was not release in the store. What an idiot!

BackStJoe

Scored the Target version last night in College Point, NY
Looked like they had 2 more copies, though no one who worked there seemed to know they had it or what it was! When I asked they kept directing me to the large Deluxe box. The woman who checked me out said "oh, they released a smaller one!". I told her it was a Target exclusive and she looked at me like I had two heads!

AlexOi

I had been checking Target quite often in the past few days. I still couldn't find a copy. I hope I can get one before the raincheck expire on Nov.

Pillowhead

What the hell section is this in? I've been to 3 Targets in North Phoenix and can't find a damn one of them.

I have my rain check too.

whotony

It should still be in Targets, but they might not be gettingnew stock.

I saw 2 on a shelf in the blu section today.

Adboy151

I hadn't seen it recently, but today it reappeared on the very bottom row of the main BD section. (This was a Super Target.)

whotony

Yep this is were I saw 2 today, right down at the bottom were "W" usually goes.

seymouru

The UCE is now $45.49 at Amazon, presumably to match BB's 30% off sale pricing.

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