STAR WARS Individual Steel Books Now $16.96 Preorder
08-14-15, 12:19 PM
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Re: STAR WARS Individual Steel Books Now $16.96 Preorder
Although I do own a few Steelbooks, I don't see the draw since they're on the shelf 99% of the time and only the spine shows anyway. Now if there are collectors out there who display the Steelbooks cover-side, I could see the appeal.
08-15-15, 09:44 AM
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Re: STAR WARS Individual Steel Books Now $16.96 Preorder
As I have argued in other forums, for many, the collecting experience includes the packaging. I happen to love the steelbooks and many have in fact devised ingenious ways of displaying them in their home theater set-ups. What puzzles me are the people who find it necessary to shoot down those who find as much value and pleasure in the packaging as the films themselves. Lets face it, I'm sure we all have friends and family members who find it ridiculous that we would collect movies at all. So live and let live and to each his own. I can't wait to own these.
08-15-15, 10:00 AM
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People were not shooting down those that collect packaging. They were in fact commenting on their dislike for these designs because they do consider the packaging in their buying decisions. I've spent the extra money to get steelbooks, and other special packaging, well over a hundred times over the years.
08-15-15, 09:05 PM
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People were not shooting down those that collect packaging. They were in fact commenting on their dislike for these designs because they do consider the packaging in their buying decisions. I've spent the extra money to get steelbooks, and other special packaging, well over a hundred times over the years.
08-22-15, 02:08 PM
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Re: STAR WARS Individual Steel Books Now $16.96 Preorder
If you're wanting the unaltered theatrical versions you have *one* choice. The 2006 "Limited Edition" versions of IV, V, and VI which came with the remastered version in anamorphic WS and the "flat" (non-anamorphic) WS theatrical version as a "bonus" disc.
Links to those releases on Amazon:
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The theatrical versions were nothing more than the old laserdisc transfers put on DVD. They're not great but they *are* better than nothing.
Each of those also came in a package which included a Trade Paperback of the story and Best Buy had a "Tin Box" version with all three in a "Tin Box" but no TPB
Links to those releases on Amazon:
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The theatrical versions were nothing more than the old laserdisc transfers put on DVD. They're not great but they *are* better than nothing.
Each of those also came in a package which included a Trade Paperback of the story and Best Buy had a "Tin Box" version with all three in a "Tin Box" but no TPB
Never seen sets with books in...
08-22-15, 03:22 PM
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Re: STAR WARS Individual Steel Books Now $16.96 Preorder
Strange. Not bad, but weird.
08-23-15, 05:10 PM
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Re: STAR WARS Individual Steel Books Now $16.96 Preorder
^^ that'll be reserved for the 2016 editions when they'll sucker even more money out of steelbook enthusiasts.
