From frequently reading this thread, it sounds like BL takes much better care of their midwest stores then they do their West Coast.

GRRR.

The three Big Lots near where I live haven't restocked in a month. No love here in the northeast either.

jet

Well, alas I have not seen those, but if you find any of my titles, I'd do the same for you...

Hi, I am a long time lurker of this thread and finally joined so I can post.

I would like to thank you all for all the info. I have been able to pick up a load of movies at BL at great prices.

I am still looking for

The Band Wagon
Rebel Without a Cause
Giant
East of Eden

Hopefully I will run across them soon. I am sure there are others, I will have to reread through the posts to see what others are finding.

I did find Strangers on a Train this past week. After reading some of the posts, I wish I would have picked up the other copy they had. It looks like others are still looking for it. If I get back to that store and they still have a copy, I will grab it.

Thanks for helping me spend money!!

Yeah, if any of you guys find an extra copy of Strangers on a Train please pick it up for me. It would be greatly appreciated.

Absolutely nothing in Southern California stores. At least a couple in OC. Seems like ghetto country don't get good stuff

finally found creature comforts s2. anyone know if s1 also available? $3 is great for s2, but i want to hold off on opening it unless i can get s1 also. i feel weird having only one season.

i hear ya on the southern california stores though. NADA. i was hoping/wishing that i'd find some of those warner titles, but alas no. sucks to be me, i guess.

What are you looking for in SoCal? I found quite a few titles at 4 BL in the OC. But, I haven't seen any of the Warner 2 discs. At least not yet.

What's the consensus on the "previously enjoyed" discs? I can't bring myself to buy any of these. Maybe, if they were $2.

I was their the other day Big Lots in Lorain Ohio I didnt look at all but I saw "The Perfect Score" as it was in the front.

I only made it out to 1 BL this weekend and did not find any new anime on your guys lists. I really enjoyed the hunt for the batman serial so now I have decied to find starship tropper 2. So thats what I am looking for now. I also have never seen any of the mythical james dean titles. I am hitting the BL I missed over the weekend in the next day or 2 so hopefully I will see some more anime for you guys.

Neil,

I just saw Starship Troopers 2 at a couple of BL this past Saturday. If you can't find it, maybe I can pick it up for you.

The "hunt" is part of the fun :)

I wouldn't mind owning Enron: TSGITR or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but I can't bring myself to buy them since the cases appear to be from Blockbuster. I haven't seen any reports on the the condition of the discs or artwork yet.

Those are the same 2 titles I was interested in as well.

I purchased Murderball from Big Lots and it was in a Blockbuster case. Played fine.

How did the disc look? and scratches? Was the disc printing stock, or the rental printing?

That's another one I wanted, Murderball. Good doc.

I haven't seen it at BL (or S2 for that matter), but it's currently $11.07 at DD w/free shipping.

Me too. For $1-$2 I would probably pick up one from time to time, but it's pretty ridiculous that the used titles are more expensive than most of the new ones.

Nuts, neil, too bad I didn't check here before heading out this morning, I could've gotten SST2 for you easy. gonna hit my local stores real quick tho, we'll see what happens.

PMing everyone who's found stuff for me, I've narrowed the field a bit further by myself

I've seen this one in the $5 bin at WM. You might save some time by looking there instead. I got mine there since one has yet to show up at the BL near me.

The Big Lots in my area hasn't had much of anything the past couple months, but I don't frequently check. Seeing some of the things you guys have found, I may have to make a stop sometime this week, I'll let you know what I find.

Just for fun I found Mobile Suit Gundam v7. What the hell good v7 of the original series will do me (much like v10 of Wing) remains to be seen.

I found Momento and the batman '43 for $3.00 in Belle vernon PA...

I know they had planetes 1 and 3 if anyone is interested, as well as a bunch of other anime, i will take another trip tomorrow and write more down, I am willing to pick them up and ship em out if anyone is interested...

Nick

I bought Broken Flowers, the only copy I've seen in my area for $3 Previously Viewed. The disc looks as if it was never rented, no scratches / smudges, that I could see.

I would LOVE to get Planetes v1!!

I bought it from Big Lots last year and had to exchange it twice because disc one had heavy scratches. After the third scratched disc I got, I decided to contact Bandai. I'm sending them the disc tomorrow to get replaced.

If you want to get it from BL, it would probably be better to go to a b&m store than to trade for it.

I've been to every single BL B&M within about a 30 mile radius, and only about 2 of those stores have not gotten in there pile of bandai junk, so I don't imagine I'll find it, unfortunately.

The BL nearest me has tons of anime. I saw Planetes, but not sure which one. I also saw 3 of the Yu-Gi-Oh 1st complete season tins for $13. I'm not much into anime, but my son likes it.

Nick, sent you a PM.

I'm still looking pretty thoroughly for v4 and v1 of Planetes myself...

I have Planetes v3 and v5 sealed f/t if anyone is interested.

I'm interested in v5.

Found a motherload of Sony restock today in the Goffstown store. Multiple (at least 5) copies of almost everything that's been seen lately, Memento, Batman serials, River Runs Through It, Monster SE, Steamboy, etc. The only thing I think I didn't see was Larry Flynt and the McQueen set.

Picked up a couple anime titles for whomever was looking for them, I've sent you email.

basaro, I don't suppose you saw a copy of Strangers on a Train did ya?

No, that's a Warners title, and I don't think we ever get Warner assortments around here, I've never seen them.

This was a restock of Sony titles, all the same stuff that's already been spotted over the past couple months.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen the Warner batches in my area either. They should come around eventually I guess.

I now have extra copies of:
Mars Daybreak Vol.5
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Movie #1 The Empty Battlefield
Batman (1943 serials)

if anyone wants them...

I've been to nearly every St. Louis-area Big Lots (sans Festus and taking a trip to Quincy IL/Hannibal MO), and nothing for Warner shipments at all (and only two stores got the Paramount stuff, but not much of it). So far, only one store has a TON of anime, while others have been VERY scant for anything (ie. the remodeling Alton store, and Granite City had NOTHING). Friday, I'm going to recheck two stores and cross my fingers to find a few things (namely the s-CRY-ed Anime Legends volumes and the last volume of Overman King Gainer, which I've been hunting for, for awhile). :)

Myself, after noticing a small Bandai anime replenishment at one BL, I snagged s-CRY-ed (Anime Legends 2-disc version) - Vol. 3 (which has the last 2 discs of the series) which was amazingly $3.

UPDATE (FRIDAY 2/01/08):
Hit all of the Big Lots in St. Louis again, as a few did a minor DVD replenishment, but nothing I bought sadly that I wanted. However, did pick up a few things from my list used (pretty much new) from a nearby FYE, which changed their used prices on a handful of things that Big Lots/DG carries.

UPDATED LIST!
I'm looking for:

.hack/SIGN - Vols. 1, 4
s-CRY-ed (Anime Legends 2-disc sets) - Vols. 1
(if possible) Tsukikage Ran - Vol. 4
Dan Doh (2-disc) - Vol. 3
IGPX - Vol. 6


Please PM me, if you've found any of these (and if you're looking for something in particular, as a few stores have been cleared out of darn near everything, but others have some anime, and a few Sony titles).

Hey all, here is what I was able to find and buy @ the Big Lots in Torrance, CA (on Sepulveda and Figueroa):

American Outlaws - 4.00 (one and only copy)
Out of Reach - 3.00 (one and only copy)
Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different - 3.00 (saw 3+ copies)
A History of Violence - 4.00 (previously viewed, but in a regular dvd case and only one fingerprint; saw another in a blockbuster case)
Magma - 3.00 (one and only copy)
Bottoms Up - 3.00 (saw more than 5 copies)
Iron Eagle - 3.00 (saw more than 5 copies)
The Squid and the Whale - 3.00 (snagged copy in a standard dvd case, saw 3+ copies in a blockbuster case)
Silver City - 2.00 (saw a couple)

I also bought 4 1.00 3 feature dvds:
Born to Win, Gold, Death Sentence - 1.00
Til the Clouds Roll By, Pot O' Gold, His Girl Friday - 1.00
The Jackals, The Bells of San Angelo, Kansas Pacific - 1.00
Made for Each Other, Suddenly, My Man Godfrey - 1.00

Other movies that I did not buy, but are still fresh in my mind:
Mothman Prophecies
Lonestar State of Mind

Picked up Memento 2 disc tonight for $3....when I saw this I was like WTF? I couldn't believe it. Anyway, Big Lots Rules BROTHER!

Finally found Memento 2 disc. Haven't seen Batman 1943 serial