Man, I never know when to pull the trigger and print out the list!

Seriously, thanks for the work.

Twin Cities: Knollwood has the stand, but it was very sparse on Friday. Hopefully they will re-stock during the week.

I just came from FYE and they have a display of Sony titles 3/$12. All titles appeared to be same ones Big Lots has had, so if you missed something, it might worth checking FYE.

Has anyone noticed there are actually 2, possibly 3 different MGM assortments?

UPC#550014447 DVD MGM 832 PIECE DISPLAY
This was the HUGE display they had at the Nashua store (sounds about right that it had 832 pieces in it)

UPC#550014449 DVD MGM 256 PIECE DISPLAY
These were small tower displays in the Derry store (probably holds 256)
I think these were also in the Methuen store, but I didn't buy anything, so I can't remember the exact UPC's. They also didn't have the display set up, the new assortment was crammed into what was left of the prior Sony bin and their regular media rack.


Seems titles can appear in either or both assortments, not sure if there's an assortment # in the middle 550014448 too? Or any real rhyme or reason as to the assortments we get...and what's in them.

When these MGM titles first started showing up in April, my receipts read: UPC#550014259 MGM DVD VIDEO WAVE 1.

Since that actually was the first wave (of what is now a flood), maybe there is some rhyme or reason or planning as to how the shipments are sent out.

Thanks. This sounds like the most sensible way to manage the list.

I wanted to get some input because I remembered that Ken Cline had bumped his updated Big Lots list forward several times on the old Big Lots thread (but that was probably necessary because it wasn't the first post on that thread).


Link to the Big Lots Master List:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....st#post8745448

I wonder how to get one of these lots wholesale. :drool:

Get a job at Big Lots - Employees get a 20% discount. Wholesale couldn't be much less than that. Plus you get first choice.

All 5 stores in the Atlanta area have NOTHING! They usually always get everything!
Hopefully later this week they will get some of these titles.

I'm envious of you guys :bow:

P.S. I still have an unopened copy of "The Comeback" if anyone is interested.

I haven't seen any of the MGM titles in NE MO yet, hopefully soon.

It seems like there are only 1 of each HBO title at my store and several of each Sony title. If anyone is interested I have posted a thread in the DVD exchange forum as I have a few $3 Big Lots finds I would like to trade for other Big Lots titles.

So far, haven't seen the MGM shippers yet around the St. Louis, MO area, I've mostly seen the Sony reshipment/shipper (this being at the Alton, IL, as that one was picked through; and they don't put the shipper out at Mid-Rivers). Granite City, IL had NOTHING, as did South County. Also with the above stores, the HBO titles have been just devastated and picked through.

Are the MGM's retailing at $3 ?

Yes they are.

Thank you !

First off, thanks for the hard work in listing all the titles.
Went to the BL in Highland Park, CA last night.
There were four huge double sided racks full of all MGM stuff.

I tried to control myself, but found it impossible.
I picked up:

The Brood
Burnt Offerings
X:The Man with X-Ray Eyes
Scanners
Frogs
Dunwich Horror
Salvador CE
Swamp Thing
CQ
Foxy Brown
Slaughters Big Rip Off
Thunderbirds are Go
Thunderbirds 6
Amityville 2: The Possession
Bubba Ho Tep CE (I already own the dvd. Bought it for $22 a few years ago. I found it so sickening that this title was on sale for $3, that I bought the last two copies to give as gifts)

Went back again and grabbed:

Howling 2
Thrashin
Beat Street

What can I say? I'm a sucker for $3 dvds!

Couple of adds..

:MGM:

At First Sight
Hope and Glory (non-anamorphic)
Mystery Date

The Snowman listed under MGM should be moved to the Columbia/Sony list.

I would be much more inclined to buy more than a handful of titles here and there if Big Lots was still charging the $2 that they were last year.

In the stores, are the Sony titles in a seperate stand or place than the MGM ones?

^They should be, yes. The MGM assortments should be coming in their own displays, but in the case of the Methuen, MA store, the MGM dvds were not in the displays I've seen at other stores, they had them mixed in with the existing Sony stuff which was in the Sony cardboard bin and also mixed in with their regular media rack.

Went back to Nashua store this week, and they had another 832 piece display set up next to the other one that was there last week. They told me they had both of them last week, but didn't have the space for them. This week they moved both MGM displays and the Sony/HBO bin to the right of the registers, and they still have the existing media rack with other stuff in it's normal place. Holy crap, DVDs are everywhere! :D

From the newly opened display, I managed to get the two titles that were floaters in the old display: Hotel & The Fugitive Kind (all the floaters were still in the old bin too).

Also picked up some other stuff I didn't get the first time, but nothing that's not already in the list. I have to go back tomorrow to get a couple more I decided I wanted in the meantime too. It's madness, Big Lots is killing me right now, I've never had such a stack of unopened and/or unwatched before. -eek-

I saw some Funimation titles at my local BL today.

Solty Rei vol. 1
Samurai 7 vol. 1, and either 3 or 5 (don't remember which)
Baki the Grappler vol. 9,12
Galaxy Railways vol. 3, and either 1 or 5 (don't remember which)

Here's what I picked up today:

The Ghoul
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Thunderbird 6
Konga

I'll be going back for more. Does anyone recommend The Brood or Scanners? Are they any good?

I highly recommend both The Brood and Scanners. Scanners is more well known for the exploding head scenes, but I think The Brood is actually the better of the two. Both are definitely worth a watch.

Thanks for the updates and correction.


Link to the Big Lots Master List:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread....st#post8745448

New anime!
Funimation titles? Crap, I just traded for Samurai 7 last week, would've rather had them new, do you know if they were the regular versions or the Viridian Collection. I'd like to get a copy of Vol.3 to replace the one I have with slightly torn artwork. I am also still looking for Wolf's Rain 3 if Bandai titles start popping up again.

Here's my master trade list:
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=532675 MGM titles are abundant in my area right now if anyone wants to propose some kind of trade, thanks!

Don't forget to add to MGM:
Bowling For Columbine (SE 2-disc)

Nothing new at Knollwood (St. Louis Park)...just the dregs. If any Twin City BL shopper checks out Coon Rapids or Brooklyn Center, please share the result. ($4.10 a gallon gas damps the long distance hunting for me...even though my MX-5 gets 32 mpg if I can keep my foot out of it.)

called BL in Houston, TX -- said they got a big shipment in ...

Visions of spending 200 floated in my mind ..

until all I saw was that it was the same old re-stock of Sony titles.

Anyone in Houston see the MGM display?