Spent the past 26 hours visiting 5 Big Lots locations mainly in Columbus Ohio .
I found only a shit load of Pinky and the Brain at one store and a few copies of Pinky... at another location
Thats it. Nothing else in terms of Box sets. No live-acton sets at all. Very disappointed.

Did pick up:
($3 each)
The Corner (complete miniseries)
Puddle Cruiser
Coal Minors Daughter
Tightrope
The Wind and the Lion

Nice find on the Coal Miner's Daughter. I'd seen that it was in the latest shipment of stuff but it never arrived here.

Neither did Pennies From Heaven.

I finally found Nightmares and Dreamscapes!! My BIg Lots had plenty of them!! I also got a copy of Pinky and the Brain V2. I only need to find V1 and Nip Tuck S4 on DVD and I will be happy!

Picked up the following:

ER season 5
Animaniacs V1, V2
The History of Rock and Roll

Hopefully when the print ad comes out this Sunday, all the stores will have the boxsets out on the sales floor. It seems to be hit or miss as to whether a particular store just throws them out on the shelf now or wait until Sunday when it seems that they are supposed to be officially for sale. Hmm... We'll see....

Anybody in the Sacramento area find TV Boxsets at BL? I've seen none at the Northgate and Watt stores last week and none at the Stockton Blvd store today.

Stopped by 3 BL today, only one had any box sets

picked up

ER 2,3,7,9
Friends 2,3,7

Still hoping to find Pinky, animanicas and looney tunes.

The wife had me pick up Friends S3, S5, S6, S7, S9.. Based on other DVDtalker's finds, our hope to find list grew to be...

Smallville S6 Blu
OC S3
Friends S1, S2, S4, S8, S10

picked up a title today that looked interesting that I dont think has been mentioned before, yet another lionsgate double feature, "devil in the flesh" 1 and 2, looks to me kind of like a teenaged "fatal attraction", similar to "the crush" or "poison ivy" the 1st one stars rose mcgowan of "charmed" in the lead role, and the sequal stars jodi lynn o'keefe from "prison break" taking over the title role.

Hopefully on tomorrows truck I'll find Pinky and the Brain, Wonderwoman, Blade and History of RNR.

My wife had that set. She loves them. I never had the interest in watching them. Let us know how they are.

I got an awesome tip from a Big Lots employee today. They told me that Big Lots picked up Virgin Megastores stock and its going to start coming in next week at some stores. They implied it would be more DVDs.

I read some online reviews of both films, supposedly rose mcgowen plays a pretty good "evil bitch" but jodi o'keefe plays an even better one.

I went to the nearest Big Lots tonight. No TV sets other than "Wait Til Your Father Gets Home" and a volume of "Thundercats".

I picked up a few John Wayne titles (McQ, Blood Alley, The Telegraph Trail), The Right Stuff 2-disc and Mac (blind buy, I love Turturo).

I bought:

Dallas Season 1,2,3,9
Friends Season 1,3,4,5,6,7
Smallville Season season 4
Dukes of Hazard seasons 4,5,6
History of Rock and Roll
Blade complete Series
Night Court Season 1
NFL Films Legends of Autumn

I have checked three (Florida) stores since I saw the posts about the box sets, but had no luck... maybe this week. Pinky and the Brain is the top of my list. Animaniacs if I'm feel like splurging.

Verrrry interesting...

Local store got a big WB reshipment + a bunch of Bonds. No boxes. No Blu.
I grabbed:
Never Say Never Again
The TV Set
Hero At Large
Casablanca

They had most of the 007 titles, but not the one I most wanted (Live And Let Die). They were all the 1999's except The Living Daylights, which is the new restoration (I wish they all were).

this is not going to be a good thing on my budget i tell you.

if you are in south florida, I saw some pinky and the brain v2 at the margate store

One Big Lots from my area restocked since the last time I'd gone (about two weeks ago). The other Big Lots has yet to get any sets.

Tonight I picked up:

Wonder Woman Complete Series
The History of Rock and Roll
Nip Tuck S.4 (DVD)
Animaniacs Vol.2
Pinky and the Brain Vol.2
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
ER S.2 & S.3
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home S.1
Joey S.1
The West Wing S.2
Roots 30th Anniversery
Roots: The Next Generation

and for my bro:

Smallville S.4
Smallville S.7 (BD)
Wonder Woman Complete Series
The OC S.2 & S.3
and others, I can't remember them all.

They had tons of:

The History of Rock and Roll
Roots 30th Anniversery
Joey S.1
Dukes of Hazzard (various seasons)
NBA Lakers Set
Animaniacs Vol.1 & Vol.2
Pinky and the Brain Vol.2
Nightmares and Dreamscapes

And various other titles. They have one four sided metal rack for DVDs and it was almost completely filled with sets.

None of the Big Lots in town have had even a hint of TV sets. I'm getting annoyed.

No box sets at Blue Springs MO location,as of July 6.They had a butt load of PC games,though.
I picked up the special 007 edition of Tommorrow Never Dies for 3 bucks,so I was happy.

Maybe the quality is improved(I have not see the newer versions,)but the extras on the 007 special editions are 100 times better.Just my 2 cents.

Yep. I'm proof.

Amazing, considering Columbus is Big Lots' corporate headquarters.

This seems to lend creedence to the idea that none of these sets were supposed to hit the floor until the "official sale" on the 12th.