popegregFKAgoblin23

Yes thanks! In for Speed Racer!

creekdipper

Thanks, OP! In for both.

tonyc3742

It says no, to get FWB shipping you are supposed to click through their 'friends' link, the FAQ says "use of any other clickthrough will void FWB discount" or something similar.
"Benefits cannot be combined with any other J&R Coupons, Special offers, and Third Party Website offers (including, but not limited to, points/mileage web portals)"
For something as cheap as this, that's a fair tradeoff.
In for R&B.

Funk

I ordered this at the 19.99 price. It was supposed to ship on 11/28 but I didn't receive any notice and the order status page hasn't been updated. The product has disappeared from the J&R site.

Lecithin

I show the following on my online credit card summary:

and the status on the JR site says "submitted"

So I hope it's going to ship eventually.

mr Articulate

I ordered two - one to give as a present. Not sure who to give it to -
My brother who loves the Muppets and has a 6 year old?
My friend the magician/animator with a 12 and 8 year old?
Or an anonymous family - We're adopting a family for Christmas and I grabbed a gift tag that says they want "Kids DVDS". I don't know this anonymous family, you think kids will still like this show?
Plus I have Seasons 1-4 (but they are opened and that may seem like a cheesy gift)

JoeDoakes

If all they told you was, "kids DVDs", then its a tricky question. When I think of Bullwinkle, I think 6 to 11 years old. That's when I watched the shows. I have some young children that have not seen the show yet, but I have the first three seasons and I plan to try. For preschool age children, Sesame Street, Disney Channel or Nick Jr. DVDs are very popular, but if the children are older, they might not like them. One Nick show, Max and Ruby appeals to young children and has the potential to please older children as well. On the other hand, you could give the Bullwinkle box and if they don't want it, they could sell it for a decent amount probably. They can probably use the money.

ProfessorEcho

I have to agree with Joe on this although a lot depends on the personalities of the kids, of course. The adopted family is an unknown quantity at this point, so I wouldn't get something as esoteric as this for them when they might be hoping for something they recognize as current toys and as benchmarks with other kids their ages.

On paper I would think the 12 and 8 year olds would enjoy it the most, but not if they are geared toward anime and other mega action cartoons. ROCKY and BULLWINKLE was silly stuff, but it embraced irony much in the same way some toons on Adult Swim have done, though the difference is that the former was always age appropriate. So in that sense a six year old kid might not get a lot of the humor, but he's also at an age where he could be taught to understand why R & B is such a masterpiece, whereas the older kids might be too cool for the room and reject it outright. I would say that if your brother has gotten his 6 year old into Muppet humor then that kid is probably ripe for discovering Jay Ward's universe. That's who I would choose based on your prospects.

Let us know how it turns out. It's always fun getting kids to latch onto classics that we loved at their age.

tonyc3742

Mine says submitted as well, but I used a debit card - they say the bank will hold the funds until the item ships. The difference between my 'available balance' and 'actual balance' is 19.99, so I'll take that as a good sign.

Randy Hassan

Gone now?

Ceege

Hang in there. Yesterday, I received my shipping notice for the Speed Racer Giftset. My shipping notice for Rocky and Bullwinkle came today!

namrobal

Ordered on the 26th, still showing not shipped. Says status "submitted" and "Orders paid using PayPal are charged when you place your order"

jwstl

FYI...I received a shipment notice for both Speed Racer and Rocky/Bullwinkle 10 minutes ago.

Bobaray

Got my Speed Racer gift set yesterday. No gift set (car) packaging. Just the complete series.

Pizza

Same here. No car. It would have been nice. Oh, well. For the same price as the Amazon deal it's like getting the speed racer set for free. Still...the Mach 5 was cool.

marald

The 2 R&B's I ordered came today.

jacob_b

Damn! That sucks. Can't beat the price, but the best parts of the series has been the pretty cool neat things you get with the DVDs.

joe_b

Got my Rocky & Bullwinkle set in today. While I've seen worse designed packaging, this was still pretty bad. It took me a good 15 minutes to carefully remove each disc from the cardboard pages. Six of the discs were perfect, while the rest had some kind of scratch/scuff/residue on them. Only about three look bad enough to affect playback, so they'll be getting watched sooner rather than later.

The set has four discs crammed on each page -- two on each side, with the discs overlapping. This makes it really hard to get them out without further scratches/fingerprints. Just a really ill-conceived design. If they were going for cheap, they could had easily used those little foam dots and attached one disc on each side of the page. Of course, 9 double-disc slim cases would have been more ideal. With the $100 retail on this set, it should have at least been designed to protect the actual product.

dmkb

Must have been designed by the same geniuses who brought us the It Takes a Thief set.

mr Articulate

Many of these recent sets have switched to these carboard sleeves:

Norman Lear box set,
Clint Eastwood 35 years (with book - rerelease without the "book" looks like it could have corrected this)
Simpsons s13
Futurama S5

AdamGott

I received my R&B&F a couple of days ago.

Funk

Got mine yesterday. Thanks OP!

dmkb

Got mine yesterday as well.
Not a scratch on any of the discs - very impressed with JR.com

Lecithin

Still waiting on mine, though it says "shipped" but no date or tracking info.

tonyc3742

Just got mine today. In a folded over big (padded) envelope. I'm currently already working on a short cartoon series so I might not get to this for a while - is it suggested that I go ahead and open it and go through the disks? I think I have some empty dvd cases, is it worth transferring them over?