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"Due to unexpected demand, initial supplies are limited. We will ship your order for this product on or about May 10, 2004. "

Wow. This must be selling like hotcakes. I hope mine doesn't take that long. I pre-ordered as soon as it was available.

Not showing on my order. I ordered on 1/22/04.

My account says:
Shipping estimate: May 1, 2004
Delivery estimate: May 4, 2004 - May 5, 2004

damn...guess I'll have to get it in stores...

Phew, ordered from Deep Discount and it's on its way already. Glad I did - normally I wait until release day and pick it up at their outlet store, but I was too worried that they'd be out of stock and there's no way I was going to take a chance on missing this one!

Hopefully Best Buy will carry this.

Sorry for you guys that ordered from Amazon, but that looks like good news for more classic horror to be released.

If you check out Amazon's statement carfully, the delay only applies to the collection with the busts, not the individual two-disk sets.

I'm thinking about canceling my order with Amazon, as mine says the following.

Shipping estimate: May 10, 2004
Delivery estimate: May 21, 2004

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones: Amazon shipped my copy yesterday via Fedex Home (I also preordered this on 1/22/04 and used the free shipping option.)

In my experience, Amazon tends to overestimate the time involved. I've often received shipments from them on or before the original "estimated ship date."

Best Buy will have them. We got them in on Tuesday and they look really cool. Didn't even plan on picking them up, but since there's like 13 movies and the packaging is so nice, I decided to blind buy these babies. Don't get that much off the sale price though. For those interested, they'll be selling for $59.99 and they're in next week's ad so there should be a lot of them. I forget how many we got in total, but there's a mass display, which I wasn't expecting.

K

"blind buy"? As in, you've never seen the Universal horror classics?

Man, you're in for a treat. Some of the sequels are cheesy, but these are some of the greatest horror films every made.

I'm going to hold off on canceling my order for a few days, but if it isn't shipped by the time it's in stores, I will do so.

While this is a bit frustrating for me, I don't mind waiting what will probably be only a week or so for the set.

Additionally, the fact that Amazon has so many orders that they felt the need to post this 'warning' is actually great news -- and gives me renewed hope that we'll soon see Creature, Invisible Man, and Mummy sets.

Actually, I'd guarantee it if we weren't dealing with Universal. (AKA the most illogical studio currently in existence.)

Mine shipped yesterday via FedEx Home (which I suppose means I have to be here to sign for it or go pick it up). I ordered March 15, used free shipping and STL. Not exactly fair to those who ordered much sooner, but typical of Amazon (this happened to me with Warner Legends Set, which I preordered as soon as I could and got about a month late)

Will Best Buy and Circuit City have a limited number shipped? If this is like other Universal releases (like Scarface), they will have about 20 or 30 initially, then re-order and have more than they know what to do with in the long run.

I got to hold it in my hands today, but I couldn't buy it. It's really big and heavy and it was $79.99 at FYE, maybe on sale on Tuesday!

Check your local Borders on Tues. My store got them in.

Digitaleyes mailed mine already, which I am glad for. I can't wait to get this!

I have it in hand right now. Received it from DDD. One MAJOR PROBLEM though. I have two loose disks. One of which is as scratched as it can get. Since I have two if these loose babies. I suspect there may be quite a few complaints over the loose disks.

I just checked my PayPal account (I check it daily just to make sure everything is in order) and the $50.39 for this set has just been charged to my account. I was rather currious about this, so I went to check my order for it at Amazon.com and to my amazement, it's now listed as "Shipment #1: Shipping Soon". I guess I'll be getting it before May 21st afterall!

anyone know if CC is gonna carry this puppy?

This makes me glad that I never preorder DVD's. I will have mine on Tuesday while those who preordered will have to wait.

I'll have paid about $10 less than you also, depending on where you are getting it.