Battlestar Galactica boxset differences???
 

Other then the obvious outside box are there any differences in the two different packagings of the Battlestar Galactica Boxsets???
Thanks,
The General

Other than the booklet/episode guide that came with the larger box, I suspect they're the same set. Hell, you'd think that when they rereleased the set in a proper box they could've at least designed the inner box with a properly labelled spine. But nooooo...

And while we're on the subject, I'm wonderign why the box has gone up in price? Up til recently it retailed for around $89. But now Amazon and Buy.com have it priced over $100. Are they getting that rare?

Well, funny you should mention that. Because I wasn't really thrilled with paying ~$100 for that set, I decided to go a different route. It's called Ebay. I went on Ebay and did a search and found several auctions for the set, many very reasonably priced.

I made a few bids, I bid a max of $50. The first auction I had it for $35, until apparently the last few minutes when I was out bid and it went for something like $52 or so.

I rebid on another auction with the same $50 max bid and originally had it for $42, but another bidder came in and knocked my bid up to $46. But I won it in the end. So I got the set for about half that of full retail and it was a new "sealed" set.

The only problem I have with the set is the double-sided discs. Very hard to handle without getting finger prints on them. First time I flipped the first disc, I got lock-up during the opening credits sequence because of a finger smudge around the inner ring.

I'd wished they just would have made the set a 9-disc deal or something. However I think they did it this way (6-disc) because they had so much found "lost footage" that it would have been cost prehibitive to make a 9-10 set. The 3-part pilot movie has 34 minutes of lost footage in of itself. And as it is already it clocks in at 138 minutes.

I'm a little disspointed in the sound. Going by the "demo" shown on that one Howie Long Radio Shack commercial, I was expecting a little better stereo separation and more surround effects, but for the most part the 5.1 track sounds somewhat monural. But then again, we are talking a 1978-9 show here.

But as for nostaligia reasons...I find the show entertaining. It's great to be able to pop in a DVD and hear the Cylons talk in their robotic voice whenever I want to.

I bought this set to get pumped up and geared up for the new Sci-Fi Channel series. I'm hoping they hold off on the mini-series DVD until they release the eventual first season of the show. It's be a long wait, but for convenience sake, it'd be much cooler if they'd just include it on the season set.

IIRC, I got my set for $79 right around when it came out. That was Circuit City's price, matched at Best Buy 'cuz CC was sold out. And that was for the original, helmet-box set.