beetyke

Just curious if the poster offer is open to Canadian residents (unlike the King Kong one). I did not get the poster offer with my tin and I wanted to be certain it would be available before I began following up with WB.

Also, speaking of which, would anyone have contact info for WB's customer service?

Thanks.

Mr. Salty

Check your tin just to be sure you didn't actually get an offer. The offer form is tucked in with the reproduction lobby cards. It took me a while to find it.

Joe Molotov

All the tins I saw at my local Best Buy were all dented and banged up. Not cool. I'm not sure if I would have dropped $60 on it anyway, but certainly not for a dinged up copy.

J.P.V.

I just checked, no order form in the Canadian tin.

I'm not really surprised since all the previous Warner poster offers have been valid only in the U.S.A.

AGuyNamedMike

I dropped the $60 on it at BB and opened it up, cut off the POP and sent in the form and receipt for the poster. Then Saturday I saw it at Sam's for $40. Poop.

CloudVader

Is there an expiration date for the poster offer? I'm debating whether or not to include the tin in a final DDD order, or to wait for the next sale to get it. If the poster offer is going to expire soon, I'll have to pony up the $31 now.

Lt Ripley

How big is the poster supposed to be? Will it be a full 27" X 41"?

Yoda

I got mine for $49 at best buy and also did not recieve the poster offer. It does state that we should recieve it on the back of the limited tin. I am going to follow up with WB and see what is up.

BobSolo

Someone who has been screwed in the past by retail stores and therefore has a very low sense of consumers ethics might suggest that you buy it at Sam's, carefully remove any Sam's stickers (pick up some goo gone while you are there), and return that one to BB. If you mailed the actual receipt and paid by credit card, BB can look it up. That same person would also suggest you check to ensure the UPCs are the same before doing so.

Mr. Salty

It's 27x40.

Lt Ripley

Thanks. Glad to here it is a full one sheet instead of a smaller sized comercial poster.

TomOpus

Got mine today and the vertical antenna is slightly broken. I'll keep it in the package. Yeah, Robby's small but the package is great. Lots of lobby cards, the tin is in great shape and the movie looks fantastic.

If anyone still wants a pic of how Robby is packed, I can post one.

baracine

AM I the only one who found "The Invisible Boy" a terrible waste of disc space? In find it stiff, slow and boring, it's full of goofs and the boy-hero is repugnant in his imbecility.

I know it's supposed to portray typical American family life from the fifties but the sight of the housewife sitting there and saying nothing while her husband studies a book at the dinner table and her idiot 9-year old reads a comic book and makes noise with his soup makes me cringe.

gutwrencher

Gooooood morning, sunshine!

baracine

Did you have a good day at the office, Dear?



I also like the way the parents talk about their boy in the third person in his presence and never question him about simple things, like, for instance, HOW DID HE GET INVISIBLE, like he's a complete retard on top of being a prime candidate for juvenile delinquency.

Historical note: The scene where the boy spies on his parents in their bedroom (!) has to be the first instance of a married couple sitting - and (gulp) kissing - on the same marital bed since the instauration of the Hayes Code. Tee-hee! This film really pushes the envelope!

baracine

Well, it took a lot of coffee and pep pills but I finally finished watching The Invisible Boy without falling asleep.

I understand that it is a fitting extra on this set because it's one of the only films where Robby, The Robot gets top billing. It is also, unfortunately, an extremely static, dour, slow-moving, turgid kiddie film with intellectual aspirations.

It's "Father Knows Best" meets The Golem. It's as excruciatingly theatrical as any early-TV 60-minute drama stretched out to 90 minutes has a right to be. It actually makes you long for commercial breaks... It may have been an inspiration for the later "Outer Limits" TV show. It also eerily resembles Invaders from Mars (1952) in its theme of a cold, calculating, brainiac invader (here, an earth-bound computer) who installs implants in its victims' brains. Where the resemblance hurts, however, is that Timmy's loving and caring parents are just as insensitive and robotic in their values, relationships and behaviour as the alien-controlled parents of that film were with their own kid.

The film's only saving grace was to ingratiate every kid's fantasy of having his own life-size Robby, The Robot as his private plaything.



The cutesy ending which pits the then socially-acceptable practice of spanking children against Isaac Azimov's first law of robotics is priceless.

Cameron

got mine tonight for 39.99 regular price at circuit city with a gift card... my robby was also broken....gonna do a swap in a few days

mh4268

Can someone please tell me when the poster offer expires. I ordered from amazon for $24.99 but with a cd that comes out 1/30 that I want to get free shipping. Im pretty sure the superman discs had a long expiration for the poster so hoping this will too.

forumsmy

The Forbidden Planet poster offer expires 5/1/2007 from what is says on mine.

mh4268

Thanks

Mr. Cinema

I finally got around to picking this up. Circuit City had 1 $39.99 tin left. Just sent in my poster offer. I'm loving these Warner tins with poster offers. Has anyone received their poster? I just got my Superman posters from them last weekend, all in great shape. But I can't remember when I mailed off the offer on that one.

JParks94563

Has anyone received the poster yet? Is it folded or rolled?

Mr. Cinema

The Superman posters from Warner Bros. were rolled nicely in a solid cardboard tube. I'm sure we'll get the same treatment for this....I hope.

mxv

Mine came last week, rolled. One of the caps was missing from the tube though! Luckily no harm came to the poster from what i could see inside. I didn't actually take it out of the tube yet.

JiM T

Got mine today. One of the caps was missing, and the middle of the tube, as usual with these free WB posters, had a dent in it which dented the poster. Happened with "The Searchers", and I seem to remember it happening with another. Hope my Supes posters arrive dentless.