that thread along w/ the slip cover thread are just about the worst places on the internet currently.

What the hell is that a wax figure? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but that's just...

Hello?

Talk about excessive DNR on Seinfeld

Worst Wax Museum? Or Best Wax Museum?

You think it's bad now, you should have seen it when it was made out of fusilli.

Before or after Frank was done with it?



EDIT:

Don't be drinking anything when looking in that wax museum thread. I almost choked on my pepsi several times.

Come on, the collage is a train wreck. It's funny at best, and at worst, some people actually got paid to make and review that thing.

It's even better animated.

Yeah, that is great. The main characters of the original trilogy are pushed into the upper left corner, while minor characters from the prequels are given prominent positions. Jesus... Luke, Han, Leia, and Lando are stuck up there behind the fucking Ewoks.

Passive aggressive, much?

This is a site geared towards dvd/blu-ray enthusiasts... it's to be expected that things which may seem trivial to the casual observer be debated. I don't think the packaging's been a deciding factor for anyone to not buy the set, but it's worth being talked about.

It also represents a lot of fans frustrations with SW the last 15yrs... that is the continuing examples of the bar being lowered again and again - starting with the films, all the way down to their marketing and presentation. I'm glad they've gone ahead and made some of the obvious fixes that should've been done 7 years ago, but I'm also disappointed they didn't meet the industry standard of including previous documentaries for this release. The vast majority of professional artists and marketing reps would've laughed this packaging artwork off the first time it was shown to them, but yet here it is, representing what was at one time a serious sci-fi series.

Wax Tom Cruise and Wax Fonzie

Here's their last days on Conan. Hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ44c7aABZg

They get it at 3:12 and there's a montage of clips after that. It's worth watching from the beginning.

That's the first thing I noticed. It's about a 70-30 split in favor of the PT.

There are more characters in the PT. Did they all need to be on that poster? No, but the ratio isn't shocking.

Damn you for posting that. I had a hard time breathing from laughing so uncontrollably.

I like how R2 is bigger than Luke/Leia/Han combined.

Good job Fox!

After seeing that artwork I'm cancelling my pre-order with Amazon.

Shame on you Lucas.

Shame on you.

(bolding is my emphasis).
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It would be so easy for LFL to knock this sucker out of the park, but they just take the easy way out because there's so many that will buy this regardless of the flaws or z-grade packaging and artwork. You may ask why it matters if so many will buy it anyways, and IMHO that just makes you a part of the problem. You're accepting "good enough", and the problem in this case is that we're not talking about a budget horror film from 40 years ago, that 12 people saw in the cinema, and the negatives were lost, found, lost, found, and then finally put on DVD, recalled, put out on another DVD that was short-printed, we're talking a multi-billion dollar franchise that refuses to make available the most requested facet of the whole thing. I love the Clone Wars series, I used to read the books, I have some of the graphic novels, but I would sell a kidney at this point for good versions of the original cuts, and that's just re-goddam-diculous for a franchise of this standing.

That's why we complain, not because it's would be such a massive undertaking to make it happen, but because we know from other restored films that it could be done with a snap of George's fingers. Metropolis? Joan of Arc? All the lost Doctor Who eps? Really, George, get with the program.

Really??? Over artwork? Wow... just... wow.

I'm just chunking the book in the trash and just putting the discs in seperate cases with custom art.

I know this sounds nuts, but I'm going to buy the set, watch the films in HD and never think twice about how the fucking art looks.

Crazy, right?

How in the hell could you cancel your order based on the artwork?! You're not inserting the artwork in your BD player. Wow!

The film doesn't include a slipcover? THAT'S IT, I'M NEVER BUYING IT.


Oh wait, wrong forum.

Look, I can't say I would go so far as to not buy something I wanted based on artwork, but I can appreciate being disappointed by it. I go through this with just about every Bond DVD and now Blu-ray release. Man, those old 60s movies in particular had some amazingly cool poster campaigns but the DVD releases are terribly generic Photoshop jobs putting two different head shots together against a uniform gun barrel background. I keep buying because they do a bang-up job with the movies and bonus content, but I'd be lying if I said a part of me doesn't slump a little each time I see the look of the releases. Maybe for next year's 50th Anniversary releases they'll actually put some thought into them? Probably too much to hope for, but my fingers are crossed anyway.

So, yeah, artwork is an admittedly minor aspect but on that admittedly minor level, I can entirely appreciate being disappointed by it. Though, personally, I'm fine with what we've been shown for these releases. My sights are set on the Complete Saga box and somewhere around 700 posts ago I went on record saying I actually like the simplicity of that design, with young Anakin and Luke.

no, that works here too