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Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Old 04-05-16, 06:38 PM
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Odd that I'm the only one so far with a different style case. I guess its whatever but I would have preferred the swingarm case.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by Mike86
Odd that I'm the only one so far with a different style case. I guess its whatever but I would have preferred the swingarm case.
Sell it to some collectibles nerd for a fortune.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by Mike86
Odd that I'm the only one so far with a different style case. I guess its whatever but I would have preferred the swingarm case.
I've been reading about people receiving both. Seems to be distributed randomly.

I read on blu-ray-dot-com that you can tell which case it is before you buy it. The stacker case has an embossed blu-ray logo on top, and the swinger has a flat blu-ray logo.

You can also probably tell by shaking the case; the swing arm will rattle around a bit.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Amazon. DVD on left hub, both blus together on right hub.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

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Nice. I went with the real working speeder bike and I'm kind of regretting it.
You already crashed it into a giant tree stump, didn't you?
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by Mike86
Odd that I'm the only one so far with a different style case. I guess its whatever but I would have preferred the swingarm case.
can u take a pic? i am curious...
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

glad the extras disc is a blu
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Cheap ass Disney has been doing the stacked discs for awhile. The Good Dinosaur had discs stacked on one of the hubs and the other disc on the opposite hub.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

I got the shitty stacker case. Though nothing beats Soap: The Complete Series, which was like 10 fucking DVDs on a SPINDLE in a crappy paper case.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Little disappointed in the extras as there are no trailers either.

In the end it's the movie that matters and I'm looking forward to watching this countless times.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by bluetoast
I got the shitty stacker case. Though nothing beats Soap: The Complete Series, which was like 10 fucking DVDs on a SPINDLE in a crappy paper case.
Don't drop the Soap!? What a disaster that would be to switch discs. They would probably all just end up coasters on a table as I made my way through them.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Yeah, it was pretty shitty - I transferred them to empty BD/Slim cases.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Got the stack packaging. It seems that the thing about the embossed logo being on the stack packaging vs the flat logo having the regular packaging is right.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Swung by Best Buy after work. Hundreds of Steelbooks. Don't like the cover at all. Probably good for those who got thw other SW Steelbooks, but meh for the rest of us. Still waiting to see the Target thing. Wish it was more durable. Might hang onto it anyways and keep it next to the 9 disc set. I'll still get the 3D version eventually for a proper case.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Just got back from a trip to Target. Holy hell is that exclusive packaging they have terrible. Damn thing rivals An Inconvenient Truth DVD as worst packaging ever!
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Mine arrived from Amazon this morning. Not too shabby. Not that upset over the case. I watched all the extras so that disc is on the bottom.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

I got my regular bluray case version at Target, and I noticed that the exclusive packaging version wasn't selling as well (of course, the price is most likely the reason, but I like to think the shitty packaging was the reason haha)
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Is there a reason this isnt available as a streaming rental yet? I want to give it another try, but cant bring myself to buy it just yet.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Cause it's Star Wars. I doubt it'll ever be available for rental. The other 6 have never been available for rental, so I doubt they'll start now.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Vudu says it'll be for rent on May 4th. I never noticed the others weren't available for rent not that I'd want them- I've just noticed you can't play the first 2 minutes of them for free like other movies, so you can't see how they took out the Fox intros.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by Alan Smithee
Vudu says it'll be for rent on May 4th. I never noticed the others weren't available for rent not that I'd want them- I've just noticed you can't play the first 2 minutes of them for free like other movies, so you can't see how they took out the Fox intros.
Yeah, I'm sure that's the reason they didn't include the previews.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Just watched it tonight and enjoyed it but no way is it demo-worthy. The bass is off in certain spots. I picked up "silent bass" spots in the beginning where one of the flame troopers sprays fire all over the place; and there was no bass/low end. There are also plenty of explosions that don't have that added kick. It's strange. At first I thought maybe my receiver switched to night time listening but it's fine. The picture quality is reference, though.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

My BR of the movie was floating around in the package, watched it and it's fine. Gonna just give away the DVD and put the BR of the film in its spot. Then put the bonus BR on the flappy two-sided thing.

Had to turn the volume way up on the TV, but still awesome. Hoping this 70-minute documentary is good.

Can't believe there isn't a commentary track from JJ. Total fucking bullshit there.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by Throwing Copper
Can't believe there isn't a commentary track from JJ. Total fucking bullshit there.
I'm guessing the 3D release will have it.

Or not.
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Re: Star Wars: The Force Awakens - April 5th, 2016

Originally Posted by Bluelitespecial
Is there a reason this isnt available as a streaming rental yet? I want to give it another try, but cant bring myself to buy it just yet.
Not streaming, but... Redbox machines have it.


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