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

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

That's great :)

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

Yeah, should be a normal coupon you can print out unless they changed something recently. I believe it expires at the end of the year, but could be wrong about that.

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I must have misunderstood the post I quoted. This is good news so as to not buy many copies chasing a bunch of bonus features.

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

I'm surprised that my local record store is staying open past midnight when this releases. I'm still not gonna buy it til the 3D edition comes out.

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

Awesome, thanks. I'll go for it and see what happens. I've never redeemed one of those before.

Given I wasn't able to do any kind of gift card pre-order deal at Target for this one, a $5 coupon will take some of the sting out of buying their exclusive.

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

Well somebody at CAG just posted the 4/3-4/9 Best Buy ad and sure enough, the regular version is $19.99 but the Steelbook is $27.99. Charging an extra $8 for an exclusive Steelbook and nothing else is super-disappointing trend. They are quite clearly looking to gouge Steelbook collectors.

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

I'm no fan of Best Buy, but I don't see much of a problem here. The whole point of a collectible is to be able to charge a premium and get a higher margin on a limited run.

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

Are they going to charge $30 since it is a small store?

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Well, the Steelbooks used to be store exclusives, designed to get people into that specific store. But if they're going to charge extra for it (and not for one second would I believe that a steelbook adds $8 to the cost of a blu), they may as well call it a special edition or something, and actually make it a value added item. So fucking greedy.

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

Exactly. They also were charging a premium on the Game of Thrones exclusive slipcovers (which clearly don't cost any more than the regular slipcovers) - resulting in a glut of exclusive slipcovers in every Best Buy I've visited lately. It's supposed to be a bonus for buying a Blu at a certain store at launch, not paying a premium for it like on eBay. At least Target isn't charging a premium for exclusive packaging yet. Their TFA exclusive package will end up being $8 or $13 cheaper than Best Buy's.

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

Not sure that's true. It may not be every time, but I'm pretty sure there have been releases where their packaging only exclusives were more than the regular version. I think even some of the first DC animated steelbooks (back when they were listed separately on their site) were more expensive than the regular version.

And certainly their other exclusives (bonus discs/bonus content) are priced higher.

It would be awesome if all retailers (Wal-Mart included) went back to the exclusives being the same price as a reason to come into the store for other things.

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

GOTG at WM exclusives of just the slip covers, were 5-8 bucks more than the regular. I like covers but no way paying that much more. I like the Bb8 slip but I know they will do the same and charge more.

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Just speculating here, but I suspect the exclusive packaging as a "get you in the store" strategy is no longer viable with the significant decline of physical media. So it has been replaced by an exclusive packaging as "higher margin on lower sales" strategy.

Also, some exclusive packaging at Target has certainly carried a premium. I definitely remember paying more for The Dark Knight cowl packaging on release day at Target:
http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/...0-1/s-l200.jpg

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

I bought a copy of that months later after release for like 10 bucks. So, yeah, if you want certain packaging on release day then you might have to pay a premium. However, if you are patient enough then you can sometimes score a set for rock bottom prices. Now, for these limited releases along with these ebay whoreders, you are pretty much stuck getting it within the first few hours if you really want it or they will suck the life out of you later. I remember the Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy steelbooks being sold on the internet for double plus on release day after the stores were swarmed and wiped out by these butthole surfers.

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

Is Best Buy the only one carrying the steelbook?

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

In the United States, it's a Best Buy exclusive, yes.

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

I had $20 in Amazon credit so I only have to pay for shipping. I opted for 2-day and it stated I should get it on release day. We'll see when I do get it.

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

I pre-ordered 3 new releases from Amazon that came out on March 15. I think they arrived on March 19. Granted, that was using regular shipping.

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

I always wonder how many unopened blu-rays get removed from their exclusive slipcover and returned as new. Always shocks me when those special covers are not shrink wrapped around the rest.

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

That's not too bad. I won't be upset if I get it the day after.

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

I was thinking about using Xbox credits to get the early digital release, then realized that was absurd because the BD + Disney Movies Anywhere should get me the digital version on all platforms anyway. I'd be using my credits for like four days of watching.

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It's a really stupid move to release the digital only a few days early. That's what led me to buy a few movies on digital, they came out 2 weeks before the blu. But I guess once the digital is released, the torrent floodgates open, which is probably why this window is so small for this one.

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

I would buy the early streaming version, but I have no clue how to get it to stream from my laptop to my TV.

Still very tempted, though.

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

I have a friend on FB who bought the VUDU edition tonight and he went right to the featurettes. There's 10 of them but I could not get a confirmation if that was all of the featurettes that will be spread across all of the editions being released. He did confirm the first featurette was a 60 minute documentary, though.

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

I have a $60 GC from Best Buy that I got from trading an old device.

Will drop by there on Tuesday and pick this up along with Banshee season 3 (which I hope they'll have)

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

Star Wars The Force Awakens was released at midnight 4/1 on iTunes. I preordered the movie. iTunes stated it had a tentative release date of April 1st. I actually was surprised iTunes actually did release the movie exactly on April 1st. I'm watching the film right now at 1am April 1st.

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

I am planning on heading to WalMart on Tuesday because I like the BB8 cover. I will not be happy if they charge a premium over the regular edition and will just end up with that instead if that is their plan.

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

Why surprised? They announced it a few weeks ago the digital would come out April 1st.

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Yup! Though not as large as the difference here for Best Buy's Steelbook for this film, Target has charged a few dollars more for Exclusives compared to regular editions.

I found a link that had release day prices for Chappie. Target had the regular edition at $16.99 and Steelbook at $19.99.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/age...etailers-happy

Same pricing happened recently for Straight Outta Compton, Terminator: Genysis, Mockingjay Pt. 2, etc.

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

I downloaded it as well on iTunes and will grab the steelbook

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

In this particular instance, the torrent floodgates opened long before the official digital release.

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

This is a rare instance where I prefer the art on the standard packaging over the steelbook, so I'm cool just grabbing it at BB when I get a chance. Although, I wills say the rumored 3D release is giving me pause.. I wonder if it will have the same features/docs or will be barebones or even have different features. Sigh. They're going to milk this thing.

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

I got it from iTunes right at midnight ET. 1080p video was 5.9GB.

It included bonus stuff at DMA.
- Secret of TFA 1h9m long.
- Music of TFA
- Building BB-8
- ILM

and delted scenes:
- Fin will be fine.
- Finn in village
- Kylo explores Falcon.

Can't remember what else.

Can I get the bonus stuff from iTunes or they're only at DMA?

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

Well, BB shipped mine yesterday and I should have it in the mail tomorrow, so that's not too far behind the digital release...

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

^ wow I have never received anything from BB in my hands before release day.

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

I always get them the Saturday or Monday before.

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

The extras definitely feel like they're an appetizer, the doc is 60min and apparently pretty surface-level stuff (along with the other separate behind-the-scenes) The deleted scenes are all just short snippets it sounds like. No commentaries, etc. Went with the Steelbook, might sell for more than the standard version down the road.

But quality extras take time, so no issues with a definitive version coming later.

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

I usually get my Pre-orders from BB on Fri ot Sat. This time I ordered from Amazon. Even with Prime I'm sure I might get it closer to next weekend.

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

My steelbook arrived just now. Pretty neat. Star Wars along with Watchmen are my only steelbooks but I have Deadpool on order. Just hope this doesn't start a new collecting habit as I don't need another one of those.