Now that we’ve moved to a new forum please do not think the old one is lost. It’s still there and can be browsed at your leisure, you just can’t add any new comments to it.
We continue here as usual. Please note that I plan to re-post all the photos people submitted in the previous forum anyway (only fair, considering the effort you all put in in the past), but that might have to wait ehm… until I’ve figured out how to do this.
OK, as promised I’ll make a start of re-posting the posts from the previous forum which contained self-made shots of peoples’ collections (and no, they won’t ALL be mine!).
I just received the Korean “Pan’s Labyrinth” and it’s a gorgeous edition! I took some pictures of it.
The inside:
The sketchbook is short but very pretty and has the intro and summary in English.
That key-thing is a bookmark.
The movie is very English-friendly with all the menu’s being in English rather than Korean.
The extra’s disc is in Spanish with Korean subs, even though all menu’s and chapternames are in English.
The DTS is nice, the video very sharp but a wee bit too colourful (nothing a press on a button can’t change).
I just posted this in another topic but it also belongs here. No extensive trickery with this one but I sure do love that artwork. Combined with the price (cheapest 5.1 remix set in the world) this is one of my absolute treasures:
Last week I received Madman’s R4 edition of the Cowboy Bebop 5.1 remixes, and their box art is very cool.
Very wild and colorful on the sides, very stylish and subdued on the spine and top (the parts that generally show when you’ve put this in your collection).
R4 DVDs are always marred with horrendous ratinglabels. They are HUGE, easily surpassing the UK labels in ugliness. This is what they look like on this boxset:
So what did Madman do?
First, they made all the DVD-covers reversible. Reversing them hides the labels on the inside and shows chapter-descriptions on the outside, providing superior artwork for the front, back AND spine.
Second, the labels for the boxset have been put on an easily disposable ribbon. Taking the ribbon away reveals the outer box art in all its glory:
Madman is obviously very proud of its cover-art, as several of the extras on the disks are dedicated to the creation of it. But it’s deserved in this “case” (pun intended).
The Korean “Death Note” Boxset arrived. It contains the two Death Note live-action movies and a third disc of (unsubbed) extra’s. Also included are some goodies: a booklet and some character cards. Video is excellent, I’d say slightly better than the Hong-Kong versions, but audio only goes up to DTS instead of the brutal DTS-ES 6.1 the Hong-Kong boasts.
On my home-theater it’s nigh on impossible to hear the difference between DTS and DTS-ES, so when I saw this boxset I sold my Hong-Kong disks to an Audiophile and bought this boxset (as they cost almost the same).
The packaging is sturdy,closes with magnets, and has a very cool front- and backcover: from up close it looks smudged, but from a distance you can clearly make out Ryuk on the front and Rem on the back.
Took some pics to show it off:
And what’s in it:
Funny thing though: I’ve never seen discholders like the ones used for these three discs. They sure aren’t amarays. What are they? Blu-ray? HD-DVD?
Hell, X-Box?
In May, Nemo sent me pictures of this gogogo-gorgeous set:
Hi everyone,
This will be very difficult to top. An Ultimate Edition that really is… Ultimate.
Barring action figures I cannot see what more they could include in a package for a single film.
We’re talking about the “Mindgame Perfect Collector’s box (Limited edition)” from Japan.
My first post with pictures, pardon me if it doesn`t work
As requested: Infernal affairs
The interesting part of this set (besides the wonderfull packaging) is the chronological cut of the entire trilogy on two disc’s, as far as I now it was only available on this set.
As for the props from Silent Hill, I wouldn’t mind to get the Pyramid head, but it wasn`t for sale ( I hope they will need it for sequel). Although some collectors bought the burned bed from hospital, furniture an curtains from Church and several desks from school. I had a modest catch: some stuff from set in the Grand Hotel - huge antique Vase (clearly visible in the film), and very scary looking silver plate and kettle from 50`s, of course with COA.
And then he went BARMY:
Now a little quiz: how many editons of OLDBOY on a picture below ?
P.S.I have one more edition of OldBoy (3 disk Region1 Teen with senotype and manga).
