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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 22 July 2007 05:39 AM |
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Hello everyone,
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.
Here it is:
Old forum, same topic
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.
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| Swarez |
| Posted: 24 July 2007 04:54 PM |
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I saw this today and it looks really good. I just hope that this sells well enough for them to try it with other titles.
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| BtoFu |
| Posted: 24 July 2007 06:58 PM |
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Holy shit that looks excellent! The show was very much a favourite when I was growing up too.
Silmido LE..


Would have taken snaps but I couldn’t be bothered at this hour.
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 26 July 2007 02:57 PM |
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You can find this on the main site, and in DVD-news, but it needs to be in here as well.
The Blade Runner 5-disc suitcase… out in December!
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| Swarez |
| Posted: 26 July 2007 05:08 PM |
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I have never liked Blade Runner but hot damn I’m getting this set. Hopefully Blu Ray if it’s region free.
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| BtoFu |
| Posted: 28 July 2007 11:13 AM |
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Just looking for something to watch and remembered that the R2J release of G@me is quite nice..


Throwdown as well..
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 28 July 2007 03:09 PM |
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Spotted this edition of “300” on Amazon Germany:

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| BtoFu |
| Posted: 28 July 2007 03:22 PM |
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Yeah I believe Canada’s (Futureshop?) getting that too. Movie isn’t worth the fuss of fanciness though.
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 07:48 AM |
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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!).
So prepare for the layout to get screwy! 
Kurt posted this back in December 2006:
Just to put this beauty in two threads:
Here:
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 07:53 AM |
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Posted by me in March 2007:
Yippee!
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).
The fabric-band keeps everything together:

Very happy with this! ;D
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 07:56 AM |
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Again, me in March:
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).
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 07:58 AM |
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Kurt showed us this brilliant press-kit for Taxidermia in April:

heh. ‘nuff said.
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 08:00 AM |
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I posted this in April:
Oh boy!
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?
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 08:03 AM |
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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.
The good news:
English subs, partly English books (with resp. 200+, 550+ and 600+ pages I don’t dare call these things booklets) and best of all, it’s still available!!
http://us.yesasia.com/assocred.asp?E1H175J1+//www.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-j/section-videos/pid-1003889612/
The bad news:
It’s not exactly low budget friendly.
So this is what it looks like (thanks to Alexander for providing these pictures, dude I’m very jealous!!!):



There are over 240 seperate unique characters drawn specifically for the outside of this edition. :o
On to the contents:


Oh man…
Stunning.
And it’s even for a good movie!
Can the production company send me one of these for eh.. review purposes? Even though it’s over two years old?
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| Ard Vijn |
| Posted: 07 August 2007 08:07 AM |
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Upon request he sent us this one as well:
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).
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