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Where were you in '77?
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2 weeks into the new year and we still have no word on the next home video release.
That idea someone on these boards had of buying a copy (of each, like we weren't going to collect all three...) and leaving it sealed in the plastic is starting to sound like a good one. If and when they announce the specs for the '07 release, I'll know whether or not we're getting a remastered OOT this year. If we are, the cases stay sealed and hopefully become collector's items years down the road. If we're not, the plastic comes off.
The local mom and pop's still has one of each with probably more copies back in the stock room as they only have enough space on the shelf for one copy of every dvd. I should probably ask and make sure they actually do since I don't have the money to pick them up right now.
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Originally posted by: Fang Zei
Some of the best movies ever made and they can't get the treatment they deserve.
2 weeks into the new year and we still have no word on the next home video release.
That idea someone on these boards had of buying a copy (of each, like we weren't going to collect all three...) and leaving it sealed in the plastic is starting to sound like a good one. If and when they announce the specs for the '07 release, I'll know whether or not we're getting a remastered OOT this year. If we are, the cases stay sealed and hopefully become collector's items years down the road. If we're not, the plastic comes off.
Some of the best movies ever made and they can't get the treatment they deserve.
2 weeks into the new year and we still have no word on the next home video release.
That idea someone on these boards had of buying a copy (of each, like we weren't going to collect all three...) and leaving it sealed in the plastic is starting to sound like a good one. If and when they announce the specs for the '07 release, I'll know whether or not we're getting a remastered OOT this year. If we are, the cases stay sealed and hopefully become collector's items years down the road. If we're not, the plastic comes off.
That was my idea, and I'm glad somebody liked it.
RE: the specs, it's too early in the year and I am sure we won't hear a thing until at least March. Why? For many reasons, with the main one being Luca$ doesn't want to overly upset the people who rushed out and paid full price for the 09/12 copies. I believe that we will get some rubbish from LFL "out of the blue" one day, something like: "George wasn't going to spend the time and money on remastering the OUT, but with the great success of the 09/12 release and the fact that this is the 30th anniversary, we wanted to give the fans something really special..."
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Ok, sorry, just had to speculate.
If they are indeed going to remaster the OOT, they're certainly doing a good job of keeping it under wraps. Then again, maybe they haven't even come to a decision on that and like I said, the year just started. For all I know, they're not planning on releasing it until December.
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Originally posted by:Gaffer TapeI don't see how that's at all "playing a prank." All the Limited Edition label meant was that they'd stop being produced in December. They'll continue to be sold as long as there's stock to be sold.
Gaffer, in the original publicity release it does say they will be only be avaliable:
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This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD
May 03, 2006
Fans can look forward to a September filled with classic Star Wars nostalgia, led by the premiere of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy video game and the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic Star Wars trilogy.
In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie and, as bonus material, the theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy Star Wars as it first appeared in 1977, Empire in 1980, and Jedi in 1983.
See the title crawl to Star Wars before it was known as Episode IV; see the pioneering, if dated, motion control model work on the attack on the Death Star; groove to Lapti Nek or the Ewok Celebration song like you did when you were a kid; and yes, see Han Solo shoot first.
This release will only be available for a limited time: from September 12th to December 31st.
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Everyone assumed they were doing what Disney does, where they release something 'limited' and then really do take it off the shelves at that specific date, to get everyone in a frenzy that they have to buy it. Everywhere I go (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.) Has loads of them, and they actually don't have much stock of the older releases from '04 & '05, so this is their bread & butter release for anyone who wants to buy the Star Wars Trilogy. Gaffer, I know I am preaching to the choir here, but Lucas pulled a fast one on all of us here with this release.
After seeing how crappy this looks on my HDTV, I honestly regret buying it.
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Limited time refers to production, not store visibility, because technically you could still buy them in second-hand stores anyway. Even Disney i believe doesn't literally pull them from shelves. Its standard practice that "limited availability" means production is stopped at a certain point, and since this is usually in reference to a relatively high-demand product, it doesn't stick around much longer than that.
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Originally posted by: zombie84The 1995 Faces set was limited too--they stopped production in January of 1996. I remember seeing leftover copies being sold in bargain bins in blockbuster in 1997 for 1.99 when the SE tapes were about to come out.
Limited time refers to production, not store visibility, because technically you could still buy them in second-hand stores anyway. Even Disney i believe doesn't literally pull them from shelves. Its standard practice that "limited availability" means production is stopped at a certain point, and since this is usually in reference to a relatively high-demand product, it doesn't stick around much longer than that.
Limited time refers to production, not store visibility, because technically you could still buy them in second-hand stores anyway. Even Disney i believe doesn't literally pull them from shelves. Its standard practice that "limited availability" means production is stopped at a certain point, and since this is usually in reference to a relatively high-demand product, it doesn't stick around much longer than that.
I agree Zombie & Gaffer that we all knew 'limited time' was a bunch of baloney, but it is a shameless ploy many companies including Lucas do to spice up demand in the shortterm. They want the consumer to say, "I have to buy this now!!"
As I said, Lucas isn't the only one to do this, just like many companies keep re-releasing the same movie as ultra SE, or superbit, or collectors edition, but it is unfair to the average consumer who doesn't frequent the internet or doesn't really know the practices of these companies in the past. I mean you put out a statement that says limited time until December 31st, and they are sitting there in January?
What I mean is as Lucas always said he wanted to get out of the studio system, so he didn't have to deal with big business, his business is just like the rest, thats what makes me laugh about it.
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Originally posted by: zombie84Same old, same old. You get used to these things. Thank god the internet wasn't around in December of 1977--you think any of this is bad? I guess people forgot about the "empty box" toys. Basically Kenner couldn't make their action figures in time for christmas so Lucasfilm sold empty boxes, with coupons inside that could be traded for the toys once they came out in the new year.
Ha, I was one of them! I remember getting Luke Skywalker & C3PO for Christmas, and shaking the box and nothing shook! I remember receiving them in late spring, but the next Christmas everybody was getting SW figures. I am still mad at my mom that she gave them all to my cousin in the mid 80's, only to find out they were worth something years later.
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*yawn*