canofhumdingers said:
Holy moly... I had no idea there were full length 8mm scope prints of the original trilogy.... Hello new collection holy grail!
So, does anyone have any idea just how rare or expensive these might be? I'm sure they're currently outside my budget, but it's something to work for! Bluray? Schmuray! Who needs that when I can have my own PRINT!
As mentioned in the article, in terms of rarity they made at least 250 of them "but probably more", so maybe like 350. I'd say that is fairly rare, (though by Super 8 deluxe full-feature standards thats a large amount). But they rarely if ever appear on eBay or on trading lists because the few people that have them want to hold on to them. They cost 300 pounds when they were released in 1989, so I can only imagine what they would cost today. Just based on conversion 300 pounds ca.1989=550 pounds ca. 2009 using the retail price index, which is equivalent to about $900. Of course, these have become much rarer since 1989, because they don't make them anymore and they are few in number, and very hard to find. I don't know anything about Super 8 pricings, but based on this you'd be paying four figures. Although I don't know if it's value has gone down since then--it was expensive because it was the best way to see the film in 1989, while it's perceived value is not the same now. Derann did lots of films and they were all high quality so I would check out their other prices.