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Wal-Mart gets Star Wars bonus disc for ROTS

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Clicking on it to enlarge the picture, and after a lot of squinting to make out what it says on the sticker:

The title of the bonus disc: The Story of Star Wars.

Sticker: R2-D2 and C-3P0's chronicles of Luke and Anakin Skywalker
Almost __ minutes of additional content. (can't decipher how many minutes)
We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
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Sounds cool. Definately a good bonus on the ep3 dvd. Makes buying it even more worthwhile. It's neat how walmart always has those exclusive things with all their products... just to get you to buy from their store instead of others. Their master, Lucas has taught them well. Sadly, I will fall for their marketing strategy and buy my copy from there. I added the info on it over at wikipedia's site for ROTS. See here. It looks to me as if it says "30 minute," by the way, so I added it there. Thrity minutes would make sense.
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Originally posted by: booah
Clicking on it to enlarge the picture, and after a lot of squinting to make out what it says on the sticker:

The title of the bonus disc: The Story of Star Wars.

Sticker: R2-D2 and C-3P0's chronicles of Luke and Anakin Skywalker
Almost __ minutes of additional content. (can't decipher how many minutes)


Must be 2.

So I see even Lucasfilm is being overruled by Wall-Mart's unethical strategies, eh?
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this is the same story of star wars as the videonow disc you can find on ebay for some kind of system called pvd.
These are the feauturettes fox television showed the anakin one with the premiere of clones on fox 25, and the luke one on a reshowing of star wars special edition, and empire strikes back special edition not the 2004.

not on this bonus dvd, which is on the videonow disc is behind the scenes making of star wars footage, which I imagine is the making of star wars with C3PO and artoo detoo.

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Just thought I'd post the disc art because I am so inclined. BTW, check my post number now:

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could the cover art be any more uninspired and cut and paste from different posters.

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Look at the cover art for the DVD boxset. Lucasfilm could of gotten anyone who posted in one of our "DVD Covers" threads to do a much much better looking cover. So I'm not suprised. They don't seem to try that hard on covers anymore.
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
could the cover art be any more uninspired and cut and paste from different posters.

Well the PT posters were blah, uniform, and uninspired, so it's appropriately mundane.

Unless a Wal-Mart employee with a color printer and some scissors was in charge of the job.

Lucasfilm could of gotten anyone who posted in one of our "DVD Covers" threads to do a much much better looking cover.


SO true.
We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
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Well, I guess I'll have to get mine at Walmart then.....*sigh*

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Yeah, we all fall victim to the Lucasfilm-WalMart Monopoly!
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I wouldn't bother with preordering it, I'm sure Wal-Mart will have them in abundance.
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Wow! These people are talented! Almost as talented as the guys at the dvd covers forum! Real pure details people, IMHO!
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Originally posted by: booah
Clicking on it to enlarge the picture, and after a lot of squinting to make out what it says on the sticker:

The title of the bonus disc: The Story of Star Wars.

Sticker: R2-D2 and C-3P0's chronicles of Luke and Anakin Skywalker
Almost __ minutes of additional content. (can't decipher how many minutes)


Wal-Mart.com has just updated their page and specify the number of minutes. According to the site, the DVD will contain almost 60 new minutes of footage.
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Is this actually something new somewhat new, or some sort of rehash/reedit of the old "Making of Star Wars" with some newer prequel stuff thrown in?
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I wouldn't bother with preordering it, I'm sure Wal-Mart will have them in abundance.


Yeah sure. If you like fool-screen.
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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: TheSessler
I wouldn't bother with preordering it, I'm sure Wal-Mart will have them in abundance.


Yeah sure. If you like fool-screen.


Crap, that's a good point. Lately they have been only puting the bonus discs in with the Fool Screen editions (at least here in Hicksville, USA). Guess I might have to do a pre-order. Just to be safe. If I end up getting a better price in store (which is usually the case with Wal Mart B&M's) I can always just get a price adjustment at the CS desk (though that entails dealing with WM employees, which might not be worth saving the extra couple of bucks ).

In any event, hope this pans out to be more than just a crappy pack in targeted at the SW fan who must have everything.

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Originally posted by: digitalfreaknyc
Originally posted by: TheSessler
I wouldn't bother with preordering it, I'm sure Wal-Mart will have them in abundance.


Yeah sure. If you like fool-screen.


It must be just the opposite around here, there are usually more widescreen than full-screen on the shelves!

I presume widescreen is shelfwarming because people cannot stand "to watch half of the picture"
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I presume widescreen is shelfwarming because people cannot stand "to watch half of the picture"


the top dvd sales almost always (if not always) have the widescreen versions selling more copies than the full screen version. some of the widescreen advocate pages show this data, and im sure its available elsewhere. usually its displayed as the movie and its rank in the weekly sales. so for instance it would show ROTS - Widescreen : 1 and ROTS - Fullscreen : 5 which would mean widescreen was the top seller and fullscreen was the 5th top seller.

remember, if they sell more widescreen movies they will order more for their stock, and the reverse is true for fullscreen. so if they order 1000 widescreen, and 50 fullscreen. then sell half of each, they still have a ton more widescreen than fullscreen (500 vs 25). so you cant make the shelfwarming statement without knowing the initial stock/order levels

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Anyone have any idea on the content? It sounds like the Star Wars Connections video LFL showed at C3.
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"I presume widescreen is shelfwarming because people cannot stand "to watch half of the picture"

I guess only missing a third is more acceptable to them?

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Originally posted by: Sluggo
Anyone have any idea on the content? It sounds like the Star Wars Connections video LFL showed at C3.


Yeah, but it would have to contain ROTS footage, which the "Connections" footage didn't have.
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I was planing on going there right after halloween in my jedi costume anyway, this makes it only Cooler.
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