Mary Poppins Returns

SteelBook Alert: Poppin’ Fresh

As a new year begins, many things in this world look uncertain. As far as Blu-ray collecting goes, fortunately, we can still look forward to the latest big blockbusters getting SteelBook editions.

Mary Poppins Returns

Video Formats: Blu-ray/UHD
Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: $34.99

Disney’s huge winning streak keeps on rolling. The studio’s 50-year-late sequel to its musical classic has been a big hit with both critics and audiences. The artwork on the Best Buy SteelBook is perhaps not tremendously exciting, but does its job without turning into a garish mess, as could have easily happened.

Mary Poppins Returns SteelBook USA

Video Formats: Blu-ray
Available at: Zavvi (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: £24.99

Video Formats: Blu-ray/UHD
Available at: Zavvi (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: £32.99

The UK editions from Zavvi currently have temp art with a different image. I expect that the two regions will probably align before release.

Mary Poppins Returns SteelBook UK temp art

The next few discs are all still in the temp art stage. (Aquaman doesn’t even have that much.) I list them here mostly so that interested readers have a chance to put in preorders.

Aquaman

Video Formats: Blu-ray/DVD
Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: $29.99

Video Formats: Blu-ray/UHD
Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: $34.99

The Best Buy listings currently only display poster images for the latest DC superhero spectacle. I’m not going to bother pasting that in here.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Video Formats: Blu-ray/DVD
Available at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: $32.99

Video Formats: Blu-ray
Available at: Zavvi (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: £23.99

Between the character’s solo movies (a new one due in 2019), his appearances in the Avengers crossovers, and now an animated spinoff, the onset of Spider-Man fatigue seems like an inevitability. It hasn’t happened yet, though. In fact, word-of-mouth on the cartoon version has been pretty great.

Once again, Best Buy’s page has only a poster image. Zavvi’s placeholder gives us no hint of the final design. Disappointingly, both listings are for Blu-ray only, with neither Ultra HD nor 3D options available. I hope that changes closer to release.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse SteelBook temp art

Bumblebee

Video Formats: Blu-ray
Available at: Zavvi (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: £21.99

The first Transformers movie without Michael Bay at the helm is also the first I might actually consider paying to see in the theater. (I haven’t done it yet.) I’ve heard good things.

Zavvi’s temp art at least has a design on it, even if it doesn’t wind up being the final image. No sign of Ultra HD or 3D for this one either, sadly, but I have a feeling that a UHD version will turn up at Best Buy later.

Bumblebee SteelBook temp art

Bumblebee Update

Video Formats: Blu-ray/UHD
Available at: (ORDER HERE)
Release date: TBD
Price: $34.99

As predicted, Best Buy will indeed have an Ultra HD SteelBook for Bumblebee. The artwork is OK, as far as these comic book-style cases go. (It looks more like a child’s sketchbook doodle, honestly.)

Bumblee SteelBook Best Buy

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