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SteelBook Alert: Do the Batusi

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:00:14 +0000

If Marvel’s big superhero smackdown movie this year can get a Blu-ray SteelBook, then so can DC’s. In fact, let’s give it a couple! ‘Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Best Buy is pulling an interesting stunt with this one. You can purchase a SteelBook with your choice of either Batman or Superman themed artwork....

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Contest: Win the ‘Interstellar’ Blu-ray Collectible Gift Set

Josh Zyber — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:00:12 +0000

Over the weekend, I popped into Walmart to pick up that retailer’s exclusive Collectible Gift Set Blu-ray edition of ‘Interstellar’. The store had an extra copy on the shelf, and I thought that would make a great contest prize for our readers. Don’t you agree? Let’s give this thing away! In Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster...

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SteelBook Alert: Take Your Protein Pills and Put Your Helmet On

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:00:11 +0000

As befitting its blockbuster status, Christopher Nolan’s space travel opus ‘Interstellar’ will hit Blu-ray next month in several deluxe packaging options, including at least two different SteelBook cases. Although I’m a big SteelBook collector, in this instance I may choose a different route. While the American and Canadian SteelBooks technically use different images, they’re both...

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SteelBook Alert: Me Grimlock Kick Butt

Josh Zyber — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:00:02 +0000

It seems foolish to call a movie that grossed over $240 million domestically (and is currently the top-earning film for the year worldwide) a box office disappointment, but the studio definitely hoped that ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ would be a bigger mega-hit than it actually was this summer. Nonetheless, Michael Bay’s latest robo-carnage extravaganza will...

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Uncovered: Playtime with Arts and Crafts

Josh Zyber — Thu, 29 May 2014 13:00:59 +0000

Aww, how cute. Some kids designed movie poster art with paper cut-outs and craft supplies… Wait, hold on a second. You’re telling me these aren’t the work of children? These are actual Blu-ray cases designed by a studio marketing department and sold at retail? Oh, holy hell… As spotted by poster Krawk in our site...

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SteelBook Alert: I’m in a Glass Case of Emotion!

Josh Zyber — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:00:07 +0000

Sometimes, being a collector is a real pain in the behind. That’s especially true when the urge strikes to find the perfect collectible edition of a given movie when several options are available, each exclusive to a different retailer and some being potentially difficult to obtain. This month, we run into that problem with one...

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WBShop Now a Division of LexCorp, Apparently

Luke Hickman — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:00:28 +0000

I consider myself a collector, but I’m not an obsessive collector. I don’t feel the need to collect everything associated with something that I love. I’m a specific collector. For example, I love SteelBook packaging, but I don’t buy every movie that’s given a SteelBook Blu-ray release. If I love a movie, I’ll fork out...

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Mid-Week Poll: ‘Star Trek’ Retailer Exclusive Blu-rays

Josh Zyber — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:00:18 +0000

If you’ve read my recent Blu-ray review (or any of the other discussion of the topic on the web), you should know by now that Paramount has made the frustrating and consumer-unfriendly decision to divide up the bonus features for the Blu-ray release of ‘Star Trek into Darkness‘ among multiple retailer exclusives. Many fans have...

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Full Metal Jackets: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

Josh Zyber — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:00:16 +0000

This one’s a gimme. I don’t imagine that it will surprise too many metal case collectors to hear that the summer blockbuster ‘Man of Steel’ will be made available on Blu-ray in SteelBook packaging. After all, the movie has “steel” right in the title! Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot received mixed response from both viewers and...

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Full Metal Jackets: Cobraaaaaa!!!

Josh Zyber — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:48 +0000

Listen up, grunts. New orders have just come down from the PITT. Our mission is to obtain a SteelBook collectible Blu-ray edition of our new movie, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, before Cobra forces scoop them all up and sell them on eBay for three times the price to fund their latest diabolical world domination scheme. There’s...

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Full Metal Jackets: Quite a Merry Gathering

Josh Zyber — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:00:42 +0000

That the first installment in Peter Jackson’s epic ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel trilogy, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’, would become one of the biggest movies of 2012 was not unexpected at all. The film was virtually preordained to be a blockbuster. Commensurate with its success, the movie will receive not just one, but several...

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Unboxed: ‘The Muppets’ Blu-ray Lunch Box, SteelBook & Finger Puppets

Josh Zyber — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:00:33 +0000

Normally, I use these “Unboxed” posts to examine some of the exotic import video discs in my collection. For today, I thought that it might be worthwhile to shine the spotlight on a few recent limited-edition retailer exclusives that I’ve picked up for one particular movie: ‘The Muppets’. At least one of these is still...

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