{"id":79406,"date":"2016-08-10T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=79406"},"modified":"2016-08-10T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T18:24:43","slug":"steelbook-bluray-transformers-game-of-thrones-snow-white-huntsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/steelbook-bluray-transformers-game-of-thrones-snow-white-huntsman\/","title":{"rendered":"SteelBook Alert: Prime Movers"},"content":{"rendered":"

You got the touch! You got the power! A monumental classic from my childhood will get a SteelBook Blu-ray release later this year. This hits all my nostalgia buttons. I suspect that a lot of kids who grew up in the 1980s will feel the same.
\n<\/p>\n

‘Transformers: The Movie’ (1986)<\/h2>\n

Available at: Amazon<\/a> (USA) or Zavvi<\/a> (UK)
\nRelease date: Sept. 13th, 2016 (USA) \/ Dec. 12th, 2016 (UK)
\nPrice: $19.99 (USA) \/ \u00a322.99 (UK)
\nRegion code: TBD, Likely region-locked in each country<\/p>\n

Funnily, I just mentioned ‘Transformers: The Movie’ recently in our Roundtable topic about Movies from Your Childhood That Don’t Hold Up<\/a>. Goofy and flawed though it may be, I love it all the same. <\/p>\n

In North America, Shout! Factory will release a 30th Anniversary Edition<\/em> featuring a new video remaster and some new supplements next month. Fans in the UK will have to wait until the end of the year when Manga Entertainment licenses it for that market. With a change in distributor, I assume that the disc will probably get region-locked in each territory as a result.<\/p>\n

\"Transformers<\/a><\/p>\n

The artwork is perhaps nothing too original or spectacular, but it’s fitting for the movie and looks nice. I have happily already placed my preorder.<\/p>\n

‘Game of Thrones: Season 5’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Best Buy<\/a>
\nRelease date: Nov. 15th, 2016
\nPrice: $59.99<\/p>\n

HBO remastered the first two seasons of ‘Game of Thrones’ for Dolby Atmos audio and reissued them in SteelBook cases<\/a> last November. The third and fourth seasons followed suit a few months later. However, when the initial Blu-ray release of the fifth season (in standard box set packaging) got Dolby Atmos from the beginning, it was unclear if SteelBooks would continue for future seasons.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, more Steelbooks are coming after all, but will be relegated to Best Buy exclusivity. I have no idea why Season 5 is more expensive than Season 6 when they have the same number of episodes.<\/p>\n

\"Game<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Game of Thrones: Season 6’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Best Buy<\/a>
\nRelease date: Nov. 15th, 2016
\nPrice: $49.99<\/p>\n

\"Game<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Snow White and the Huntsman’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Zavvi<\/a>
\nRelease date: Sept. 12th, 2016
\nPrice: \u00a315.99<\/p>\n

Timed to capitalize on the Blu-ray (and SteelBook) release of the sequel<\/a> that everybody hated, Universal will reissue ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ in a new metal case that needlessly also comes in a slipcover box.<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a><\/p>\n

It looks OK, but the movie had a much classier SteelBook<\/a> when it was originally released on Blu-ray back in 2012.<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadly, that one was a limited item and is long out of print.<\/p>\n

Are there really enough Huntsman fans out there to justify so many SteelBooks for this franchise? Judging by the box office performance for ‘Winter’s War’, I’d guess not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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