{"id":81506,"date":"2016-11-16T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=81506"},"modified":"2019-07-16T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T03:44:18","slug":"unboxed-criterions-lone-wolf-and-cub-bluray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/unboxed-criterions-lone-wolf-and-cub-bluray\/","title":{"rendered":"Unboxed: Criterion’s ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ Blu-ray Easter Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Criterion Collection’s recently-released ‘Lone Wolf and Cub<\/a>‘ Blu-ray box set includes six feature films and a bunch of supplemental content. If you look closely, you might also find a clever surprise hidden in the packaging.
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The credit for this discovery goes to user “slop101” from the DVDTalk forum<\/a>. If he hadn’t mentioned it in a discussion thread there, I probably would not have noticed it on my own.<\/p>\n

The ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ series follows the adventures of a samurai assassin who wanders the Japanese countryside while pushing his infant son in a tricked-out baby cart loaded with hidden weapons and supplies. In that spirit of invention, Criterion’s Blu-ray packaging has an unadvertised easter egg you might easily overlook.<\/p>\n

At first glance, the box set looks like a pretty standard package. The three-disc set is contained in a fold-out digipak within a cardboard slipcover box. I’m not a huge fan of the cartoony Pop Art design, but I don’t find it to be too ugly in this case. <\/p>\n

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In typical Criterion fashion, the box also holds a booklet with essays and notes about the films.<\/p>\n

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You’ve probably never bothered to open the spine flap on a slipcover box like this before. (Why would you?) Go ahead and try it this time to reveal a secret compartment.<\/p>\n

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Inside is a tightly-folded blueprint schematic for the character’s baby cart, exposing all of its tricks and traps.<\/p>\n

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Very sneaky, Criterion! What a fun surprise. <\/p>\n

Thanks to slop101 for pointing this out. This Blu-ray set might otherwise have sat on my shelf for years without my giving the box itself much attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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