WHV Press Release: The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary UCE (DVD/Blu-ray)

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You'd think WB would make more off having both regular and ultimate editions at the same time. There's plenty of fans who wouldn't mind the $60 set. I don't see how WB could recover restoration costs by jacking up the price. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a cheaper edition and sell more copies than an expensive one that won't?

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That's what I would think too. But to play devil's advocate, they can sell alot less copies at 2 or 2 1/2 times the cost of a regular Blu-ray and still make the same amount (or more) and then eventually sell a regular Blu-ray at some point in the future and make even more money.

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It'll come eventually. Has there EVER been a movie that was only available in an expensive, gimmick-laden edition? I can't think of any.

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Casablanca

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Guys, the preorder for Oz is up on WBshop.com. If you use code "websurvey7" it will knock 30% off the price. Currently they are offering free shipping on orders over $30 so I got my preorder confirmed for $47 and change.
Almost 25% less than the $60 that Amazon has it at.


Edit: It appears that this is a one time use code per each customer account so if you have used this code in the past, it may not work again for you. "websurvey6" will get you 25% off.

2nd Edit: Try "wbsurvey7" if the first code doesn't work. This code has been mentioned in another forum as working for some people.

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Pictures here. There appears to be a normal-sized case inside the box, which makes it more attractive. Still don't need a goddamn watch, though.

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I've been patiently waiting for it to show up on their site.





Crawdaddy

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The WB Store offer is at least a tiny bit tempting. I can always give the watch to my Mom.

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I was buying this boxset because I'm a collector, but I want a cheaper release so I can give it out as a Xmas gift which I'll do if this title ever shows up as such whether here, UK or wherever.





Crawdaddy

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Martin: I'm not so sure about that. That top image is the 2-disc DVD release. It's possible that greenish box on the right hand side of the blu-ray UCE might house the two discs. Still seems pretty big, though. Maybe the book goes in there, too? Like the Ben-Hur or Last Emperor boxes?


The gift that keeps on ticking...

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That box looks no bigger than the previous 3-disc DVD release, which is acceptable to me.

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I just used the wbsurvey7 and it worked. Thanks!

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Why don't they just call a spade a spade?

The Wizard of Oz: The-Pretty-But-Ultimately-Useless-Tchotchkes-Included-Edition

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I can't wait to see what "artifacts" the Ben-Hur, North by Northwest, GWTW & Citizen Kane UCE's will contain! (I'm banking on at least a miniature "rosebud sled" a mini chariot with some horses and a Roger Thornhill ID badge and dossier)

I still question if retailers will want these clunky boxes taking up valuable shelf space. So far they've only done Casablanca, Woodstock and The Notebook. What happens when retailers are suddenly faced with 20 or more of these boxed titles from WHV?

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I can deal with that price. On my way to order it now.

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I'd go for a snow globe.

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By the way, those WB SURVEY coupons did not work.

Both coupons said "unrecognized." Then, it said "WBSURVEY7 APPLIED"
but did not change the price right up through checkout to the final screen.

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Yup Ron, I think you are too late. For a while yesterday it worked for me and a few others and then I read later in the day that the codes were no longer working.
I bet WB took the codes away when they saw the orders coming in. Even though the 'survey7' codes were good through 6/30 according to the email I received, they've apparently been discontinued prematurely.
Hopefully another code will come along before Sept.

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Which is why you have to jump on these deals as soon as possible because I don't trust any of these sites to leave up such a deal for any length of time. I had a feeling that Warner would close this off as soon as they realized how many customers were using this code.

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Ouch! My idea of a no-frills set is not $50. I don't ever want to pay more than $30 for a movie and there had better be some darn good extras for that price. I haven't paid that much yet, so obviously I don't have Casablanca and I won't have WOZ. I'm not a collector so all this newly manufactured "memorabilia" has no value to me.

Now if they want to include the original ruby slippers for that price, maybe

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I think 49.95 was the MSRP for CE3K. If you look online, you'll see the price is typically around $35. It's also a 3-disc set on BD with some truly amazing extras.

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That $45 price point through the short-lived WB STORE discount
was probably the only way I would have justified the purchase of
the box set. In a way I am sort of glad the codes were revoked
as it gives me a better option of spending my money on something
else.

I will just wait until Warner eventually releases a single-disc
release of both OZ and GONE WITH THE WIND.

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Yes, this is all that I meant. $49.95 for all of the content on disc 1 and 2 on Blu is "fair" imho. $84.95 for the content AND the trinkets in the box is NOT. If Warner had priced the 2-disc blu-ray without the trinkets at $49.95, you would be able to find it in the low 30's and POSSIBLY less from a vendor on the Amazon marketplace (there are now plenty of new and sealed copies available of CE3K in the $25.00 range). WHV is correct in not treating Oz like a typical catalog title, but I simply think they've gone overboard by offering the $84.95 UCE as the ONLY edition. Summing this up, YES, I'm willing to spend a little more for OZ, but not $60 plus.

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I can't agree on fair pricing being $50 MSRP for discs only, especially on a title like Oz which is a guaranteed seller. Consider another WB title: Blade Runner - 5 discs, multiple cuts of the film, a great documentary - and all for $25 street. That was a complete no brainer of a purchase. A 2 disc set should be no more than $35-40MSRP/$20-25 street.

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Well, this would certainly be ideal, but WHV has apparently abandoned that pricing/marketing strategy for some reason. I don't know if they lost money on Blade Runner or not, but that set certainly did offer outstanding value for the money. I too was surprised that the Blade Runner 5-disc only carried a $39.95 msrp. The OZ discs do appear to carry a lot of content (especially if it carrys the full "Lion Roars" doc), but then so did Blade Runner. It isn't easy to argue for $49.95, but this would be a huge improvement over the $84.95 msrp (which I still can't believe their pushing in this economic climate - with a family film no less!?).

I agree with Jim that this amounts to giving us the big middle finger.

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Of course, for those of us who spent the late 80s thru the mid 90s collecting laserdiscs, paying ~$60 for a high definition copy of this film loaded with tons of extra a/v content, is still a bargain.
Compared to 10 years of DVD buying, though, the value is severely neutered.

I get the small pool of buyers = higher cost paradigm.
I think what Warner doesn't get is that they could modify that and come out farther ahead.
Instead of $85 for the deluxe edition, why not make it outrageously deluxe, hand signed by the last surviving munchkins grandson, and outrageously priced, at something like $125 or $150? There are a certain segment of hardcore title-centric collectors for whom desirability is stimulated by the price tag. The more exclusive something is priced, the more desirable is becomes.
If they have to sell 50,000 units at $30 msrp, 17,500 units at $85 msrp, then they would only have to move 9,000 at $150.
The thing is though, that would open up the ability to release a stripped down version at a still premium priced $50 or $60 and still foster the perception that it is 'a bargain' purchase.

If that is in fact an interior case that can be removed and put on the shelf so that I can toss the rest of it in the closet- then I may yet bite on this. I sold off my 2 disc set way back in 2006 in anticipation of this release and I'm getting really anxious to be able to see it again.

Not only that, but it looks like the flood of great catalog that was anticipated (Alien, Ben Hur, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and others) in Q4 isn't coming after all. Looks like there will be more room in the budget, for a big box o' junk.

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I think $35 would be reasonable considering Criterion releases generally go for that... and they're always worth it. I paid about $30 each for Warner's packed Jazz Singer, the 4-disc GWTW, and 3-disc Oz. Oz and GWTW also had pared down versions for cheap, which probably boosted sales. But they wouldn't charge $65 if they were not including all the trinkets.

Then again, people used to pay upwards of $60 just to get a bare-bones laserdisc and that was a bargain.

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I am sure there will be many deals on this set in the 4th quarter. I preordered the Star Trek movies only to find there were much better deals shortly after release. I am hoping for the same thing with The Wizard of Oz.

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Let's face it, it's up to each consumer to decide if they are willing to pay the price. I can't really say if I would have paid over $30 for BR because I bought it on sale at Amazon for freaky price of $15. I think it was a one day sale. If they were selling it for that, even for one day, I'm thinking it didn't sell all that well, which is disappointing.

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783A42xp Code copied from DVD Talk HD thread

Above code for the WB shop is a buy 2 get 1 blu ray free code. If you have 3 Warner blu rays you want and Wizard of Oz is one it will work. For some reason codes do not work for the Wizard of Oz . I was testing the 30% off coupon and it would take 30% off Gone With The Wind and John Adams in blu-ray but not the Wizard of Oz. I guess you could try calling customer service and ask if they would manually apply coupon to the Wizard. The above code will work if the Wizard is one of the 3 items. The Wizard however will not be the free item.
There was some talk on the web that a 25% coupon was stackable with the above code. It didn't work when I tried it. The site took the 25% off coupon out of my order as I proceeded through the checkout.