Weekly RoundUp 10-12-2010

Thanks as usual Mike!  I'm a bit surprised there isn't more promos around How To Train Your Dragon.  I was also hoping for a $19.99 price point.  I have already preordered it via Amazon as it is a great movie.  I'm also curious about WW II in HD.  I ordered Dollhouse S2 at Comic Con so that will hopefully be arriving soon.

Nothing for me, this week. I didnt know Magic was coming out on Blu.

Hard to belive Best Buy has it at a lower price then Amazon. But, even at $20, its too much. It's not THAT good!

Thanks as usual Mike.

Thanks Mike.   I'll be getting How To Train Your Dragon @ Best Buy w/movie cash (says children but it'll pay for a matinee).   Next week is going to be a Killer (Potter Ultimate Editions, Predators, Oceans & Crimson Wing).    I'll need the Weekly Roundup badly then.   And lots more coming up in the following weeks.

Best Buy on sale DVD items:

Iron Man 2 $19.99
Alice in Wonderland $15.99

TV on DVD

Eastbound and Down season 1 $17.99

$29.99 each:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 5
30 Rock season 4
How I Met Your Mother season 5
Ugly Betty final season
The Office season 6

$34.99 each:
House season 6
Modern Family season 1
The Simpsons season 13

Blu-ray:

$9.99 each:
Orphan
Saw VI
Resident Evil Extinction
Pandorum

Leaves of Grass $14.99
Three Kings $19.99
The Hangover $29.99
Iron Man 2 $29.99

TV on Blu-ray

Glee season 1 $44.99

Target on sale DVD items:

$10 each:
Monsters vs. Aliens
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa
Kung-Fu Panda
The Penguins of Madagascar

$16.99 each:
Iron Man 2
Letters to Juliet
The Back-up Plan
Just Wright
Babies
Marmaduke
Killers
Kick-Ass

TV on DVD

Friends season 10 $12.99
The Big Bang Theory season 2 $16.99
The Simpson season 13 $24.99
Dexter season 4 $19.99

Blu-ray:

$22.99 each:
Iron Man 2
Letters to Juliet
The Back-up Plan
Just Wright
Babies
Marmaduke

$19.99 each:
Killers
Kick-Ass

Is Best Buy really selling the 2-pack of How To Train Your Dragon for $2 less than the single disc?

HTTYD is my purchase this week.

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon 

Did some young lovely perform a suggestive sell at the convention, Adam? 

No, it was the limited edition litho that did it.  I had it signed by two of the writers.  This is what it looked like:

Renting Dragon, but that's it!

Thanks,

guys!

I'll pick up The Darjeeling Limited on Blu-ray at some point but there's nothing for me this week.

Thanks for the prices anyway, guys!

The only way I know for me to reign in my recent movie spending is to simply not go to a store that sells movies.  How  to Train Your Dragon, Darjeeling Limited and Wolverine and the X-Men at some point when they're all on sale.  I fully expect HTTYD to hit a lower price point before Black Friday.  IIRC, Bee Movie dropped like a rock for that day a few years back.

Thanks guys for feeding my habit every single week. 

I loved HTTYD, but the Blu will be much cheaper within a few months.

Picking up "Dragon" on Friday ... "Jonah Hex" will be a rental ...

Just preordered the "... Dragon" BD combo pack (w/ $5 eGift card offer) from B&N's site for $24.79+tax (as part of my kid's school bookfair purchase/contrib) -- couldn't use a regular coupon though since it was a preorder.  Seemed like a decent enough release week deal under the circumstance -- and I don't mind paying the premium for that once in a while for the kids, especially w/ the school bookfair tie-in (for which I also ordered the Maltese Falcon BD w/ a coupon at a decent net price)...

Already have the UK version of the Red Dragon BD, which I assume should be essentially identical to this US release.  There are a couple other releases of interest this week, but I'll probably just wait for some good deals for them later -- seems like we're getting lots of good deals w/ just a little patience lately (plus I still have a sizeable backlog of titles to watch anyhow ).

_Man_

Not sure about other places, but B&N apparently offers that option now -- it's actually a combination of the online site (w/ bookfair code) on top of the partnering local B&M store:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookfairs/index.asp?

I guess that's bound to happen w/ so many things getting online -- and doing it this way can get more of your family and friends involved too.

_Man_

I loved The Darjeeling Limited when I saw it in theaters; it's a lot of fun and a nice cross between Wes Anderson's style and the Merchant Ivory texture. I'm not sure I need to own it, though, and I definitely don't need to own it at $24.99. Which is just as well, because October's shaping up to be an expensive month for books. Movies will have to wait until next month.

So is Rudolph actually HD or an Upconvert? $20 for an Hour Special is a bit steep.

Don't forget the 50th Anniversay Blu Psycho !

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Originally Posted by Bill Thomann 

Thanks Mike.   I'll be getting How To Train Your Dragon @ Best Buy w/movie cash (says children but it'll pay for a matinee).   Next week is going to be a Killer (Potter Ultimate Editions, Predators, Oceans & Crimson Wing).    I'll need the Weekly Roundup badly then.   And lots more coming up in the following weeks.

Is the Megamind ticket a Best Buy exclusive?  The movie passes aren't usually retailer exclusives, are they?  Strange that there aren't more deals or premiums, considering the amount of advertising they're putting behind this release.

If my son wants to see Megamind then it'll be worth picking up HTTYD for $23.  Otherwise I'll wait for a price drop.  (Speaking of Dreamworks Animation on Blu, they're re-releasing Bee Movie, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Monsters vs. Aliens as BD/ DVD combo packs on November 30.)

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Originally Posted by Dave Scarpa 

So is Rudolph actually HD or an Upconvert? $20 for an Hour Special is a bit steep.

Based on the review at DVD Beaver, it sounds like it's actually HD:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews52/rudolph_red_nosed_reindeer_blu-ray.htm

There are no extras, however. Also, there's  a blu-ray box (29.99 at Amazon) with 3 other cartoons (Frosty, Frosty Returns, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town):

http://www.amazon.com/Original-Christmas-Classics-Red-Nosed-Reindeer/dp/B003P3PQLM/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1286816700&sr=1-2

Wal-Mart's website is indicating some kind of exclusive How to Train Your Dragon Blu-ray for $19.99:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/14967704.

The listing for the regular Blu-ray here http://www.walmart.com/ip/14904317 indicates that it has a DVD included as well as the Bonekeeper Dragon short.  What is the Wal-Mart exclusive? A Blu-ray release on its own without the DVD?  If so, does anyone know how to tell the two apart in terms of packaging?  A friend of mine in the area will be purchasing HTTYD for me at Wal-Mart on Friday, and I want to make sure they get the combo set, as I often loan out the DVD versions in my combo packs to friends without Blu players.  Would hate for her to accidentally get the wrong copy.

anyone know if the Busby Berkley repackage is slims or digipak? never picked up the first time around and its at a decent price, the Christmas Box looks like a good bet as well,

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Originally Posted by Dave Scarpa 

So is Rudolph actually HD or an Upconvert? $20 for an Hour Special is a bit steep.

Just out of curiosity, do you have an example of a blu-ray release where the primary program material is upconverted SD? I've never heard of this practice (of course excluding supplemental material).

 

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Originally Posted by JakeLip 

Wal-Mart's website is indicating some kind of exclusive How to Train Your Dragon Blu-ray for $19.99:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/14967704.

 

The listing for the regular Blu-ray here http://www.walmart.com/ip/14904317 indicates that it has a DVD included as well as the Bonekeeper Dragon short.  What is the Wal-Mart exclusive? A Blu-ray release on its own without the DVD?  If so, does anyone know how to tell the two apart in terms of packaging?  A friend of mine in the area will be purchasing HTTYD for me at Wal-Mart on Friday, and I want to make sure they get the combo set, as I often loan out the DVD versions in my combo packs to friends without Blu players.  Would hate for her to accidentally get the wrong copy.

From what I can see, I think you're right. The exclusive seems to be a BR only edition that Walmart can probably sell for less than the combo pack. It looks like the combo pack has a yellow frame around the cover and is named the Dragon Double Pack, so it shouldn't be too hard to mix them up.