Weekly Roundup 9/30 (1 Viewer)

[Jeremy Stockwell]

Jim-M,

Thanks for the reply. I had checked out their prices, but was hoping for a B&M deal. Maybe it's too obscure a title for any retailers to offer an amazing deal. Will definitely go with DDD.

JKS

 

[Jeff D]

The Tick(this is the cartoon and not live action right?).

I'd love to see the cartoons too! I've got them on tape and in process of moving them to mpeg for DVD, but if FOX would do it, I'm happy to pay!

 

[David Tolsky]

Pretty heavy week for me which is OK I guess since I bought nothing last week (and I think the week before)

Fargo SE
The Kids are Alright (in DTS..yeah!)
Rudy SE (one of the best movies ever made IMHO)
Scarface SE

and I'm going to pick up the Warners Legends Box set at the Warner Studio Store on the lot. I expect the price to be in the low $40's. Their price on the new Chaplin box is $44.60.

 

[Dan B]

Thanks Dave!
George, regarding The Kids Are Alright - the deluxe version is the bare bones version (!) and the special edition is a 2 disc version with lots of special features.

 

[Adrian_S]

Chris, thanks for the heads up... I wasn't sure what I was going to get, but I have decied just to get RH.

Thanks for looking out...

- Adrian

 

[David Lambert]

Note that the cartoon version of The Tick was Saban-made and therefore moved from Fox to Disney when FoxKids became ABCKids. Disney has shown no inclination to release this, and in fact may not realize that it's theirs. Or perhaps they do, and there are other issues preventing its release.

 

[george kaplan]

Thanks Dan. I guess it's kind of like buying a coke at a fast food restaurant where the smallest size is large, followed by super-large, and super-duper large.

 

[Greg S]

Just got in from Target.

2 Fast 2 Furious is $15.99 and comes with the extra DVD that has the making of 2F2F.

Greg

 

[Al.Anderson]

It looks like Costco has Robin Hood; it's 18.98. (At least the Coastco near me, King of Prussia, PA has it.)

 

[george kaplan]

I think my Costco also has Robin Hood for that price. They were putting out the new dvds (much later than they usually do), and I saw an open box with Yankee Doodle Dandy & Treasure of the Sierra Madre with that price marked on it). So I asked about Robin Hood. She said, "I don't know, let me look it up on the computer" and rushed off. She came back and told me no, but almost certainly she's mistaken. But I wasn't going to argue with her, she was obviously hassled about trying to get these dvds out so late, and that price wasn't low enough for me to buy it there anyway.

 

[Keith M.]

Amazon says Warner Legends Collection Availability is 3 to 4 WEEKS!!! Why? This was just released? Is this just a normal message??


Does anyone know where else to purchase this close to the same price that has it in stock???

 

[Jason Goodmanson]

Anyone see if The Tick is at Costco yet? I know it's not on their website so I'm curious to know if it's in store or not.

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

All three individual Warner legends titles are $19 at Costco. I did not see a box set.

 

[TimJS]

Today @ BestBuy

They were still stocking when I showed up to buy Fargo, Lawrence Of Arabia Superbit (finally in...Action, single disc version in Drama), & The Kids Are Alright SE (stocked with CD New Releases!).

They had all three Warner Legend titles at $19.99 5 to 8 copies each on display. No box sets. My Amazon order is scheduled to ship end of next week, so could either be delay or BB isn't carrying.

Tim

 

[Craig S]

Amazon says Warner Legends Collection Availability is 3 to 4 WEEKS!!! Why? This was just released? Is this just a normal message??

This has been discussed a bit in a thread in Software. No one can find it in B&Ms either. There's speculation that there's a holdup with the bonus disc in the box set (the Warner documentary).

 

[Keith M.]

Anyone else order from Amazon? I ended up just ordering it from them, since it was such a good price...

Hopefully, it will eventually ship...

 

[Keith M.]

BTW, anyone else getting annoyed by the "hunt" to find new releases?? Gone are the days where you could purchase all your dvds from one store...

 

[Randy B A]

I went to walmart, Bestbuy, and Costco. None of them had the Scarface gift set. BB said they sold out. So I got it at Borders for a little more than the other stores about $56 minus %20 coupon about $50 out the door.

Also went to target the bonus DVd for 2 fast 2 furious. They did not get it in, so the clerk calls 4 other stores in the area B4 she finds one that has the bonus DVD. so I had to drive there to get that.

I also got Fargo at BB with CC price match at $ 14.99.

What a bad day of DVD shopping.

 

[dpippel]

I certainly am. Luckily I have a Best Buy, Circuit City, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and Target all within 3 miles of each other. Even so, it's becoming a complete PITA to run between them looking for new releases on Tuesdays. I can't remember when the last time was that I found all of the discs I wanted at a single store. Best Buy and Circuit City are the worst offenders in my opinion if you're looking for catalog title releases. They NEVER have more than one or two copies in stock in my experience, yet they're advertised heavily in their Sunday newspaper inserts. Today for example I went to both BB and CC to get, among other things, the Warner Legends box set. Niether store had a single copy in stock. BB had two or three copies each of Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Adventures of Robin Hood, but CC only had one - yes ONE - copy of each title. Out of curiosity I asked a floor clerk to see if they had any more of either in stock. He checked and said that was all they had received.

This kind of behavior is getting pretty dispicable in my opinion. If these stores don't think that catalog titles such as these will sell, then why advertise them in the first place? If they DO think they'll sell then why not stock more than a couple of copies on release day? All the current practice does is piss their customers off. It' almost worth it to pay a little more, preorder online, and be done with it.

 

[Andrea W]

Any deals on Ninja Scroll: 10th Anniversal Edition?