Pre-Order King Kong (1933) (Warner Archive Collection) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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[Jake Lipson]

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

 

[JoshZ]

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

Yes, since 2010. I'm sure this is just a repackage to put it under the Warner Archive umbrella.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

Yeah, in 2010 and 2017.

Really confused why this is showing up again as an Archive title. The film has been remastered for prior releases.

I am guessing maybe it has been out of print for some time?

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Exactly, the prior release sold out and this repressing is being reissued under the Archive banner.

 

[dpippel]

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

It was released in a Digibook some time ago. This is the release that I have, but apparently it's out of print and fetching high prices:

Amazon product ASIN B001KVZ6LQ
Then there's this import release, which seems to be readily available:

Amazon product ASIN B00DTS96EG

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Thanks, guys.

Okay, that makes sense. I can live with that. Nice to see that it's available for fans to buy again without having to take out a second mortgage.

 

[RolandL]

It was released in a Digibook some time ago. This is the release that I have, but apparently it's out of print and fetching high prices:

Amazon product ASIN B001KVZ6LQ
Then there's this import release, which seems to be readily available:

Amazon product ASIN B00DTS96EG

Sellers ask for high prices. Wait for one with a lower price.

$20.50 on eBay

 

[RobertMG]

Thanks, guys.

Okay, that makes sense. I can live with that. Nice to see that it's available for fans to buy again without having to take out a second mortgage.

maybe there is hope for a xmas reissue of the bishop's wife!

 

[dpippel]

Sellers ask for high prices. Wait for one with a lower price.

$20.50 on eBay

That was probably an isolated case of someone not knowing what they had.

 

[Kent K H]

Huh. Mine is in a regular blu in a case with a "Monster Mayhem" slipcover. I doubt there's a huge difference, if any, between any of them.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Huh. Mine is in a regular blu in a case with a "Monster Mayhem" slipcover. I doubt there's a huge difference, if any, between any of them.

Unless there is an eventual press release stating otherwise, I would just about guarantee this is the same transfer as all the previous releases.

 

[Jake Lipson]

It is also the same cover art they've used before, which I recognize from my old DVD version. I never got around to upgrading it to Blu-ray before. I would agree with the assumption that this is a repackaging.

 

[BobO'Link]

Mine is part of a 4 film release:

A "like new" used copy purchased solely for King Kong and less than Kong was selling for by itself at the time. And you can still get used copies of that package in the $16-$20 range.

 

[Jake Lipson]

Mine is part of a 4 film release

That is one of the weirdest releases I've ever seen. King Kong really doesn't fit in with those other modern movies.

 

[Ethan Riley]

Yeah and it's better than all 3 of those flicks together.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

That is one of the weirdest releases I've ever seen. King Kong really doesn't fit in with those other modern movies.

I believe most of those four pack releases were about liquidating extra inventory. Often when discs are made, the discs themselves are pressed and stored in spindles and not assembled into cases with artwork and shrink wrap until more units are needed. So they may, for the sake of using round imaginary numbers, print up 10,000 copies but only package 5,000 initially. The rest can be assembled quickly as needed, but this saves storage space and allows for packaging reconfigurations as needed. Add to that, generally speaking, that every studio wildly over pressed in the early years of Blu-ray anticipating demand that never materialized, and that’s a recipe for having lots of different discs lying around.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I believe most of those four pack releases were about liquidating extra inventory.

You are absolutely correct, of course. But most of them that I have seen in the past have had more of a connection between the included films than the one Howie posted.

 

[RolandL]

That was probably an isolated case of someone not knowing what they had.
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It's whatever someone is willing to pay that day.

$27.00

 

[dpippel]

If you can find one at that price point. Well, people now have the option of just waiting for the WAC release.