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Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

Jake Lipson said:

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

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

Jake Lipson said:

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

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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?

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

Jake Lipson said:

Is this not already available on Blu-ray?

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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:

See on Amazon

Then there's this import release, which seems to be readily available:

See on Amazon

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.

dpippel said:

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:

See on Amazon

Then there's this import release, which seems to be readily available:

See on Amazon

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

$20.50 on eBay

Ronald Epstein said:

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.

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

RolandL said:

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

$20.50 on eBay

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

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.

Kent K H said:

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.

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

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.

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.

BobO'Link said:

Mine is part of a 4 film release

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

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

Jake Lipson said:

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

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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.

Josh Steinberg said:

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

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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.

dpippel said:

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

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