Drive (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Novamedia Exclusive #1) [Korea]

[teddyjun]

Release Date: End of November, 2014
Pre-order date & time: 4th November, 23:00 Korea time (UTC+9)

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Price: $35.99, one click option as $105.97
Purchase Links :
One Click (all 3 steelbooks/slips) Sold out
Full Slip Sold out
Lenticular Cover Slip Sold out
1/4 Slip Sold out
Notes: 1st Novamedia collection. KD Media & Plain Archive makes it. It will be Full Glossy.
Group Buy: Masterblaster, apsmith21 (USA ONLY)

Package type
- Lenticular 600 coopies for overseas customers
- Full slip 600 copies for overseas customers
- 1/4 slip 100 copies for overseas and domestic customers on novamnm.com/co.kr
- One click option (including all 3 versions and same number from 1 to 300) 300 copies (Order limit: 2 copies per order)

Spoiler: Package Shots

Full Slip

Lenticular Slip Cover

1/4 Slip

Spoiler: Previous update

From Novamedia facebook :
Finally, we announce Novamedia exclusive No.1 title <Drive> steelbook(CA is Nova Choice No.1 title). Plain Archive designed this artwork. I appreciate their awesome works!

The steelbook is Full Gloss / The scorpion artwork of back side is debossed.

We will inform to you detail information, soon. Be patient.

And I inform to you bad news. Our web site faced little problem. So, we're fixing that. Please, be patient. I'm so sorry inform that.

Thanks in advance.

Spoiler: Full Slip

Spoiler: lenticular

 

[harry]

Buddy, this is the best pictures of Drive full slip i have seen so far . Awesome my friend @earthscope

 

[blu-steel]

Best Full slip of the year !!!

Thanks @earthscope

I say its in the top 5 easily. Olaf is pretty nice.

 

[Hatori]

OMG [emoji106] [emoji33] @earthscope

 

[TobinFrost]

I say its in the top 5 easily. Olaf is pretty nice.

I don't have Olaf

 

[steel888]

Awesome pics, as usual @earthscope

Who would have thought that Drive would look so damn good in pink?

 

[earthscope]

I don't have Olaf

I have OLAF my friend and the quality of the Nova slip Melts it...IMO

 

[steel888]

I have OLAF my friend and the quality of the Nova slip melts it...IMO

Fixed it for you...

 

[earthscope]

Fixed it for you...

I love that....

 

[dominic]

Awesome pics

 

[BluSteel2012]

I'm not here to rain on anyone's parade. But personally (as a Steelbook collector first and foremost)-the HMV edition is a much better steelbook IMO.

I was never really a fan of slips over steelbooks as it defeats the purpose for me (you can always buy an amaray with a good slip and it looks the same)

Having said that, the pink one is nice. But I think it's masking the fact that the steelbook itself is quiet poor. Just my opinion.

I think I've seen more pics of the slip than the actual Steelbook!!;p

 

[earthscope]

I'm not here to rain on anyone's parade. But personally (as a Steelbook collector first and foremost)-the HMV edition is a much better steelbook IMO.

I was never really a fan of slips over steelbooks as it defeats the purpose for me (you can always buy an amaray with a good slip and it looks the same)

Having said that, the pink one is nice. But I think it's masking the fact that the steelbook itself is quiet poor. Just my opinion.

I think I've seen more pics of the slip than the actual Steelbook!!;p

Check my post #2731 pleanty of pics of the Steelbook buddy.
You have also probably seen more pics of the slips than the actual steel because most of the collectors who bought this are keeping it sealed. And it's the extras like the slips / goodies / Numbering / plus the finish, that make this exclusive desirable. Plus the HMV Steel has no inside artwork and the feel of it next to this version is quite different.

Having them both in hand for me the quality of the Nova/ PA release raises this well above the HMV version....( just my opinion though )

 

[frankfish44]

I'm not here to rain on anyone's parade. But personally (as a Steelbook collector first and foremost)-the HMV edition is a much better steelbook IMO.

I was never really a fan of slips over steelbooks as it defeats the purpose for me (you can always buy an amaray with a good slip and it looks the same)

Having said that, the pink one is nice. But I think it's masking the fact that the steelbook itself is quiet poor. Just my opinion.

I think I've seen more pics of the slip than the actual Steelbook!!;p

Offering a different perspective to this....the HMV version has a lot of fans as there was never a release that could match it over the yrs,
For me in terms of a better steelbook, this version is far superior for a couple of reasons. The artwork and finish is colorful and the gloss factor is always welcome. Secondly, the presence of inside artwork as opposed to none makes a huge difference at least for me. Third and last, the addition of variants (though I'm not a fan of them all the time ) raises this edition above the HMV as it caters to a wider variety of collectors.
Having owned the HMV and German editions, I by a long way prefer this edition for the above reasons

 

[sgmido]

Finally! after my daily tracking session i discover my Full-Slip has arrived...

.. in GB LALA Land

 

[davhyl]

imo, this beats HMV version hands-down, but if you were one of the lucky ones who got the HMV Drive for £10.99, I'd say you got an awesome bargain and it's probably not worth the upgrade is you're only going to 1/4 slip.

Full slip is where it's at!

 

[lolwut]

I'm not here to rain on anyone's parade. But personally (as a Steelbook collector first and foremost)-the HMV edition is a much better steelbook IMO.

I was never really a fan of slips over steelbooks as it defeats the purpose for me (you can always buy an amaray with a good slip and it looks the same)

Having said that, the pink one is nice. But I think it's masking the fact that the steelbook itself is quiet poor. Just my opinion.

I think I've seen more pics of the slip than the actual Steelbook!!;p

I agree. The design of the HMV steel is much more pleasing. Pink on black is such a great contrast, and there's a nice blend of minimalism and detail. Also the back is so much more colorful than the back of the Nova steel (plus it crops out the lamp). The back also has unnecessary splashes of paint. Plus I'm not a fan of the purple theme. Which is my biggest complaint about the Nova front - the emphasis on the blown-out lamp. It just feels like a shot from the film was picked and the title was added - doesn't seem like the same amount of thought was put into it that was put into the slips.

I love the inside art of the Nova steel though, which is obviously far superior to the HMV's inside art! Plus the debossing on the scorpion is awesome. And the full gloss is nice.

 

[lgans316]

There is no inside art in the HMV release unless it is a custom one [emoji6]

 

[justhedudeman]

If collectors are going to keep it sealed what's the point of using the inside artwork as a point against the Hmv version?

 

[lolwut]

There is no inside art in the HMV release unless it is a custom one [emoji6]

I know

 

[jonnie123]

I just received my package. Only one copy inside when there is supposed to be two! Says 2x quantity on the package. Have emailed so will await response. Anyone else had an experience like this with Nova?

 

[lgans316]

I just received my package. Only one copy inside when there is supposed to be two! Says 2x quantity on the package. Have emailed so will await response. Anyone else had an experience like this with Nova?

Do take a photo of the weight printed on the shipping label just to protect yourselves from being accused of making false claims. Happened once with Kimchi long time back but thankfully the weight on the shipping label served as a solid proof that not all items were included in the package.