Fan Supported SteelBook Projects

[apsmith21]

Hi folks! Recently a question was posed to me about seeing what you guys (the steelbook community) thought in general about a new initiative.

This being that members here as well as steelbook fans worldwide could potentially create their own steelbook design or steelbook mockups to be voted on by the consumer base in general.

Those highly voted projects, in turn, would be reviewed by a retailing team and then offered to the public to purchase.

If you are not familiar with the LEGO CUUSOO project, this is something that polls a community at large for new and exciting products that LEGO will potentially create if the project reaches 10,000 votes.

What do you guys think? I know we've seen some pretty great mockups and even pretty great fan made editions by members here.

Is this something that you would be interested in, and also would this make you think about purchasing a steelbook?

Obviously details are to be discussed, but the potential of an empty steelbook or premium package has been mentioned to me - with catalog titles being one of the focuses of this effort.

I look forward to hearing any and all feedback - feel free to chime in!

 

[Nightowl]

I think this is a great idea. There's some excellent fan-made mockups out there, some of which deserve consideration by the studios. What's more, it would be great if the a blank template(s) could be made available so anyone could easily have a go at making a mockup.

Hope this goes through. Great idea!

 

[Lone Crusader]

I think this is a great idea. There's some excellent fan-made mockups out there, some of which deserve consideration by the studios. What's more, it would be great if the a blank template(s) could be made available so anyone could easily have a go at making a mockup.

Hope this goes through. Great idea!

They already are available, there on my Dropbox drive for anybody that wants them. Look in the OP HERE.

 

[zesty]

They already are available, there on my Dropbox drive for anybody that wants them. Look in the OP HERE.

Beat me to it! There's also 68 pages of pretty pictures in there

 

[Lone Crusader]

Beat me to it! There's also 68 pages of pretty pictures in there

Unfortunately the Showcase thread I believe was deleted by accident during the server upgrade. It could have proven very useful for this.

 

[zesty]

Unfortunately the Showcase thread I believe was deleted by accident during the server upgrade. It could have proven very useful for this.

It can't have been deleted my LINK still works

Although not all the pics do anymore

 

[Lone Crusader]

It can't have been deleted my LINK still works

Although not all the pics do anymore

Ok that's strange! They're all integrated into that thread now. They were moved from the Showcase thread into that one. I wonder who did that?

 

[zesty]

No idea, good to see I was ahead of the game my Wall-E was missing the title

 

[Lone Crusader]

No idea, good to see I was ahead of the game my Wall-E was missing the title

Well it's good to know that all that work was not lost in that thread, it was just merged.

 

[rbarnes182]

Awesome idea, looking forward to some more info.

 

[SaberTooth]

This is a totally awesome idea! :bow:

 

[IRON MAN]

Fantastic idea, and so many talented members on here will get a chance to shine

 

[TakingYoSteelz]

Great idea - I've often wondered if anyone on Kickstarter or Indiegogo would pop up with some!

 

[RickB84]

love the idea, also love the idea of being able to buy them as empty steels that will hopefully in turn keep the price down.

 

[jcm]

This could be awesome or completely ruin collecting steelbooks. If demand for grails or rare steels gets enough likes for reprints it would take all the novelty and exclusivity out of collecting.

However I do love some of the work members on here like zesty do creating new editions, that would be the positive side of the argument.

 

[berns]

Absolutely!! And im gonna suggest DONNIE DARKO and i already posted one design for it! So did Kaw

 

[Geek Tragedy]

Something in the public domain might be best. Something like...

Spoiler

 

[gaeljet]

totally in!

 

[SimonLDT]

This sounds like a great idea. It's about time studios took notice of what paying consumers want.

 

[Asopp]

I am in 100% this was a brilliant idea

 

[blumaster]

I'm just going to go against the grain and say it's a terrible idea. No one is going to buy it. People don't care about premium blu-ray packaging. I usually just throw the case away.