Last edited by a moderator:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]
- Thread starter asda1994
- Start date
Yes, unfortunately the best artwork is copyrighted to Criterion for their keep-case edition and all the other original posters are cruddy.
This new fresh art is thus welcome and I expect will look very nice in-hand in its all matching colour scheme
As for the Tyler Stout artwork: would definitely have been interesting as wraparound if it could have been arranged and if it were possible to place the complete image on the steelbook without compromising the layout too much.
Prefer the classic orange to the turquoise variant:-
Criterion case and slip art:-
This new fresh art is thus welcome and I expect will look very nice in-hand in its all matching colour scheme
As for the Tyler Stout artwork: would definitely have been interesting as wraparound if it could have been arranged and if it were possible to place the complete image on the steelbook without compromising the layout too much.
Prefer the classic orange to the turquoise variant:-
Criterion case and slip art:-
Last edited:
You have to laugh. I just can't take him serious. Infact I don't think I ever have! Has anyone for that matter?
The fact is that someone at Zavvi is very bad at their job. Yeah of course their only real goal is to make money, but how is choosing to distribute another wave of garbage steelbooks in any way a good business decision? They'll all end up at £4.99 when they realise only a handful of people bought them. At best they'll break even with most of these, so I ask again - why not tell the studio to go back and do a better job.
You don't know that, it's pure speculation. And, once again, if there's no money to be made on these steelbooks then the smart decision would be to let Amazon (or whoever) make a probable loss on an inferior product.
These are a fox release the previous fox pop art steelbooks in 2014 was trade wide in the UK the only difference is this new batch of fox steelbooks will be Zavvi exclusives in the UK
Zavvi are a retailer and are not a distributor
Fox with some previous retailer exclusives steelbooks also released them as trade wide a few months later
Amazon Germany Amazon Italy have a look at their steelbook listings and all the pop art steelbook releases have amazon said no to the film distributors to sell the pop art steelbook releases the answer is no they have not refused to sell them
In retail you get offered by the film distributor to sell products if you refuse an offer of exclusive you risk not be offered the next time and miss out on a top seller as an exclusive to another retailer
Retailers also can get choice of sale of return or sale of exchange with products and sometimes a reduction in dealer price months later if not selling well and they then can reduce the price to shift stock
Your not forced in buying any products from any retailer customer chooses to buy or not it's that simple
Last edited:
lol Come on,
First of all enough people liked this art for the product to exist just because you don't doesn't mean they won't sell (I happen to agree with you, the art is terrible in my opinion). The profit margins on these things are likely so large that selling a decent percentage at full price will yield an overall profit if they have to discount leftover stock, how do I know this? The fact that Zavvi have been selling steelbooks for years and with their wealth of experience have decided to sell these.
You're the one making baseless speculation. You think Amazon only sell products that sell at full rrp? or that Amazon never sells products at a loss?
There's a long history of Zavvi selling steelbooks and later reducing the price of stock which doesn't sell out, I'm sure they still turn a profit even on reduced items. I've never worked in retail (I'm a biologist) but I understand that if products don't sell you can sometimes return them to the distributor. I'm really not seeing much risk here..
In fact the quality of the art seems irrelevant to your entire argument given that Steelbooks featuring art which is generally liked can also see deep discounts, kinda proving you're talking utter nonsense
Last edited:
kinda proving you're talking utter nonsense
who is in the mirror?
i know its all fake news
basil
Just remembered where I saw those swirly eyes last . . . in DUCK SOUP with the anarchic Marx Brothers.
Guessing that Mr. Anderson is probably a bit of a film buff (lol).
Is it safe?
Last edited:
That's a very far fetched reference, and completely wrong.
As the type of eyes don't match. And the use of the spiral to mean hypnotizing has been around for decades.
If you asked any random person to draw something related to hypnosis they'd draw a swirly thing.
As the type of eyes don't match. And the use of the spiral to mean hypnotizing has been around for decades.
If you asked any random person to draw something related to hypnosis they'd draw a swirly thing.
Not really. No. As well as it needs to be. True. Most likely.
Random is my middle name.
Sorry you don't like The Marx Brothers or DUCK SOUP (1933)
Anyway, You're not wrong about hypnotic spirals - been around for hundreds if not thousands of years - in China, for example - and popularised in 'modern times' by folk such as Mesmer (1724 - 1815) and de Puysegur (1751 - 1825) . . but let's not forget that that was a machine with rotating spiral disc attached and not eyes like here on the FMr.F steelbook and in "Duck Soup".
As for me, when I think of spirals I think of my Vangelis LP:-
Last edited:
Incoming an edit with examples of spirals
@Flloydo please don't encourage the forum pet
as shown above
basil
Not really. No. As well as it needs to be. True. Most likely.
Random is my middle name.
Sorry you don't like The Marx Brothers or DUCK SOUP (1933)
Anyway, You're not wrong about hypnotic spirals - been around for hundreds if not thousands of years - in China, for example - and popularised in 'modern times' by folk such as Mesmer (1724 - 1815) and de Puysegur (1751 - 1825) . . but let's not forget that that was a machine with rotating spiral disc attached and not eyes like here on the FMr.F steelbook and in "Duck Soup".
As for me, when I think of spirals I think of my Vangelis LP:-
OH, didn't meant to imply I don't like the Marx brothers, or any other old (b/w) movies. I'm very open minded.
You're quite right, I originally thought cartoons when I first saw the scene, something like Bugs Bunny or some other.
Similar threads
