It's my honour to finally properly introduce you to

[Wreck]

The former Play.com Product Buyer of SteelBooks.

All this time his identity has been kept secret. He gave the go-ahead to do this introduction and it's truly an honor / honour.

He's a hardcore collector now like many of you. And I may have had a lot to do with that.

Some things that he's responsible of making happen and credit to the HDN Staff as well. @digitalbabe @apsmith21

Winner of a 'SB Of The Year' award, the Terminator HDN voted inside art, an end to printed logos and rears, mandatory inside art, front & rear 'bossing, a few grail reprints saved and countless other industry firsts and disasters avoided.

He was one of the first and most active Product Buyers to work hand in hand with HDN for many things and it's been an absolute joy working with him throughout the years.

You all might know him as .... @zoneism

If you own any great Play Steels he had a lot to do with them and he's a Ninja for life!

 

[will519]

Wow all this time, hes been on the forums for a while now. THANK YOU @zoneism

 

[justhedudeman]

Yes he in fact saved that Iron Man from being an exact FutureShop reprint! I had a little to do in helping.....

I would have actually liked a reprint. Maybe now they'll do it.

 

[blu-steel]

Thank you @zoneism for the amazing job you have done!!!!

 

[Sigill]

Great job @zoneism!

 

[paulboland]

@zoneism

The Original UK Retailer who gave us some of the best steelbooks at fantastic prices

What's your favourite play.com steelbooks

My first Play.com Steelbook I pre ordered was
An American Werewolf in London (Release date: 28/05/2012)

I have a few but also missed a few like Iron Man Steelbooks and The Incredible Hulk and a few of the others released that same month

I started collecting regularly after Play.com The Godfather Trilogy Steelbook was released (Its a beautiful Steelbook)
I pre ordered most of Play.com steelbooks after this release
I also then purchased the play.com steelbooks I missed out on that were still available after this

My now very large collection of steelbooks was started by play.com introducing me to beautiful artwork and steelbooks as a better choice than the standard Amaray Blu-ray Cases


Thank You @zoneism for your brilliant work in introducing a lot of us to steelbooks

 

[Bassaholic]

Awesome!

 

[rj531]

Thank you Sir @zoneism !!! I miss Play.com and its exclusives. Iron Man 1,2 at 10.99 GBP--hasn't been duplicated since. Some of my most favorite UK steels are play exclusives..

 

[jimmyv]

ah yes. of course. zoneism is always a class act. i've read many-a-posts from z and so often his posts stand out as like "the voice of reason with the most balanced perspective". lol

that's really cool.

thanks zoneism. truly.

 

[Dano]

Play SteelBooks were synonymous with quality and now we know the why and the who. Thanks Zoneism for all those great Steelbooks of yesteryear and always a pleasure to read your posts here at HDN.

 

[Hella]

...an end to printed logos and rears, mandatory inside art, front & rear 'bossing, a few grail reprints saved and countless other industry firsts and disasters avoided.

Nice.

Man how things have changed. There are still plenty of gripes to go around, but they're at least new gripes, thanks in no small part to you it seems, so thanks!

 

[UpsetSmiley]

It doesn't seem likely that the designer of Zavvi's Ratatouille will be coming forward any time soon.

 

[elektrickblue]

great job @zoneism on all the above, you are much appreciated

 

[Drum18]

Thanks @zoneism for ALL the hard work you did for us collectors!
Oh and btw, since you're a former Play.com Product buyer, don't forget to change your email when joining my GB's

Thanks again for everything!
Especially Iron Man

 

[Lone Crusader]

Way to go Luke, nice to have someone like you around helping us all out and even did it from the shadows. Wow!

@zoneism

 

[ocielz]

A true Ninja @zoneism!!!!! Stealthy and kept quiet, just taking notes and reading posts. Making Great decisions for Steels

 

[dfoles]

I knew there was a reason I liked @zoneism

Thanks for everything!

 

[NazguL66]

wow, that's cool. Good (sneaky) work @zoneism

 

[jaws finatic]

my meegerness bows before your greatness, oh @zoneism

 

[harry]

Wow Luke, i did not know that. Well done @zoneism , awesome job you did with play.com steelbooks. They gave us awesome steelbooks and love them at my collection.

Well done my ninja brother

 

[charleybusko]

I was admiring the awesome IM and IM2 play.com steels
Way to go @zoneism and thanks for working with HDN
thanks for the input and setting of new trends