Le Mans ‘66 (aka Ford v Ferrari) (4K+2D Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]

[paulboland]

Release date: March 23, 2020
Purchase link: Zavvi (Pre-order will be live on Friday November 15 at 9 AM UK Time)
Price: £29.99

Spoiler

 

[djfab]

Received today, going back tomorrow.
I can’t believe they are still making titleless steelbooks in this country.

Just to be clear that is no title on the front and no title on the spine.

Also, the spine is covered by the slip, not seen this before so you wouldn’t know until it is opened.

Finally, crap matte to top it off.

We have known this since February 13 ! (see above)

 

[BDDB]

We have known this since February 13 ! (see above)

It’s called confirmation and it said zero finish which it certainly is not

 

[MrSquifler]

I'd like a matte design, but no title or spine is hugely disappointing. Too late to cancel now.

 

[djfab]

It’s called confirmation and it said zero finish which it certainly is not

Yes, but you still bought it...

 

[paulboland]

German Steelbook is spot gloss finish and has debossed title and title on spine

Thread below has a unboxing video

Le Mans '66 (aka Ford v Ferrari) (4K & Blu-ray SteelBooks) [Germany]

Release date: April 2, 2020 Purchase links: Amazon DE - 4K - 2D Price: €31.99 (4K) - €22.99 (2D) Notes: Debossed Title - Spot Gloss - 4K limited to 500 copies - BD limited to 850 copies

www.hidefninja.com

German 4K edition some still available the 2D edition is sold out

 

[BDDB]

Yes, but you still bought it...

Because I did not see the post until today.

 

[Mth]

2D back in stock at amazon.de

German Steelbook is spot gloss finish and has debossed title and title on spine

Thread below has a unboxing video

Le Mans '66 (aka Ford v Ferrari) (4K & Blu-ray SteelBooks) [Germany]

Release date: April 2, 2020 Purchase links: Amazon DE - 4K - 2D Price: €31.99 (4K) - €22.99 (2D) Notes: Debossed Title - Spot Gloss - 4K limited to 500 copies - BD limited to 850 copies

www.hidefninja.com

German 4K edition some still available the 2D edition is sold out

 

[ariba266]

4K back in stock at amazon.de

 

[hkh0403]

Oh, crap!
No titles on the front&spine, isn't this almost a scam?
Somebody please let me know subtitles information~, thanks!

 

[andy01652]

Wow. That's pretty bad. The German one looks great too. Who makes these decisions? Is it just a money saving thing?

 

[spookz]

I would have preferred the 4k disc German one, but ordered the blu ray version from them this morning instead. It is such a nicer steelbook than this Zavvi effort. I can understand when different countries do completely different steelbook designs, but can never understand when they stay with the same design and tweek it. Seems so utterly pointless. Just put the debossed title on all.

 

[Doctor]

I would have preferred the 4k disc German one, but ordered the blu ray version from them this morning instead. It is such a nicer steelbook than this Zavvi effort. I can understand when different countries do completely different steelbook designs, but can never understand when they stay with the same design and tweek it. Seems so utterly pointless. Just put the debossed title on all.

I put an order in for the 4K German one about 1/2 hour ago. Seems I was lucky as it looks to be OOS again!

 

[Wychtlsn]

Plain Steelbook ... no title ... even the spine ... pretty lazy Zavvi

 

[paulboland]

Plain Steelbook ... no title ... even the spine ... pretty lazy Zavvi

Steelbook design has nothing to do with Zavvi
Zavvi dont do any design with steelbooks that's done by the film studio/distributors

Steelbook is a shared print run in Europe/Asia as in a WWA steelbook

German WEA release with title is shared print run with Holland

 

[Wychtlsn]

Steelbook design has nothing to do with Zavvi
Zavvi dont do any design with steelbooks that's done by the film studio/distributors

Steelbook is a shared print run in Europe/Asia as in a WWA steelbook

German WEA release with title is shared print run with Holland

But Zavvi still shows very misleading product images.

 

[paulboland]

But Zavvi still shows very misleading product images.

That's what the film distributors provide them with sometimes is not accurate or gets changed and updates not passed on to the retailers

All pre order listings have artwork subject to change and actual product my differ than image shown

Image though should have been updated once actual product release change was known about

 

[Wychtlsn]

That's what the film distributors provide them with sometimes is not accurate or gets changed and updates not passed on to the retailers

All pre order listings have artwork subject to change and actual product my differ than image shown

Image though should have been updated once actual product release change was known about

Obviously in italy they got the correct product pictures ... from the beginning!

 

[paulboland]

Obviously in italy they got the correct product pictures ... from the beginning!
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Disney UK and Disney Europe are different distributors
Information given to retailers in some countries will not always be the same

It was also known well before release date since February 13th that the UK release will not have title on spine or front from various sources and this info was posted and mentioned a few times in this thread and other threads of same steelbook

German release was clearly noted would be different

 

[Wychtlsn]

Disney UK and Disney Europe are different distributors
Information given to retailers in some countries will not always be the same

It was also known well before release date since February 13th that the UK release will not have title on spine or front from various sources and this info was posted and mentioned a few times in this thread and other threads of same steelbook

German release was clearly noted would be different

Not everyone is active in the steelbook forums!
Those had bad luck obviously!
If there´s no "artwork tba", I expect the cover to look like this in the end!

 

[paulboland]

Not everyone is active in the steelbook forums!
Those had bad luck obviously!
If there´s no "artwork tba", I expect the cover to look like this in the end!

Zavvi yes should have updated listing with correct image once they got delivery of the stock
Very often product changes info does not be passed to retailers and they only know about a change when they get delivery

Product listings images are only mock up and not an actual image of product and sometimes may have small or big differences to actual release

Yes it's helpful if images retailers use are accurate but sometimes that don't happen for various reasons