Oppenheimer (2023) (4K+2D Blu-ray SteelBook) (Ultimate Collector's Edition) [UK]

[paulboland]

Release date: November 18, 2024
Purchase links: Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV
Price: £44.99
Notes: SteelBook Finish Gloss & Debossed - Rigid slipcase with soft touch and spot UV detail - 60-page abridged ‘Unleashing Oppenheimer’ book - Artcards - Double-sided poster

Spoiler: SteelBook

 

[Mickle_89]

I’m not even bloody high but yeah this is waaay too much info to handle and process for a relaxing Sunday afternoon. F#ck me.

 

[samdavies]

Thank you for your explanations, but I need official details and proof. It's simply a case of statement against statement. You write that my understanding of the finishes is wrong, but I see it the other way around. This is also nothing personal against you, nothing can be verified here at the moment.

What speaks against your understanding of zero finish or spot gloss is that the spot gloss can be touched and that it makes no economic sense to completely coat a Steelbook twice. So why was a zero finish introduced at all, as it offers hardly any difference to the matt finish? It would have made more sense to introduce the satin finish across the board in the other factories as well.

With regard to the satin finish, I can remember the Batman Returns EU Blu-ray Steelbook as another example, which even had a matt finish in the USA.
Which is of course also an option if it is a worldwide Printrun. It would be interesting to know when Scanavo EU stopped offering Steelbooks with a satin finish and why.

Do you know which matte Steelbook used spot gloss and why Scanavo no longer does this?

Regarding the high-gloss finish, I was able to identify three different variants:
1. The classic high-gloss finish as it is still used today.
2. A clearly different surface, consisting of many small dots in the surface instead of lines that go from top to bottom. The Zavvi Blu-ray Steelbook of The Equalizer with the debossed title and the Blu-ray Steelbook of King Kong had this finish.
3. A slightly more matte version that the international Blu-ray Steelbook of The Shape of Water, released in 2019, had. The reprint of the Studiocanal 4K Steelbook of Total Recall also differs from the first print.

That's fair enough bud, you're welcome to your own opinion, of course. Look, I've told you what I know to be true, that's all I can do. That's coming from an avid collector, who considers himself to be experienced lol I don't work for Scanavo, and I guess without finding someone who does, that's about as an official answer as I expect you'll receive here.

As I mentioned earlier, if you hit @paulboland up, he'll explain it to you until he's blue in the face/circuits.

 

[TheWildEye]

Maybe someone can explain what that sh*t is they've done to the Trainspotting steelbook because I have to be high just to look at it.

 

[Lenny Nero]

I’m not even bloody high but yeah this is waaay too much info to handle and process for a relaxing Sunday afternoon. F#ck me.

 

[eLviS1987]

 

[tommyh84]

Charged by Zavvi for this

 

[djjez83]

payment taken

 

[djjez83]

back in stock at hmv

 

[Bob L'Eponge]

I always thought the first two variants, especially the more popular one, where incredibly muted in tone & saturation to their detriment.
Are we looking at an even more dull finish or a brighter look on this new variant?

I already have the print samples for the new steelbook and can confirm they're a lot brighter & more vibrant than the original pair of zero varnish steels.
This new one is gloss (same deboss title work) but as previously mentioned, we've gone with a lot more detailed white base hit, which has facilitated the colour boost.
Hopefully people will like but these things are always very subjective (the rest of the board / paper elements have also come out great, so am looking forward to people getting these in hand in the next week)

 

[matthewtheunicorn]

Sounds very promising

 

[Lotrek]

Dispatched by zavvi, expected Friday.

 

[JinxyKatte]

Dispatched by zavvi, expected Friday.

I'd be surprised if it takes anywhere near that long

 

[tommyh84]

Dispatched by zavvi, expected Friday.

Yep same. Delivery between Thurs-Fri

 

[TheWildEye]

You're 1st.
Decent pictures from the Zavvi buyers when you can please.
Appreciate you.

 

[Flloydo]

You're 1st.
Decent pictures from the Zavvi buyers when you can please.
Appreciate you.

You just know the first 10 people to get it and post pics will be absolutely dogsh!t potato photos or still sealed

 

[K1SK1S]

You just know the first 10 people to get it and post pics will be absolutely dogsh!t potato photos or still sealed

Managed to get an early delivery. Best I could do on short notice...

Spoiler: ...

 

[samdavies]

From someone who works at hmv (I believe).

 

[JinxyKatte]

Mine should arrive today.

 

[TheWildEye]

Damn, only just had payment taken from HMV this morning.

Mine should arrive today.

Remember the photos if/when you can @JinxyKatte

 

[JinxyKatte]

Damn, only just had payment taken from HMV this morning.


Remember the photos if/when you can @JinxyKatte

Come on this is me you're talking to lol. I'll be practically giddy if I get to be first to post photos.

Annoyingly at this time of year I have been having especially bad issues with natural lighting atm.

Zavvi seem to have really got these out fast, payment taken super early Tuesday and dispatched later the same dad, Blazing Saddles took payment later the same day but still no dispatch on that.