Finally, someone took the words out of my mouth, i also feel this way. This extra cards and booklets were way overhyped, i am more interested in the actual movie, if the steelbook art and slips were great then that's the bonus for me. I respect other collectors obsessed fascination with the cards and stuff,but i guess we're just the minority here who valued the content more. or maybe im just easy to please ..
Not "easy to please" maybe just like me happy with the standard steelbook and maybe just like me in the wrong thread (lol).
As we know a cottage industry has built over time to support the collector who wants more bang for his/her bucks than the basic steelbook - in other words, the "premium package", which can contain all sorts of goodies housed in a collector's box including Artcards, slipcases/slipcovers, posters, lenticular magnets and other geegaws.
Now these extra items may seem superfluous to you and me, and to other regular collectors, but there's evidently a decent enough market to support the several companies involved in the supply of these Premium Package (for example here we have a fifty page thread, and counting, for a release not out until April - very rare to have such interest in a thread for a regular steelbook with only FRIGHT NIGHT recently generating a similar level).
As we also know some of these "extras" have been tried out on the regular steelbook buyer like me with a bunch of these steelbooks supplied either with lenticular magnets stuck on the front (some much more successful than others as in the SPIDER-MAN and HULK lentis vs. the Disney lentis) or steelbooks housed in slipcases - basic items, though, not much thicker than slipcovers, more often than not with the same artwork as on the steelbooks and with no special treatment such as raised print or images.
There are also the steelbooks from Eureka or Arrow that would feel somehow incomplete if they didn't contain a booklet of at least twenty pages held inside by those two clips which seem to me designed to hold such an item and there have even been some steelbooks that come with folded posters . . .
These are clearly NOT attempts to challenge the premium market as the prices have been the same as that of regular steelbooks and they could be considered more like freebies than anything else.
Reasonably enough, premium packages = premium dinero.
Anyway, wish them well even though I personally still feel that the steelbook itself is what matters with the chance to not have to pay over the odds for a Blu-ray housed in metal rather than plastic packaging . . . but then again maybe I'm more money conscious now than I used to be but 50 or so quid for a steelbook with "goodies" (a steelbook that it could be argued is not worth more than10 quid by itself) is for me just a bit OTT.
On the other hand, don't want to be "that guy" who as Oscar Wilde used to say "Knows the price of everything but values nothing" (or something similar) as this slipcase clearly looks STUNNING and if I collected this sort of thing I'd be amongst the first in the queue to pre-order it:-
Now this is what I call a worthy slipcase . . . worthy to hold this film but maybe too good for this steelbook (LOL):-
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