I don't expect to sell out quick but it will end up as sold out in a few months
Disney animation sells some quickly and some take a while but all end up as sold out
There is more than double the amount of new steelbook collectors buying steelbooks now compared to last time in 2014 and is why you have seen film studios do a lot of steelbook releases both new and re releases and new retailers doing releases in various countries
Every week you get new customers buying their first steelbook
Yes, the price may seem a bit of a shocker for a 1 disc steelbook, with or without lenticular, but it's not much above other 1 disc releases such as the new Jack Reacher or "Jason Bourne" or "The Purge: Election Year" or the upcoming *two from Eureka (or other single disc affairs originally priced high at release).
To play devil's advocate, it is a Disney animation steelbook which means that it will start off slightly more expensive than other steelbooks and more importantly it's SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS after all:
- First full-length Disney animated feature.
- #10 in the Highest Grossing Films ever in the U.S. / Canada list with almost $940M adjusted gross or, to put it another way, Disney's longest running cash cow.
- #34 in the American Film Institute's 100 Best American Movies and #1 in their list of the Ten Best Animated American Films.
- Best Score nomination and Honorary Oscar for "a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon."
- Selected by the National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress
- Certain scenes inspired by silent German expressionist cinema particularly "Nosferatu" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" as well as the home-grown "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
- The first film to be entirely scanned to digital files, manipulated, and recorded back to film (in 1993). The restoration project was carried out entirely at 4K resolutionand 10-bit colour-depth using the Cineon system to digitally remove dirt and scratches and restore faded colors.
- Thanks to the money generated by the film Walt Disney was able to finance a new $4.5 studio in Burbank (which remains the Disney HQ to this day) and as they say the result is history with the next set of classic animated features following shortly afterwards - "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Dumbo".
- First film with an official motion picture soundtrack and the first film to have an official soundtrack album.
- Released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1994 and sold 50 million copies before returning to the vault and holds the record as the best-selling video cassette ever.
- Praised by the great Russian director Sergei Eisenstein as "the greatest film ever made" and also admired by Charlie Chaplin.
- Thanks to its success inspired other studios to bring out other fantasy films such as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gulliver's Travels".
Anyway, released at CHRISTMAS 1937 and now due a release at CHRISTMAS 2016 all I can say is "Welcome back, even though it feels like you've hardly ever been away except for when tucked up safely in the vault"
* DVD included, yes, I know, but I don't count that.
Early promos:-
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LOL & LOL . . . just giving the film the respect it deserves
LOL & LOL . . . just giving the film the respect it deserves
To paraphrase Kuzco, "Maybe I'm new to this whole steelbook thing, but this, to me, might be considered a step backward, wouldn't you say?" It seems to me that the steelbook art shouldn't be altered so that a small lenticular magnet looks better on it. Maybe the other way around instead?
I certainly wouldn't say that the art has been "shrunk to fit" and what I would say is that ALL steelbooks that come with framed lenticular magnets should be exactly like this - in other words, with the front steelbook artwork contained within the border of the frame with preferably a plain colour frame matching the background of the artwork inside the frame which immediately does away with those annoying alignment issues between frame and lenticular which rather spoil the package for me.
Of course, full height lentis do away with this problem but Disney doesn't seem to be a fan of those and who can blame them if this little group of Disney classics / Pixar lenticular steelbooks look the biz in the flesh.
As Disney / Pixar lenticular steelbook packages - which these SPECIFICALLY are - this is clearly and without a shadow of a doubt the way to go and full marks to Disney/Scanavo for taking on board the concerns raised by some of the worst examples, such as the recent "Age of Ultron", and fixing them by re-sizing the steelbook front artwork (comparing the new mock-up to the original mock-up)
Anyway, full height artwork is to be found on the back and inside.
Just came across comparison pics between old-mock-ups and these new mock-ups which are worth sharing:-
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^ Well, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree as usual and I'm totally fine with that.
Now, I can't help it if you or others like you are unable to grasp the concept that Disney - AS REPORTED VERY RECENTLY - did realise and accept that there is a problem affecting their range of lenticular steelbooks . . . and that they consequently decided to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. . . now that they've done something about it all people can do is moan !!! (LOL)
What have they done about it ? Well, you only have to look at the BEFORE and AFTER mock-ups ^ to see what they've done.
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Wow, I knew Zavvi was dodgy, but this is a proper scam. They sell this as No 1 in their Disney collection, effectively throwing the previous numbering system down the drain. These steelbooks were advertised and sold as limited steelbooks, and they go an re-release them as lenticular steelbooks instead of completing their collection. Disney never really treated their customers with the proper respect, so I guess Zavvi and Disney really deserve each other.