Stand By Me (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]

[Sigill]

Release date: August 29, 2016
Purchase link: Zavvi (Live Saturday 6 pm UK time)
Price: £14.99
Note: Matte finish with a spot UV on the title treatment and characters on the front and a spot UV on the characters on the back.

Spoiler

 

[BluSteel2012]

Spot UV? Does that mean it'll glow under a black light or is that some weird way to say spot glossing.

Good point. UV means ultraviolet after all. Strange......

Just found this though:

http://blog.eliteflyers.com/2012/10/22/what-is-spot-uv-printing/

 

[nekromantik]

Placed my PO!

 

[virkia]

Most welcome steelbook release from the Sony glossy white slipcover numbered spine Amaray collection - *#3 in that collection - with quite a number of the twenty or so released in the plastic cases from that collection now also released in steelbooks

Love the retro battered old photograph look of the cover artwork with the almost sepia tinted background even though the lads look somewhat out of place . . . as if they'd time travelled from 1959 to 1909 . . . and totally fine that they've used the same classic image on the back of the steel that they used on the front of the 2011 Amaray . . .
Totally different effect tho with that release glossy and this . . . not (or the opposite).

Don't know if this is listed as a 30th Anniversary Edition (1986 - 2016) like the previous above-mentioned edition which was listed as a 25th Anniversary Edition (1986 - 2011) and I imagine this contains the same disc with the same extras (?):-

Spoiler

Spoiler: Collector's Editions Series

Sony White & Gold Glossy Slipcover Collector's Editions released to date in STEELBOOKS:-
#1 TAXI DRIVER (July 2013 & March 2015)
#2 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (January 2016)
#3 STAND BY ME (August 2016)
#4
#5 EASY RIDER (February 2015)
#6
#7 BOYZ N THE HOOD (March 2016)
#8 DAS BOOT (January 2015)
#9
#10 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (July 2013)
#11 DR. STRANGELOVE (January 2015)
#12 CROUCHING TIGER (July 2009)
#13
#14 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (October 2015)
#15 BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (October 2015)
#16
#17
#18
#19
#20

Not much to choose from for the steelbook from the official poster artwork:-

. . . although there's some interesting non-official artwork around:-


. . . but maybe a bit "arty" for some tastes . . .

 

[BluSteel2012]

This is out next week, can't wait.

Anyway, I just noticed, the pic on amazon.it is showing a variation of the title on the front compared to Zavvis......

Italian.......

Zavvis........

Mock up mistake or has it been changed?

 

[Noodles]

This is out next week, can't wait.

Anyway, I just noticed, the pic on amazon.it is showing a variation of the title on the front compared to Zavvis......

Italian.......

Zavvis........

Mock up mistake or has it been changed?

I know I originally said that I'm not a big fan of the typeface on Zavvi's (my only gripe), but the Italian version looks even worse!

 

[ash333]

Probably mock-up mistake...the waiting game continues.

 

[paulboland]

Scanavo website
Spot gloss on the title treatment and on the characters on both front and back.

 

[BDDB]

Despatched

 

[levi]

yeh, the typeface reminds me of a burger bar menu

 

[Noodles]

Scanavo website
Spot gloss on the title treatment and on the characters on both front and back.

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Sounds like a winner to me... I love me some spot gloss!

 

[lucielo24]

buying it!

 

[C.C. 95]

Sounds like a winner to me... I love me some spot gloss!

@Noodles

 

[steelbobawny]

No dispatch for me so far, strange, may cancel for now.

 

[BluSteel2012]

 

[goufcustom]

looks nice... I'd wait till the price drop a few...

but I wonder what's the difference between this new 30th anniversary and the previous 25th anniversary edition? since it has the same bonus features "Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand By Me", only mastered from 4K, I guess?

 

[Strangerbyday]

Mine arrived this morning, on what is the actual 30th Anniversary of the movie, as it opened August 22nd 1986.

 

[virkia]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/stand-turns-30/story?id=41518138

 

[virkia]

I wonder what's the difference between this new 30th anniversary and the previous 25th anniversary edition?

Yes, as far as I can see exactly the same as the 2011 U.K. Amaray release in the glossy white 'n' gold slipcover - specs of that edition listed here:-
http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=17648

 

[tha_lunatic]

still no despatch email

 

[Lewis Watts]

still no despatch email

Same here