Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Best Buy Exclusive) [Canada]

[zerox39]

Release date: May 10th, 2015
Purchase links: Best Buy.ca
Price: $16.99
Group Buy: Drum18 or biscuitnoir
Notes:

See the tribute for Leonard Nimoy here:
https://www.hidefninja.com/community/threads/rip-leonard-nimoy.63205/

We had this planned for awhile. We decided to announce it today in honor of Leonard

 

[NoDingsNoScratches]

So is best buy for sure not getting this?

 

[TheJoker]

Best Trek film ever, and I'm so in for the group buy. I really hope it has both cuts of the film in this. Hopefully all the rest of the original and TNG Trek films get steelbooks also, and I echo the previous post that said do them all with the poster art.

This is a no brainer for me, heck, I even had the slip to my amaray signed by Khan's right hand man, Joachim. (Judson Scott. Really nice guy)

 

[Tacozilla]

Would be nice to see all the Trek movies get a steelbook release, or at the very least the "Trilogy" in steelbook form.

 

[bonakaze]

Would be nice to see all the Trek movies get a steelbook release, or at the very least the "Trilogy" in steelbook form.

Or the Tv show ! Like to German TNG steelbook

 

[Lollard2002]

Which reminds me still no word of DS9 on blu-ray? But you are right the German next generation steels are cool.

 

[Lollard2002]

Best Trek film ever, and I'm so in for the group buy. I really hope it has both cuts of the film in this. Hopefully all the rest of the original and TNG Trek films get steelbooks also, and I echo the previous post that said do them all with the poster art.

The problem is that only The Wrath of Khan to date has had sort of proper restoration done. It was in bad shape apparently and the Special Edition Motion picture was only done in SD so it would have to be redone from scratch for HD so don't be hoping for any remastered Steelbook releases that match the Special Edition DVD's.

 

[Basil]

@zerox39 any news on when this will be out e.g. date yet at all please?

the best buy one is saying sometime in may

many thanks

basil

 

[Basil]

bump

and for those that are trekkies go have a read of this thread here and vote please

many thanks
basil

 

[Drum18]

Release date is now set for May 10th, 2015 and purchase link:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product...xclusive-steelbook-blu-ray-1982/m2216495.aspx

 

[bonakaze]

Release date is now set for May 10th, 2015 and purchase link:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product...xclusive-steelbook-blu-ray-1982/m2216495.aspx

A sunday ?

 

[Drum18]

A sunday ?

Yeah... and by past experience, you can be assured that Sunday May 10th in store NO ONE will have a single idea of what you're talking about!

 

[C.C. 95]

Yeah... and by past experience, you can be assured that Sunday May 10th in store NO ONE will have a single idea of what you're talking about!

It is standard operating procedure, due to the sensitive nature of Steelbook releases, that no Best Buy employees ever know anything about any releases whatsoever.
This is for your safety and theirs....

 

[Drum18]

It is standard operating procedure, due to the sensitive nature of Steelbook releases, that no Best Buy employees ever know anything about any releases whatsoever.
This is for your safety and theirs....

 

[Flash]

I love this artwork on this, hope UK follows suit. I love this film.

 

[bonakaze]

It is standard operating procedure, due to the sensitive nature of Steelbook releases, that no Best Buy employees ever know anything about any releases whatsoever.
This is for your safety and theirs....

I was asking for steelbook the other day and the employee of the dvd section and he had no idea what a steelbook was ahah

 

[C.C. 95]

I was asking for steelbook the other day and the employee of the dvd section and he had no idea what a steelbook was ahah

Sure. I had the same experience. Even though they are flush with steelbooks during the Holidays.

 

[Basil]

out in an week been waiting on this one, please be gloss please be gloss.

basil

 

[Xenomorph]

The problem is that only The Wrath of Khan to date has had sort of proper restoration done. It was in bad shape apparently and the Special Edition Motion picture was only done in SD so it would have to be redone from scratch for HD so don't be hoping for any remastered Steelbook releases that match the Special Edition DVD's.

So you are saying that the picture and sound quality is not really blu ray worthy? " The Wrath of Khan to date has had sort of proper restoration done"

For a blu ray release I would expect a quality like The Terminator remastered steelbook and Alien Anthology steelbook
This is the blu ray steelbook I would expect for The Wrath of Kahn steelbook

 

[Lollard2002]

No proper restoration has been done on any of the Star Trek films except the Wrath of Khan because of the poor shape the negative was in. To make maters worse CBS were too bloody lazy to do the new special effects of Star Trek The Motion Picture in HD so even if The Motion picture got a Criterion standard overhaul the new effects can't be used as they are SD only and studios these days tend to be poor at overhauling their catalog. That's usually left to the specialist video labels.

 

[jaws finatic]

sad that only khan got any kind of treatment. would be nice if they were working on that right now. but i'd imagine at least 1 person on this site would have heard about it.

still...even as a stand alone, i'll hopefully be snagging this.