Now that a Blufans WEA for this title has been announced I feel it's worth looking again (lol) at the WWA steelbook.
Is it as bad as it appears ?
Is it just the finish of the Euro/Asia edition ?
Or is it the design too ?
My POV is that I don't object to the overall design as it's kind of in keeping with the previous six big head designs . . . but I'm very disappointed by the Euro/Asia finish and by the fact that the spine doesn't match the spines of the previous steelbooks.
Anyway, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
THE GOOD
- Shiny metallic effect on the light sabre when steelbook tilted
- Balance of design . . . as in Kylo Ren and Phasma symmetrically placed on the covers
- Homogeneity of colour across the covers
- Inside not bad too
THE BAD and THE UGLY
- Euro/Asia edition with the ZERO finish - wrong finish for this design as it doesn't make the blacks stand out in the same way that the GLOSS finish does on The Americas edition
- Lack of original design poster artwork on the back (unlike on the original six)
- Euro/Asia edition spine is a bit of a mess and not matching the spines of the previous six STAR WARS Euro/Asia steelbook releases
- De-bossed title missing on the Euro/Asia release unlike on the six previous Euro/Asia steelbook releases
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EURO/ASIA ........................................................................THE AMERICAS
. . . and that's about it . . . as far as the steelbook goes.