The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I (Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]

[snooloui]

Release date: March 16th, 2015
Prices: £21.75 (Amazon UK) - £20.99 (Zavvi)
Purchase links:
Amazon.co.uk
Base.com
Zavvi.com

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[Kashby]

Is there anybody who could knock up a spine matching the other 2?

 

[CasuallyDressed]

Is there anybody who could knock up a spine matching the other 2?

@teddyjun might be your guy for that particular job...

 

[MrBMT]

That inside art is awesome, but I really wanted this to be gloss.
Can anybody post some open pics?

If no one else has by the time mine arrives tomorrow, I'll post some then.

 

[huggy2k4]

My plan was to get this once the price drops like i did with catching Fire for under £10 so with this blank spine problem I can see this being in stock for a while so a price drop has to be on the cards now.

 

[StifflersDad]

Cancelled my Zavvi order. What the hell were they thinking!

 

[GoDo]

Cancelled, no point getting this if it doesn't match the previous ones - well done to however signed the artwork off

 

[UpsetSmiley]

well I remember the art with Maleficent ... don't like surprise like that

Well observed bud. Art confirmation is key, with a blank spine I don't think this will look good on a shelf next to the other two films.

 

[Norwichlad]

Catching Fire didn't sell well. This has no chance

 

[StifflersDad]

Catching Fire didn't sell well. This has no chance

Especially when the US version has hit it out of the park! My GB copy should be delivered tomorrow!

 

[SilverBlade]

WTF are they thinking with the blank spine?

Don't they get the picture? Steelbook collectors return *anything* if it isn't up to standards. No title on front? It's returned. Printed text on back? It's returned.

They only end up losing money and sales for each thing that isn't correct.

 

[ChrisIW]

Blank spine???? !!!!!!!!!

I've seen some stupid, downright idiotic decisions made with steelbooks but this takes the biscuit. This makes me so fricking angry

 

[steelbobawny]

Feels like I had a lucky escape, I avoided the UK releases for Hunger Games, a few times I came close to buying them, I had the 2nd one in my hands in HMV too but decided not to buy it. The first one had no inside artwork but the third one takes the biscuit, a blank spine, they are trying it on with this release. I really hate the blank spine releases, lazy and not up to premium standard, cost considerably more than standard keep cases too, even a keep case has a title on the spine, really no excuse for this, feel sorry for anyone that was collecting these releases.

 

[rj531]

Boo, blank spine!

 

[BluRaySteve]

Cancelled. Unbelievable. Im slowly but surely edging out of the steelbook game. Finding it hard to justify the spending on such sub-par steels. Hard to believe some of my better steels i got for under £12 from Play a few years back.

 

[Drum18]

No title on spine... gosh... that's a terrible news!!!
Seems like the Future Shop // Best Buy won that round!

 

[paulboland]

Wtf! Cancelled my zavvi order, wonder if this will be the same with all UK releases eg: HMV?

Release date: March 16th, 2015
Prices: £21.75 (Amazon UK) - £20.99 (Zavvi)
Purchase links:
Amazon.co.uk
Base.com
Zavvi.com

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This is not an exclusive to any retailer its a trade wide release
HMV have the same steelbook
Its a Lionsgate release
Its the same steelbook in all UK/Ireland retail shops and reason why you see the links above in the OP for the different retailers

 

[MrBMT]

No title on spine... gosh... that's a terrible news!!!
Seems like the Future Shop // Best Buy won that round!

No spine title is definitely odd - personally I'm not a fan of the FS/BB Steelbook artwork though unfortunately and the finish doesn't look great, so am going to stick with this one.

I'm not worrying about keeping a matching set so just tend to go for whichever I think looks best, so far I've ended up with:

- Hunger Games (District 12 Edition - Canada)
- Catching Fire (UK)
- Mockingjay Part 1 (UK)

The only Hunger Games steelbook that I think was extremely well done is the D12 edition.
It's a real shame that none of the Catching Fire/Mockingjay have been embossed, debossed, etc.

 

[henry00x]

the best buy steels are now the ones to own after this debacle

 

[Geek Tragedy]

The F'd up thing is that there will most likely be no steelbook version of Mockingjay Pt. 2 with a blank spine to make it a set.

 

[bradipolpo]

Just got mine and yep spine has absolutely nothing on it, just plain blank. WTF??

Did you check Language tracks? Is ENG track Dolby Atmos?

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yes, ENG DA track, same disc as the US version