The Little Mermaid (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive: The Disney Collection #3)[UK]

[jimbean]

Release Date: September 23th, 2013
Purchase link: The Little Mermaid
Price: £22.99
Number of Discs: 1
Disney Collection # 3

The others: Zavvi Exclusive: The Disney Collection Blu-ray SteelBooks

Actual pics: (Thanks to cudzndrips)

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[blurayisnice]

less than 1k left.

Then it should sell out today if that's all that is left.

 

[yeslek]

Look its that price for a reason! Its sold out for a reason!

Collectors items, these are classics.

You cannot release Tangled for £22.99 and expect it to sell out.

Lady and the Tramp, Lion Kings, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White these are classics, and timeless at that!

£22.99 is nothing in comparison to what you could pay in 2-3 years from now!

true. Disney does hold its fairly fairly well, but to not include the 3D disc with TLM for that price (same for IM3) is a right piss take

 

[Steve]

Shame Disney won't do a BOGOF On steels like they do on amaray.

 

[bobafettish66]

I'm not calling you out, but none of these are rare. Actually, they are quite available.

misudnerstood, i thought you were asking for the last steelbooks to have such a large run, didn't realise you meant large print runs that were rare.

 

[snooloui]

it is but other steels with 10k+ print runs are quite rare these days.

Which ones?

^^I also want to know.

A lot of HMV's exclusives had print runs as big as this and a few are now worth a premium. I'm pretty sure stuff like Captain America, Thor etc. had print runs as large as this.

I am gonna cancel aswel, 10K print run and 22.99 is insane.
It should have been 15.99 with a print run that high.

Why should that make any difference unless you were only buying them to make money on? If you enjoy the film and want to own a Steelbook of it, then price and print run should be of no consequence. Many collectors are happy to pay this kind of money to import Future Shop exclusives, or Asian Steelbooks, yet are outraged when Zavvi charge a premium. I don't see the problem myself. I don't like the high price, but I think it's worth paying, if you don't think it's worth it, then go ahead and cancel your order (or should it be orders?). I'm sure someone else will be along to snap it up in no time.

 

[yeslek]

The price will always be an issue for me, but as for print run's, I couldnt careless, so long as MY collection has a copy of the ones I want

 

[kenny222]

I agree. Print runs only really matter if someone is looking to make profit in the future. IMO

 

[blumark007]

I'm more than happy with the price, worth every penny. Brilliant steelbook brilliant price, well done Zavvi, hope there's lots more Disney steels to come. Love them.

 

[SimonLDT]

Yeah, but with steelbooks you are paying for the supposed limited nature of them. Otherwise people would wait for price drops months down the line like normal releases. To be fair though, these seem about the right price, considering classic Disney are expensive (normal releases around £17-20). An extra £2-3 for the steelbook is about right to me. Just hope they (studios and Zavvi) don't get greedy for future releases.

10k for Disney is not much, just would have been nicer to be much less.

Bet there will be tons of these going cheap on ebay upon release. These will only become more desirable/prices driven up once they go to the vault (that's if they don't get re-pressed first).

 

[kenny222]

Nah. I don't think you pay for the limited nature. You pay because its cool artwork in a premium package. People make things limited in nature by collecting them. The word limited means nothing. If demand exceeds supply then anything can be limited. 10,000 people want a tin of corned beef and they've only made 5,000. Limited. Ha.

 

[blu-steel]

I am starting to cancel my pre orders with zavvi. Too many steels.

 

[blurayisnice]

I agree. Print runs only really matter if someone is looking to make profit in the future. IMO

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That's BS. I like to have something which is rare, meaning lower print run, than something which is mass produced and ordinary and common.

That is what collecting is all about. People collect rare items, not every day things.

10K might be low for the entire world, but the price doesn't fit the print run.

This is just robbery. Remember that companies get discounts when they order more. They ordered 20K steelbooks (mermaid and jungle) and they charge 22.99 each, while Aladdin, which was only 5K, was 16 or 17.99.

It doesn't matter that this is a new blu-ray release. This will be a standard release, I am sure extra discs won't even be included.

Nothing justifies that price IMO.

 

[digitalbabe]

Companies do not always get discounts when they order more-and the studio has the right to force a retailer to set a certain price. A random movie can be reprinted over and over (DVD, Blu-Ray etc etc), but unless a retailer increases a print run to xxxx, and or decides to have it reprinted, the copies sold will be the only ones made.

 

[sunnyx]

Print runs only really matter if someone is looking to make profit in the future. IMO

Not necessarily. I moved from plastic aamray covers because I wanted something 'special' and 'limited' in my hands.

Yep not everyone is going to be able to have this but that is what a limited edition is.

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I like to have something which is rare, meaning lower print run, than something which is mass produced and ordinary and common.

That is what collecting is all about. People collect rare items, not every day things.

Couldn't agree more! I like to own collectibles that are limited because I like to have something special and be proud of. If everyone had this there be nothing special about it - that I am speaking in general about the art of owning all types of collectibles.

 

[snooloui]

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That's BS. I like to have something which is rare, meaning lower print run, than something which is mass produced and ordinary and common.

That is what collecting is all about. People collect rare items, not every day things.

10K might be low for the entire world, but the price doesn't fit the print run.

This is just robbery. Remember that companies get discounts when they order more. They ordered 20K steelbooks (mermaid and jungle) and they charge 22.99 each, while Aladdin, which was only 5K, was 16 or 17.99.

It doesn't matter that this is a new blu-ray release. This will be a standard release, I am sure extra discs won't even be included.

Nothing justifies that price IMO.

Everyone likes Steelbooks to be limited, it's part of their appeal but surely print run isn't the main factor you consider when deciding whether to purchase a Steelbook? Why did you pre-order if you find the price so offensive?

By the way, there is one thing that justifies the price. Demand. The fact that this is nearly sold out justifies the price (in Zavvi's eyes at least). As a consumer, if you can't justify the price of something, you don't buy it, simple.

 

[yeslek]

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That's BS. I like to have something which is rare, meaning lower print run, than something which is mass produced and ordinary and common.

That is what collecting is all about. People collect rare items, not every day things.

10K might be low for the entire world, but the price doesn't fit the print run.

This is just robbery. Remember that companies get discounts when they order more. They ordered 20K steelbooks (mermaid and jungle) and they charge 22.99 each, while Aladdin, which was only 5K, was 16 or 17.99.

It doesn't matter that this is a new blu-ray release. This will be a standard release, I am sure extra discs won't even be included.

Nothing justifies that price IMO.

not all collectors go by rarity though.
I'm a collector of things I like, not things that are rare. Sure its nice to know when I may end up owning things that are rare (Amazons Titanic box set of 1000) or have increased in value since purchase (Thor and CA steels for example) but those are titles I was intending to get anyway and versions of said titles that I wanted. The limited print runs and increased value are nice, but its more the cherry on top for things like that in my collection.
I'm happy enough for a simple slip a lot of the time, but if there are bigger, prettier, more elaborately presented versions of a release then I'll always want the biggest/best over a standard release.

 

[digitalbabe]

Folks, lets keep the discussion on track. To chat about Steelbook collecting in general, please visit the 'Steelbook Chat' area of our site and this thread. Thanks all!

 

[Starling]

What a great alternative cover for Kimchi's Le Grand Bleu.

 

[liammurphy1985]

What a great alternative cover for Kimchi's Le Grand Bleu.

 

[Wreck]

to put things in perspective for those who live in the UK .... TDKR HMV was 50k