The Thing (1982) (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Play Exclusive) [UK]

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Release Date: August 6th, 2012
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It's definitely concerning they've chosen this as rear art rather than front, suggests we may well get the original abomination of a cover. Hopefully we might get the old UK DVD cover, with them running in the snow.
 
It's definitely concerning they've chosen this as rear art rather than front, suggests we may well get the original abomination of a cover. Hopefully we might get the old UK DVD cover, with them running in the snow.

I doubt they'll go with a horizontal front and vertical back artwork though! :dunno:
 
back is similar to the slip cover.

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not sure if I should double dip. I'll wait and see what the front looks like.


hopefully it's not that horrible green thing.

It would be nice if they had it all white with the dog running in the snow
 
I see that horrible stretchy, melty face artwork is back up for the front artwork (on steelbook search, though not on The Thing page itself), and as the rear design has a slight green shading to it I suspect they've decided to go with their original choice of artwork for this SB
 
I see that horrible stretchy, melty face artwork is back up for the front artwork (on steelbook search, though not on The Thing page itself), and as the rear design has a slight green shading to it I suspect they've decided to go with their original choice of artwork for this SB
For me, that image has been there both on the search page and the actual item page since this morning. I haven't been keeping that up-to-date with this steelbook, but I thought the front art had been confirmed a while ago... clearly I was wrong. I guess it's official now it's up on Play.com though. :ohno:

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I doubt they'll go with a horizontal front and vertical back artwork though! :dunno:

I know, seems daft and doesn't go with the design of the others, hope they drop the image on the front also and it's just temporary? I may well go for the amaray if they don't, although I love the back, even if it's similar to the French prequel steel (but then they basically copies the original anyway)
 
It's definitely concerning they've chosen this as rear art rather than front, suggests we may well get the original abomination of a cover. Hopefully we might get the old UK DVD cover, with them running in the snow.

That cover is actually for the video game. they rereleased it with the same cover to promote it
 
Yes, it's up on the site now with a horizontal front and vertical back artwork EEK!:dunno:

What are they playing at? The whole design smells of laziness on the designers behalf! It looks like they thought.... 'what can I do with the back artwork?....I can't come up with any other horizontal design. Oh forget it! I'll just stick on the original cover art-even if both covers won't match'!!!!

They were long enough finalising the concept, I'd thought they would have come up with something a lot better than this :(

I've pre-ordered this but feel a bit cheated now:(

It's going to look silly when opened out and facing upwards.

And will this new wave be lacking inside artwork unlike the first batch?? :angry:
 
The back looks landscape to me. Look where the text is, it's off centre so you can only assume that the picture intentionally ends and fades to white. A terrible design regardless.
 
The back looks landscape to me. Look where the text is, it's off centre so you can only assume that the picture intentionally ends and fades to white. A terrible design regardless.


Aah yes! I understand what your saying. All the other Steelbooks have the Universal writing at the bottom center. So the guy standing in the picture will be on the left hand side of the back fading to white on the right.

That has made me look at it in a whole new light. It would look a bit better I suppose :naughty:
 
Ohhhh.... If that back art is final, I'll be back in on this. I can just display the damn thing backwards, no problem there.

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Ok noob question....

Just went to pre-order, but play.com doesn't ship to the US... How do I get around that little problem?
 
Ohhhh.... If that back art is final, I'll be back in on this. I can just display the damn thing backwards, no problem there.

---------- Post added at 01:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:10 PM ----------

Ok noob question....

Just went to pre-order, but play.com doesn't ship to the US... How do I get around that little problem?

Pm sent mate
 
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