Supply and demand is what killed the comic book industry back in the early 90's. Saturating the market with reprints, and variant cover art work purely for profit. Sacrificing long term growth for short term profits. These companies don't care for you or the value of your collection. They care only about their bottom line and making money. There's already enough fanboys here that encourages such behaviour. That's why you need a guy like me, Stevo Sleniowski (yes, that's my last name), to be the bad cop here.
I need to come in here, wearing a Jason hockey mask, armed with a bone saw and a blowtorch, grab these retailers by the vas deferens, and yank them up 10 feet into the air if need be. We don't need anymore fan boys, we need more guys like Me, who has a permanent ugly scowl etched on my face to call out bullshit if need be. I'm the bad cop. But because I'm the bad cop, you get your Zavi a Disney titles with cool artwork on the 1/4 slip. Compare the earlier Peter Pan and Dumbo slips to the latest Sleeping Beauty and Snow White 1/4 slips, which do you prefer? You can chop that up to the "Stevo Sleniowski" factor.
We don't need a million releases of the same movies over and over again. All these Marvel titles have been done to death. So in short, no more Iron Man, Captain America, Thor. A lot more, Dude, Where's my Car?, Hercules Goes Bananas, and FREEJACK.
Your forgetting lots of new steelbook collectors in past 2-3 years are you saying they don't have a right to purchase a retail copy of a steelbook that's was out before and is popular
That's thousands of new steelbook collectors who are the reason you get to purchase lots of the recent new steelbook releases you have seen
If there was not all the new customers for steelbooks you would not have seen lots of recent releases in past 2 years you like and got to purchase
The value of a collection you have I have should not be based on how much a release is worth or if its previously sold out
Its that you have it in your collection its not going to suddenly vanish from your collection
Why deny a new collector the right to purchase a popular film as a steelbook do you consider they must pay some other collector an overpriced amount for a previous release and even then there would not be enough available as most collectors keep their collection and don't sell as they are a collector and is what been a collector means and so will be new collectors
To me the for example HMV Steelnook is only worth its original retail price not £200 and no one should have to pay that and should have a choice to purchase any release they want that's made available to them and only have to pay a reasonable price and if it gets re released that's fine with me and I'm sure a new collector will be happy
You collection is meant to be for enjoyment of the steelbook not how much its worth and you still have an original release that don't change
Be prepared for lot more re releases of popular films that had previous steelbooks as it is happening
Who will purchase these customers who want it
It will be new collectors who missed a previous release and existing collectors who wants another version
I Purchase lots of films on Blu-ray lots are steelbooks/Box Sets/DigiBooks/Lenticular Slip Cases etc
I purchase a re release as sometimes it has extras disc not in a previous release
I will continue to do so as will many others purchase a re release and new film releases
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Why do you collect steelbooks
I'm curious as I cant see what difference it makes if new collectors can purchase a re release even its an exact copy of a previous release affect you
If its that you purchase steelbooks to sell and make a profit and don't like re releases that's your choice but not your right to deny others a re release as its my right as it is others to purchase what they like
If you don't like a release you don't have to purchase it its that simple
Back to the Steelbook
I'm looking forward to getting the Blufans Thor Steelbook as are all those who ordered it
I'm also looking forward to seeing what the overall package looks like the Lenticular Slip and Art Cards and having it in my collection and is the reason why I ordered it
