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Post by jetjaguar15 on Oct 26, 2008 21:25:14 GMT -5
Mine arrived Saturday!!!
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Post by therealnuclear on Oct 26, 2008 22:15:50 GMT -5
I know, I was a loser and just got around to ordering mine yesterday too. Good news is that I got an email from Amazon this morning saying that it had shipped, so I should be good. Best of luck to you Hans Klopek
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Post by pslowner on Oct 27, 2008 11:38:55 GMT -5
Amazon sez mine should be arriving on Thursday. Oh the wait!
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Post by jetjaguar15 on Oct 27, 2008 12:29:03 GMT -5
Initial impressions after 3/4 of the way through First Spaceship...
Hm. I've seen the movie unriffed. I've now seen it most of the way through riffed. The first, I was so bored I nodded off several times. The second, I'm not nodding off, but this isn't one of the best season 2 episodes I've seen by a long shot. A pretty weak Joel ep, IMHO.
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Post by travis on Oct 27, 2008 12:51:32 GMT -5
Got my set today! Oh and it is a thing of sheer beauty.
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Post by Mogol on Oct 27, 2008 13:24:30 GMT -5
Mine shipped on Friday and the expected delivery is Nov. 3 (I must've gone for the super-cheap shipping, I don't remember.) With the news that it's almost sold out on pre-orders alone I'm glad I pre-ordered when I did. I don't know what their expectations were but let's hope Shout Factory is blown away by how fast it's sold.
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Post by davidbeegah on Oct 27, 2008 13:27:30 GMT -5
I just got my notice from amazon that my order has just shipped and is scheduled to be delivered on the 29th.... oh the wait indeed
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Post by Mod City on Oct 27, 2008 15:02:51 GMT -5
All right! Amazon just let me know mine shipped. Here's hoping it all goes smoothly from here
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Post by Captain Wrong on Oct 27, 2008 15:52:33 GMT -5
The History of MST3K feature is really good. I was skeptical that I'd be all that interested, after watching every MST3K related doc out there. But, this is really good, especially with a boat load of KTMA info I hadn't heard before.
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Post by pablum on Oct 27, 2008 17:05:01 GMT -5
I posted this to a review thread that was four days old, but for some reason it got locked due to being a duplicate topic (four days later). So as not to have posted in vain, I am reposting my review here. The set came in Saturday. For $40.26 cents shipped from deepdiscount.com it was the best deal on a commercially available MST3K DVD set I've ever bought. I just looked on their site and the price has now raised to $50.73 (maybe to cover for the usual annual 20% sale that happens in November at deepdiscount?). So pre-ordering the set was the best option. I'll start with the tin. Its a nice tin with a giant MST3K spaghetti ball logo on it with some raised surfaces to give it texture. Not much else to add there. When you open the set you see the DVD set in a cardboard sleeve. I figure this is how the DVDs will retail when the non 20th anniversary edition hits the market. It even has its own separate UPC code on the back for such a purpose. Same design as the tin, just made of paper. I like the illustrations on the thin DVD cases and the lobby cards. Very '50s comic book cover style depictions of Crow and Servo in various situations from the movies they riff on. Better than what Rhino thought up anyway. The Crow figurine is what I really pre-ordered for. Well, the online pictures were accurate to the version I got in my set and Crow is not particularly show-accurate. His head is pretty exaggerated. Tiny eyes and a bigger bowling pin and hockey mask than what you would usually see. The mouth is weird in that the lower jaw is fixed and straight, but the upper jaw appears to be the hinged part which is slightly raised. Making it look like Crow is flappin' his upper lip. The rest of the sculpt is okay, but there are no posable joints on the figure. Its completely static so you can't pose his arms or head or even tilt the figure on the stand. Still, with all my criticisms of this Crow, its the only Crow I have and thus it will fill in my lack of other MST3K figurines nicely until something else comes along. Plus it came essentially "free" with the set, so I really can't complain. This is a review and so the Crow statue got reviewed. Now to the DVDs. I won't be reviewing the actual contents, just the quality of the material presented. The DVDs have pretty basic labels. Just the movie title with a black star-filled backdrop. Rhino was never consistent so this shouldn't bother you either if you're an MST3K DVD collector. They're dual-layered DVDs with bonus features added so I can safely conclude Shout Factory decided not to compress the shows on the discs in favor of sticking in extras onto a single-layer DVD like Rhino might have done. The menus are pretty much the same as the cheap 3D menus on Rhino DVDs, but this time Crow and Servo are 3D renders. The quality of the video transfers are as good as to be expected of an old interlaced TV series. I didn't watch any episode all the way through yet, but from everything I've seen the eps seem to have the correct colors, brightness levels and are artifact free. A very good set for the price, but I hope next time Shout Factory gives us an anniversary set, they include more real "anniversary" pertinent episodes and at least include two Joel episodes. In this set Joel got edged out by 3 Mike eps.
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Post by furdburns on Oct 27, 2008 19:26:32 GMT -5
Mine should be here tomorrow. yea! Nice review, thanks.
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Post by CBG on Oct 28, 2008 8:29:01 GMT -5
Appreciate your review, pablum, sorry about the mix-up.
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Post by soundandvision on Oct 28, 2008 10:19:24 GMT -5
Got mine at Best Buy first thing this morning. My local store got 2 and I got one of 'em.
$49.99 is an okay price I guess, to be able to just walk in and get it and not have to wait on USPS, etc.
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Post by GProopdog on Oct 28, 2008 13:17:01 GMT -5
I had to get mine from work at Barnes and Noble.
Circuit City? Out The local DVD place in the mall? Out Target? Guy working there said they probably wouldn't get *any* shipment of it at all. Best Buy? The doofuses working there said they had two in stock....but they couldn't find them (Yeah, I dunno what to make of it either).
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Post by CBG on Oct 28, 2008 13:29:50 GMT -5
"Well, sir, get me the manager and I will wait with him until you find them."
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