Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

I just checked the thread on Blu-Ray.com again. I was mistaken about the error being with the OVAs, it was the extras that displayed incorrectly on the original Gatchaman set; the extras were stretched to 16:9 and that issue was fixed on the new set.

The stretched video on the extras wasn't the only issue, but the subtitle font for the show itself was slightly larger than normal. Some of the text would cross over the edge of the picture at times. It might not be a big deal for some, but it does look a little untidy. That was fixed for the new set as well. Same goes for the Patlabor blu rays too - the earlier sets had the wonky subtitles, but they were fixed for the complete collection.

I grabbed some items for Black Friday - or, at least, coinciding for some. Sentai Filmworks had some great sales going on - Tamako Love Story and Big O here were respectively about $5 and $25 each! I'm only halfway through Big O at this time, but I've enjoyed it enough so far to say that it was worth the purchase. The steelbook here comes with a thick art book, and has a plastic slipcover like the Mill Creek Tokusatsu Blu-rays (I hope this is a new trend catching on). UNLIKE the Mill Creek cases, however, this one has a hinged holder in between, so all four discs have their own spot.

Fury Road was one I'd been meaning to get for a while (regret not seeing this in theaters), but the black & chrome edition specifically intrigued me over the regular release, so I just hadn't bit the bullet yet. It came down in price recently on Amazon, so I nabbed it along with Jaws.
Would you believe I've never seen Jaws in its entirety? I went ahead and got it, though, in anticipation of watching it with some friends. I figured it was a pretty safe blind box, and I might as well spend a little extra for a nicer edition! I'm not an intense collector, but these digibooks and steelbooks 'n stuff just look way better on the shelf than ordinary clamshells, you know?

I'm still waiting on one more from Best Buy; hopefully the delay doesn't lead to my order getting cancelled.

The Abominable Snowman 0f the Himilayas (Hammer movie starring Peter Cushing)
the Blood on Satan's Claw

While my Best Buy order of Galaxy Quest was delayed, Amazon dropped their listing down to match price; so I cancelled the former and ordered the latter, alongside some more Mill Creek Ultra goodness. Sadly, Ultraseven's slipcover arrived a bit warped. I REALLY like that Orb's slipcover art is different from the case art, though. I wish more companies would do that.

Just Curious, did you see Screen Junkies documentary Never Surrender? I haven't yet but have heard good things about it.

I made a couple more blind buys while visiting Walmart. Early Man was sitting in the $5 bin, and I've been regretting not seeing it sooner anyway. Reigo, I've heard mixed things about; but it's been a long enough wait to actually see this film since SciFi Japan's main site covered it that I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt, even if it's just the DVD edition.

Green Slime
Queen of Blood
Night of the Comet

Got some cool stuff for our gift exchange with our friends today:

And now the haul we got from each other:

I picked up the 1976 King Kong on DVD for just $4.99 at Barnes and Noble. I seem to be growing very susceptible to blind buys at that price range...

So this was my Christmas cash haul. Although I got some more cash from the inlaws the other day, so I might get a few more things.

Christmas haul!

First Men in the Moon (1965)
Prison
Night of the Comet
Queen of Blood
the Green Slime

Astroboy Ultra Collectors Editions 1&2. They went on sale again at Right Stuff, as they have for the past couple of years, but didn't want to miss out.

I am now the proud owner of all 3 Astro Boy series. The 1980s one is long OOP from Manga Ent. But I managed to score a good deal on eBay for under $30 from a Canadian seller ( the set goes anywhere from $60-$100).

And of course the early 2000s series has been released numerous times, they are practically giving them away (well $5) but you get the idea

Just placed an order for the Ultraman Geed and Orb sets on Amazon as I mentioned in the Ultraman topic they had them on sale for $17.98 a piece.

I am beginning to spot Arrow blu-rays at my local Barnes & Noble. I use to see them plentiful at Fry's but that chain seems to be in uncertain times. Kim Newman is featured in both of the Arrow videos ("The Man of a Thousand Faces" & "The Bloodthirsty Trilogy", and we can see a little toy Dimajin in the background during his "Thousand Faces" featurette).

Regarding the vampire films, I honestly thought that we would be getting the dubbed versions for both "Lake of Dracula" & "Evil of Dracula", but no dice (boo to Toho again). In truth, I was not crazy about those dubs, so the sting was a little less painful, but still, I thought that they would have been included. Seeing them in their original widescreen format, I've come to appreciate all three films more so and how beautifully and eerily they were photographed.

The dubbed audio is also from the slightly edited U.S. television releases of both films and not the presumably uncut export versions Toho commissioned.

After the recent flurry of posts regarding the upcoming arrival of GAPPA on hi-def, I got to wondering if they'll ever get around to giving GUILALA the same treatment. A few days later I did a search on Amazon for the heck of it and... sure enough it already exists.

Due to arrive in today's mail!


Japan is R1 but the disc is coded Region-Free, PLUS the English dub IS included! I'll spill details when I get a chance to go through it. Yeehaw!!!

^ Whoa!

I suppose it's the export dub included on the Eclipse set and not the AIP dub, right?