Escapay wrote:netty wrote:the three disc Merlin Pt 1 for example is £40!
Odd.
BBCShop lists it as £24.99, and is on sale for £16.99!
I was referring to this press release here:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=69301
But once again, even this is flawed - the text says 5 episodes (which makes no sense what-so-ever given the total of 13) yet the box art says 6.
And £29.99 for the Legends of Comedy set is just as insane, given that they were budget BBC4 plays and each one only lasts an hour (and no special features are mentioned on the PR).
You know, DVD publishers over here may as well not bother with press releases - they're either wrong (see the spectacularly wrong Doctor Who Series 4 PR linked to off the general 2|entertain one) or so late the discs are virtually in the shops already.
Anyhow, about Wall-E UK - I've been informed that The Pixar Story was passed with the Wall-E supplements by the BBFC - but this doesn't mean it is in the package - as you know stuff can be submitted by not included in the final release (Sleeping Beauty PE for example never got that second Once Upon A Dream music video).
What I find the saddest about the whole sorry Wall-E UK affair is that everybody I mentioned this too actually believes The Pixar Story has been removed from the extras. Not one has said, as their initial thought, the Press Release must be wrong - even though history has shown BVHE UK have a somewhat... suspect, shall we say? track records when it comes to their press releases. Perhaps its because most of the time when their press releases are wrong, they had more stuff listed than the final discs (remember the John Lasseter commentary on Cars? Or The Christmas Show on Alice in Wonderland?)
So what does that say about BVHE UK standing with their British customers when people actually
expect to be screwed over?