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Lion King DVDs now shipping!
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:40 am
by Woody
The wait is nearly over - DVDSoon.com have confirmed that my copy of the Lion King Collectors Gift Set shipped 9/26 - only 5 more days to hold out!
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:43 am
by Jack
If I haven't said it before, welcome to the site Woody!
It's times like these I wish I pre-ordered over the web. But I usually get DVDs cheaper than Amazon at one of my local stores on the first day of release.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:47 am
by Luke
In spite of the venom I've been spewing at Disney giving us a slightly-above-mediocre DVD of my favorite film, after waiting 6 1/2 years to debut on the format...I'm going to be getting the Gift Set on 10/7. Maybe 10/6 actually - there's a store I know that is okay with breaking street dates, even on major titles...so if the price is reasonable and they have the Gift Set (two big IFs), I might get it a day early. Of course, we've all waited years for this. But I'm not sure if that means waiting a few more days should be nothing...or the wait MUST end, gotta have it ASAP.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:51 am
by Jack
Hey Luke, do you know how many pages the book in the giftset is? I've been looking around for the figure, but I'm not sure anyone knows yet.
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:57 am
by Luke
Jack wrote:Hey Luke, do you know how many pages the book in the giftset is? I've been looking around for the figure, but I'm not sure anyone knows yet.
No, I don't know yet. For some reason, "64" comes to mind, but I might just be making that up. (NCAA office pool flashback?)
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:07 pm
by Starion
That's great Woody! DisneyStore.com says that they will begin shipping the DVDs on October 7. I think everyone will receive their copy before I do.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:54 am
by Luke
Someone's already had their Gift Set ship from Amazon.com. Lucky!
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:20 pm
by Starion
Does DisneyStore.com e-mail the UPS tracking numbers when an order is shipped? My brother is wondering if DisneyStore.com has shipped our order of The Lion King DVD yet. If not, then I'll tell him to search for an order by order Number. I hope he still has the order number.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:22 pm
by Matt
I hope walmart has the gift set. I want to buy it there! They are normally cheap with the gift sets but than BJ's Whole Sale Club by my house has it cheaper as well!
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:33 pm
by Starion
Matt wrote:I hope walmart has the gift set. I want to buy it there! They are normally cheap with the gift sets but than BJ's Whole Sale Club by my house has it cheaper as well!
You can pre-order Collector's Gift Set from Walmart.com. They might have it in stores.
Visit your local Wal-Mart Photo Center on October 11th to get a complimentary photo taken with a life-size cutout of characters from The Lion King.
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 8:47 pm
by Matt
OOHHH YEAH! and it is for $34.67!
WOOHOO! I am sure it will be in the stores!
YES!
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:34 pm
by KinOO
in France, DVDimport has shipped the Gift Set. Many of my friends have received it!
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:37 am
by Woody
Update: Received the Gift set this morning - not bad - 3 business days from Canada to UK!! To answer a question on another post about the book - it's got 160 pages. Please, no interuptions for the next 5 hours.........
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:07 am
by Jack
Woody wrote:Update: Received the Gift set this morning - not bad - 3 business days from Canada to UK!! To answer a question on another post about the book - it's got 160 pages. Please, no interuptions for the next 5 hours.........
I was expect around 100 pages, but 160 is damn good. Can't wait to read it.
Enjoy your early-arrival of the box-set! Make sure to give us your input on the DVD after watching it.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 4:17 pm
by Luke
That's awesome. If I was patient, I would have just ordered from Amazon, but they've been taking longer and longer to ship lately.
The negative side is that BestBuy is going to have the Gift Set priced very unattractively at $39.99 (well over double the price of just the Platinum release which is $15.99). Plus there's a free calendar and mousepad for Lion King, but I doubt you get those if you get the Gift Set. Ugh. If it got the same kind of discount the Platinum got, it'd be under $30. Maybe some store will be wise and undercut the competition. Circuit City, please?
And I'd love a Lion King calendar, too, but I imagine it would be cheap like my Back to the Future wristwatch from Best Buy.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:23 pm
by Jack
Luke wrote:That's awesome. If I was patient, I would have just ordered from Amazon, but they've been taking longer and longer to ship lately.
The negative side is that BestBuy is going to have the Gift Set priced very unattractively at $39.99 (well over double the price of just the Platinum release which is $15.99). Plus there's a free calendar and mousepad for Lion King, but I doubt you get those if you get the Gift Set. Ugh. If it got the same kind of discount the Platinum got, it'd be under $30. Maybe some store will be wise and undercut the competition. Circuit City, please?
And I'd love a Lion King calendar, too, but I imagine it would be cheap like my Back to the Future wristwatch from Best Buy.
Although Best Buy lists $39.99 as the price on their site now, they usually lower it by the week it comes out. And I'd bet you can get the free stuff with the gift set too - at least at my local Best Buy they aren't strict with that type of stuff.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:23 pm
by Loomis
Yay!
I just checked Amazon and I'm told "We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed".
So mine should be posted in the next day or so (a week ahead of schedule!).
Very cool - and here I thought everyone was getting theirs way before me...
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:34 pm
by Starion
Loomis wrote:Yay!
I just checked Amazon and I'm told "We are preparing these items for shipment and this portion of your order cannot be canceled or changed".
So mine should be posted in the next day or so (a week ahead of schedule!).
Very cool - and here I thought everyone was getting theirs way before me...
That's cool Loomis.
I don't know when DisneyStore.com will ship my copy. I think everyone will get their copy before I do.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:36 pm
by Luke
Jack wrote:Although Best Buy lists $39.99 as the price on their site now, they usually lower it by the week it comes out. And I'd bet you can get the free stuff with the gift set too - at least at my local Best Buy they aren't strict with that type of stuff.
You'd think that, but I'm told that's what it is listed at in next week's circular.
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:55 pm
by Jack
Luke wrote:Jack wrote:Although Best Buy lists $39.99 as the price on their site now, they usually lower it by the week it comes out. And I'd bet you can get the free stuff with the gift set too - at least at my local Best Buy they aren't strict with that type of stuff.
You'd think that, but I'm told that's what it is listed at in next week's circular.
Thats a first, as far as I know.
Circuit City will probably have it a few bucks cheaper (hopefully
) And we'll be able to have BB price match it.