Ok, I got my tins. (Mickey in BW2 was difficult to find in my area, but I got it.)
I can't believe that 7 months ago i only had 2 treasures and now I have 14
I posted a screen cap from the Pluto one on the Press Release topic in case anyone that hasn't gotten it yet wants to go lookee.
Anyway, about the packageing... Well I don't think the unprinted backs are a last minute glitch. As i openned them and saw the carboards glued to them I realized that the ONLY thing limited/unique about this tin editions is the front cover. From now on all the back tin covers can be made from the same current or any future manufacturing run, So that's a cost cutting measure if I ever saw one. No need to print and manufacture limited unique backs for each wave anymore. Same as the front tin covers loosing the numbering I guess. So now they order a big batch of bare backs and fronts and only have to make limited runs printings of the fronts..
About the cheap gluing:
AAAAAgghh.
On my Pluto it's glued on the top so the cardboard flaps like a dog door lid
On my Mickey Mouse Club it aparently was glued at a SINGLE point in the middle and since the rubber? glue is kind of elastic i can play with the carboard thing like if it was a stering wheel
it's that wobbly.
Oh and my MMClub one apparent had a drop of glue fall on the front (i vaporized it with my blueviolet vision)
The mickey mouse in BW2 was simirlarly glued but crooked too much (all weren't centered very well but thiss one was so bad i tried to straighten it and it fell off
It's back on perfectly centered now i did a better job at that Thank You Very Much
And horror of horrors! those cardboard back covers had the electromagnetic tag under them so they don't lie flush! (And these are glued in their usual 120% streghth :/ have to be careful to pry them out!
About the white plastic, it looks nice but of course now it will look out of place with the other 11 treasures.. (I display the treasures out of their tin cans so i can see the colorful swatch on their spine and of course easier access.) And now there will be this 3 that are white among the 14.... I've been thinking of temporarlily swapping the white pluto with the regular one from mickey mouse in b/w vol 1, kind of having MM in BW 1 , Mickey Mouse in BW 2 and the Mickey Mouese Club with the white plastic since they are almost 100% black and white stuff, trying to make some "sense" into this
, but then when wave 5 hits that idea will not work
(unless they switch back to the original dark plastic, but mmm what aboutSS2? I guess i'll eventually buy new slipcases to make them all uniform.....
I must comment that the color choices of the swatches look very handsome in all their primary colour chromacity
and the white slipcase looks well with it. That cyanblue chosen for Pluto is very yummy, a saturated color that modern monitors can't reproduce
The 3 mini artwoks are cool; poster for Bone Trouble, storyboard pencil sketch reproduction from MM short Shanghaied, and the cover artwork for the Mickey Mouse March sheet music folio which looks very retro
As i mentioned in the Press Release topic, on the tin itself of the Pluto Treasure nowhere it is mentioned it is Volume 1, it just mentions the years, so if it wasn't for the red sticker glued on the outer shrinkwrap it would look as it it was like the Complete Goofy to the casual buyer. (It says it's Volume 1 on the cardboard on the back and on the DVD case cover (And in there Volume 1 REPLACES the years, so mmm each cover is kinda "incomplete"
)
Btw, my Pluto certificate number is in the 12,000's i think thats my lowest i've got!
( i ussually get them in the 100,000's
)
I miss Roy's name on these too
Well that's my "review" of the packaging
If cutting costs was done to keep the series going well then I guess it's acceptable cus THE CONTENT is what's important.. but it's kind of sloppy even the way the back covers were glued on etc. so i hope we're not getting this lesser presentations just to increase the profit margins
Please bear in mind that this complains/opinions on the packaging, not the contents, as for example, i have 5 treasures in their tinless versions on the Cotsco box set.. So as long as the contents are in fine form well, that's the real treasure.
Btw welconme to the forun Chucker!
Where does it say these were done in México? i looked for the usual mexico sticker when i read your post.. all i could find was Printed in USA
