Terminator 2: Judgment Day Japanese SteelBook (and other Terminator news)

Just when I was about to lose all faith in humankind, I received one of the sexiest gifts ever from a friend I’ve been doing deals with for a while now and I must say that I feel truly honoured to know that person. So thank you so much, you’ll know who you are. :)

So here we have the Japanese Terminator 2: Judgment Day Premium Edition (First Press Limited Edition) Blu-ray SteelBook:

T2 JP

EDIT: Instead of writing yet another blog post for something so related to this one, I thought I’d just edit it in.
There’s been recent rumours that now, not only will France, The Netherlands and the UK get a SteelBook release for Terminator 2, but Germany and Finland (yes, Finland) will also be getting their own.

T2 Finland T2 Germany

EDIT 2: Might as well make an edit about this: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines will also be getting a German SteelBook! Already up for pre-order on Amazon.de.

T3 DE

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Scoop French SteelBook

Received a copy of the French Scoop Blu-ray SteelBook and it turned out to be not as near-new as advertised, pics:

Oh well. Hit 50 Blu Steels. :| WTF. I need to get rid of some! That’s too manyyyyy!!!

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Transporter 3 also gets a German Steel

According to this Amazon.de page, Transporter 3 will be getting a Blu-ray SteelBook release on June 5th. This will be the second there is to exist, along with the UK edition coming out April 20th.

Transporter 3 DE

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My name is Blu… James Blu

After such a hard day at work (REALLY hard), it was nice to come home to a big package from Amazon.com. One would say “great!” but in my case, I wasn’t too excited as I realised it contained three Blu-rays. Even moreso… three SteelBooks. Meant by that that the big room left unfilled inside the box made the SteelBooks jump around during transit, leaving Moonraker’s disc loose.

Amazon.com Packaging for Bond Blus

Anyway, here are the three beauties:

Bond Steels 2
Goldfinger (1964) / Moonraker (1979) / The World Is Not Enough (1999)

I’ll be scanning the covers I hadn’t done in a couple of days, I still have one last movie coming in.

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A bit of everything



Hello there. It’s the middle of the week, I’ve only started my job and done a day and a half that I am already beat. I’ve just got to get used to it and fall into a proper sleeping pattern.

It doesn’t attenuate my love for Blu-rays one bit. I just feel that I’ve gotten a lot of movies lately that I haven’t had the time to watch. I’ll play cacth up very soon.

I received a nice package from Amazon.de this morning containing a SteelBook I thought had gone out of print, so it was a very nice surprise to find out it was still available:

BB/TDK DE Steel
Batman Begins / The Dark Knight [Germany]

Besides those good news, I was sad to discover yesterday that I had a package at the post office which wasn’t delivered due to “taxes”. I discovered that my fear was true when I went to pick it up after work this afternoon: it was indeed my package from Amazon.com which had been opened and verified. I was left with a hefty 12,15€ customs’ fee, more than what I paid for shipping! Damn…
Anyway, in it were two movies I got for their awesomeness both within themselves and packaging-wise; they’re part of Warner’s Digibooks releases in the US:

Digibooks
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [USA] / The Shawshank Redemption [USA]

And these are the amarays I got both from .com and .de along with the BDs up there:

Amarays 01/04/09
Hellboy – Director’s Cut [USA] / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Director’s Cut [Germany] / The Machinist [Germany]

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Body Of Lies French SteelBook – Confirmed

It was recently brought to my attention that the long rumoured French SteelBook of Ridley Scott’s Body Of Lies was finally confirmed when Fnac.com updated the placeholder page for the movie. It comes out on May 20th and once again, Fnac will have a special edition of it with an added 48-page booklet.

Body of Lies FR Steel

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Blu Monday – James Bond and Angelina Jolie

I like when big packages await me in the mailbox. ^^

I recently did a trade with fellow Canadian SteelBook collector and got the first batch of the new James Bond SteelBooks exclusive to FutureShop stores in Canada. Here’s a group picture:

James Bond Steels

Also a little help from Singapore in acquiring this mint copy of the Wanted UK Limited Edition SteelBook:

Wanted UK Steel

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Upcoming French SteelBooks

I thought I’d update you on the forthcoming TF1 Vidéo SteelBooks that should come out on April 2nd:


Pirates FR
Pirates

The Forbidden Kingdome FR
The Forbidden Kingdom

I’d also like to make you take note that Terminator 2: Judgment Day will be getting a triple SteelBook release across Europe:


T2 NL
France May 26th / The Netherlands May 28th / UK June 1st

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (slated for a May 20th release in France) seems to get an upgrade in cover art, same as the one used for the current French DVD version:

T3 FR New

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FutureShop just got mixed up

FS

The James Bond SteelBooks exclusive to FutureShop retailers in Canada have finally been confirmed to be sold in stores.

You should find them from tomorrow on. ;)

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Hellboy II French SteelBook – April 29th

I just stumbled upon this on Fnac’s website. This might be a Fnac Exclusive but boy am I happy to be the first to find this info. Here’s a picture of the cover:

Hellboy II FR

Out April 29th for 29,99€.

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