The Hunger Games Target Exclusive

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by laz305

Wow just when I thought this was gonna make a nice keep sake. They went ahead and restocked the shelves with these. I thought they were gonna stay OOS


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How does that not make it a keepsake for you? You'll always have your copy.

[jimmyv]

Originally Posted by rickah88

How does that not make it a keepsake for you? You'll always have your copy.

totally agree with rickah. let others have it too. jeez.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by jimmyv

I know I'm late to the party on this, but I just picked this up today. My local Target had 6 of these in stock, all with spider ropes that just crushed the slipcover on all sides. Such idiocy, I tell you. Damaging the products that they are trying to sell.

So I went a couple miles away to my other local store. They had 7 copies, no spider ropes. 5 of them were mint, and I mean super perfect. I would have been happy with any of them.

I know these were on sale for $15 a few weeks ago, but they are $18.99 at the moment, normally $25.99. On the off-chance that anyone reading this is interested in getting a mint version of this, just let me know and I can pick one up for you and ship it to you at cost.

For a long while, the two stores nearest to me didn't use any sort of anti-theft protection on this, probably because they knew that fans of the movie would go nuts seeing any damage. During the past two weeks, they've started using the large plastic coffins, which at least doesn't damage the item.

[Edword]

Originally Posted by laz305

Wow just when I thought this was gonna make a nice keep sake. They went ahead and restocked the shelves with these. I thought they were gonna stay OOS


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There have been plenty at the 3 Targets near me. To me this seem over-stocked.

[Nisei]

Originally Posted by blu-ray_girl_fan

For a long while, the two stores nearest to me didn't use any sort of anti-theft protection on this, probably because they knew that fans of the movie would go nuts seeing any damage. During the past two weeks, they've started using the large plastic coffins, which at least doesn't damage the item.

The copy protection is on the inside of the digipack and the digipack is wrapped in shrink and stickered. That's all done during production so I really don't think a single store could order copies without protection.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by Nisei

The copy protection is on the inside of the digipack and the digipack is wrapped in shrink and stickered. That's all done during production so I really don't think a single store could order copies without protection.

We're talking about security measures that are undertaken in stores.

[Nisei]

I don't understand...
There's already been a "black coffin" inside the digipack from the start. In my opinion this is the most difficult to remove protection (when applied on cardboard). The DVD digipacks didn't have this protection. Do you mean to say that the black coffin is now applied on the outer shrink?

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by Nisei

I don't understand...
There's already been a "black coffin" inside the digipack from the start. In my opinion this is the most difficult to remove protection (when applied on cardboard). The DVD digipacks didn't have this protection. Do you mean to say that the black coffin is now applied on the outer shrink?

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=205969

[benzgrl]

Originally Posted by Edword

There have been plenty at the 3 Targets near me. To me this seem over-stocked.

I agree - I bought two when these first came out, thinking that they would end up OOP like some others I heard (was it the Twilight ones? I forget), and also so I could trade w/ International members. But there are still plenty in stock and online, they had also priced dropped significantly during BF, so I lost on savings as well. I can't seem to have any luck - the things I do buy extra don't go OOP, but the things I don't get seem to go OOP! Oh well...

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by benzgrl

I agree - I bought two when these first came out, thinking that they would end up OOP like some others I heard (was it the Twilight ones? I forget), and also so I could trade w/ International members. But there are still plenty in stock and online, they had also priced dropped significantly during BF, so I lost on savings as well. I can't seem to have any luck - the things I do buy extra don't go OOP, but the things I don't get seem to go OOP! Oh well...

Well, the first movie was significantly more popular than any of the Twilight movies. The Hunger Games grossed more than $400 million in the U.S./Canada, whereas only one of the Twilights broke $300 mil. With all the attention given to the first movie, I would not be surprised if one of the sequels cleared $500 mil.

Target has been very aggressive about supporting this series. They even went so far as to sell a limited number of replica leather jackets (similar to the one worn by Katniss). Yeah, maybe it'll take longer for this Blu-ray to go OOP, but it gives latecomers a chance to get it, too.

[jimmyv]

Opened mine and was super impressed with everything.

Of course, my excitement ended abruptly when I got to the inside of the foldout and saw a black security magnet strip stuck right on Stanley Tucci's FACE!

I mean... seriously... who on earth would be so stupid? I carefully and slowly began to peel it off...

Doh! Ripped his face in half. I was ready to strangle whoever put it there.

So I went back to Target, swapped it out for another one and opened it up right there at the counter.

To my surprise, there was no magnet strip anywhere to be found inside the new one. weird


At any rate... this is a super nice digipak. Beautiful embossed slipcover. Nice artwork inside and out.

Exclusive bonus disc and artwork on all 3 discs. I wish more movies were released this way.

Steelbooks are awesome, but I love me a real nice digipak. Gotta give props where props be due.

[vidjunkie]

I am glad I looked at this thread, I had to go to Target today and I looked to see if they had any of the Hunger Games Target Exclusive Sets left and to my surprise they did! there was 4, now 3 on the shelf at $18.99

Thanks people for bringing this thread to the top.

[relrecmw]

was abled to get this for $18.99 the day after christmas.A great deal!!!

[Quinthoopachiefy]

Just opened mine the other night and checked it out. Need more like these

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Originally Posted by Quinthoopachiefy

Just opened mine the other night and checked it out. Need more like these

Check out my lists of Best Buy, Target, and Walmart Exclusives. There are a lot of movies that are released with Bonus Discs with additional features, and those are the ones that I prefer. strumdogg and I have been adding screenshots of the Bonus Discs' menu screens when we can.

[blu-ray_girl_fan]

Funny thing about The Hunger Games.

The 3-disc Target Exclusive is $18.99 until sometime in February.

This week, the standard 2-disc version is "on sale" for $22.99.

[mytran80]

Paid $22.99 in December , wish I got it a bit cheaper but love the packaging