Stranger Things: Season 1 (2016) (Target Exclusive)

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Croweyes1121

I guess I'm not getting your point. On what do we disagree? I totally agree times have changed. I just think people tend to forget what times WERE.

Or more to the point, it's an ill omen if $25 for a season of TV is considered too expensive, especially with this title which is sending all sorts of messages good and bad to Netflix about whether to bother putting things on disc.

I get that after piracy and streaming many see media as worthless. I get that we can't expect people to pay $100 for a season of Star Trek anymore. However if people don't support any release, if they wait for a sale on everything, then all it's gonna mean is no niche physical format market can exist and we get nuthin', zip, squat. No one's asking anyone to pay 2001 prices again or to buy everything day one, but you do on some level need to pay up if you want discs to get coming out.

[Brandon K]

Originally Posted by MrVorhees

Did they remove the region free logo on the discs which was seen on the mockup? The back also seem to say region 1, if i'm not mistaken. Can anybody here confirm if the actual release is indeed region free? Appreciate.

Originally Posted by AmishParadise

I noticed the same thing. Was surprised when I didn't see the region free logo on the actual discs. Would like to know if they're region free as well. I worked up Blu-ray cover art for this which I plan to make available and would like to include the proper region code on the back portion.

Yes, the back does say Region 1.

DVDs are Region 1 and Blu-rays are Region A.

The mockup is incorrect.

[AmishParadise]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

The underside of the Blu-Ray tray is of the tree entrance to the underground!

That was a surprisingly nice touch. Notice also that the Netflix logo on the DVD disc labels are upside down. They're missing the DVD logo as well.

[dakkuri]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Quite a few on ebay at $10 over retail. I hope they get stuck with them.

They are making nothing on these. Fees are around 13%. If they bought them with no tax, they're making like $2 lol. Never understand if these people don't realize eBay and PayPal take a cut, or just terrible at math.

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by starsteam

Despite arriving an hour after opening, they didn't have any copies out on shelves when I got there. But there was a cart next to the new movie shelf which had a couple of boxes in it, and one box was open enough for me to look inside.

...

The electronics clerk at one of our local Targets said they had a large line at 8 am waiting for the store to open.

Wait for it... It was the TOY scalpers, they bought every ST action figure in sight ! But that's the way it is in this town, all cool toys and chase figures are gone when any store opens.

Anyway, I bought the 2nd or 3rd ST bd set that morning. Plus the two mugs.

Oh, and the OCD in this thread makes my brain want to explode !!!

[Syrus614]

I also showed up bright and early this morning. I walked in and this set was nowhere to be found. I asked a sales person near the electronics department, them he went and opened a brand new box of them behind the kiosk and handed me one. How they didn't already have this out on display idk. Although I seemed to be the only person in the store who cared about this release at that point this morning.

[Darkfantasy]

Yessss! Got mine ordered. Was so afraid that it would sell out of stock before I could checkout!

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Closest Target is 45 min away so I had to order online. Hopefully it arrives in good condition. Never watched the show since I live out on the middle of nowhere and my internet sucks.

You're in for a treat especially seeing that you have a Firefly avatar, you should enjoy this show!!

[DisneyBlu]

I had no problem dropping $25 on this, and I'm not even a huge fan of the show.

It's a good series and this set is clever. It looks great and obvious care went into it. I love unique sets like this, and it being as sturdy/heavy as it is instead of just some cheap cardboard piece of crap is a welcome surprise.

My sole complaint would be I would have loved it that much more if they used this poster for the cover:

[Show spoiler]

Hopefully Target sticks with the VHS theme for future releases and doesn't leave us hanging.

[rbg08]

Held a copy in-store and almost purchased it. Awesome packaging. As tempting as this set is, I’ll keep enjoying the 4K digital version until the series is complete and then get the entire series in 4K UHD Blu-ray. Everyone else...enjoy!

[120inna55]

Originally Posted by stvn1974

Back when I was a youngster we had to walk to the store uphill both ways in 4 feet of snow to get our $100 VHS tapes.

I grew up in the country. 20 miles to the nearest town. In my teens, a family a few miles up the road opened a family-owned movie rental and called it "Movies-n-More" (I think the "more" was Atari games). The "store" was just a re-purposed steel building (barn). They got the same merch the bigger stores in town got. They were constantly giving us our pick of movie posters and banners and cardboard displays. One of the cool things they gave me was a life-sized Dolph Lundgren "Punisher" proudly displayed in my bedroom window. Those were great times.

[50strat54]

Cool packaging, I bought it.

The Emmy screener pressbook is also a cool package but I's rather see it in bluray.

[shinobipopcorn]

Originally Posted by rbg08

Held a copy in-store and almost purchased it. Awesome packaging. As tempting as this set is, I’ll keep enjoying the 4K digital version until the series is complete and then get the entire series in 4K UHD Blu-ray. Everyone else...enjoy!

I'm not sure Netflix will go to the trouble of releasing a 4K UHD series set when their goal is to make money by having people subscribe to their monthly service to watch these shows in 4K.

[PowellPressburger]

Sadly tried out the BLUs as Region B and they are region A Locked.

I’m sure Netflix will end up making deals to get releases down for other countries thru other distribution deals.

[MrVorhees]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

Sadly tried out the BLUs as Region B and they are region A Locked.

I’m sure Netflix will end up making deals to get releases down for other countries thru other distribution deals.

Oh well :/ let's hope there'll be a Region B release soon.

[Croweyes1121]

Man this looks great...and the sound...wow.

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by gkolb

The electronics clerk at one of our local Targets said they had a large line at 8 am waiting for the store to open.

Wait for it... It was the TOY scalpers, they bought every ST action figure in sight ! But that's the way it is in this town, all cool toys and chase figures are gone when any store opens.

Anyway, I bought the 2nd or 3rd ST bd set that morning. Plus the two mugs.

Oh, and the OCD in this thread makes my brain want to explode !!!

That is actually the first Funko Chase figure I've ever managed to grab. I didn't even think about it when I grabbed it, I bought the extra open-head Demogorgon because I liked the packaging and saw the variant behind it.
I'm sure scalpers exist around here, but they didn't get to this store in time.
This Target didn't have much of a Stranger Things section, it was just the figures and the Waffle game. There were some other ST games in the toy department. No Pops anywhere.

There was a Booksamillion a few blocks down that also had the figure 3-packs and Pops, so I guess those weren't exclusive to Target.

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Even though they didn't have any of the Blu-rays on the shelves when I arrived, and the box I plucked my two from was virgin, the cashier remarked that she had sold one this morning. I'm guessing a eager fan came in early and asked for one from the back.

[zillajay23]

Is there any way to skip the opening trailer usually you can hit fast forward or menu but it seems locked,kind of sucks if you have to do this every time.

[Allgood]

I had to run out to Target again, and I quickly checked the media and they had even more ST blu's than this morning. I think they're going to have these for awhile. That and I'm sure most people aren't going to pick it up since it's on Netflix. Personally, I like collecting this.

Originally Posted by zillajay23

Is there any way to skip the opening trailer usually you can hit fast forward or menu but it seems locked,kind of sucks if you have to do this every time.

Most remotes have a skip button that looks like this (sorry for the shutterstock watermark):



That always does it for me.

[FilmFreakosaurus]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

Wynonna Ryder is TERRIBLE in this. I said my first time through the show. Everyone gives a good performance but she's awful.

She is portraying a high strung hippy mom who probably had some issues with drugs and/or alcohol at some point, and that's exactly what Ryder does, so I can't fault her for what the show's writers/directors/creators (the Duffer Brothers) wanted.

[zillajay23]

Thank you for showing me that button lol have you watched yet that's what I'm saying it's locked the skip button doesn't work.