Your 3 Favorite "Best Buy Blus"...

[HonestJohn]

Originally Posted by tiger_qc

I considered the Disney steelbooks to be future shop's exclusive until bestbuy release the same exact ones in the US. I think it's ridiculous the way stores use something very mainstream worldwide and call it exclusive just because they're the are alone to have the right to sell them in a Country, we're not in the 20th century anymore we can order anything from anywhere in the world now. The only difference between the Jaws digibook and 007 steelbook mentioned by the OP are the back paper and UPC. It's not like they had special features like Transformers 2 Walmart USA Exclusive, the big screen (IMAX) edition that I HAD to order in the US to get, THAT was exclusive.

It was a Best Buy Exclusive in the US as stated, but you're right, it was not Exclusive to the entire planet. It may not be the 20th Century anymore but "most" people still do not import for various reasons. A few listed below ....

Issues with returning a defective product
Those really swell ratings logos
Movie OK, but PAL Special Features
Region Coding
May just not be comfortable doing so

So for "most" people living in the United States it was a Best Buy Exclusive until it went to wide release. Personally I have no issue importing which is pretty obvious from my collection. So need to convince me of its virtues.