Tales of Adventure - Collection 4 (1949 - 1953) - 25/09/2024 - Imprint Films

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Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

I remember finding this set expensive when it was announced but I went back today to double check if it wasn't quite as bad as I remembered.

https://www.wowhd.co.uk/tales-of-adv.../9337369042909

287$ CAD to export (Australian and Canadian dollars are around the same). This is like two Arrow shawscope blu ray box set together. The price is absolutely insane! This should be between 80-100$ top, let alone nearly 300$. What are they thinking? Are all of these Tales of Adventures collections this ridiculously expensive? :/

Judging by how many people have written in this thread (nobody...), I guess that's why it's so damn expensive, nobody really cares about these old serials anymore and they must be hoping the few that do are rich or something.

I care about these serials, and I love the work that's been put into this set. I can't think of any Australian Blu-Ray releases of vintage serials to date. In the past, we've been lucky to get any of them on DVD. Often in terrible grey market releases with poor masters and heavy compression.

Some of these serials haven't been available on physical media in Australia since the nineties at the most recent (so VHS).

It amuses me how often I see non-Australians on these forums complaining about how expensive it is to purchase our physical media (from resellers no less, not even the distributor). It's almost always more expensive for us to import American, British and yes, Canadian physical media than to wait for local releases - if they even get distributed here at all. We're expected to put up with it. What makes you guys so special in this regard?

Why not wait for a Blu-Ray release of these titles closer to home instead of expecting the Australian market to cater to you?