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[Dynamo of Eternia]

Yeah, Blockbuster isn't always on their game when it comes to street dates.

I don't go into Blockbuster very often since I really don't rent movies, and I just don't care much for the store in general.

But just shy of 2 years ago (before I had taken the plunge into Blu-Ray) my aunt received a Blockbuster gift card as some kind of award at work, and she didn't want it, so she gave it to me.

My now wife (then fiance) and I went over to a local store to see what they had for sale (either new or used) just to use the card up and get out of there.

We walked around for quite a while, largely unimpressed with the selection. Then I was in the 'S' section of their new (non-used) DVD section, and sitting there were the individual, limited edition releases of Star Wars Episodes 4-6 (the ones that included the original versions on the 2nd disc) about a week or two before they were due to come out.

I actually did a double take. I glanced, saw one of them, but didn't think much of it (I didn't focus in on specifically which release it was) but then a second or two later it hit me and I thought, "Did I just see what I think I saw?!"

So, I took a few steps back, and sure enough, it was them. They had 2 copies of all of them except for Empire (of which they only had one... perhaps someone had bought the other copy).

I looked at the prices, and I knew that if I waited until street date, I could find them cheaper elsewhere, getting a better deal overall. But, using the gift card (which was for something like $10 or $20), it brought the amount of actual money that I had to spend to around what I would have paid elsewhere, and since there wasn't really anything else there that I wanted and since I really didn't want to have to come back later to use up the card, I went for it.

I was worried that some employee would notice and say something when I went to check out, but nope! I walked out of there with them that day, and it was pretty awesome!

I was really surprised by the whole thing because Star Wars is about as high profile of a release as it gets that you really would want to be careful about breaking street date with.