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

[PT Ryan]

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?

[fred25_Ca]

Originally Posted by PT Ryan

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?

I'm glad it amuses you. I mean, you'd think Australians would be happy people from outside Australia are interested in your products haha.
Although i'm pretty sure Imprint doesn't mind the international sales on their releases. :P

I've bought plenty of Umbrella and Imprint releases before for great price. Even if you remove the shipping costs, it still cost more than 200. That's more than 50$ it would cost me to buy a shawscope Arrow (150$ including shipping!) and those sets contains between 12 to 14 movies, big booklets, music cds and lavish packaging. And that's a set coming from an expensive label over here (Arrow).

It's fine to defend this release, it looks wonderful, the kind of stuff i've wanted someone to release for years now (and that I doubt any North American labels will release) and it's cool if people are willing to pay these prices for it but it's hard for me not to think this is massively overpriced, even without the exporting fees. But to each their own. :P

[lemonski]

Originally Posted by fred25_Ca

I've bought plenty of Umbrella and Imprint releases before for great price. Even if you remove the shipping costs, it still cost more than 200. That's more than 50$ it would cost me to buy a shawscope Arrow (150$ including shipping!) and those sets contains between 12 to 14 movies, big booklets, music cds and lavish packaging. And that's a set coming from an expensive label over here (Arrow).

How are you buying an Arrow Shawscope box including shipping for CAD$150? On the Arrow US site they’re USD$145/$150 unshipped.

[fred25_Ca]

Originally Posted by lemonski

How are you buying an Arrow Shawscope box including shipping for CAD$150? On the Arrow US site they’re USD$145/$150 unshipped.

I got the first two for pre-orders for 150$ CAD on wowhd when they were both released. Just need a bit of patience when it comes to pre-orders.
Also, no idea how much you guys pay in the US since i'm in Canada but over here the CAD is worth pretty much the same as Australian dollars.

Anyway, haha i'm done here. I'm pretty jealous of anybody that doesn't think this is expensive and can easily afford it. Who knows, maybe it will go down significantly in price in the next year. I'm just hoping this isn't limited. Outside of the actual serials, the documentary sounds incredibly interesting and I'm kind of dying to watch it. Have fun!