Alliance Blu-Rays in the USA?! - Blu-ray Forum

Dynamo of Eternia · 03-27-2011, 08:16 PM

Okay, I did a search to see if this topic already exists and came up with nothing... so I apologize in advance if this is redundant of any existing threads out there.

I live in a suburb of Chicago, and I was doing some shopping at a local Meijer store earlier today, and was browsing through their movie section.

And at an end-cap, the had a bunch of Alliance Blu-Ray releases, which I thought were only sold in Canada.

What initially caught my eye was the packaging for Austin Powers in Goldmember. It had the same cover art as the DVD release from years ago (the cover art on the US Blu-Ray is different from the DVD). Then I looked at the side of the case, and say the Alliance logo, as well as the title in 2 different languages facing 2 different directions.

Then I started looking at the other movies around it (there were a few copies of Goldmember like this amongst other titles... there wasn't really any sense of organization to the whole thing), and most, if not all of them were also Alliance releases. I know they had several copies of Elf, and there were several other titles, but the specific ones escape me. All of them seemed to be priced at $9.99

I know someone is going to come in here and say "pics or it didn't happen". Well, I didn't have a camera on me, otherwise I would have taken a pic. So, take this all with a grain of salt if you must, but I am not making this up.

Has anyone else seen this at any other Meijer stores or at any other US retailer?

03-27-2011, 08:16 PM	#12
Dynamo of Eternia Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Dec 2007 4K collection:335 Blu-ray collection:1857 DVD collection:1573 Trading Score:3	Alliance Blu-Rays in the USA?! Okay, I did a search to see if this topic already exists and came up with nothing... so I apologize in advance if this is redundant of any existing threads out there. I live in a suburb of Chicago, and I was doing some shopping at a local Meijer store earlier today, and was browsing through their movie section. And at an end-cap, the had a bunch of Alliance Blu-Ray releases, which I thought were only sold in Canada. What initially caught my eye was the packaging for Austin Powers in Goldmember. It had the same cover art as the DVD release from years ago (the cover art on the US Blu-Ray is different from the DVD). Then I looked at the side of the case, and say the Alliance logo, as well as the title in 2 different languages facing 2 different directions. Then I started looking at the other movies around it (there were a few copies of Goldmember like this amongst other titles... there wasn't really any sense of organization to the whole thing), and most, if not all of them were also Alliance releases. I know they had several copies of Elf, and there were several other titles, but the specific ones escape me. All of them seemed to be priced at $9.99 I know someone is going to come in here and say "pics or it didn't happen". Well, I didn't have a camera on me, otherwise I would have taken a pic. So, take this all with a grain of salt if you must, but I am not making this up. Has anyone else seen this at any other Meijer stores or at any other US retailer?

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