Faulty 3D Blu-ray discs - glitches freezing bronzing disc rot etc

[the13thman]

I thought I'd maintain a list of known faulty 3D Blu-rays as sadly there will be some that were badly manufactured (at least in their initial run) and have or will become unplayable, while others have glitches or don't actually play in 3D.



3D Safari: Africa (US edition - one eye is brighter than the other)
009 RE: Cyborg (Australian edition - center and right audio channels have been swapped)
1920: Battle of Warsaw (German edition - 3D goes out of sync)
Alpha and Omega (Brazilian edition - 3D is out of sync)
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64 (Japanese edition - 3D disc freezes up, there was a fixed disc issued)
Anadolu Atesi AKA Fire of Anatolia (Turkish edition - playback is glitchy, stuttering and choppy framerate)
Bolts & Blip (Brazilian edition - 3D is glitchy)
Boogie (US and Australian editions - freezes at a couple of points, at least in some players)
A Christmas Carol (US edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
Comin' At Ya! (US edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
Dark World (Brazilian edition - doesn't play in 3D)
Friday the 13th Part 3 (US edition - credits sequence has incorrect 3D placement, a replacement disc was issued, marked as R1)
Human Body (Italian edition - center and right audio channels have been swapped)
Humpback Whales (US edition - at least one of the English audio tracks is badly mixed so background music drowns out the narration)
Iceman (Hong Kong edition - one eye is brighter than the other)
I, Frankenstein (UK edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
The Illusionauts (Turkish edition - 3D is glitchy)
Jock the Hero Dog (German edition - freezes at one point)
Jumanji: The Next Level (Australian edition - stutters and freezes in some older players)
Moomins and the Comet Chase (Scandinavian edition - the English audio cuts out halfway through)
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (German edition - the English audio is badly mixed so background music drowns out dialogue)
Piranha 3DD (UK edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
The Polar Express (US edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
Revenge of the Creature (US edition - initial release was in SBS format, a replacement disc was issued)
The Second Sight (Hong Kong edition - some users have reported the disc freezing around 75 mins in, possibly a bad pressing)
Sing 2 (Australian edition - on-screen text/signage is missing in one eye)
The Snow Queen (Brazilian edition - doesn't play in 3D, image is just 2D pushed back like an autoconversion)
Spy Kids 3D (Netherlands edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
Stanley's Game Seven (Canadian edition - 5.1 audio track has issues, the 2.0 track is fine however)
StreetDance 3: All Stars (Netherlands edition - disc may become unplayable over time)
Titeuf (Brazilian edition - 3D is out of sync)
Twixt AKA Virginia (Brazilian edition - doesn't play in 3D)

Those are the ones I have found in my collection so far or have been reported by others but there are likely to be more. I did have a US edition of Transformers Age of Extinction that glitched out in one scene but I checked the disc and it was a mess on the underside so that was a damaged disc rather than a faulty one. I also had issues with the Australian release of Jumanji: The Next Level which stutters and freezes on my player but plays fine in my PS3, I added it here as I tested three separate copies, not that it matters as the disc is long out of print.