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First they had only two Mediabooks, then they revealed a third. Now, something really rare happend: Anolis is announcing yet another artwork, making Frankenstein the first non-Dracula-Cofin release that will actually come with four cover artworks. Here is the last one. What do you think? I am torn between the third one and this fourth one. Probably will go with the fourth, I guess, because it looks a bit cleaner than the third.

As usually, I'll add a mention for @Grendel and @Mad-martigan who I know of that they are collecting these and like to be kept updated. Of course, feel free to add mentions to whomever you know who also collects these or might just be interested in this particular release. Btw. I have to say, I am pretty pleased with this release, as I think the cover artwork looks spectacular. And I am interested to finally get to watch this movie - I've heard good about it and know that some people are actually waiting for this one.

Release date: 29.01.2021 Buy link: Wicked-Vision Price: €29.99 Discs: Dual Format (BD+DVD) Booklet: 24 pages It's somewhat a tradition for Anolis to announce upcoming releases on or around Christmas, and this year is not different: Six titles where either revealed, or teased, or had some additional information, we didn't know (e.g. cover variants). The first of this list is the announcement that their "Curse of the Gallery of Horrors" series will be continued as the first release they'll have planned for us in 2021, release date being the end of January (Wicked already lists it as the first shop in Germany, and they estimate the release date for January 29th). And it'll be the long awaited "The Deadly Mantis", as no. 5 of the list: IT! Terror from Beyond Space Donovan's Brain The Angry Red Planet The Night Walker The Deadly Mantis There is no other information on the release yet, their "main announcement" (as they call their announcements that come up a week before you can order them at all the stores), we only get the picture of the cover. But of course there will be some bonus features. And given the overall series, we already know it will be a G1 (i.e. DVD-sized) Amaray, with two discs, the second one being a DVD copy of the Blu-ray, a booklet and the design of the series including the spine image continuation. The movie is directed by Nathan H. Juran (The Black Castle) and based on a story by producer William Alland (Creature from the Black Lagoon). It stars Craig Stevens, William Hopper and Alix Talton. It tells the story of a giant praying mantis, that was trapped in ice for millions of years, until the explosion of a volcano finally manages to melt the North Pole ice. And once defrosted, it turns out, that the creature is still alive... To bring the monster alive, in this black and white movie they actually built a 61m by 12m long papier-maché mantis, with a 46m wingspan. It was moved by a complicated hydraulic system. But besides they also had miniature models of Buildings and Cars, etc. that could be used, and for some shops they even used real living paying mantis that climbs around miniature buildings. Even though they had so many special effects, the movie itself wasn't well received during it's time and therefore got buried in oblivion. While there will be some more information, Anolis already released the cover and Wicked already added it to their store for preorder.

Oh schaut mal! @Fortis93 hat sein erstes deutsches Wort gelernt! Habt ihr gut gemacht, German Room @ Mediapsychos 🤣

Oh thanks! I'll try that!

Alles liebe und gute zum Geburtstag, @Trianna. Hoffe Du hattest einen tollen Tag hast Dich reichlich beschenken und ordentlich feiern lassen. Und morgen geht das Feiern und Beschenken lassen gleich weiter!

Is it possible to somewhere post a group buy directly for second sight? Or is anyone from Britain willing to get me one from second sight and forward it to me? I actually wanted to get this via amazon.co.uk, but then I was in hospital and afterwards I totally forgot about this release -.- Checking the sites, it seems like everyone that was sending to Germany is not having this in stock anymore, and resellers are asking far too high prices (~150GBP). However, Second Sight still has this in stock for original price. https://secondsightfilms.co.uk/products/dawn-of-the-dead-limited-edition-4k-uhd

Oh wow, das tut mir so leid zu lesen. Alles erdenkliche Gute wünsche ich Euch, viel Kraft und auch wenn es sicherlich schwer fallen wird: Frohe Weihnachten! Hoffentlich können Euch die Feiertage ein wenig Ablenkung bescheren. Die Daumen sind natürlich gedrückt! Alles Gute!

Die durfte ich heute auch aus dem Briefkasten fischen. Und dabei hab ich dem Thomas (glaub ich?) noch nie meine Adresse gegeben? Hab mich jedenfalls wirklich sehr über diesen wundervollen Weihnachtsgruß gefreut. Danke Dir, lieber @thomue1987 ❤️ Und was die Weihnachtsgrüße anbelangt. Die wünsche ich sowohl Dir, als auch natürlich allen anderen Meidapsychos hier auch. Da ich die nächsten Tage wahrscheinlich bissl weniger die Möglichkeit habe, hier reinzuschauen, mach ich das einfach heute schon mal: FRÖHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN EUCH UND EUREN LIEBEN! Feiert schön, bleibt gesund, seid besinnlich und lasst Euch nicht vom Weihnachtsstress und anderen Unannehmlichkeiten ärgern Und weil wir hier bei den Mediapsychos sind: Natürlich auch viel Spaß beim Weihnachtsfilme schauen.

Release: ??? Link: ??? Price: ???€ THE VENGEANCE OF SHE is one of the rare non-horror Hammer productions, a fantasy genre movie directed by Cliff Owen and starring John Richardson, Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova), Edward Judd, André Morell and Colin Blakely. It was released in 1968, and was intended as a loose sequel to their 1965 film SHE. SHE is based on a novel by H. Rider Haggard, called "She: A History of Adventure", and though it was adapted plenty of times already (1899 as The Pillar of Fire, 1908, 1911, 1916, 1925 and 1935 all titled SHE), the Hammer dramatization in 1965 became a smashing hit, making $1,7 million USD on a £323,778 budget, and becoming the first Hammer movie to feature a female lead. Different to its predecessor THE VENGEANCE OF SHE is only a lose adaptation of the novels sequel, plus it did also not feature any of the Hammer stars (like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee who both had roles in SHE) and had to replace the heroin Ursula Andress with Olga Schoberová, and in the end it was a rather badly received movie that managed to only make a third of its budget (the budget being £350,000) back at the box office. It thells the story of Carol, a woman that is suffering from headaches which somehow lead her to the ancient lost city of Kuma. There she finds out that she is supposed to be the reincarnation of Ayesha (the main character of SHE), a dead Goddess and ruler of Kuma. If you followed my postings, you might remember, that Anolis actually already released this movie as part of their 20 title series "Hammer Edition" on DVD. From todays standpoint maybe a rather odd collection of Hammer movies, that ranged from selected titles of many famous horror series like Dracula (PRINCE OF DARKNESS), Frankenstein (FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER), but also from sci-fi movies, like THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, adventure movies like THE VIKING QUEEN, fantasy movies like THE LOST CONTINENT and even comedy films like THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FORREST. When Anolis announced their new Blu-ray series they first just called it "Hammer", and said that they'd release all their 20 titles again, as they still owned the licensing rights. Then everything changed, and after a long time with a redesign they came back and called this series "Hammer Horror". They have since released 13 of their previous titles, which are all predominantly horror movies. The only 7 of the DVD movies that where still missing where all the non-horror movies (THE VENGEANCE OF SHE, THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FORREST, A CHALLENGE FOR ROBIN HOOD, THE VIKING QUEEN, SLAVE GIRLS and THE LOST CONTINENT). It was so obvious that Anolis was tiptoeing around these clearly non-horror titles and only chose the horror titles, that people started wondering, if Anolis would only be concentrating on the horror movies (which makes sense, as they called their series "Hammer Horror"). And it is an interesting point, which we where even discussing in the forum, as this would mean that you could get the other movies from Indicator (for instance). I guess this is the precedent case, where we have our first non-horror adventure movie: THE VENGEANCE OF SHE, implicating that Anolis is not backing away from non-horror titles, and also implicating that after already releasing a couple of non-Hammer Indicator titles in Germany as well, this could also be extended to movies such as THE SNORKEL, NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER, CASH ON DEMAND, THE FULL TREATMENT, VISA TO CANTON, THE SCARLET BLADE, THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER and many more. For me as a crazy completionist, that is a great outlook. As I of course love the Horror movies, I am still curious about the other genre films from which I've seen next to none. And given that there are 158 movies, and that since their first release, end of 2013, they only managed to release 31 movies, this will give them 35 more years to try and get them all to Blu-ray As we don't know anything else yet, not even covers, I'll end this thread (for now) with a picture of their old artwork (they've regularly reused their old artwork from a DVD on their Blu-ray releases, so chances are that we'll see it on Blu-ray as well, and of course with the trailer for the movie. But I'll keep you posted!

Uhm... Anolis? Are you here? Are you reading my posts? Anyhow, I am pretty happy, turning around the last cover card, I found this "updated" info on the next release: The bad news, however: It won't be released this year (but that was somehow to be expected). Anolis postponed it to Febuary 2021. Hopefully they'll manage to keep the date.

And a second set of pictures, this time from the separate mediabook I bought. The one that goes into the shelf with the others Again it's a great mediabook, same design as all the others, but different to the edition that is included in the sarcophagus it comes with a cover card that has the FSK seal on it and a look at the edition up next: The Revenge of Frankenstein. Other than that, and the cover the inside should be totally identical. The booklet is really great once more, with a lot of different artworks and posters (from Catalan, France, Spain and the USA), lobby cards, behind the scenes photographs with autographs by the actors (2x Christopher Lee, as well as Suzan Farmer, Francis Matthews and Barbara Shelley -- that's a really neat thing), and if that's not enough, we get the British and the US Cut on different discs, with the GB edition having the British poster artwork and the US edition having the US poster artwork. That's some crazy attention for detail. The one I am really loving 😍 Wonderful edition, through and through.

So... even though I feel like this interests no one, I'll add the pictures for 1 and 2, which arrived just today. Again it was very well packed, and the package was huge (Mediabook for scale and address coverup). I also ordered another movie that is briefly seen in one of the pictures by accident. If you are interested take a look here. A few remarks: The individual Editions are not numbreed, just the boxset is, so I've got boxset no 264. The beer mats where part of the early pre-orderes (and the subscription orderers) and are limited to 100 pieces each. All the other extras must be subscription extras, although I am not quite sure, if some of these are not subscription or bundle extras. This includes a poster for Slaughter, a postcard for Slaughter and a lobby card for Slaugther, as well as a postcard and a lobby card for Mister Tibbs. The lobby cards are individually numbered and personalized for the subscribers, so I've got subscription no. 13 (nice ). Also included are two stickers. All sides of the rigid box look nice, three sides have spot gloss - the back with the fist and the collection title, as well as both sides. The sides have spot gloss as an invisible text, and this is really great. If you look from the front, you cannot see it, really nice. All in all a really decent release. I'm loving it. And before the pictures, here 's a little spoiler alert: Wicked has released a list of all coming titles. As I won't do any further of these posts, as there seem to be no interest, I just post the list here. If there are titles that interest you, let me know, then I'll make a post for these selected titles, including all the extras and photos from the edition. But spending all the time if you are not interested feels like wasting time Slaguther (this post) 10 Stunden Zeit für Tibbs / They Call Me Mister Tibbs Strasse zum Jenseits / Accross 110th Street (Feb. 2021) Foxy Brown (Feb. 2021) Die Organisation / The Organization (March 2021) Ghettobusters / I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Apr. 2021) Car Wash (May 2021) Black Gunn (June 2021) Coffy (Aug. 2021) Black Ceasar (Aug. 2021) Small remark on the photos: Because of the bad lightning this time of year, I tiried to make them a bit lighter, however this also makes them look kind of blueish/grayish. But its black and white and grey. Not blue. Sorry for that. I am not really good in photo editing, unfortunately 😐

So... even though I feel like this interests no one, I'll add the pictures for 1 and 2, which arrived just today. Again it was very well packed, and the package was huge (Mediabook for scale and address coverup). I also ordered another movie that is briefly seen in one of the pictures by accident. If you are interested take a look here. A few remarks: The individual Editions are not numbreed, just the boxset is, so I've got boxset no 264. The beer mats where part of the early pre-orderes (and the subscription orderers) and are limited to 100 pieces each. All the other extras must be subscription extras, although I am not quite sure, if some of these are not subscription or bundle extras. This includes a poster for Slaughter, a postcard for Slaughter and a lobby card for Slaugther, as well as a postcard and a lobby card for Mister Tibbs. The lobby cards are individually numbered and personalized for the subscribers, so I've got subscription no. 13 (nice ). Also included are two stickers. All sides of the rigid box look nice, three sides have spot gloss - the back with the fist and the collection title, as well as both sides. The sides have spot gloss as an invisible text, and this is really great. If you look from the front, you cannot see it, really nice. All in all a really decent release. I'm loving it. And before the pictures, here 's a little spoiler alert: Wicked has released a list of all coming titles. As I won't do any further of these posts, as there seem to be no interest, I just post the list here. If there are titles that interest you, let me know, then I'll make a post for these selected titles, including all the extras and photos from the edition. But spending all the time if you are not interested feels like wasting time Slaguther (this post) 10 Stunden Zeit für Tibbs / They Call Me Mister Tibbs Strasse zum Jenseits / Accross 110th Street (Feb. 2021) Foxy Brown (Feb. 2021) Die Organisation / The Organization (March 2021) Ghettobusters / I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Apr. 2021) Car Wash (May 2021) Black Gunn (June 2021) Coffy (Aug. 2021) Black Ceasar (Aug. 2021) Small remark on the photos: Because of the bad lightning this time of year, I tiried to make them a bit lighter, however this also makes them look kind of blueish/grayish. But its black and white and grey. Not blue. Sorry for that. I am not really good in photo editing, unfortnuately 😐

Oh, dann hab ich das nicht gewusst. Ist aber auf jeden Fall nicht wirklich aktiv, wenn ich es richtig sehe. Früher hat sie halt die vielen tollen Übersichts- und Newsthreads zu Blufans, Nova, Kimchi, und den ganzen anderen asiatischen Editionen gehabt, das fand ich immer sehr cool. Aber naja. Ich bin ja auch sehr viel weniger aktiv geworden.

"gar nicht mal so Scheisse!" ist eines meiner allerliebsten KOMPLIMENTE! 😁

Naja, wundert Dich das? Der gute André war hier bspw. auch schon parallel tätig, während er auch beim "blauen Forum" war, sprich hier gab es von Anfang an auch Leute, die nie drüben waren. Vor Deiner Zeit (aber nicht vor unserer 😅 ), hat André sogar für die ganze Welt für Filmarena Sammelbestellungen hier gemacht, das wurde dann aber aufgesplittet, als es irgendwann zu viel wurde. Will sagen: Die Community hier gab es schon, bevor drüben alles zerbrochen ist, dementsprechend lernst Du hier halt auch ein paar neue Leute kennen. Aber natürlich gab es auch viel Schwund. Einige der Leute die ich drüben gerne gelesen hatte, oder die auch extrem aktiv waren (Elvis, bspw. [glaub so hieß er?] der in mühevoller Arbeit die Listen für Zavvi VÖs (und viele weitere) gepflegt hat, oder auch Engelskind) haben es nie hierher geschafft, leider. Es gab zwischenzeitig auch mal ein zweites Forum, das die "Abtrünnigen" aufgemacht haben, aber das "blaue Forum" hat das dann per richterlicher Verfügung stoppen lassen (weil die die das eingerichtet hatte [glaube sie hieß Jana?], ja eigentlich beim blauen Forum angestellt war, und es da irgend eine Klausel gibt, dass Du danach nicht direkt mitbewerber werden kannst, blabla). Was jetzt aus allen geworden ist, k.A. Viel interessanter ist doch eigentlich eher die Frage: Warum hat das bei Dir so lange gedauert bis Du hergefunden hast?! 🤪

As I am not allowed to tell you anything from the (up to now) four little update mails (all with pictures!), I couldn't share much info in this. But this picture was posted by Wicked on facebook, so finally some news: Shipping preparations have begun. this will probably arrive before Christmas. Nice!

Well.... it's Christmas season, so they took the full 5 days they estimate (2-5 days). But finally it's here. Package was crazy! On the photos I included a "Mediabook for scale". I don't recon they'll (i.e. Pretz Media) choose this packaging for all the orders, as mine also included two additional mediabooks (typically wrapped into so much bubble-wrap that you could throw it around. My inner box for the coffin (probably the original shipper), which has the warning "handle with extreme care" was rather damaged on one of the sides, so I was a bit scared, but luckily they've included an extra set of styrofoam wedges to secure the inner-inner-package (yes, it was a bit like opening Matryoshka dolls), and if you finally got to that one and opened it, there was another layer of styrofoam protecting the actual coffin. The coffin itself consists of 4 parts: A cushion (that is unfortunately made out of resin), a blanket, that is made out of real cloth, the actual "coffin" (now that I think of it, that's actually the wrong name for it. This should be called sarcophagus, not coffin, shouldn't it? - I FEEL CHEATED! I WILL RETURN IT 🤣 ), and a separate base to place the coff... sarcophagus (okay that's far too long to write it out all the time) on, that also has a little slot for the Mediabook. The set is really heavy, and once I assembled it i put it on my scale: nearly 2.3kg!!! It's made to look rather used, so you have little cracks everywhere (and if you compare them with the beauty-shots you'll see that they are intentionally), but you do also clearly see the non-voluntary lines where things where glued together, which is a bit of a shame. Also some sides look a bit crooked (e.g. compare the corners of my base where the slot for the Mediabook is), in if you compare these to the beauty shots, this is also definitely not voluntary. Also on the bottom you have some felt cloth glued to the base, and my one has some bubbles in it and is not even straight (see the right hand side). But what is even more bothersome is the paint job. If you compare it to the beauty shots, you'll recognize a huge difference - the triangles are never in their lines, and the triangles don't have sharp corners. This might be seen rather pedantic, as it still looks great (especially from afar), but given the price tag (130€ - 30€ for the Mediabook = 100€ for the sarcophagus), you could have expected a bit more, I guess. I still love it, non the less. But resellers are already offering it for up to 200€s and that's far too much. Other than that, I am happy that this movie finally - FINALLY made it to Germany. Since the first (and only) release on DVD by Anolis in 2003 there hasn't been another German release for this, and it is one of the most sought after film in the Hammer Dracula series. So finally we can still our thirst for it (get it? The German translation literally means "Blood for Dracula" 😅 *badum-tssss*). I've added their first "coffin" release for Dracula, which still looks and feels more high-grade than this release (though it was probably much cheaper in production), just for comparison and fun. Enjoy the pictures. Oh and btw. I usually don't do this, but with this one I'll keep the Mediabook sealed (at least for now), because it is not my favorite cover and I've also ordered cover B separatly. When that one arrives, I'll also post some pictures from the inside - for now you'll have to wait and make due with that sarcophagus.

Release: End of 2021 Link (Wicked Shop): ??? Price: ???€ Limited: ??? And another title that will be released as a Mediabook by Wicked Vision: VAMPIRA. This movie from 1974 by british Director Clive Donner stars David Niven as Dracula and Teresa Graves as his countess Vampira. Dracula is already old and forced to host tours in his castle to get new victims. Moreover he misses his his long-lost love, Vampira, which is why he sets out to collect blood from Playboy Playmates who he offers to live at his castle. However, when reviving Vampira, there is a surprise he didn't see coming.... When marketed to the USA shortly after the successful YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, the distributers decided to rename this movie to OLD DRACULA as a spoof, and to cash in on its success. Consequentially, in the USA this movie was often shown as double feature together with YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. However it could not keep up with Mel Brooks black and white spoof movie, and therefore got rather bad critics. Especially during it's release people could not make heads or tails with it: As a British horror movie people expected something like Hammer, as a British comedy, they'd expect typical British comedy. Instead, VAMPIRA delivers a merger between British Horror and Comedy, with Blaxploitation and Playgirls, giving it a more modern feeling of the mid 70s. Some say this would have better been shown in a double-feature with BLACULA rather than with a Mel Brooks movie. Wicked days they cannot yet tell anything concerning the bonuses this will be equipped with, only that they'll plan to release it end of 2021. Until then, here's the trailer:

Release: 2021 Link (Wicked Shop): ??? Price: ???€ Limited: ??? 30 days, 30 announcements for 2021, also known as "say bye to the money you'll make in 2021, even when it's still 2020". This time Wicked Vision announced a movie from 1970, which is the final movie by Basil Dearden shortly before he was killed in an car accident in 1971. It stars Roger Moore (James Bond) in a psychological thriller - and (as already with this movie) is an adaption of a Jekyll and Hyde variant story, that was prior released in a novel called "The Strange Case of Mr Pelham" by Anthony Armstrong. This British movie is a low budget production (in a series of movies) that wanted to gain attraction by including one famous actor, who was willing to work for substantially less then their usual fee. Roger Moore was such an actor. And according to Moore's autobiography as well as many of his interviews, he considers this movie to be the best of his entire career, saying: "It was a film I actually got to act n, rather than just being all white teeth and flippant and heroic". Still, when it was released, the movie that made due with a £200,000 got only negative reviews and didn't perform well in box office. Moore blames the bad and amateurish marketing, and maybe he is right? At least today this movie is perceived differently, newer critics are generally rather positive, and especially the acting of Roger Moore is also perceived by many as the best of his career, some say straight after James Bond, some even dare to say it's better than his role as James Bond. This Wicked Vision release is again a German HD premiere, and Wicked Vision once more promises a lot of extras with some of them being exclusive. It's also tagged just with Blu-ray and Mediabook, so maybe it'll be a double Blu-ray? Or some other feature, such as a soundtrack or something. We'll see, I guess... Meanwhile, enjoy the trailer

Release: 2021 Link (Wicked Shop): ??? Price: ???€ Limited: ??? Another day, another announcemnet by Wicked Vision for next year. We're at day 13, nearly half way through and this one is again most definatly going to be a Mediabook release, as it is tagged as one: The Australian family adventure film FROG DREAMING was released in 1986 and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith stars Henry Thomas Jr. (E.T., The Haunting of Hill House), as the orphan Cody, who living in Australia one they stumbles upon some strange things happening at a famous Aboriginal myth site in an national park. Cody, being a very inventive kid that lives for adventures, does not listen to the warnings but goes investigating on his own... This Australian movie is (at least to my knowledge) a rather unknown typical 80s kids adventure movie such as the better known Goonies or Monster Squad, etc. and probably most fun to watch if you love these kind of 80s movies or where a kid in the 80s yourself. There is not much trivia or fun facts I could find, other than the fact that, it's a movie with Henry Thomas, and that internationally it is better known as THE QUEST, while in the UK it is also known as THE GO KIDS, i.e. FROG DREAMING being the original Australian title for this movie. The German title is translatable to "Ghostbuster". As usually, Wicked doesn't give anything else away yet - it is tagged with Mediabook, Blu-ray and DVD and being from 1986, Wicked calls this the 35th Anniversary edition, and promises a lot of bonuses. And as usually with Wicked titles it's a premiere, and this time a European premiere on HD. bluray.com only lists three other Amaray releases, one (of course) in Australia from 2018, and the other two for USA and Canada, from this years August, by Kino Lorber. Here's the trailer:

Generally speaking, English friendly means, that the movie is watchable for someone who only knows English. Nowadays this is true for nearly all releases. There used to be a time, where a movie release would only have Dubbing audio, and in that case, if you bought it internationally, you had to know German to being able to see and understand the movie. Today, it is bon ton to have the original Audio included in the movie, and therefore I would say that today, using "English friendly" as a label only makes sense for foreign movies, e.g. Asian movies - usually if you get them in Germany, you'll get a release with e.g. Japanese original audio, German dubbing, and German subtitles. That's not English-friendly, because an English speaking person wouldn't be able to understand the movie. Now the more interesting question is: Will this just include the movie, or also everything around it? And here this is never really clear, which is why I'd rather be explicite than only use the "English friendly" label. Wicked usually is English friendly for the feature film, and most bonuses, but if they create audio commentaries, most of the time, it'll be just German audio. However, sometimes (rarely) they even add English subtitles for Audio-commentaries, or German extras. And 2 or 3 times they even had a dual langauge booklet, or included a digital booklet as PDF on the disk in English. In that case the release would be totally English friendly. If you have any questions on a concrete release, regarding what's English friendly and what isn't you can always ask me - except for their Jean Rollin Collection and their Tinto Brass Series I have all of their releases at home 🙃

Of course I will I'll add a mention, as well - but be aware, that this will be some where in 2021 - could be even as late as a year from now - but let's hope that's not the case

Release date: ???? 2021 Buy Link: tbd Price: ??€ Limitation: ?? Format: ?? Booklet: ?? In Oktober 2019 Wicked Vision released the PUPPET MASTER movie series in a Trunk replica, which has already been released in the US - but Wicked add a lot of specials: Instead of Amarays we got 14mm fulll sleeve Scanavos, a 52 page booklet, 13 collectible cards, an original Blade action figure, a numbered certificate that is personalized and signed by Charles Band personally, limited to 333 copies. Preorders started in May and it was sold out rather fast, even though with 222€ it had a hefty price tag (but given the 11 movies, it's just 20€ per movie, and that does not even start to include the extras). And if all of this wasn't enough, there where also a lot of video bonuses, all in all over 40 hours (see a beauty shot way down below ) After it was sold out, a lot of people have asked if there would ever come a second release, maybe even a bit cheaper. And to accommodate this demand, today Wicked announced a second release, that will be reduced: It will "just" have a cardboard box, containing the 11 movies, and space for the not yet released BLADE: THE IRON CROSS (I guess given that Wicked keeps this space in the box, they'll release that one separately). There is no information about the package - my guess is that it will be the typical Scanavo Cases we've already seen. This would make most sense, as they would also fit all the single release. However, Wicked Vision is not telling us any more as of now. Only that the 40 hours of extra will be included, and that the cardboard box will have some spott gloss varnish. In the comments someone asked if the price will be above or below 100€ and of course Wicked Vision answered with above 100€. I would recon with something around 150€. And because people have asked once more: There will be no single releases. Here is the first release: