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My hope would be that they would follow my dream order of releases: 1. Oppenheimer 2. Reservoir Dogs 3. Pulp Fiction 4. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair 5. Zodiac

Hopefully, Manta Lab will do what they did with the Matrix trilogy and put another release in between each TDK release. They were super quick with Barbie, so I'm hoping for Oppenheimer. However, if I was a betting man, their next release will be Spider-Man Homecoming. My release order predictions are: 1.Spider-Man Homecoming 2.The Dark Knight 3.Aquaman: The Lost Profits 4.The Dark Knight Rises 5.Oppenheimer

Yes, I've come a long way. Life is all about growth!

Collection Update: Currently at 1,128 4K's.

Recent pickups. On a side note: The Raid is the last pre-order/order that I had from Best Buy, as they are no longer shipping out movies. They force you to pick up in store. End of an era, as I estimate that I've purchased 90% of my Dvd's, Blu-rays, and 4k Blu-rays from Best Buy since 2002. Mostly in store at the beginning but mostly online delivery starting in 2016. Speaking of the Raid : It's fitting that this is my last Best Buy purchase. In my opinion, it has the best pure action in any movie, save for Part 2, which was a better movie overall and is on par with the action, if not better. Whether their creators want to admit it or not, these two movies were the action inspiration for the John Wick films.

Yeah, it's an awesome set. I'm kind of surprised it's smaller than most one clicks. MAG is known for massive sets.

Blade Runner 2049 from MAG. Thanks to @Masterblasterand crew for this beautiful release. Really no weakness here: The o ring case, the lentis on the box, and the acrilyc case are all great quality. The extras are also plentiful (I didn't even take a photo of another booklet that was included) and very nice (although I didn't receive the moc blocks for some reason) as you can see from the pics. In my opinion this is a awesome set for one of my favorite movies of the last 10 years. I would put this a notch below the UHD Club set overall, but I actually prefer the extras on this one slightly more. This will probably be my last BR 2049 purchase. I don't see myself buying the HDZeta lentis or the Film Arena Maniacs box so this is probably it... unless WeET or Manta Lab come up with something special.... No, no this is it I swear!! #Teamopenitup

Just finished this series on Netflix and it was amazing: Blue Eye Samurai. Also: Last month I finished this series, The Fall of the House of Usher. Excellent series. Directed by Mike Flanagan, who did Midnight Mass.

The Marvels was the first MCU movie that I did not see in theaters. I have a 4k Steelbook for every MCU release except for Black Widow (I have the Target 4k exclusive), but this very well may be the ugliest Steelbook I've seen for an MCU movie.

Thanks for the breakdown. I know there's only so much art available, but Manta did little to differentiate itself from the other releases. But this is great for those who never had a chance to purchase the other sets at a decent price. However, if you own the old sets, particularly the Blufans, and you buy this, you're basically buying the same thing twice.

Yes, I just started watching the NFL games and she decided to let me be last night 👍🏼

Here is my submission for Challenge #37. It is going to come with an asterisk, as several releases for 2023 that might have contended for the crown are stuck in limbo(my UHD Club Lord of the Rings Trilogy is in transit, Blufans The Prestige just got shipped from China, Manta Lab's Spider-Man No Way Home is stuck in customs somewhere, probably in Chicago, and MAG Blade Runner 2049... well who knows where that is). Anyway, I couldn't just pick 3,so here is THE DEFINITIVE, UNDISPUTABLE, list of my top 5 releases of the year. #Teamopenitup #dontbescaredtoopenyourstuff 5: The Shawshank Redemption from UHD Club. Fantastic release for an all-time classic movie. #4: The Star Wars Trilogy from Creator Era. A beautiful release. The back covers making one big cover was a great touch. #3: The Green Mile from UHD Club. I liked this edition better than Shawshank. UHD Club Wooden Box sets are the pinnacle of premium in my opinion. 2. 2001 : A Space Odyssey from Manta Lab. This was a tough choice as everything about this release was nearly perfect. However, the reason I couldn't put it at #1 was the lack of a third slip, and the Steelbook from my #1 release being superior, in my opinion. #1: Inception by Manta Lab. Everything is stellar with this release, other than the Single Lenti. The one-click box was great, the Double-Lenti and Fullslip are fantastic. The Steelbook is my favorite of the year, WWA or WEA.

@extantsrevenge Here is my submission for the Fullslip Treasure Hunter Award!

Great looking set! I do have these Digibook from a few years ago. Please excuse the picture quality as I was using a different phone. The one drawback, for me at least, is that these discs do not have English subtitles or an English language track. But they are beautiful. I'm hoping Arrow or Plain Archive make some premium sets.

Oldboy 4k from Neon. As you can see from the last picture, I love this movie. All I need now is a UHD Club Wooden Box and a 49ers Super Bowl victory and my life would finally be complete. #Teamopenitup

Thanks for this reminder. I've had a lazy susan in my Amazon cart since late November!

@extantsrevengeHere is my submission for the first stage of the Full Slip award. I would have done the second stage as well but the wife saw that I was having fun taking pictures and doing something for myself on my day off so she put a stop to that real quick.

@extantsrevenge Here is my submission for the Fantasy Award!

@extantsrevengeHere is my submission for the Horror Award. I included one extra just incase you count having the original Halloween twice against me.

It's absolutely killing my soul right now to see all these UHD Club LOTR posts and I haven't received mine yet. Congrats to those who have received theirs but...

@extantsrevengeMy submission for Stage 2: Arrival The Avengers Avengers: Age of Ultron Dune Inception

Challenge #36: My three favorite WWA Steelbooks this year. These are my three favorite with regard to art. I almost put Reservoir Dogs on this list but liked Sisu a little better.