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Also announced that they have Armor Shop for Ladies & Gentlemen (afaik nobody has released that on BD in English) and Onyx Equinox (The CR cartoon that Sentai released on BD).
 
Some titles there I'll be picking up, but I do wish they extended the early bird windows (from 7 days to about 14-28 days) to take advantage of the £50 free shipping cap. I don't mind ordering multiple items together and waiting longer but that's just me, curious if others have a similar opinion or so.
 
Some of the EB periods do overlap for the February slate, plus the Naruto CE is over £50 by itself and Bleach (2004) can be had for the cheapest possible price on release if you're an AU member and have purchased the previous sets. However, I can see how it would be a problem if they were just regular pre-orders with no discounts, and if you're not interested in the overlapping offering.

It would be cool if I could postpone my order from shipping until the EB for Slam Dunk CE started, for example (and add it to my existing shipment), but perhaps there are operational and technical issues with doing something like that on AL's end. It is what it is at the end of the day and I'll do my best to combine orders where I can, if not, I'll just have to eat the £3.50 fee on occasion.

I think the biggest issue caused by the postage costs is that it means the value of the 10% off perk for members is reduced, but the yearly membership cost has remained the same. I've said it previously elsewhere; but a tiered membership system like Crunchyroll have could be a good idea for Anime Limited, where the higher tiers of membership get a reduced free shipping threshold as a perk.
 
Is anyone ever interested in GATE?
I bought the limited edition long ago but I can't bring myself to watch it so I sold it a few years later.
 
Loved Gate but do not see any reason to replace my existing copy. Didn't realise it's disappeared from sale.
Put the Wagner on.

Like a sports anime but men playing basketball?
I'll watch Ro-Kyu-Bu again. 😇

Maybe the Armour Shop, I'll look that up.
 
Dave1988 said:
Nice, was after GATE, but crazy prices for mvm version
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And the AL announced prices aren’t? Even if you assume it’ll be available at half the srp, that’s still over £20 for the standard edition alone.
I’ve not watched (or even unwrapped) the MVM versions (and I seem to have picked up both the CE and standard when cheap).
And three discs sounds rather identical to the existing MVM releases. So the only benefits are a shorter CE box or effectively just a re-issue of the compact standard.
 
Googlyhead said:
And the AL announced prices aren’t? Even if you assume it’ll be available at half the srp, that’s still over £20 for the standard edition alone.
I’ve not watched (or even unwrapped) the MVM versions (and I seem to have picked up both the CE and standard when cheap).
And three discs sounds rather identical to the existing MVM releases. So the only benefits are a shorter CE box or effectively just a re-issue of the compact standard.
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Yeah pretty much.

MVM's is Limited edition with DVD and Blu-ray (probably used sentai as the source) and Booklet, but in a DVD sized case/artbox.
Its only down side was its DVD sized boxes which don't realy fit with the rest of your blu-ray collection.

AllTheAnime looks to be a Limited edition (LE with AllTheAnime tend to just be an art box and Blu-rays, where as collectors edition tend to have some extra like art books), so LE being just art box and blu-ray cases, im not really sure why it's a 2 blu-ray case for what ia assume is 3 discs.
And I would assume its sentai masters, but maybe theres a deal with sentia and MVM to allow MVM's disc to be used.
Alittle strange they released the standard edition first though
Also as mentioned earlier weird that they didn't steal their own french collectors/ultimate edition, but maybe al little late too the party for that level of treatment.

So yeah I'll be stickng with my MVM version as well, maybe I'll grab AllTheAnime in a christmas sale or something, but won't be easy to merge those 2 sets with the size diffences (pretty sure the book is DVD sized).
 
Googlyhead said:
And the AL announced prices aren’t? Even if you assume it’ll be available at half the srp, that’s still over £20 for the standard edition alone.
I’ve not watched (or even unwrapped) the MVM versions (and I seem to have picked up both the CE and standard when cheap).
And three discs sounds rather identical to the existing MVM releases. So the only benefits are a shorter CE box or effectively just a re-issue of the compact standard.
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Yep, only ever buy standard editions, not fussed about collectors ones, always wait for the sale buy one get onr free, cex want £35 used for mvm version, hmmmm no
 
SkwigglesWorth said:
im not really sure why it's a 2 blu-ray case for what ia assume is 3 discs.
And I would assume its sentai masters, but maybe theres a deal with sentia and MVM to allow MVM's disc to be used.
Alittle strange they released the standard edition first though
Also as mentioned earlier weird that they didn't steal their own french collectors/ultimate edition, but maybe al little late too the party for that level of treatment.
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The multiple case explanation is given in the product details as to allow them to use all the artwork they have…
The French edition may have fancier (I like!) packaging, but people do tend to complain about shape and size of AL’s UE and CE, so the conservative release is somewhat understandable if they’re only doing an LE and standard.
Dave1988 said:
Yep, only ever buy standard editions, not fussed about collectors ones, always wait for the sale buy one get onr free, cex want £35 used for mvm version, hmmmm no
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Yes, seems a bit much for used standard, even if three disc. Perhaps I should sell my spare before the prices drop.
You could argue that the MVM one is ultimately the more desirable of the standards due to being both the original release and (IMHO) slightly nicer.
 
Love Gate and would be happy to double dip but no booklet and not even offering a digipack?

It just isn't worth it to double dip then if the MVM release is near better in every way then - granted the artbox looks a lot nicer in AL's one.

This seems definitely one to wait for a Christmas sale as I don't see it selling well as most people will have MVM's one and won't double dip.
 
Wicker said:
Love Gate and would be happy to double dip but no booklet and not even offering a digipack?

It just isn't worth it to double dip then if the MVM release is near better in every way then - granted the artbox looks a lot nicer in AL's one.

This seems definitely one to wait for a Christmas sale as I don't see it selling well as most people will have MVM's one and won't double dip.
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I just find it odd that on the new CE the only artwork with an image of Rory is on Disc 3, and she's the smallest character shown.
 
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