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Forum - View topicGitS:SAC vol. 6 early release?
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Dagwood
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I was shopping around for anime today, and the 3 stores I went to (Best Buy, Target, & Suncoast) had
 to my suprise vol. 6 out on the shelf. I thought it wasn't supposed to be released until 5.24.05 (this coming tuesday). Did Bandai and Manga decide to release it early, or is this just a fluke I encountered in my area? Was everything ready to go, so they went ahead and let them sell it? If so, does this happen that often? Anyone else see this?
FYI: Suncoast had it for 17.99  (usually 29.99), where as Best Buy was at 21.99 (usually 17.99). Target found its way in the middle at 19.99. What about where you live, I'm curious was/is it the same?
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DKL
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yeah, I saw it too
usually though, people that order it online and stuff get it early... but I was surprised to see it at BEST BUY today considering that most retail places don't release stuff early... and stuff... but yeah, I saw it, it's probably worth the same as your BEST BUY price |
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Usually if a retailer breaks street date, they get penalized by the company releasing the item.
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Glory Questor
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I special-ordered it and got it a couple weeks ago.
They must not have a strict laydown date on it, if the distributors are already shipping it out to stores. (fyi, anything that has a strict laydown date, like Appleseed: The Movie, is normally not supposed to be available for sale before the published date, where Appleseed's laydown was May 10th. From experience, I can tell you that releases after the first few in a series, though, do not usually carry strict laydowns unless it is something very, very big, like Star Wars movies for example.)
As mentioned above, only if the publisher is strictly upholding the laydown date. I haven't really seen the anime publishers uphold it all that often from when I was working in a store, only with the first release of a series or a movie release (InuYasha, Appleseed, GITS 2, etc.). |
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Chiroptera Rex
 Space Cowboy Posts: 262 Location: The Batcave, Gotham City, Wisconsin. |
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I have quite a few sites that I buy from and some have it listed as 5/17 and others as 5/24 (one has the Volume 6 Special Edition listed as 7/26 which is the release date for the 7th DVD, but that was probably a mistake). I received one e-mail from an online shopping site that had regular edition of Volume 6 in two weeks ago (I received the e-mail on 5/12 even though their site says the DVD was to be released on 5/24), but that was only for the regular DVD and not the special. The Special was released this past Tuesday on many sites.
Personally, I'm going to wait until July to purchase 6 and 7 so I can watch the last six eps of the Complex series. I wouldn't like it if I watched up to ep 23 then had to wait two months or so for the final three.  That'd be too long of a wait. Maybe we'll get lucky and the final DVD will be released early as well.
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Dagwood
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, that would be great.
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Dagwood
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Edit: Double Post
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slickwataris
 Posts: 1334 Location: Carol Stream, Illinois |
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No one cares about anime, that's why everything is put out in stores before the release dates. The Case Closed starter set for example was out in Best Buy a full month before it's street date. The only anime I've seen that hasn't been put out early was the Miyazaki movies.
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Chiroptera Rex
Space Cowboy Posts: 262 Location: The Batcave, Gotham City, Wisconsin. |
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I suppose since Disney has the license to Miyazaki movies, they would tend to stick to the release date. Although that may be changing.
I read an article in the Chicago Tribune which talked about the ten year anniversary of the Megaplexes and the reporter said that the release date for movies from first opening in theatres to making it to the store shelves has gone from six to four and a half months since 1994. I would guess that the licensing companies such as Bandai, Funimation, Geneon, et. al. would still tell the stores when to release the anime, but if they feel it's best to release it before the given date, then they notify the stores to release it. |
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Kazuki-san
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Yes, if they find out about it, which they usually don't, because it's only a few stores that will shelve a title early. (because the stockers just don't care or don't notice) I routinely find titles on the shelf up to a week early at stores such as Best Buy. They've never had a problem selling them to me. The only store that had a title on the shelf that wouldn't sell it to me until street was Fry's Electronics. When they opened our 3rd one not long ago, they had Madlax shelved 2 days before street, and their computer wouldn't let them sell it to me. I, naturally, argued that if it was on the shelf, I should be able to purchase it, but no luck. But really, that happens with all types of DVDs and merchandise period. Studios don't give the go ahead to release something early, just someone at the store screws up or is lazy and puts stuff out before they should. The only reason you get preorders from online stores early is because "shipping time" at it's worst, could possibly take until street to get to you, though it never does. |
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Dagwood
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I went to Best Buy and Target today and neither of them had Wolf's Rain vol. 7. I asked someone at Best Buy if they had it; he checked the computer, the 'stock' room, and the shelf (after I told him I just looked  ) and they don't have a single one in the store. He told me they could be out of stock, but I highly doubt that, they never sell out on the first day. Anime DVD's are (from my experience) around for a couple of days if not weeks before they sell them and have to re-stock. To my point, did anyone pick it up or receive it from a pre-order they had made? Did anyone run into the same problem I'm having? Does anybody have any information about this, has the release been withheld or are stores in my area just incompetent?
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Kruszer
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Yeah, BB had it out a week early here too, I just happened to be there with my friend helping him scope out a laptop computer for himself and was pleasantly surprised. I got the special edition with the T-shirt.
They did that with the Full Metal Panic complete collection and Elfen Lied volume 1 I noticed there as well. I like it, personally because I hate waiting. 
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akitainu
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Before I went back to, and graduated from, school. I worked at music store for almost eight years. Street dates were holy entities that were never to be disobeyed. That is, if they were top level releases. Smaller, independent CDs often slipped in under the radar. I think that is anime now. If Best Buy, Target, Wal-mart etc. were selling the latest "blockbuster" title early, studios would be howling from the sky in retribution. The latest anime disc doesn't incur that wrath. I now buy all my anime from an online retailer. The norm is having the DVD in my hand 2-3 weeks before the release date. I like the present better than those long Monday nights putting out new releases.
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