Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-Ray Box Set: Worth the Price, or Total Rip-Off?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- LET'S DO THE MATH! The Middle Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition set sure looks nice. I review the details of the gift set and offer some advice to fans on the fence about purchasing.
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The only way I would buy this for $800 is:
Theatrical and extended version of Lotr
Extended version of hobbit
One ring replica
Blue ray and DVD version of both trilogies
All bts
Includes the deleted scenes and the unseen scenes in the actual trilogy that have never been seen before and edited
Lotr and hobbit poster
Bilbo's red book
Map if middle earth
Fun video, but, this is all moot because the set is $499 now.
Truthfully, I like this set very much. Yes, the price sucks, and yes it's far from ultimate. But, I rather love the new leather bound movie books and the extra fluff. So, you buy this for $500, then sell the other sets you already own (and I know many of you double and triple dipped), keep whatever is not on this release, and then you truly have it all. And in the end, you only would be paying maybe $250 for the set, which I think is well worth it.
-UJ (and no, I don't work for Warner Brothers!)
Why stop there? Why not just throw in digital copies of the theatrical cuts, the complete soundtrack CDs for all 6 films, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, a flash drive with pdf files for all the books, a Weta replica of the One Ring, an Eye of Sauron lamp, autographs from all the cast and crew members (and I do mean ALL of them), blueprints for building a real Hobbit hole, a Sting letter opener, every theatrical poster for all 6 movies, every Lord of the Rings video game ever made, Steam download codes for all the games, and the original screenplays for every version of all the movies too?
For $700 I will accept no less than including a goddamn magic ring that turns me invisible!
+John Weber seems reasonable!
Neo Anderson my friend, what your asking for would cost $2000 from wb. Getting the cast to sign it would take a lot of work.
gotchaman80 Or both.
It would be really cool to see custom versions of box sets from other franchises like Star Wars or Harry Potter!
Ironically the day before this was announced I was thinking why haven't they produced a Middle-Earth box set yet. I looks fantastic however if that price of $800 is true it would have to be a pass. I paid £174.99 for my 'Harry Potter Wizard's Collection' so it should be within that price range. It's not listed on Amazon.co.uk so it will be a pass whatever the price is.
For those of you who also hate the price keep it up; they lowed the price by $200.00 :P
If you don't have any of the previous sets, then yeah, it's worth it, but like me who already has all the extended edition sets,
Why borher??
When you mentioned lube I thought you were gonna say your gonna need it since you like getting screwed on overpriced movies. 😂
if this set included the theatrical editions and/or maby ultraviolet editions i still don't think this is worth it. they should be selling this for 2 to 3 hundred dollars. Most fans have most the content in this. I am a supporter of the one ring.net and we unanimously agree this in NOT worth what they want us to pay especialy when you look at the ultimate harry potter special set whitch had loads of cool extras DVD'S and the other items- jewelary, book etc.
Your so right!!! I love the box but the price tag isn't worth it!
For 720$ I'd buy : The Lord of the Rings Hardback 3 volume edition ( 60$)
The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, Beren and Luthien, Tales from the Perilous Realm and the Children of Hurin ( 20$ each, so 120$ in total )
Lotr extended editions on blu ray and DVD
lotr limited editions
The Hobbit extended editions on blu ray and DVD
The soundtracks of both trilogys
Try and get the Minas Tirith model on ebay
Some other Tolkien books and not even close to 720$...
For $800.00 your better off getting a 55' 4K tv with HDR at Fry's ,hell I won't be surprised if they threw in a 4K Blu-ray player with it. Hell even the 4K Blu-rays of these films they release will still be even much cheaper.
$374.99 on Ebay now.
$ 124.98 Doller's is that it would be
I always thought I had no life. Then I saw this. :P And yes it's a ripoff
Actually no I take that back I still have you beat
Hilarious my man! Love the passive aggressiveness. Yes thats a word
The problem with adding the DVDs into the set in case your blu ray player breaks is that you already have them on digital copies which means your probably have an Apple TV or some equivalent.
I don't watch digital copies. I prefer to have my movies in disk form.
I actually like your idea of simply purchasing both theatrical and extended trilogies and ended up following that formula instead. Sure, not as nice looking as this set up, but a better price and frankly with better packaging as the sleeves holding these movies will undoubtedly scratch the discs every time you remove and insert them. I purchased both versions of both trilogies on DVD via Amazon on DVD. I spent about forty on the theatrical editions of both LOTR and TH and about one hundred and thirty on the extended versions (the LOTR extended box set was only running for about sixty dollars on Amazon at the time). I would like to upgrade to BD but have heard that the quality of the LOTR extended editions were not very good transfers, but if anyone here would care to confirm or debunk this I am open to discussing it.
This has got to go down as THE most brain-melting piece of bullshit I have EVER seen in the DVD and blu ray's history, you C A N N O T price this at 800 dollars.....are they fucking insane? Somebody please shoot me down...this is the absolute stupidest film based thing I have seen in my entire life and believe me I have seen some crazy beef in my time :P
Oh yeah, have you seen any of the Wayans Brothers Movies? I would rather have this boxed set shoved up my ass before I'd sit through 1 Wayans Brothers Movie.
That's a lot of money for only 3 movies I like and will watch every 5 years or so while mostly catching snippets on TNT and feeling satisfied for the most part.
yeah BUT the hobbit films in this set are 6 blurays with only 2d: so it's more disc than you get on 3d extended version: here they have 2 disc for the film in 2d + 4 blurays for the bonus on each film.. on extended version 3d you dont get that many bonus discs : it's 5 discs only and it include 3d discs and 2d discs.. sooo obviously there are more stuff here.. I dont give a Beep about the props but the bonus are all I want
You should do another video like this about the Harry Potter Wizard's Collection Box Set
In spite of it having One More Disc than this Set, the Packaging and other Swag at least better justifies its Price.
LOL This video explains it perfectly on why this set is a ripoff.
that who much it would coat's to buy it
Totally epic! It also sounds a heck of a lot like the contents of my Tolkien Junkie bookshelves, although for that you'd need to include all the books about the movies by Brian Sibley and Daniel Falconer as well as hardcovers of all of Tolkien's work; along with that little statue of Gandalf and Bilbo, the BBC audio on cassette tape and CD, a little deck of cards, and a foot-tall Bilbo action figure.
You forgot to add Theatrical versions of the digital copies. $19.99 for LOTR Trilogy and $19.99 for each of the Hobbit movies cuz they didn't bundle that.
my local HMV you can get a copy of the LOTR EE dvd box set for £30 so around $60 so its not even worth the $150 in this vid.
Who do they think they are fooling with that $719 price tag? Their target customer seems to be really hardcore collectors. Yours is the definitive collection, but instead of a shelf, I would buy a Sting replica. I don't care about the DVDs so I would replace them with a One Ring replica. Of course, this is hypothetical, I would never spend that much money even if it was the only way I could get them.
Got it on prime sale for $99 heh
It's now down to 300.
you should have added the VHS tapes!
I approve this comment. I fact, I wish The Hobbit trilogy were on VHS. VHS really needs to make comeback.
plus the digital came with a couple of those even if you don't buy them you'd still probably have extra digital codes
@@curtthegamer934 but y the only reason pepole buy them anymore is because there cheaper
@@pongchannel. I actually like the sound they make, I love the fuzzy picture, and all sorts of things about them. I'd also trust a kid to hold onto a VHS tape, while I have never let anybody borrow my DVDs because I'm afraid of them getting damaged. Really my only problem with VHS is that most of them aren't in the original aspect ratio.
Laserdisc!
The individual box sets only have 15 and 9 discs (LOTR / Hobbit) while in this ultimate set there are 30 discs (18 for LOTR and 12 for Hobbit). So what's on the extra discs?
Didn't expect this video to be this funny but I loved it. Nice work!
The most annoying part is the special features for lotr are still on a dvd. I have the lotr extended trilogy box set and that annoyed me then. Who wants a dvd in a nice set like this
I am so going to get this version.
Tell u the truth I wasn't all that interested in this set not just because it is murderously expensive but they didn't really add anything new to this collection part from the awesome package design
I'm hopin at least for either the 20th or the 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings trilogy will get a supreme omega collector's set that has both the theatrical and extended versions of both trilogies and also most importantly a new retrospective documentary with the entire crew artwork for the Hobbit trilogy which was missing from the extended editions of those movies and above all else they got to put in the deleted scenes that Jackson never bothered to put any of the previous home video releases not to put in the movies themselves but as a separate bonus feature and maybe some other extra tidbits that I can't think of
I'd rather use some of that money to buy tons of epoxy and sculpt some lord of the rings statues and rent a booth at a convention to earn more than enough money to make a small stop motion studio and custom lotr toy shop, complete with dioramas. 😊🙏
I love the video! If anything, you're too kind. Let's face it, anyone potentially interested in this gift set owns several versions of the Hobbit and LOTR trilogies *already*. You are spending $500 (current amazon price) for something you already own, simply in a leatherette case with the mini-shelf and a pretty basic "Art of..." book.
But the animated films were done by a different dictator came be done but that would be a pain
By the way why not pick up 50th anniversary of lord of the rings and the 70th anniversary of the hobbit
$250 would be right
WB has crossed all limits
Here's some more insult to injury though. They could have made each one of the trilogies volumes. I would have rathered them exclude the DVDs all together then the production price point would have been lower. Besides, How many of us already own the DVDs of this shit?! especially the Appendices on six DVDs from the sets back in 2014. Personally I'm not fond of up-conversions as they just blur the picture and my own upscale conversion does a bang up job.
I'm no mathematician either, but two DVD9 = 16 gb A single layer BD is 25. A single BD would have sufficed. Hell Appendices + theatrical would make it a four disk set the way they like.
Totally agree. I didnt want the dvds when they released the blu ray extended versions back in 2011. Its wb being lazy. The special features are the best part of these box sets so i dont want them on a crappy disc
The transfers themselves probably didn't get any upgrades either (see Blu-Ray.com) Nor did WB/New Line bother listening to what videophiles really had to say about the release. Why the 3D cuts aren't on here and why they were cropped for BD release is beyond me. I'm in the minority when it comes to IMAX feature films like TDK. IMAX ratio is 1.44 slightly wider than old Academy ration (fullscreen 1.33). I would have preferred that they actually released the footage at a 1.66 European standard rather than 1.78 (16/9). The balance between the two if you are going to crop a film back to the stone ages is pivotal for cinematic preservation.
While most people don't have 3D TVs, having the 3Ds sets is a must in this collection. Then if they had fixed the price tag and included the the theatrical cuts as well then we might be interested. But Riggers are flocking for the sets regardless. If you've never bought the sets at all like me then it's something to considered. But NOT at 600 how Amazon has it listed now. Better off buying the used sets off Amazon and Ebay of the old DVD sets then get your book ends that way. Not to mention the Golum statue, book DVD that came with it.
It's WB, so there is the answer. Yes, they are lazy.
6:14 $602.65 actually.
8:19 $816.96 You went higher than the initial price.
I feel bad for the US, even with the adjusted price to $499 that's still steep.
In the UK and Europe the price is €/£250
i just wanted to know, does the language in the books/maps in english? i'm asking because it is cheaper and somewhat reasonable to get from europe especially during sale
Muhaimin Ibrahim That's a good question...
I know the UK copy will be English, at least on Amazon UK. Don't know about the others.
Rip-off.
No thanks. I’ve got my lotr blu ray box set signed by Richard Taylor.
The old 6-Disc gift set of the theatrical lotr trilogy had different bonus features which were included in the ultimate set. Also, the theatrical Hobbit is in 3D too.
imagina no Brasil chega fácil R$2000
Thanks! Great video! This is, to answer your question, a total rip-off.
The price is now 500,00
blu ray and dvd reviews well here in korea this one cost about $110 or ₩130.000
Captain star-lord reviews Now it's $300
Captain star-lord reviews still way to much
Now it is $719.99...MAKE UP YOUR DAM MIND AMAZON
General Question:
Do you try to get blurays that contain a digital copies? My reason is bc like if I sub to Netflix, if they lose a show or go out of business, I know that I will lose access to media that I dont actually own. But with bluray and digital, I own at least one copies and one that I can watch online dependent on that they remain an business online.
Buy it, copy all the discs to a Large hard drive send it back, get your money back-Bingo you got it for Free.
For that you can buy the regular editions. Otherwise it would be idiotic.
This boxset it about the packaging anyway :D So, you can't download a shelf^^
...yet... ;)
Got mine for $256.80 on eBay as a Christmas Gift from my mom not a bad deal tho
A 10 minute video for an answer that takes 2 seconds to come up with... No.
$800 you got screwed dude, they've had it for as low as $350
What about the Ultimate edition that Peter Jackson said he was going to release that was going to include bloopers and unseen deleted scenes?
bohenmerchant1 I've heard rumors about a lot of unreleased stuff that was going to specifically be out on the 25th anniversary edition of LOTR so if we are going by ROTK then that will come out in 2028.
Forgot art from the movies.
hahahahaha awesome video man just awesome :D
What about the artwork?
😂
It should've been at the most $400
In a video a saw that super box edition for 300€.
oh my god, totally ripout
Your hilarious,love it! Lol
This video is so funny
Instead of the Regular Blu-Ray Trilogy of The Hobbit Theatrical Cuts, why not get the 3D Blu-Ray Trilogy instead? This way, you can have a choice between the Theatrical and Extended Cuts to watch in 3D. You also need to include The Art Of The Hobbit Book & Digital Copies of the Theatrical Cuts too. Other than that, your Solution is pretty Ideal for the Middle-Earth Super-Fan.
👏👏👏
I know I’m in the minority here but I actually like the first two Hobbit movies almost as much, if not just as much as the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I really think that Five Armies is just not good.
Funny
The 6 extended films alone costs 100 pounds your pretty much paying the extra 700 for the fancy packaging