I remember my first box. I was soooo nervous. Awkward. But when I got the hang of it, I was off to the races. Couldn't get enough. It smelled so good. My friends used to tease me at work, telling me that I wasn't supposed to try to wear it .... but try it on from time to time. Those were the days!
I was 11 when Hellraiser came out. From the first time I saw the trailer, i knew i was going to fall in love with this film... and then Hellbound was released. I was obsessed for years in both films (only).
I think the best part of this review is that for each box, no matter how much you enjoy the lore or are passerby... you legitimately want the reviewer to stop fondling the damn cubes.
There is a vid on TH-cam. And the original artist tells how he made the originals for film. 3×3 wood box and he tells the colors of stain he used.What the designs mean.And how he laid the brass etchings on and the clear.But your on your own to get the brass inlay designs manufactured. Its 3in × 3in for a reason.
You can get the etched panels at a couple places if you want to assemble one yourself. Hellraiserbox.net has some for sale: www.hellraiserbox.net/panels_13.htm
Seth Skorkowsky Thank you. I have seen schematics printed,but the weren't the original designs.They didn't have the Beautiful Woman or the man and surgical torture tool design. Thanks again for the link .I will check it out. If I am going this far,I might as well make it a real puzzle box. I need to meet the Frenchman.Or Engineer if necessary.
I know this is kinda late but there is a guy by the name of tim something, cant remember but he may still offer them. etched through, and not expensive at all even being mailed from Australia.
This video is perfect. I always wanted a puzzle box that was as accurate as possible. Now I know exactly where to look. Years ago, I ordered one from Johnson Smith catalog. It was that same kit with 6 plastic panels to make a hollow box. Disappointing. Thanks for giving all the links. ✌❤
Hey, Seth, I just wanted to say that I've been visiting the pyramid gallery website since like 2009, and it's so cool that you have stuff from them. Also, I'm running a Hellraiser inspired dread one-shot with a bunch of new players next month, and that's how I came across this video. You've been THE inspiration for me all this years since I started DMing, so, thank you for that, and I guess I have also to wish you a Merry Christmas and a VERY Happy New Year.
Only just stumbled across this video coming from your Call of Cthulhu reviews/overviews (great stuff, thanks for those!). I wanted to drop a note regarding the Scribe Configuration (because I felt very proud of myself for noticing), the Eye of Ra/Horus panel is marked with Cuneiform, the written language of Sumerians and Babylonians. I can't read them, yet, but I'll check back in a few months and see what trouble we can't kick up reading them out loud. I guess we can be thankful that, "It is not *hands* that summon us; it is *desire* ."
I have a full size Austrian crystal Lament Configuration with gold leaf panels. I keep it under a glass dome like the doctor in the 2nd movie. I also have a solid aluminum model in a diamond ♦️ or Leviathan Configuration. Both were bought so long ago that I don't remember who made them.
Holy crap, that crystal one sounds awesome. I know Hellraiserbox.net makes Leviathans, but not aluminum that I'm aware. It's been on my shortlist of future acquisitions for a while.
I think it would be awesome for someone to create a Hellraiser puzzle box from one of those new shashibo puzzle boxes. They actually are really cool puzzles that move and transform into different shapes.
About your comment about the solid metal having no wood showing thru (and too intricate to cut away): If it were designed in such a way where the patterns connect (think of peninsulas instead of islands), the metal could have been printed with ink, then the metal (not covered with the ink) gets etched away via acid bath. That is how circuit boards are created (once worked in a CB factory myself). It would add extra expense to the process though.
Norfok's box now comes with a stand with a BIGGER hole to hold the box with a wider grip, besides, they also come with a square stand which is like a table for the box to sit on ( come in white wood_
Growing up I really probably should not have watched that movie or series between 8 and 10 years old maybe that's what's wrong with me lol. But there was really no good example or copy of the Lament other than six plastic cheap panels you had to glue together. I actually got a very nice one from eBay that can be moved into another figuration. These are beautiful though. I really like his last example though. *So very interested in that craftsmanship I went to get the one the last one you showcased and it's over 600 USD lol well worth it I could swing that without breaking a sweat but that shows me your commitment to the film to the story and the box. Thank you for all the links this is great like I said I got one on eBay I'm happy with it but it's nowhere near perfection like that and it gave me this IDK I guess it filled a hole that was there because they did not have anything close to these boxes they have nowadays. I really like that move one box I'm going to have to pick one up get a nice case to keep it in the ornate work on top of the mechanism it's just flawless.
I've got one but it's the one with the plastic pieces that you have to put together and it's hollow inside of course is a pain in the ass to keep together
It would be easy to photo the music with a phone camera and blow it up to send to anyone who plays piano to have it played to you. It would be probably a phrase from the movie.
I stumbled across this while watching your call of cthulhu videos and I was honestly curious if you had ever ran a hellraiser scenario? The reason I'm asking is that I'm currently writing a scenario where you get a group of investigators who have been linked through the contact of various puzzle boxes through out the years. I had planned to let my players describe to me the puzzle box/various Hell portal items(examples being:snow globe ,music box etc.) from their past, as well as describing to me the demon/cenobite that came for them.
I've written one, but never run it. It was going to involve the PCs learning their private investigator friend is missing. They look into his last job and it's a missing person's case about Captain Spencer. After some digging one of the PCs awakens to see their friend, now skinless, write "Help me I'm in hell" on the wall in blood before vanishing. The case would take them to the Pyramid Gallery in NYC, a weird sadomasochistic sex cult, and eventually into hell. One day I'll get to run it.
the black ends, in the movie were the end grain of the wooden cubes, with antiqued mahogany stain over mahogany, from what ed said (guy who released the panel designs from simon,) that it was chosen due to it's lack of warping, thus best wood for making the moving boxes. so they used it for all of them, I find it interesting that for the book a solid ominous black cube worked well, but in movie form it would not really work for most people, so they changed it up for the brass and wood design. :) Also I see you don't have a diamond of leviathan, or any of the lament diamond's from the partial transformation? That on the list to get next time you can add to the collection?
I'm a bit worried at this point I ordered the Lament Configuration Box of sorrows music box and have received nothing on order confirmation sigh was $200.00
I had the same thing happen to me many years ago when I ordered the Hollow Heart one from the Pyramid Gallery (here seen in the video) and I also never gotten it. Sending e-mail and all was just not responded to.
Neat. This made me look up a set of things I've wanted forever: the Planet Krypton Green Lantern replica ring set. Unfortunately, it was a limited edition and is now going for half the price. Someday maybe ...
Fun fact: the original short story had a completely blank puzzle box with no designs. It was only the blood covering the box that helped the original person solve the puzzle. Then, when the cenobites showed up and revealed their true nature, the puzzle solver had to solve the puzzle again to send them back, but the cenobites cleaned the box before giving it back, making solving it a lot harder.
Wow looked at the hellraiser.net site and almost fell of my chair. Expensive stuff but it was also the 5-10 month lead time on them. Which is crazy. Still thinking about it mind you
They are very attractive, but my only complaint (and it's a minor one) is that some of the designs seem very flat. The designs should be raised above the dark background.
Hey heads up if you get ahold of a real one, you can easily (but expensively) check it to see if it's real. An actual functional hell portal puzzlebox will NOT let you photograph it, coincidentally your camera will always break or malfunction or there will be a factory defect in the film. You simply cannot produce a 1 to 1 photographic depiction of a real box. The one exception to this is a Polaroid camera. The camera still breaks (quite dramatically in some cases) but the photo survives, and then the photo can be scanned or copied or whatever as usual.
What is the box that has 6 plastic panels to glue together? I have one, and left 1 unglued to have a sliding lid, but lost the lid. 😥 I need a new one if anyone has any idea of the brand name or maker or links for it.
They're not all mine on the pyramid gallery, just several of them... The hollow Heart is one of mine though :) steelgohst.deviantart.com/art/The-Hollow-Heart-47790458
I am interested in a fixed box. From a fit and finish perspective, do you think the boxes from thepuzzleboxmaker or hellraiserbox.net are better quality? Thanks
But oh do I wish for the final successor of pinhead they bring back the original pinhead and all these boxes to reveal each person who the box belongs too and Leviathan decides which successor and box gains hell
I was rather unhappy with my pyramid gallery box ...the flat metal panels slightly cutting off design of the edges and the wobbly non perfectly centered music box winding mechanism always bothered me.
Where do you get these? I’ve been looking everywhere but can only find tin boxes with stickers on it, I use it as a demented candy box. Please comment. Thanks 🙏
Many years ago, I bought one of the resin kits from Screamin, but I've never put it together. For a cheap kit, it WOULD look nice, if they hadn't screwed up the gold plating on a couple of the sides. Some of the sides look very nice and a couple of them, the plating was put on so heavily that it filled in all the small holes in the design. I can also see bit of it flaying off in the bag. I couldn't think of a good way to remove the excess, so it's just sat on the shelf since I bought it. :( As for the Lament Configuration, the easiest way to tell if the top and bottom are unique is to look at the lines across the four points in the center circles. If the panels are unique, the lines on one side will go straight across each of the points and the lines on the other will be at a slight angle, like the threads of a screw.
The music score on the omega facets may be the Hungarian Suicide Song--a genuine artiicle and a curiosity in the world of musical composition. Check it out!
Your collection is lovely. I wish I could afford some of the really expensive looking ones like yours but also they are hard to get in england. I have 2 working lament configurations, one static wooden one but unlike yours it is hollow, a copy of the Leviathan configuration based on that of Hellraiser 2, One as a rubix cube based on the Hellraiser 3 configuration, 4 homemade in varying different styles and quality as I like to experiment, one box with only the top patterned in the style deplicting the schetrum of the vamacharins and have just ordered a second hand lament box which has yet to arrive. Do you have any advice on good versions that are in affordable range or purchasable in england to add to my collection?
ONE STAR. Product contained demons which abducted me to their realm and tortured me with hooks. Would not buy again.
JBTechCon were you sent a free box for this honest review?
NO TEARS PLEASE
...... IT'S A WASTE OF GOOD SUFFERING
That's hilarious , no refunds , because it was always yours.
Didn't it have a warning label?
*Same review, but* 10/10, would do again.
Why don't they sell blood drenched mattresses? Another fine memorabilia from Hellbound.
Make your own at home.
I love Clive Barker!
As should everyone :-)
I would be so proud if my husband had all those boxes, they´re so cool, I want one so bad!
I like em all but the last one is the main headliner!
👍✌🏼👌🏼
Very cool !
I remember my first box. I was soooo nervous. Awkward. But when I got the hang of it, I was off to the races. Couldn't get enough. It smelled so good.
My friends used to tease me at work, telling me that I wasn't supposed to try to wear it .... but try it on from time to time. Those were the days!
I was 11 when Hellraiser came out. From the first time I saw the trailer, i knew i was going to fall in love with this film... and then Hellbound was released. I was obsessed for years in both films (only).
0:52
Oh your suffering will be legendary my friend.
I think the best part of this review is that for each box, no matter how much you enjoy the lore or are passerby... you legitimately want the reviewer to stop fondling the damn cubes.
I kept thinking STOP RUBBING THEM YOU'RE GOING TO OPEN UP THE GATES OF HELL!
Some Person He already has for his own self.
You opened the box; we came.
No, I don't
I'm definitely going with the Norfok boxes. Starting with the solid box and, when the money permits, the moving boxes. Thanks.
✌&❤
you opened it we came!
I hope you cleaned up the mess you made.
There is a vid on TH-cam. And the original artist tells how he made the originals for film.
3×3 wood box and he tells the colors of stain he used.What the designs mean.And how he laid the brass etchings on and the clear.But your on your own to get the brass inlay designs manufactured.
Its 3in × 3in for a reason.
You can get the etched panels at a couple places if you want to assemble one yourself.
Hellraiserbox.net has some for sale: www.hellraiserbox.net/panels_13.htm
Seth Skorkowsky
Thank you.
I have seen schematics printed,but the weren't the original designs.They didn't have the Beautiful Woman or the man and surgical torture tool design.
Thanks again for the link .I will check it out.
If I am going this far,I might as well make it a real puzzle box.
I need to meet the Frenchman.Or Engineer if necessary.
I know this is kinda late but there is a guy by the name of tim something, cant remember but he may still offer them. etched through, and not expensive at all even being mailed from Australia.
'Toymaker with Simon Sayce'. It's from a documentary: 'Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser'.
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This video is perfect. I always wanted a puzzle box that was as accurate as possible. Now I know exactly where to look. Years ago, I ordered one from Johnson Smith catalog. It was that same kit with 6 plastic panels to make a hollow box. Disappointing. Thanks for giving all the links.
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As a person who's planning to buy a puzzle box, this is a super useful video. Thank you!
Great collection. I’ve owned all three before. I could only keep one and kept the one from Norfolk. His craftsmanship is top shelf.
Lovely collection. I always liked the leviathan form. Still trying to get my hands on one of those.
I wouldn't fuck around with those things, could you imagine
For years I have been telling myself I’ve got to get one of these boxes, I don’t know what has stopped me.
Hey, Seth, I just wanted to say that I've been visiting the pyramid gallery website since like 2009, and it's so cool that you have stuff from them.
Also, I'm running a Hellraiser inspired dread one-shot with a bunch of new players next month, and that's how I came across this video.
You've been THE inspiration for me all this years since I started DMing, so, thank you for that, and I guess I have also to wish you a Merry Christmas and a VERY Happy New Year.
Only just stumbled across this video coming from your Call of Cthulhu reviews/overviews (great stuff, thanks for those!).
I wanted to drop a note regarding the Scribe Configuration (because I felt very proud of myself for noticing), the Eye of Ra/Horus panel is marked with Cuneiform, the written language of Sumerians and Babylonians. I can't read them, yet, but I'll check back in a few months and see what trouble we can't kick up reading them out loud.
I guess we can be thankful that, "It is not *hands* that summon us; it is *desire* ."
Do you have the knowledge to translate? I'm very curious.
I have a full size Austrian crystal Lament Configuration with gold leaf panels. I keep it under a glass dome like the doctor in the 2nd movie. I also have a solid aluminum model in a diamond ♦️ or Leviathan Configuration. Both were bought so long ago that I don't remember who made them.
Holy crap, that crystal one sounds awesome. I know Hellraiserbox.net makes Leviathans, but not aluminum that I'm aware. It's been on my shortlist of future acquisitions for a while.
Wish there was some way to post a pic.
I'm so very jelly of you right now!
jelly?
Kim Moreels 🙄 jealous. I can’t spell jealous so I have to write jelly.
the box, you opened it, we came
You should keep them in glass domes like in the one movie
They are good and the last one is brilliant - but £569!!!! Is crazy expensive.
I think it would be awesome for someone to create a Hellraiser puzzle box from one of those new shashibo puzzle boxes. They actually are really cool puzzles that move and transform into different shapes.
I just bought the Lament Configuration "an actual puzzle box "The Grip". It was a challenge to open,
About your comment about the solid metal having no wood showing thru (and too intricate to cut away): If it were designed in such a way where the patterns connect (think of peninsulas instead of islands), the metal could have been printed with ink, then the metal (not covered with the ink) gets etched away via acid bath. That is how circuit boards are created (once worked in a CB factory myself).
It would add extra expense to the process though.
Norfok's box now comes with a stand with a BIGGER hole to hold the box with a wider grip, besides, they also come with a square stand which is like a table for the box to sit on ( come in white wood_
“What’s your pleasure Mr. Skorkowsky?”
Great! You still need the Rubik one, from Mezco.
You should put the heavy side down on the good lament in the small wooden lament holder
The music is the hellraiser main theme by christopher young
Growing up I really probably should not have watched that movie or series between 8 and 10 years old maybe that's what's wrong with me lol. But there was really no good example or copy of the Lament other than six plastic cheap panels you had to glue together. I actually got a very nice one from eBay that can be moved into another figuration. These are beautiful though. I really like his last example though. *So very interested in that craftsmanship I went to get the one the last one you showcased and it's over 600 USD lol well worth it I could swing that without breaking a sweat but that shows me your commitment to the film to the story and the box. Thank you for all the links this is great like I said I got one on eBay I'm happy with it but it's nowhere near perfection like that and it gave me this IDK I guess it filled a hole that was there because they did not have anything close to these boxes they have nowadays. I really like that move one box I'm going to have to pick one up get a nice case to keep it in the ornate work on top of the mechanism it's just flawless.
I've just got back with the star cube😇
I've got one but it's the one with the plastic pieces that you have to put together and it's hollow inside of course is a pain in the ass to keep together
It would be easy to photo the music with a phone camera and blow it up to send to anyone who plays piano to have it played to you. It would be probably a phrase from the movie.
If the first one wasn't so expensive I would love to buy one of those!
Thanks for this, very useful!
On a sidenote: I thought I was listening to Belethor in a relaxed state.
The music is the music box diddy that plays when the box opens in the movie
I stumbled across this while watching your call of cthulhu videos and I was honestly curious if you had ever ran a hellraiser scenario? The reason I'm asking is that I'm currently writing a scenario where you get a group of investigators who have been linked through the contact of various puzzle boxes through out the years. I had planned to let my players describe to me the puzzle box/various Hell portal items(examples being:snow globe ,music box etc.) from their past, as well as describing to me the demon/cenobite that came for them.
I've written one, but never run it. It was going to involve the PCs learning their private investigator friend is missing. They look into his last job and it's a missing person's case about Captain Spencer. After some digging one of the PCs awakens to see their friend, now skinless, write "Help me I'm in hell" on the wall in blood before vanishing. The case would take them to the Pyramid Gallery in NYC, a weird sadomasochistic sex cult, and eventually into hell. One day I'll get to run it.
Would love to own any if these! Also would love to plug the music into a D.A.W. And know what it sounds like!
the black ends, in the movie were the end grain of the wooden cubes, with antiqued mahogany stain over mahogany, from what ed said (guy who released the panel designs from simon,) that it was chosen due to it's lack of warping, thus best wood for making the moving boxes. so they used it for all of them, I find it interesting that for the book a solid ominous black cube worked well, but in movie form it would not really work for most people, so they changed it up for the brass and wood design. :) Also I see you don't have a diamond of leviathan, or any of the lament diamond's from the partial transformation? That on the list to get next time you can add to the collection?
You could make your own mount for the one that's so fragile.
3:41 *faint music note*
Me: ......
uh oh.
I really like the movable ones
Nice collection 👍
I'm a bit worried at this point I ordered the Lament Configuration Box of sorrows music box and have received nothing on order confirmation sigh was $200.00
I had the same thing happen to me many years ago when I ordered the Hollow Heart one from the Pyramid Gallery (here seen in the video) and I also never gotten it. Sending e-mail and all was just not responded to.
Is the pyramid-gallery still opened? I found the page but no mention to where to purchase the boxes. I really want to purchase the musical one.
What is your overall favorite reproduction? By that I mean if you could only recommend one which would it be?
I love the moving one.. not 600+ though
crazy art work
The difficult part of crafting a Lament Configuration is getting the Cenobites to stay in character.
I want to hear the music
Good stuff. thanks for sharing.
Amazing 👍🏻👍🏻
Neat. This made me look up a set of things I've wanted forever: the Planet Krypton Green Lantern replica ring set. Unfortunately, it was a limited edition and is now going for half the price. Someday maybe ...
Patience, Ebay, and a hefty dose of luck sounds like my prescription to that :-)
The last one is pretty cool, it's no €549 though. And I wouldn't pay any more then 20$ for a static one. yet most of them look to be almost $200+
Fun fact: the original short story had a completely blank puzzle box with no designs. It was only the blood covering the box that helped the original person solve the puzzle. Then, when the cenobites showed up and revealed their true nature, the puzzle solver had to solve the puzzle again to send them back, but the cenobites cleaned the box before giving it back, making solving it a lot harder.
But those boxes are fake. Where's the real lament configuration? Where can I order that one?
I have the plastic one that you have to build... It's not great and you can see threw it. I'd love to have the classic one.
It would be very easy to make your own stand. And use the plastic as a template
It shouldn't be too difficult, providing the skills and tools to do it.
I saw one probably in s steal with a slavic circle.
Just looking at prices - the movable one is 550 bucks!! plus shipping!!
$675 for the Moveable Pyramid & Star, wholly shite. lol Looks absolutely astounding though.
very cool! Thanks for the post
Great vid. Should’ve had a price breakdown for each piece.
Wow looked at the hellraiser.net site and almost fell of my chair. Expensive stuff but it was also the 5-10 month lead time on them. Which is crazy.
Still thinking about it mind you
Are any of them actually puzzles or just boxes?
Nice ,il be sure to not be around you when any of that opens lol
They are very attractive, but my only complaint (and it's a minor one) is that some of the designs seem very flat. The designs should be raised above the dark background.
Can you make another video talking about the pyramid movable box?
Hey heads up if you get ahold of a real one, you can easily (but expensively) check it to see if it's real. An actual functional hell portal puzzlebox will NOT let you photograph it, coincidentally your camera will always break or malfunction or there will be a factory defect in the film. You simply cannot produce a 1 to 1 photographic depiction of a real box. The one exception to this is a Polaroid camera. The camera still breaks (quite dramatically in some cases) but the photo survives, and then the photo can be scanned or copied or whatever as usual.
What is the box that has 6 plastic panels to glue together? I have one, and left 1 unglued to have a sliding lid, but lost the lid. 😥 I need a new one if anyone has any idea of the brand name or maker or links for it.
What about the puzzle orb from Fornicus in Cabin in the Woods? Do you have that?
How do you get them to open. I bought one but don't know how to open it. I also fear once I do Pinhead will show up 🤣💯
Can you get one with a photo Paul t hunter photo instead of doug Bradley.
So if i wanted to have a good wooden original lament configuration, non movable, would you go for thepuzzleboxmaker or the Norfok one?
NIce I want them all !
Found one on ebay im ordering....
Let me know if you meet Pinhead
@@acash93 fact that he never replied,,,,,is enough to tell you what happened next.....
The guy on the photo played pinhead in all the movies x
I want a working one ...
The artist for pyramid company is steel gohst , here is his deviant art page
steelgohst.deviantart.com/
They're not all mine on the pyramid gallery, just several of them... The hollow Heart is one of mine though :) steelgohst.deviantart.com/art/The-Hollow-Heart-47790458
My mistake. I love your work and your storytelling behind the boxes you've created!
I am interested in a fixed box. From a fit and finish perspective, do you think the boxes from thepuzzleboxmaker or hellraiserbox.net are better quality? Thanks
I'd be curious if you had any bad luck after purchasing any of these items?
Anybody know where I can get a Keychain version of this for my roku remote
But oh do I wish for the final successor of pinhead they bring back the original pinhead and all these boxes to reveal each person who the box belongs too and Leviathan decides which successor and box gains hell
I was rather unhappy with my pyramid gallery box ...the flat metal panels slightly cutting off design of the edges and the wobbly non perfectly centered music box winding mechanism always bothered me.
I was watching them when I was 7
Where do you get these? I’ve been looking everywhere but can only find tin boxes with stickers on it, I use it as a demented candy box. Please comment. Thanks 🙏
How did you get the other boxes?
can anyone explain to me why is there an omhs law symbol on the side of that puzzle box 12:46?
I’ll pass did that book come along with it?
Many years ago, I bought one of the resin kits from Screamin, but I've never put it together. For a cheap kit, it WOULD look nice, if they hadn't screwed up the gold plating on a couple of the sides. Some of the sides look very nice and a couple of them, the plating was put on so heavily that it filled in all the small holes in the design. I can also see bit of it flaying off in the bag. I couldn't think of a good way to remove the excess, so it's just sat on the shelf since I bought it. :(
As for the Lament Configuration, the easiest way to tell if the top and bottom are unique is to look at the lines across the four points in the center circles. If the panels are unique, the lines on one side will go straight across each of the points and the lines on the other will be at a slight angle, like the threads of a screw.
The music score on the omega facets may be the Hungarian Suicide Song--a genuine artiicle and a curiosity in the world of musical composition. Check it out!
I'm feeling nervous watching the boxes in your hands... expecting hooks and chains to come out of them...
I read all of the comments... why...
Wait.. why is Elliot Spencer floating in front of the clouds in that picture? Am I really the only one seeing this??
Imagine you accidentally make pinhead appear when one of those cheesy plastic ones turn out to be the real one
Was your preasure su
Your collection is lovely. I wish I could afford some of the really expensive looking ones like yours but also they are hard to get in england. I have 2 working lament configurations, one static wooden one but unlike yours it is hollow, a copy of the Leviathan configuration based on that of Hellraiser 2, One as a rubix cube based on the Hellraiser 3 configuration, 4 homemade in varying different styles and quality as I like to experiment, one box with only the top patterned in the style deplicting the schetrum of the vamacharins and have just ordered a second hand lament box which has yet to arrive. Do you have any advice on good versions that are in affordable range or purchasable in england to add to my collection?