Harry Potter Films Locked in Gringotts Vault
If you’re missing any copies from the Harry Potter film series, better ask for them this holiday season. Clearly that’s what Warner Bros. wants you to do, because they’ve ensured you won’t be seeing copies of those DVDs and Blue-Ray Discs again for quite some time.
ALL HARRY POTTER FILMS WILL BE LOCKED IN THE W.B. VAULT AFTER DECEMBER 29, 2011.
(cue the folks at Disney pouting over W.B. stealing their idea)
This is how you milk the cash cow, ladies and gentlemuggles: You pull all the widely distributed and vastly popular films off the shelves to tip supply and demand in your favor, then in a year or two you release a Super Awesome Splediferic DVD set, which becomes the only way to buy the films. Oh yeah, and charge a few hundred dollars for it.
Cha-ching!
As someone who doesn’t own a single Harry Potter film (I just borrow from others or turn on HBO – it’s always on HBO), this leaves me in a bit of a predicament. Do I stock up on the 8-film series now, or do I wait until they come out in a Super Grand Supreme box set?
It's about to become a lot more difficult to get that copy of "Sorcerer's Stone" your film collection is missing
What about people who already own the other films? Are they even interested in throwing down however many galleons for the Super Duper Ta-Da Whoopee box set?
Is it worth the investment to see little Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson become teenage Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, and eventually young adult Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, set to a John William score and complimented by praising interviews with J.K. Rowling, British film royalty, and a bunch of dudes named David?
Cause that’s what you’re probably going to get.
But it all goes back to supply and demand. By removing the supply, W.B. is creating demand for something that otherwise may lose its commercial thunder.
So what do you think? Will you stock up on Harry Potter films before December 29th or wait until the vault is reopened?
And do you think standing outside W.B. studios speaking in parseltongue, with a small child dressed as a goblin, will release the films from the vault any faster?
I have all but part 2 on Blu-Ray so I’m not worried about this. I do plan on getting part 2 soon after it comes out so well before December 29th
Ditto Chaos Mandy–I’ll bet most fans already have all but the last film. My issue is that the non-Blu-Ray DVDs don’t have any extra features. (We still own and sometimes use a VCR, so don’t expect us to shell out for Blu-Ray anytime soon!)
However, if I were in your shoes, I would consider holding off to purchase the Super Magical Wishbox of HP Movies in a few years. I mean, if you can survive ’til then on borrowed copies and HBO, and you think it’ll fit your budget, it would probably be worth it for the convenience, consistency and all the extra goodies. They might even package it with figurines or wands or something.
I have all but DH-2, but only DH-1 on Blue Ray. The news of DH-2 coming out was buzzed around at Church, Sunday — among the 60+ aged ladies I was sitting with… We are all such great fans!
Lucky for me, this move seems to apply only to those fans living in the United States.
I am going to wait^^ I don’t any of the films and would like to have all the extra in one box if I am to buy them.
I like the movies but it is the books I am fans of
I’ll have all the movie dvds by Friday. A couple of blu-ray counterparts. And all digital copies of the movies. I think I’m set.
If it is true that this only applies to the US, then I’ll be fine ordering from an online store from some other country. No biggie.
It is annoying and pretty obvious what they are doing, but unless the future box sets are ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY amazing…then they won’t be getting my money. ^_^
It might not apply to “just US” but the whole format for US and English speaking countries. Our daughter brought home some DVDs from Poland which uses a different format.
My information regarding US only came from the Leaky Cauldron. I hope they’re right.
We have all of the HP DVDs & the last DVD included the Blu-Ray & we will purchase the 2nd half on Friday in the pack w/Blu Ray…….so we have all the DVDs and including a couple VCRs too. They are hidden in a special place so our adult kids and grandkids can’t find them – - they are mine, mine, mine!!! Oh, I mean ours, hubby and me!!! My hardbound books are also tucked away – no way they will find the HP goodies, they might run off with them!!!
Since Philosopher’s Stone first came out on VHS, I’ve bought the films as they came out. Harry Potter is the best thing I could possibly grow up with. So with the first 3 on VHS and the other 3 on DVD, You best believe it’s worth it for me to get the last 2 films on DVD before 29 de diciembre. :p
Ever since the first movie I’ve said, “I’m going to wait for all of them and then buy the awesome box set.” So this is killing me. I’ve waited since day one and now I might have to wait longer just to get the box set that I want?! I might just cave in and get the 8 disc set that’s out now, since there are no copies of the movie in my household.
Diagonally ROCKS!
That was really random!