Also, all four episodes from Volume XIV are now available on iTunes:
103- Mad Monster
413- Manhunt in Space
1001- Soultaker
1008- Final Justice
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XV Cover Art and XIV on iTunesHere’s the cover art for Volume XV.
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Wow, I’m overwhelmed by the creativity…
So Shout is going for a unified look in their box covers. Sure it lacks creativity, but they also have four additional covers inside for each of the episodes, and those have been excellent so far. In all Shout’s packaging is FAR superior to the horrible designs pooped out by the Rhino in house designers who obviously had no interest in the show, and no interest in doing even a tiny ammount of research about it. The single disc releases were just kind of boring and generic looking, but at least they used actual episode based imagery on the covers. The first few Rhino box set package designs were okay (the first was pretty good actually), but they soon became nothing but a mass of jumbled stock images poorly photo-shopped together into designs that had little to nothing to do with the episodes in the set or the show at all. And besides them being conceptual failures they were poorly done as well. The Shout Factory box design concepts might be a little bland and repetitive, but they are well done, and look very professional. And since the individual cover designs make up for that in the creativity department I don’t mind having this outer box look so similar to that of XIV. Besides the spine design of XIV looks SO much cooler on a shelf than all those horrible Rhino sets with their nearly unreadable from a distance of more than one foot, and terribly generic looking “sci-fi-y” style font choice.
The package creativity I can live without but what I do sorta miss is the chapter selections. Those, besides being handy, often had a nice title for each chapter that fit the content. I don’t know why but I’m mildly attached to that.
HOWEVER,
ULTIMATELY I DO NOT CARE IF THEY WILL JUST KEEP UP THE RELEASE PACE.
i’m late to the game but i still can’t understand the out-and-out hatred that many MST3K folk still seem to hold toward Rhino (in terms of packaging and just about everything else). i’ve got most of their sets and most of the individual episodes they’ve offered and have had no problems (and am not bothered by their packaging choices). haven’t bought a Shout collection yet. maybe they’re somehow vastly superior.
Why is 509 listed before 102?
#55, my first guess is because “Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy”‘s title is too long for the first ‘brushstroke’, but “Girl In Lover’s Lane”‘s title is pretty long too.
Don’t really care what the cover looks like in general, but I have no issues with this anyway. It’s the contents!
I’m ok with the lackluster effort on the cover. I just wish shout would put the chapter navigation feature on the disks.
I like it. Simple and uniform. It works perfectly well, especially since the individual cases have the nifty episode-specific covers.
Overall, I think Shout! Factory has improved upon what Rhino did, especially in the packaging.
I just wonder: Do we have to wait for the 25th anniversary to get another limited edition tin box w/ a Tom Servo figure?
I’ll chime in here wishing for a chapter menu screen, and chapter markers that make sense. Sometimes I like to watch the movie without the opening sequence, but the chapter breaks aren’t arranged that way.
Not that it’s a big deal.
Supposedly, Shout! has fixed the chapter break issues, and they will be set up the same as the Rhino releases starting with Volume XV.