Rhino tells us the single-disk version of episode 402- THE GIANT GILA MONSTER will be available only at rhino.com for a price of–get this: $7.98 (cheap!). Our source also tells us it will only be available for a limited time (essentially until the limited pressing runs out–although we were also told that if sales are really strong initially, they may do a second pressing).
UPDATE 1: We can now confirm this report, which says that Dr. Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) and TV’s Frank (Frank Conniff) are also in the “Message from Joel” and that Tom Servo and Crow also have speaking roles.
And for those who did want a true replacement for the previous disk, we’re told the “Photo Gallery” (featuring a collection of historic Best Brains still photos)–which was included on the old Godzilla vs. Megalon disk, is also included on this one.
UPDATE 2: Ahead of schedule, the disk is now available for preorder!
Thanks to alert reader Mike M. for the tip!
UPDATE 3: We’re now being told that the disks will not actually ship until Feb. 11. “Since this is a limited edition special run we need extra time to get the product ready,” our source said.
UPDATE 4: As several of our readers have discovered, the release of the disk has been delayed for at least 2-4 weeks. As soon as we can get some kind of definite date we’ll post it here.
UPDATE 5: Our source at Rhino now foresees a ship date of Feb. 25. Stay tuned…
UPDATE 6: Many, many readers have written in and posted on the Comments section here that they’ve finally received shipment confirmations from Rhino. Hurray! If you haven’t received yours yet, keep an eye on your inbox!
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I received my copy yesterday. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet. As for the blip mentioned in the earlier posts…it’s in the copy in the 10.2 boxset. Isn’t this “replacement” disc the same one as in the boxset? Also, last fall I discovered a copy of Vol. 10 still in the inventory for a Fry’s down in CA (I’m in Seattle) and had a friend pick it up for $40! :shock: Miracles do happen…
You used an exacto knife on the Volume 10 box! :shock: :shock: :shock:
got it yesterday… i hated throwing @#$% VS. @#$%@#% away…
*Cough* :shock:
Thanks those of you who mentioned the glitch in the Soda Shoppe sketch… Not happy to know that Rhino stuck it to us one more time on their way out the door (to make room for Shout! Factory) but at least I know it’s not just my copy or my DVD player.
About the sketch….
I LOVE YOU, TRACE BEAULIEU (even though you’ll never love me. :wink:)!
And speaking of Shout! Factory – there’s still lots of episodes with Public Domain movies(Beast of Yucca Flats, The Corpse Vanishes & Hercules and the Captive Women, just to name a few) that Rhino couldn’t be bothered with that they could start with.
“Ok, this is frickin’ HI-LARIOUS. Had to share…
Look at this eBay auction for a single disc “Gila” someone is supposedly selling: http://cgi.ebay.com/MST3K-402-The-Giant-Gila-Monster-Rhino-DVD-2008_W0QQitemZ200205481840QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item200205481840
Bear in mind, too, that this auction promises a copy once it’s “in-stock” – they don’t even claim to have one in-hand yet.
Jesus F’n Christ – people are idiots. There is absolutely no difference between the disc in the 10.2 set and the one that some people have managed to receive through all this turmoil – save for a half-assed cardboard sleeve that Rhino printed up for the single run. That’s it. WHY would you pay $76 for something you could have gotten for as low as $40 on sale in the box set!!!?”
When the original Star Wars Trilogy first came out on DVD, some guy got a copy a week before the official release date (bcuz he bought it online). He watched it and then put it on eBay.
It ended up selling for a little above $500 (if I remember right – it was WAY too expensive anyway)…even though by the time it was going through shipping, the guy who won it was going to only own it ONE DAY before it hit the stores!
And when someone on a board I was posting at at the time e-mailed the guy who won it to ask him why he did it, the answer was only that “you’re just jealous”….
Who knows why some people with too much money do what they do.
I just keep thinking of the lucky guy who sold the DVD set.
I’d like to get lucky like that. :lol:
rec’d my “gila” yesterday, and watched it last night – i had forgotten what a great episode that was. enjoyed the new “upgrade” skit, although i found the greenscreen to be pretty cheezy looking. my disc had the same little glitch, but it doesn’t really bug me too much-i’ve sat through much worse to get my mst3k fix! i just stuck the new disc in my old volume 10 box, worked just fine.
personally, i like rhino and have since the days of them releasing old 60’s garage bands on vinyl. a lot of their product (music and dvd) tends to be for things with a “cult following,” which can’t be the most profitable stuff to be putting out. i really couldn’t understand all of the bitching and moaning about them and the wait for this disc. imho, rhino did us all a big solid by selling us the single disc. btw, since this is no longer a going concern for them, anyone who hasn’t picked up all of their mst3k releases might want to get on that…they might let this stuff quietly go out of print.
for all of the loud “huzzahs” i’ve been hearing here for shout! factory taking over, i find it a bit curious that they haven’t scheduled any releases yet…makes me wonder. i’ve enjoyed many things they’ve put out, although i was disappointed that they never put out the final season of SCTV. they really dropped the ball there.
I kind of feel bad for the person who won that auction. They’re never going to get that disc. If the guy selling it doesn’t have it by now, he’s not going to as Rhino is sold out already.
Not me! Now that person who won can buy the whole boxed set for a better deal!
The E-bay seller got what he deserved if he ends up having to cancel the sale. That’s what he gets for trying to shaft people.
“I kind of feel bad for the person who won that auction. They’re never going to get that disc. If the guy selling it doesn’t have it by now, he’s not going to as Rhino is sold out already.”
My thoughts exactly. I doubt the seller has one (or any). I say any, because it appears there is another one on there now from the same guy. Also – two other auctions cropped up earlier today when I checked – both with ridiculous “Buy it Now” prices. This disc alone appears to be on its way to fetching what original Vol. 10 box sets fetch easily – at least $75.
Incidentally, the disc in that first auction didn’t go for $100 or more like I thought it might, but anything more than the price of a 10.2 box set is too much, frankly. A specially made cardboard sleeve for a single disc release isn’t worth that kind of money, high-quality printing or not.
But as was stated above, hey, it’s their money. Personally, I’ll wait on a second pressing, since I got the shaft by Rhino on my order for reasons they weren’t kind enough to understand and work with me on. If there isn’t another run, I’ll dupe it. Case closed. They can’t expect people that already own 75% of the same product to buy it all over again for one disc. Hence, the single disc was offered. Then, they poorly handle the impending demand and the customer service on that end. Hooray for Rhino indeed.
Still haven’t gotten mine yet in SoCal.
I got my Gila disk today too! I’m happy to have it, but amazed at how cheaply it was packaged. Both the disc sleeve and the mailer. I’m just glad mine came through intact.
Now, has any enterprising graphics guru taken the sleeve artwork and produced an insert for standard or slim DVD cases?
It arrived! It arrived! Hallelujah! Well, I know what I’M doing tonight.
I like the comment on the back: “Includes replacement flick starring an equally terrifying but much less litigious reptile.”
QUOTE: I’m happy to have it, but amazed at how cheaply it was packaged.
Oh, moan, moan, moan. I thought it was better packaged than The Oozing Skull. I would have been just as happy to get Gila in a plain paper sleeve.
Doh! Still waiting for mine in Texas.
I still haven’t gotten mine in PA and I am credited for being the pre order tipster.
I received my shipped confirmation on March 6.
To quote Steve Zissou, “What’s the deal?”
I got mine in the mail yesterday. The new 3 1/2 minute segment with J&TB and the Mads makes it all worth it.
Mike M.
I received mine on Monday (I’m in Maryland). You might want to contact Rhino and get a shipping # or follow up with them. Seems like you should have gotten yours by now???
I have to say, I’m really digging the anticipation surrounding MST3K projects. After a decade of close to nothing, now I’m waiting for announcements from Shout! Factory and Cinematic Titanic…..
I just called Rhino and they said their products shipped from South Florida… They also said wait until the week of the 17th (the 20th) to inquire about replacements/credits.
They also count Saturdays as business days.
Hope that helps everyone in my proverbial boat.
Just got mine today in NY….You should get it by tomorrow Mike…I hope…
I’m going to watch Giant Gila Monster tonight. Packaging is much nicer than Killer Shrews.
Did anyone else receive a return label?
Yikes, with eBay prices going crazy, maybe I should sell it …..nahhhhhhh! :razz:
Huzzah! The Giant Gila monster is mine! Turned up today in LA, so hopefully other SoCal MiSTies are getting theirs as well. Could have done without the sticker on the actual packaging, but hey, I’m just glad this turned up.
Michael,
I got a return label as well.
I got mine yesterday. I watched it for a bit, but I was too exhausted to finish.
Mouka: as far as I can recall, the only sticker on mine was on the shrink-wrap plastic around the cardboard sleeve the disc came in.
Does anyone else have a playback glitch during the malt closet HS?
perhaps I should have read all the intervening comments… :oops:
Mine came a couple of days ago. No stickers for me, but I did get a “Heavy Metal” CD box set postcard (woohoo!).
I unsealed the plastic to make sure the disc was there, but I’m actually afraid to take it out of the cardbox sleeve. To give me something to look forward to I’m purposely delaying gratification until the weekend to watch it the way I like it: with cocktails. But I doubt I can fend off the curiosity to at least see the new skit before then.
Man, I’m glad I picked up the rest of the MST3k sets I didn’t have. Ebay buyers can be real idiots. Well, some of the sellers are dicks too.
I got mine yesterday ( PA ). I loved seeing Trace, Frank, and Joel together for the first time ( MST3K related ) in 14 years! With the skit though was TOHO forcing Rhino to tell us ( MISTIES ) the folks who purchased the first volume 10 to throw away our beloved #212 Godzilla Vs. Megalon!!!! ARE THEY INSANE!! THIS DISK IS IN MY FIRE PROOF BOX!!!!!!! HA!!!
Go ahead TOHO send the FBI to my apartment and force me to open my safe!! NOT! Godzilla vs. Megalon is easily in my top 5 episodes of all time!!! This Rhino version of #212 will stay in my bloodlines forever! HAZZAH!!!
Huzzah!
My copy turned up yesterday in the mail, and it’s sitting within arm’s reach on my desk at work right now!
Bring on Shout! Factory
Do you think the FBI will carefully remove all the bags of pot from my crawlspace, find the MST3K Gila Monster DVD, then carefully repack all the pot in the crawlspace and simply walk away with the DVD? Could happen…..
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Glad2haveGila…
yeah.. mine has an issue during the “Soda Jerk” skit (one of my favorites) when the baby Teddy Ruckspins spoil everything again.
a digital hiccup.
rest easy… they’re not picking on you.
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I just keep readin about that…
Yeah… read my above post I just made…
ME TOO! But it could be worse… Be happy with Gila!
The DVD arrived very promptly, as usual from Rhino. The menu screen is probably one of the most elaborate Rhino has ever done for MST3K. I do not know anything about the new company that will be handling MST3K DVDs, but they have their work cut out for them. Rhino has always done such a great job with MST3K. If the new company does half as well, I will be surprised.
So long, Rhino, and thanks for two great decades of MST3K DVDs.