#1 at Amazon....check out #4 by RobtJonz

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#1 at Amazon....check out #4

POSTED BY: ROBTJONZ
UPDATED: Saturday, December 24, 2005 07:48
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:03 PM

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Another movie? SCiFi Channel to pick up the series?

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:13 PM

SERYN

Dratted penguins!

Oh, Imagine having the two of 'em in the top spots, some suit would have to take notice!

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"She's a mite whimsical in the brainpan."

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:19 PM

SAMEERTIA

BEAUTIFUL!

And yes, stupid penguins who can't even stay home, but have to cart their poor young 80 miles? What kind of parents are those?
GAH!

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:11 PM

CHARLIETHEBLOODY

thats amazing, and considering all the right wing christians (of which I believe there're quite a lot) were told they had to watch the penguins or go to hell (words to that effect) its even better

"I'm an artist, with an e and a beret."

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:30 PM

SAMEERTIA

Okay, I'm really peeved.
Amazon just sent a shipping confirmation saying my dvd would arrive January 4th!!!!!!
With a three week pre-order and 2nd day shipping??????? WTF?????

I just called everywhere in our small town asking if they had it. Uh. No.
"Uh, why not?"
"Didn't know it would be this popular."

Actually, response at Rite-Aid was "God no. I wish!"

So. I'm driving the friggin' hour to Wal-Mart tonight. Forget this!

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:37 PM

HONORBOUND

Amazon's shipping estimates are for if it were to take the most time at the slowest possible route. Amazon said delivery after Christmas for my orders as well and my brother's DVD has already arrived at my mom's house and my box of 5 DVDs is scheduled to arrive tommorrow acording to UPS.

A kind word turneth away wrath, but not as well as superior firepower

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:51 PM

SAMEERTIA

But even if they shipped two day TODAY, which is according to their shipping confirmation, I won't have them in time for Christmas.
Pisses me off.
Ah, well. We all know Amazon is just a giant publisher screwing rottweiller. Should have known better than to trust them with something like this.

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:53 PM

GROOSALUGG

Yeah, Amazon's delivery dates are always ridiculously conservative; don't even bother with them.

If your order was shipped today (Thursday), I'd say you're probably okay (but don't hold me to that!). I've gotten a few different things from Amazon this month, always with the free shipping option, which is theoretically the slowest, and received them 2-3 days after the e-mail notification - they're very good about speedy delivery around X-mas. My copy of the BDM was shipped on Monday, and arrived on Wednesday.

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:01 PM

SERENYTY

Woohoo! This is great news. Just the news we need to see to get a sequel...

~A message from Serenyty~

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:06 PM

THECRAZYIVAN

entire gorram verse in a top 5 :-D

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"There is a sense that this is still not over. It's hard to put a finger on what's so special about this project and about this group of people, but it's just one of those things you have to trust in, and relish. I am very, very proud."
---Jewel Staite on "Firefly" and "Serenity" in "Finding Serenity" (essay collection by Jane Espenson)

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Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:14 PM

EVERYWORLDSPINNIN

I wish they would put this more into perspective. I know that Amazon is a massive DVD seller, but what does being number one mean (other than the obvious). Has it sold 10,000? 20,000? I'm afraid we won't know, since the studio is pretty tight lipped about these things.

On another note, I was at Target tonight in Milwaukee, and they were down to their last four copies. Putting that in perspective, their Serenity selection consisted of 1 row, with 7 bays. Each bay contained 4 copies. Not bad considering it looked like it was outselling everything else they had.

"The last thing I want is that any of our descendents should look back in some years and despise us for not daring to act when we had so much capacity to act. We must dare to seek how, why and on what we agree. We shall thus be able to join together to look for alternative solutions and new ways of managing the world's challenges. Being diverse is our richness, acting together will be our strength". (Federico Mayor; 02-04-01;
UBUNTU Constituent Meeting).

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Friday, December 23, 2005 3:02 AM

ROBTJONZ

Here's some perspective: My wife went to Best Buy (we live right outside baltimore, MD so it's a big store) and they had sold out of SERENITY. When she got to Target, there were only 3 copies left. This was for a co-worker. We, of course, bought ours on Tuesday.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:11 PM

THATDUDE90210

Whoa! Firefly moved up to #3 at this moment, Serenity is still at #1.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:19 PM

PURPLEPIRATE

What the hell are you talking about?

THIS right-wing Christian is glad to see Serenity & Firefly at #1 & #3, respectively (as of 12/23 12:00 AM EST). Frack the penguins. Go Firefly!

Jayne: "Don't say it!"
Zoe: "It only works on HER, Jayne"
Jayne: "Well now I know that"

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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:25 PM

THATDUDE90210

The rankings from Amazon.com's top ten DVD sales, like the title of the thread.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:40 PM

CAUSAL

Just thought you'd like to know: Serenity #1, Firefly #3! WOOOHOOO!

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 7:47 PM

RIVERGODDESS

YES!!!!!#3!!!!!!!!! This has got to be a big rutting red flag for Universal saying "make another one, and they will buy. Lots"

1 penguin down, 1 to go. Snipers?

And Firefly was cancelled 3 YEARS AGO! Yet, it's #3, beating out the 'hits' of the holiday season. Merry Christmas Browncoats, you big damn heroes, you.

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

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Friday, December 23, 2005 8:02 PM

CAUSAL

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverGoddess:
This has got to be a big rutting red flag for Universal saying "make another one, and they will buy. Lots"

Hell, yeah! I've heard so many reports of sold out stores, lines, and slow orders. Just tonight my wife and her friend (who we converted) went to get Serenity for her brother for Christmas. They got the next to last copy!! This has got to be doing something for the numbers--if nothing else, it has to be showing Universal the size of the audience...

Hold the valley, Browncoats! We can do this!

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Friday, December 23, 2005 8:54 PM

MIKAMOM

With so many copies sold in little Cheyenne, Wyoming, there has to be more than just browncoats buying. Maybe the fan campaign worked better than we thought. They just wanted to wait for the DVD?

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Friday, December 23, 2005 9:12 PM

DMBDAN41

OH WE WILL HOLD THE VALLEY! THE VALLEY WILL BE OURS!

I work at BOTH Best Buy and Blockbuster, i know it seems weird, but they dont mind lol, we are SOLD OUT at Blockbuster and have been rented out since Tuesday, and every time a copy comes is returned it gets checked out within 10 minutes (although we only got 13 copies at my blockbuster, because Universal hates us since we dont pay our bills) and at Best Buy as of yesterday we were sold out with a new shipment supposedly coming in on saturday, a shipment DOUBLE the size of what we put out Tuesday, so id say we are holding the valley pretty damn well right now, but i think we need to have a browncoats meeting...perhaps at ohhh say UNIVERSAL STUDIOS!

"Its not safe" River
"No i fear it isnt safe anymore" Simon
"For the PENGUINS!".......Me

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Friday, December 23, 2005 9:32 PM

URIAH

I'm right there with you.
WTH is up with the intolerant, hate filled crap I've been seeing on here lately? Please tell me when we became unwelcome here.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 9:35 PM

PURPLEPIRATE

THATDUDE...

I was referring back to this comment when I asked my question:

Quote:
Originally posted by charliethebloody:
thats amazing, and considering all the right wing christians (of which I believe there're quite a lot) were told they had to watch the penguins or go to hell (words to that effect) its even better

I don't see what politics or religion has to do with penguins or our BDM. Anyway... I'm just glad to see Serenity doing so well.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 9:50 PM

CALVINANDHOBBES

this makes me happy...how the hell is firefly selling so damn well?!? wow

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Friday, December 23, 2005 10:23 PM

PURPLEPIRATE

I tell ya... the Firefly franchise is just beginning to take off. Today, on a car forum I frequent, a guy who I don't really talk to that much (and who I never mentioned Firefly or Serenity to) started a new thread about his new favorite movie. It is, of course, our BDM.

"Fruity Oaty Bars - They make a man out of a mouse!"

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Friday, December 23, 2005 10:24 PM

LOUGOJIRA

Quote:
Originally posted by PurplePirate:
I don't see what politics or religion has to do with penguins or our BDM. Anyway... I'm just glad to see Serenity doing so well.

I got a very similar kind of response when the topic came up about Jayne possibly becoming a Shepherd in either a movie sequel or a return of the series. I didn't get preachy or try to make any conversions, I just mentioned in my response to the thread about how the Apostle Paul was once a very violent man himself before he got his calling, and that it wouldn't be impossible to believe that Jayne could get a calling of his own. Within the first response I was told that what I was refering to was "traditional propaganda".

If this forum has a "no Christians allowed" policy, the mods can just tell me and I'll disappear. I'm not here to get my beliefs shit-talked by some self-righteous jerks with an axe to grind...

Anyway, back on topic...glad to see the BDM selling so well! I went down to Wal-Mart on the release day and bought two copies myself. I noticed that Serenity was placed out with all the other new releases, and it's numbers seemed to be dwindling while all the other movies were well stocked. It could be a case of more copies showing up of these other movies, but I like to think that this was a case of Serenity selling better. Time will tell...

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Friday, December 23, 2005 10:39 PM

THATDUDE90210

Quote:
Originally posted by PurplePirate:
THATDUDE...

I was referring back to this comment when I asked my question:

Heh, I didn't see the line that followed "What the hell are you talking about?" It looked like it was part of your signature, lol.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 10:48 PM

CALVINANDHOBBES

made the hotlist...whatever the hell that is

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/505822/ref=d_hp_br_lf_7
/103-7567057-9977457

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Friday, December 23, 2005 10:56 PM

THATDUDE90210

Quote:
Originally posted by calvinandhobbes:
this makes me happy...how the hell is firefly selling so damn well?!? wow

I'm guessing there are lot of people who don't go to theaters anymore for whatever reason. One reason might be expense. For example, a family 3 or 4 might need to spend $30-40 just for movie tickets, add parking and food and that's another $30-40.

A dvd cost $20, add drinks, microwave popcorn and pizza and total is still half of the going to the theater. Plus you can see it again at no additional cost.

So basically I'm thinking that the DVD has attracted a new audience, leading to new Firefly sales.

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Friday, December 23, 2005 11:20 PM

ETHAN

Quote:
Originally posted by calvinandhobbes:
this makes me happy...how the hell is firefly selling so damn well?!? wow

I feel real happy about people discovering Firefly, and yet ambivelent that the souless FOX empire continues to make mounds of money off the show they squashed

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Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:50 AM

VIKING

we aer 1 and 3 know

The wages of sin are death, but the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

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Saturday, December 24, 2005 5:24 AM

CAUSAL

Quote:
Originally posted by calvinandhobbes:
made the hotlist...whatever the hell that is

Ignorant question: does Universal make the same amount regardless of what Amazon is selling the DVD for? Because I'm a little confused why Amazon would offer their number 1 selling DVD for $13.

BTW, I'm also a Christian. But I figure that I will just let people vent. I certainly can't blame them for the dim view they hold of Christians, what with folks like Pat Robertson running around. I do have to take exception to the outright bashing of Christians and Christian ideas (e.g. the "traditional propaganda" comment). I have every bit the right to express my opinion as everyone else, and it's no less rude to bash a Christian than anyone else.

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Saturday, December 24, 2005 7:48 AM

CHARLIETHEBLOODY

Quote:
Originally posted by Uriah:
I'm right there with you.
WTH is up with the intolerant, hate filled crap I've been seeing on here lately? Please tell me when we became unwelcome here.

hey hey hey, there was no hate, I was saying it as a numbers thing, what makes you think I'm not a christian? what makes you think I don't like penguins?

I'm sorry you thought I was being intolerant, I really wasn't. saying someone's a christian isn't an insult and if you take it that way you must have had some bad experiences so I'm sorry for you but don't include me in it.

"I'm an artist, with an e and a beret."

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