SERENITY COLLECTOR'S EDITION COVER ART!!!!!

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Originally posted by prototype7:
I have two questions...
1)why is this info not on universals site yet? Are we sure it's for real?
2) Does anyone here, perhaps a proffesional photographer, own one of those nifty programs that are made specifically for blowing up photos? I'm not talking about photoshop or paintshop... there's supposed to be some programs out there that will give you a really good quality enlargement... none of the graininess that usually happens.
Anyway, the reason for the second question is, I wanna slap this thing on a tshirt!

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Dude. It's up for pre-order on Amazon.

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Originally posted by Ninah148:
Okay...I've googled and googled and looked and looked, and I still can't see the llama on the original artwork! Anyone have a link to an enlarged, outlined, highlighted, or otherwise dummy-proof llama location system? (BTW...new cover is muuuuuch better. Although they already had me at cast commentary).

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I'll second this request. As for the new artwork...well, lets just say I have to go change my pants.
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When the original cover art was first released, nobody could figure out what all the things were in the background (between Zoe and Mal). The general consensus was that they were some sort of space llama (spllama?), and since then the critters have been running amok around here.

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No, no! There's a llama. Just give me a minute...

Here you go:


Original image here: http ://multimedia.cx/eggs/images/serenity-cover.jpg (take the spaces out after the "http")

Plus, if those are supposed to be Reavers, they sure did a crappy job. Look more like a bunch of college kids at a frat party (maybe it's a photo of one of the now-infamous Raver Breeding Parties). Seriously! Llama! Look!

Also, notice how they turned Mal's Western-y pistol into a future-y automatic. Gee, we can't be having anything vageuly Western-y, now can we Fing Universal marketing...

But they can put a llama on the cover!

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Originally posted by Ninah148:
And may I add River no longer looks like a Space Hooker.

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Thank god--back to plain ole crazy!

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Causal... sorry, my bad... Amazon I didn't check, I just checked the Universal website and it wan't up there... even so I apologize. Makes me happy that it is real!
And as far as the llama picture... isn't that Jaynes 1911 that Mal's holding?

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Originally posted by prototype7:
And as far as the llama picture... isn't that Jaynes 1911 that Mal's holding?

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No, that's just some Universal marketing hack's version of "improving" that funny lookin' western-y pistol!

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Originally posted by prototype7:
Causal... sorry, my bad... Amazon I didn't check, I just checked the Universal website and it wan't up there... even so I apologize.

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Don't apologize, bro; I thought you'd be happy!

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Isn't that Jaynes 1911 that Mal's holding?

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I don't think so. The angle of Mal's hand is all wrong for a 1911 in the first place, and in the second that gun doesn't look remotely like a 1911. I still think they just stuck in a new gun to make it more sci-fi-ish.

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originally written by 11thhour:
For everyone who misses those beloved, wooly, multi-stomached, soulful eyed critters... here ya go:



Gotta have llamas cuz they're soooo Sci-Fi!

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LOLOLOLOL. omg 11thhour, you rock *praises the llama in all it's glory*

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YES BIRTHDAY IN AUGUST, I NOW WHAT I WANT

though i may be giving some stuff away on my birthday too

EDIT: Hang on a tick, it comes out later in Australia.

*breaks down on ground* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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You can preorder the BDCE at Universal for $19.98, a discount compared to the suggested retail,
AND it'll make Uni sit up and take notice if they get a lot of orders this way.

http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/details.php?childId=36897

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

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*waits for link to Amazon.com on front page so buying the SE will send a little cashy money Haken's way*

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Thought everyone might be interested to know, the Collector's Edition has jumped from #793 yesterday to #523 today (on Amazon's ranking).

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So, just to clarify, this collector's edition has only three things that the Australians didn't already get:

1) a second commentary with Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau and Ron Glass
2) the "Session 416" feature
3) the "Sci-Fi Inside: Serenity" feature.

And number two may (or may not) just be what is available for free online anyway.

The Australian version has a 45 minute Q&A that is not on the Collector's edition.

Is that right?

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Anyway, I'm happy the collectors edition is coming out, happy there's a new commentary, happy it includes most of the features I've failed to get thus far, and happy we have new box art. Today for the first time in a long time I actually looked at the Serenity box art, I mean really looked at it instead of just glancing to make sure I was grabbing the right DVD, and realized I had forgotten how much it sucked. That was, and is, truly wretched.

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Doesn't the gun look like the one Mal was carrying on the SPOILER planet? It is just missing the copper sight ends. I looked at a pic of it yesterday in the Serenity The Official Visual Companion book

Oh, yeah, that moon is the SPOILER planet's moon...River sees it in a vision/dream.

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Originally posted by daveshayne:
Sniff. I miss the Llama. Sniff.

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For everyone who misses those beloved, wooly, multi-stomached, soulful eyed critters... here ya go:



Gotta have llamas cuz they're soooo Sci-Fi!



11th Hour

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LOL 11th. That is now my desktop and it makes me giggle every time I look at it.

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Originally posted by TDBrown:
You can preorder the BDCE at Universal for $19.98, a discount compared to the suggested retail,
AND it'll make Uni sit up and take notice if they get a lot of orders this way.

http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/details.php?childId=36897

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I'm thinkin' this is what I'm going to do.

To join us go here: http://www.serenitymovie.org/browncoats/forums/index.php?showtopic=870
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Thought you might all be interested: Collector's edition currently #394 on Amazon's DVD list (was 523 yesterday and 793 the day before that). Hope that makes Universal sit up and take notice. Maybe Haken will put a ranking tracker up...

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Originally posted by Causal:
Thought you might all be interested: Collector's edition currently #394 on Amazon's DVD list (was 523 yesterday and 793 the day before that). Hope that makes Universal sit up and take notice. Maybe Haken will put a ranking tracker up...

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Oooo, this IS interesting...

And we've not even considered a concerted effort for buying yet.

I hope Haken does put up a tracker.

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Yah and a link to buy from here. I already bought one through Amazon because I couldn't wait (I know, I know, it won't come any faster if I preorder now but psychologically I feel like it will). But I plan to order at least one more and will hold off so I can do it through this site.

Faster, faster would be better!

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Originally posted by TDBrown:
You can preorder the BDCE at Universal for $19.98, a discount compared to the suggested retail,
AND it'll make Uni sit up and take notice if they get a lot of orders this way.

http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/details.php?childId=36897

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

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I agree with TDBrown... I think it would help out numbers if everyone that can, buys their copy from universal! At least buy a second copy from them if you can't wait and just have to order from a retailer.
Just my 2cents. I guess here's my question... does Universal only care that they sell 100,000 units to Amazon, or does it matter how many amazon sells.
For instance... if Amazon orders 100,000 copies and only sells 99,000 of them... does that still count as 100,000 on the Universal payroll? Or do they find out how many Amazon still has in stock and deduct that from their sales totals? What I'm saying is we should be able to up the numbers if we buy at least one copy direct from Universal. That way the retailers buy "x" number of copies, and universal also sells "x" number on top of that. I hope I'm making sense?

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Well, just like with the regular BDM, I've gotta have at least two of this. One to loan, one to treasure.
So I preordered one from Universal, and I'm gonna preorder one from Amazon too!

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

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Originally posted by TDBrown:
Well, just like with the regular BDM, I've gotta have at least two of this. One to loan, one to treasure.
So I preordered one from Universal, and I'm gonna preorder one from Amazon too!

"Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one." -Mal

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Ditto!

And one for my Mom's Christmas present and one for my brother's birthday present and one for my daughter's Christmas present and one for my best friends collection and one for my other brother's scifi movie collection and one for my grandson's new shelf ( in his bedroom of his very own for the 1st time ) and one for me to loan to my cousin who professes to like Westerns, so I think this will hook him and one to....well, you get the picture.

It'll take a year or better to span out the purchases, but I'm already budgeting.

I have to buy gifts anyway! So...

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I have to disagree about the llama. Never saw it. Don't know what some of you are smoking either.



Unless you're talking about the thing behind the guy's head, but that could be anything. A kangaroo, or ostrich, or just a badly lit torso.


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Good grief. You do realize that no one thought there ACTUALLY WERE llamas in there, don't you?

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I agree on both fronts. On the dvd cover to the naked eye... looks kinda like a llama. Blown up with our superior technology... easily seen as a person. Still funny and I love the big llama face on the new dvd cover someone made! Hillarious!
Careful they spit!

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Originally posted by prototype7:
I agree on both fronts. On the dvd cover to the naked eye... looks kinda like a llama. Blown up with our superior technology... easily seen as a person. Still funny and I love the big llama face on the new dvd cover someone made! Hillarious!
Careful they spit!

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That was 11th Hour who "gave us back the Llama"

Good job, too!

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Originally posted by GreenFaerie:
I have to disagree about the llama. Never saw it. Don't know what some of you are smoking either.



Unless you're talking about the thing behind the guy's head, but that could be anything. A kangaroo, or ostrich, or just a badly lit torso.

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As b!X pointed out, we (or most of us, at least) are well aware that the llama is simply an illusion created by bad photoshopping.

That's not the point. The point is, the llama has as much relevance to the movie as the angry horde, Serenity's lasers, Mal's gun, River's glowing eyes, or any of the other grotesque distortions found on the original DVD art.

The 'llama' came to signify all of the indignities that we have suffered at the hands of corporate marketing.

Universal buddied up to the fandom to enlist our aid, but when Serenity's numbers didn't pan out, what did we get? We got llamas. (And, eventually, threatening letters.)

But you know what? We took that llama, and... well, we took it.

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You know, I've had plans to put the new cover art on a tshirt - now I think I want to put the llama version on the back!

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Originally posted by nosadseven:
But you know what? We took that llama, and... well, we took it.

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Hell, we're probably setting that llama back up right now.



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Originally posted by nosadseven:
But you know what? We took that llama, and... well, we took it.

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Wow...that didn't sound half bad... [ /Kaylee ]

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Originally posted by nosadseven:
The point is, the llama has as much relevance to the movie as the angry horde, Serenity's lasers, Mal's gun, River's glowing eyes, or any of the other grotesque distortions found on the original DVD art.

The 'llama' came to signify all of the indignities that we have suffered at the hands of corporate marketing.

Universal buddied up to the fandom to enlist our aid, but when Serenity's numbers didn't pan out, what did we get? We got llamas. (And, eventually, threatening letters.)

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Right, that's the whole idea. When the DVD cover art was released there was just a massive outcry amongst the community. Surely we all remember that nearly everybody (myself included) had their own version of the cover, so bad was Uni's art. It was sort of the last slap in the face after their pre-release manipulation of the fandom, their near-total lack of serious marketing for the film, and their abandonment of the whole thing when the numbers didn't go their way. But like the man says, we took it. We are, after all, Browncoats.

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SO...it is more of a Scape-llama?

"And the Llama shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited."

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