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Started by Jason LeBlanc, Feb 22 2012 11:59 PM
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#1721 Fozmo

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 03:19 PM

Four weeks ago on March 27th, an hour after they started selling it.

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Got mine this morning, #48803. :) I think mine was a 'second batch' press as I'd ordered the day after release and the '1-2 weeks wait' had not long been posted on LLL's site.

If Karol ordered an hour after release then it would seem it's probably gone amiss. Hopefully you'll get both and then you can keep one for ebay! :whistle:

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 06:26 PM

According to the USPS tracker, mine's still stuck in Merrifield, for a whole week already. This can mean three things:

1) The tracker is correct, the package got lost somehow, and I'll have to ask SAE to re-ship the whole thing in about 3 weeks.
2) The tracker is incorrect and the package's arrival is imminent.
3) The tracker is incorrect and the package's arrival at the customs office is imminent, where it'll be stuck for another 2 weeks.
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 06:29 PM

It may be number 2.

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 05:55 AM

It can take forever for USPS' tracking system to update. Nearly every time the CDs from the labels have been delivered before it updates saying such.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 11:33 AM

I had a USPS-tracked package last month, and the last status it ever showed was 'on its way to the destination' from some sorting facility in LA. Then it just showed up randomly. At no point did it show up in the tracking websites of any UK carriers.

Fairly useless...

Ordering stuff from overseas really should be easier than this :|

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 05:59 PM

It may be number 2.


Turns out it was. :thumbup:
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 06:51 PM

It is still not here. However, I e-mailed MV about it and he asked for my adress and what was in the package. I gave him one and my order number (also mentioned that I will send it back if the other packet arrives) and he replied "you got it". Which, as far as I understand, means that my Hook just shipped yesterday. Again. Good chap, this MV!

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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate. - Christopher Nolan

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 03:15 AM

It is still not here. However, I e-mailed MV about it and he asked for my adress and what was in the package. I gave him one and my order number (also mentioned that I will send it back if the other packet arrives) and he replied "you got it". Which, as far as I understand, means that my Hook just shipped yesterday. Again. Good chap, this MV!

Karol


MV definitely takes care of everyone. :) So does Intrada.

I was very happy when Intrada replaced my Star Trek IV copy the one I thought was lost in the mail. When the original one actually showed up a week later I sent it back to Intrada.

All though I'm surprised the guys at LLL write all the addresses by hand on the envelopes. You think they'd save the time and print them out like Intrada, Varèse, Movie Music and SAE does.
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 11:28 AM

I'm amazed, not surprised, that they do that - it must take ages!

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 03:31 PM

As a curiosity, one of them has the same handwritting as my aunt. Who lives in california...

No, she does not work at LLL :P
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Posted 26 April 2012 - 03:42 PM

My grandmother has a similar one too... interesting...

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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate. - Christopher Nolan

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 03:46 PM

*Cue in dramatic moment music*

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 03:49 PM

Will the mystery of creepy handwriting resembling that of several women relatives of the MB members ever be solved?! Tune in on the same JWFan channel, same JW time folks! Nananananana JW!!!!

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 04:38 PM

i mentioned it just as a curiosity... no need the overdramatize the issue ;)
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 09:45 PM

Hope Hook arrives tomorrow.

Karol - who has been saying that for five weeks now ;)
From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate. - Christopher Nolan

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Posted 30 April 2012 - 09:53 PM

Hope Hook arrives tomorrow.

Karol - who has been saying that for five weeks now ;)


5 weeks? That's a bit excessive wait time. I say if it's not there by the end of the week to contact MV so he can send you a replacement.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 09:59 PM

I did, last week. That's what I'm waiting for, actually. :)

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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate. - Christopher Nolan

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Posted 30 April 2012 - 10:32 PM

Ah gotcha.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 08:47 AM

It's a bad album anyways. I have heard there are some sound issues.

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 04:16 PM

It has arrived! About hooking time!

(It is the one MV has sent me last week, though. The first is now lost, I guess).

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 04:34 PM

It has arrived! About hooking time!

(It is the one MV has sent me last week, though. The first is now lost, I guess).

Karol



Yaaaayyy! :woop:

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 05:00 PM

It has arrived! About hooking time!

(It is the one MV has sent me last week, though. The first is now lost, I guess).

Karol

Enjoy!!! You've earned it after all that waiting. :)

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 05:09 PM

got mine today too! 8 business days... not bad

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 05:38 PM

got mine today too! 8 business days... not bad

Did you order directly from LLL or some other retailer?

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 06:21 PM


got mine today too! 8 business days... not bad

Did you order directly from LLL or some other retailer?


directly from LLL!

how long did you have to wait for yours?

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 06:32 PM

I got mine in about 7 or 8 business days (very fast delivery to Finland by any standards) and I ordered from Screen Archives Entertainment. Which makes me feel pretty lucky since some people who ordered from there had to wait a long time to get theirs.

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 07:43 PM

I got mine in about 7 or 8 business days (very fast delivery to Finland by any standards) and I ordered from Screen Archives Entertainment. Which makes me feel pretty lucky since some people who ordered from there had to wait a long time to get theirs.


I see... just out of curiosity, why order from SAE and not LLL? is there a difference? :)

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 07:45 PM

Yes. Cracked cases, apparently.

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 12:11 AM

Yes. Cracked cases, apparently.


Not really, SAE has gone perfectly for me in all the time I've used it. I thought we established you wouldn't get a cracked case BloodBoal ;)


got mine today too! 8 business days... not bad


Lucky! I got mine after over a month of waiting...

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 05:46 AM


I got mine in about 7 or 8 business days (very fast delivery to Finland by any standards) and I ordered from Screen Archives Entertainment. Which makes me feel pretty lucky since some people who ordered from there had to wait a long time to get theirs.


I see... just out of curiosity, why order from SAE and not LLL? is there a difference? :)

Well I don't have a Paypal account and find LLL's credit card order form troublesome so I ordered from my regular store SAE.

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Posted 05 May 2012 - 04:16 PM

Finally ordered my Hook CD today - had two wait a while to have enough money to make the purchase (things got really expensive in the last month). But, it's ordered. Woot!
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Posted 05 May 2012 - 04:21 PM

It has arrived! About hooking time!

(It is the one MV has sent me last week, though. The first is now lost, I guess).

Karol


:lol:

Wow. Finally!

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 05:25 AM

It's a bad album anyways. I have heard there are some sound issues.


Your second statement contradicts your first one. With you saying that, you obviously have not heard it. The only sound issues are in "Banning Back Home (Film Version)" and the previously Ultimate War pieces.

It does suck they could not find the proper elements for the previously unreleased Ultimate War pieces. However, the set itself is good on its own.
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Posted 06 May 2012 - 05:49 AM

Trent, hornist wasn't being serious. He just didn't use emoticons, the wily devil.

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Posted 06 May 2012 - 08:48 AM

Trent, hornist wasn't being serious. He just didn't use emoticons, the wily devil.


Hmm, okay. In this day in age if someone isn't being serious and doesn't use an emoticon then it's hard to tell if that person is joking or not.
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Posted 12 May 2012 - 10:44 PM

Finally got it in the mail today! WOOT!

Althought, I can tell I'll be burning this to iTunes and making a playlist with it - pretty much what I had to do with the Indiana Jones re-releases when they came out. No worries, though.
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Posted 14 May 2012 - 06:41 PM

and, there are some sound issues...
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Posted 14 May 2012 - 06:49 PM

and, there are some sound issues...


You obviously haven't read the Hook discussion thread...
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Posted 14 May 2012 - 07:43 PM

Humour. A nearly impossible concept.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 08:54 PM

it is not logical
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