1982 E.T. Set Pre-order?

[PaulM9999]

Has anyone found any sites accepting pre-order's for the box set that includes the 1982 version? Everywhere I look it seems like the only option is the $22 2002 version.

[Marty McFly]

Welcome to the Forum, PaulM9999!

I believe this might be what you're looking for.

[BubbleGumUK]

Amazon.com are also doing it for around $55.

[Fart Lighter]

nobody should buy Universal's ET titles. This is customer expolitaton at it'a absolute worst, escpecially when the original cut is concerned.

Actually, retailers should boycott it. Refuse to stock it, in support of thier clients.

With this and the bad treatment of horor fans, Universal have become worse than Paramount in my eyes.

Geez, if they get away with this it'll start happening all the tme. I dread to think the price tag and conditions that maight be applied to the STAR WARS original cuts if they ever surface.

[George McFly]

Fart Lighter (Gosh that name cracks me up,LOL) I agree 100% it IS exploitation,but I seriously doubt you get the retailers to go along with a boycott, UHV is dropping like a rock,they're really slow at releasing catalog titles too. Thankfully UNIVERSAL has nothing to do with the SW and Indy Trilogies or you could bet your house,car EVERYTHING that they'd jack the prices through the roof
I am still keeping my fingers crossed when it comes to the Region 1 release of BTTF.

[johnf]

While I agree in general about Universal's less than consumer friendly attitude (horror classic stingy/P&S 'It Came From Outer Space' Etc.), in this case I wouldn't be so fast to point the finger at them.

I think this has more to do with Spielberg & Co. (also not too consumer friendly). I think he and Lucas draw water from the same well!

[Steven Awalt]

With this way of thinking, how does one account for such nice/great discs as Jaws (which Universal jacked, as far as the documentary), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Jurassic Park trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, and A.I. If Spielberg wasn't consumer conscious, he wouldn't have allowed such well-produced editions out with extras that aren't a big waste of time (like many Universal titles). I wouldn't be so presumptious that a filmmaker is shafting his fans over that of a worldwide mega-corporation.

[Fart Lighter]

it's to do with policy change. Yes, they were amongst the best at some point, but recently things have gone very sour. It started with the classic horror cancellations, then this. They were producers of good dsisks and fair, but not now. SOmething changed recently.