Always love these kinds of videos. Packaging consistency is something I always love, and seeing even subtle shifts like format and company logo placement changing drives me up a wall.
I only sporadically buy DC Animated movies (mostly on Black Friday sales) and I really don't like that my copies of Long Halloween part 1 & 2 have that DCU spine branding and I'll never complete the entire picture.
This is exactly why I praise that I work as a graphic designer and I can design myself and print a replacement covers for most of my blu-rays. I've been collecting "Doctor Who" and this show was a spine mess. Not only the design, but they also could change the box, from regular plasting one, to a paper one with plastic traces. A nightmare.
I also noticed that there is a Deluxe Edition of "Long Halloween" in UK, combining two movies into one. It has a completely black spine. No matching art.
That's the case for the US release as well. WB really messed up this who spine art. What type of paper material do you use to print your replacement covers? I've been thinking of doing that myself and been trying to figure what to print them on.
I do something similiar. There's a guy at the flea market here in Sofia, Bulgaria who buys bulk DVDs and Blu-Rays from Germany and sells them for 1 euro each. Some of them have localized titles, and some have that stupid flipped title thing, so I print out a replacement spine (with a fold tab on top to keep it in place).
I personally think the 4K version of a long Halloween got delayed and is getting pushed into 2023 that’s our best case scenario the worst case is it got canceled without us knowing it. Partially because of the discovery purchasing Warner Brothers media.
With the power of hindsight and Legion of Super Heroes since out, basically they messed up by ever putting those logos on the Long Halloween BDs, and if you remove those/replace with the deluxe LH, then you’re back to consistent spine art. As long as DC doesn’t do this mixup again!
Could someone potentially figure out how many movies this series was going to have by comparing the font to the DC Universe to the size of the Blu-Ray?
Fantastic video! So I made the mistake of getting the 4k version of Green Lantern and when I got it I was so confused with the spine art. I thought I had missed a release. I can’t see myself picking up the Blu Ray version just to get them to match but I may have to. Also I was looking at the Long Halloween Deluxe Edition on Amazon and it shows there is no spine art on the side, oh boy.
I ended up buying both formats for Green Lantern and will probably do it for Legion of Super-Heroes too. At some point I just gotta throw my hands up knowing this will always be a mess
Hate that they are doing them across all of the animated movies. If it was just across the connected films it would make more sense to me, but I will likely not purchase many of the standalones unless I really like them, but even if I do I would probably put them on the shelf separate and keep the in continuity movies together in chronological order. So even if I did have all of the movies, I don't like the fact that I have to stick Soul of the Dragon, a standalone movie, in between Man of Tomorrow and Justice Society which are directly connected.
Honestly because Soul is the only one off in the line-up, I'm half expecting one of the other movies to randomly pick up the story from that movie in some weird crossover
I thought it was cool they included Doomsday with The Death and Return of Superman since it's another version of Death of Superman and being the first DC Animated movie.
Also another thing that is stated on the commentary track of the superman man of tomorrow the Batman soul of the dragon is set in the same universe as superman man of tomorrow and justice society of America.
they've actually gone insane, it seems even though they feature the same art piece for the spines on the UK releases they're also inconsistent, this is a series of blu-rays ive recently began collecting myself, i started with The Long Halloween Parts 1 & 2 and noticed they had connecting spine art which made me want to collect the lot, however ive just noticed something. on your copies (US) Green Lantern doesnt appear in full until the Beware My Power spine and only his ring is visible on your copy of The Long Halloween p2, however on my releases (UK) Green Lantern is visible in full, and his ring is only visible in Part 1? I also noticed that on your copy of The Long Halloween part 1 that Aqua Man is visible and centralised to the spine however on my UK release of the same film he seems to of been shifted a few CM to the left as his head is not visible and would only be on what i assume to be the Justice Society WWII spine which i dont own yet, its crazy how they cant even stay consistent with spine placement lmao.
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Always love these kinds of videos. Packaging consistency is something I always love, and seeing even subtle shifts like format and company logo placement changing drives me up a wall.
I’m glad you enjoy these videos! Like I said towards the end, the spine is what I see 90% of the time anyways so I feel its important
I only sporadically buy DC Animated movies (mostly on Black Friday sales) and I really don't like that my copies of Long Halloween part 1 & 2 have that DCU spine branding and I'll never complete the entire picture.
Also, Under the Red Hood is still my favorite of all of them so far, but I also really like Batman Year One and Wonder Woman 2009.
That’s a good point about the spine art I didn’t think about. For those not having the desire to collect them all, it just looks strange
This is exactly why I praise that I work as a graphic designer and I can design myself and print a replacement covers for most of my blu-rays. I've been collecting "Doctor Who" and this show was a spine mess. Not only the design, but they also could change the box, from regular plasting one, to a paper one with plastic traces. A nightmare.
I also noticed that there is a Deluxe Edition of "Long Halloween" in UK, combining two movies into one. It has a completely black spine. No matching art.
That's the case for the US release as well. WB really messed up this who spine art. What type of paper material do you use to print your replacement covers? I've been thinking of doing that myself and been trying to figure what to print them on.
I do something similiar. There's a guy at the flea market here in Sofia, Bulgaria who buys bulk DVDs and Blu-Rays from Germany and sells them for 1 euro each.
Some of them have localized titles, and some have that stupid flipped title thing, so I print out a replacement spine (with a fold tab on top to keep it in place).
It's the same for their graphic novels too. Messing up the spine should be a federal crime...
For real. My comic shelf cries in pain at some of those spines
A year later, it looks like they've given up on the spine art looking at the Crisis Part One Blu-ray...
I'm gonna need to update this video once that trilogy is all out. What a mess
It's time for an update of this video 💪
I need to buy the Crisis trilogy and then it will happen!
I personally think the 4K version of a long Halloween got delayed and is getting pushed into 2023 that’s our best case scenario the worst case is it got canceled without us knowing it. Partially because of the discovery purchasing Warner Brothers media.
Its currently slated for September 20th, but we'll see if that sticks
With the power of hindsight and Legion of Super Heroes since out, basically they messed up by ever putting those logos on the Long Halloween BDs, and if you remove those/replace with the deluxe LH, then you’re back to consistent spine art. As long as DC doesn’t do this mixup again!
Could someone potentially figure out how many movies this series was going to have by comparing the font to the DC Universe to the size of the Blu-Ray?
Fantastic video! So I made the mistake of getting the 4k version of Green Lantern and when I got it I was so confused with the spine art. I thought I had missed a release. I can’t see myself picking up the Blu Ray version just to get them to match but I may have to. Also I was looking at the Long Halloween Deluxe Edition on Amazon and it shows there is no spine art on the side, oh boy.
I ended up buying both formats for Green Lantern and will probably do it for Legion of Super-Heroes too. At some point I just gotta throw my hands up knowing this will always be a mess
I steered clear of the connecting spine art with DC because I knew they would be inconsistent lol. they were so tempting though
The concept was great but they bungled the execution so badly lol
Hate that they are doing them across all of the animated movies. If it was just across the connected films it would make more sense to me, but I will likely not purchase many of the standalones unless I really like them, but even if I do I would probably put them on the shelf separate and keep the in continuity movies together in chronological order. So even if I did have all of the movies, I don't like the fact that I have to stick Soul of the Dragon, a standalone movie, in between Man of Tomorrow and Justice Society which are directly connected.
Honestly because Soul is the only one off in the line-up, I'm half expecting one of the other movies to randomly pick up the story from that movie in some weird crossover
amazingly well put together video, you're missing some of the older ones though no? Also, any update?
I own all the DC Animated Movies on Blu-Ray in some form but I didn’t bring them all out for this
I thought it was cool they included Doomsday with The Death and Return of Superman since it's another version of Death of Superman and being the first DC Animated movie.
Definitely! It makes for a compilation of adaptations of the story
Also another thing that is stated on the commentary track of the superman man of tomorrow the Batman soul of the dragon is set in the same universe as superman man of tomorrow and justice society of America.
I remember that statement, and I guess it just means that its another universe within this multiverse cause Soul and Long Halloween don’t correlate
Could you please do an update on this after all three parts of crisis come out next year? :)
Sure thing! Especially since it seems like Crisis will be the end of this universe
they've actually gone insane, it seems even though they feature the same art piece for the spines on the UK releases they're also inconsistent, this is a series of blu-rays ive recently began collecting myself, i started with The Long Halloween Parts 1 & 2 and noticed they had connecting spine art which made me want to collect the lot, however ive just noticed something.
on your copies (US) Green Lantern doesnt appear in full until the Beware My Power spine and only his ring is visible on your copy of The Long Halloween p2, however on my releases (UK) Green Lantern is visible in full, and his ring is only visible in Part 1?
I also noticed that on your copy of The Long Halloween part 1 that Aqua Man is visible and centralised to the spine however on my UK release of the same film he seems to of been shifted a few CM to the left as his head is not visible and would only be on what i assume to be the Justice Society WWII spine which i dont own yet, its crazy how they cant even stay consistent with spine placement lmao.
Oh my god. That's crazy. This spine art is madness XD
OK but have you seen the newest crisis part 1....
I haven’t watched it yet cause every time I see the spine art I black out
This is an absolute mess with no consistency I have no idea what's going on with these spines for the new ones.
Same here
"DC Universe Animated Movie" don't sound like real words anymore
After having said those words so much here they lost all meaning
Just wait until you get the 4k Green Lantern BMP Blu Ray...
I got it...and the Blu-Ray version too to connect the spine art...
It's a shame the Mystery of the Batman Blu Ray wasn't included in the Batman the animated series Blu Ray set.
I’m not really sure why it wasn’t included. Weird stuff
@@Soundout12 I'm just glad it came with the other two movies at least.
Definitely
Dc comic be like you actually bought the physical copies?! Lol purchase them digitally.
Lol right?
I am so confused aswell hahah. The art is different for Europeanen releases aswell 🤪
Oh no 🤣. What are the European arts like?
@@Soundout12 its the same. But the size is different. Because of that a part of beware my power, is allready on the long halloween part 2 spine
@@mrgilamonyet Fun…