September 17, 2004

The force is not with me

I got home from work half an hour ago to find a parcel from my online DVD retailer of choice, containing - gasp! - my pre-ordered copy of... The Star Wars Trilogy.

Hands shaking (well, okay, at least slightly), I opened the Jiffy bag from Sendit, unwrapped the box inside, took the disc for A New Hope out of the box and popped it into my Mac.

Imagine my surprise, then, when the menus came up for Return of the Jedi. Odd, I thought, but played the movie anyway.

And yes. The disc which was silkscreened as A New Hope turned out to be Return of the Jedi. Empire does contain Empire, the special features disc is the special features disc, but inspecting the barcodes burned into the two other discs they're definitely the same - only one is mislabelled.

Either this is a rare one-off, or there are going to be one hell of a lot of unhappy campers as pre-ordered copies arrive over the next couple of days and the shops start selling'em on Tuesday.

Posted by mpk at September 17, 2004 5:27 PM | TrackBack
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Hope for the former.... some idiot will probably buy it from you at an inflated price on Ebay.

Posted by: Murk at September 17, 2004 7:38 PM

We'll soon find out... my pre-ordered copy from Amazon should arrive before long :-)

Posted by: Artela at September 17, 2004 7:50 PM

I can match this - I once bought a 2-disc Quake expansion pack from Game, only to discover that on the Quake-marked discs was "Northern Exposure" - a 2-disc trance album from Ministry of Sound. Which I already owned. Odd mix up at the factory, that.

And good luck getting anything soon from Amazon: My last two orders have taken 3 weeks to arrive (alright, it /was/ super-saver delivery, but honestly) and the latest still hasn't been shipped after 4 days, despite being in stock and having paid for 1st class post!

Posted by: Hugh at September 18, 2004 12:28 AM
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