In
our last Invader Zim news, I reported extensively about the limited edition box set that is being put together. As a summary, I had this to say:
Holy smokes, it sounds like they are going all-out to make this box set THE cool item to get! To sum it up, this will have all six DVDs full of episodes and supplements (3 releases with 2 DVDs each), plus an extra disc (they refer to it above as the 4th disc, but it's really the 7th) chock-full of bonus supplements that will differ from what is on the normal releases.
Immediately afterward, I received a note from "Rasputin" from the
Room With A Moose website that I was probably in error about this, and that the 3 double-disc releases would NOT accompany the special box set...it would be just the box and the bonus disc. I had no reason to doubt Rasputin, but didn't want to post an update to this site's readers without getting that word directly from Media Blasters.
My apologies to each of you, because with all of the fantastic news stories that have come and gone during the past two weeks, making contact with Media Blasters simply got by me.
Therefore, I owe the Bad Bad Rubber Piggy website a debt of thanks for covering this precise issue
here, when they spoke with Merideth Mulroney, the Media Blasters person who is the uber-Zim-chief. Merideth is in charge of the project in just about every way, and you can better believe every word spoken. Merideth has a lot to say about the special release, and we'll repeat it here. Along the way, you will see that Rasputin was right, and I was clearly wrong:
Q: Can you give an approximate date when we can expect to have the ability to pre-order from you?
A: O I don't really know.. I'm guess March or April.
Q: Will fans have the ability to order the box-set right away even though it's release won't happen until all three sets are out?
A: Not until the time comes closer... it's a ways off.
Q: Speaking of the box set, there seems to be some confusion within the fan community about what it will contain. Will the box set be a complete set of disks or just the box and the extra disk to put the assumable already purchased 3 double-disk sets in?
A: The hope is that each box will come with an extras disk contain the audio only episodes redone as animatics, more interviews (maybe commentary for the animatics.. I don't know), the soundtrack or at least a half soundtrack, and any scripts to unfinished episodes. It may contain a toy of sorts in the roof. Aside from the extras, the box will not come with the other DVDs in it (as you will have already bought them and would not need another set).
Q: "Limited Edition" being a relative term, will everyone who wants one expect to have access to one of the box sets? Will the number produced be based at all on pre-order numbers to assure supply for the demand?
A: I don't know yet... that number keeps changing. Stores are getting very interested in the release... so we may have to make more then expected.
Q: If the retail outlets are actually interested in a box-set now, I'd assume they'd want one with all the disks in it (since that's how it's usually done). Do you see two versions possibly being made, one for retail with *all* the disks, and one for direct order with just the extras for the fans who already own the first three releases?
A: No, the box will be sold with only the extras disk in it. Later on we may do a digipack release.
Q: What kind of toy is being talked about for the house box? The Voot? A squeeky pig?
A: Who knows...? I have many wild dreams of cool stuff to place in it. Only time will tell.
Our thanks to Merideth Mulroney for the information, to Media Blasters for letting Merideth bring us
Invader Zim, to Bad Bad Rubber Piggy for the great interview (please check out the rest of it at their website; the above is just a selected portion), and to Rasputin of Room With A Moose for setting me straight. My apologies for the error.
