Hmmm. I think I did this better on April 1st.

[marycrawford]

OK, so the house of ill repute that is the Hercules store (owned by the same people as the equally ill-famed Highlander store) now has something for sale they call the Hercules Action Pack DVD collection, for $39.99.

It's a mishmash - two of the TV movies (Lost Kingdom and Amazon Women), the Xena trilogy (Warrior Princess, The Gauntlet and Unchained Heart), the Young Hercules movie and the animated movie. These are all for sale separately, on DVD and VHS, and the first five are all on the Hercules season 1 DVD set, which would be a much better buy if you ask me.

But what caught my attention is this bit of marketing speak:

"the legendary action comes alive with loads of new features like behind-the-scenes documentaries, deleted scenes and outtakes, alternate endings, and other cool stuff as well."

No details on what any of the cool stuff actually is, of course. Maybe they just stuck some of the DVD season set extras on there? Maybe the extras are entirely legendary, like the famous 'European extended scenes'? Anyway, I just wanted to give you the heads-up - if any of you actually see this in stores, I'd appreciate more details.

Comments

[roo2.livejournal.com]

Okay, believe it or not I actually have this. I bought it (from Amazon.com) several years ago - maybe a year or two before they started releasing either series on DVD. Never bothered watching the animated movie, for the record. It looked too embarrassing. I think it's in a closet somewhere :-) I don't recall exactly what the extras were, but I do remember not being overly impressed. I can dig up the discs and check though, maybe. I moved all of my DVDs out of their original cases and into CD binders, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to tell which is the version of the movies released with S1 and which is this set. There might not be any difference.

Anyway, I think this was one of those cases where they released a few episodes of a series on DVD to sort of test the market and see if people would buy it. These guys probably just have lots of them left over now that people can buy the whole series.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't realize this was a re-issue - I thought the earlier Action Pack had less in it, but I had a look at what Amazon lists here, dated 1999 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0783238835/102-4363794-9341745?v=glance), and you're right, it's the same thing. So yeah, I'd like to know what the extras were, but not if that would mean you'd have to hire an archaeologist to find them or anything. *g*

You'd think they would ease up on the price a little now that all the seasons are out, wouldn't you?