XII on disc (UK)

[NoFro]

Red Dwarf XII is now up for pre-order on Amazon UK. Release date November 20th.

Only a DVD at the moment. Hopefully that changes…

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[flanl3]

Argh. Seems you all are getting it first this time around. The US one is marked for November 21st.

[NoFro]

Also listed on Base.com. Both DVD and Blu Ray.

[McAleeCh]

Here’s hoping there’s also a steelbook release with the XI episode titles listed on the back…! ; )

[International Debris]

Slightly unimpressed (but, given it was the first promo shot, not surprised) with the ‘Everybody’s Kryten’ cover. The last two have just had generic crew shots, which I think would suit it a little better.

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Yeah, I’d have gone for the standard XII bunkroom publicity pic as per X and XI. I like that photo but it’s going to confuse people in ASDA. It almost resembles a pic they’d use on a VHS ‘Byte’, too specific for a full series. Am I right in saying that this isn’t even a large portion of the episode?

Also, it’s still weird that so much of the marketing revolves around episode *2*.

[Dave]

Am I right in saying that this isn’t even a large portion of the episode?

Maybe we can wait until we’ve had a chance to see it before we answer that.

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I’m only going off the set report, I may be wrong.

[International Debris]

Yeah, I think the images of Lister and Rimmer in Kryten get-up as part of the reverse sleeve, I-VIII-style, would work fine, but it does seem to look a bit like ‘This is the series where they’re all Kryten!’

[NoFro]

Yeah if you’re not familiar with the show you’re probably going to think it’s a whole show about robots. That might grab some people, I guess.

[Moonlight]

This is NOT necessarily the final cover. It’s missing the Dave logo like on the XI cover, and XI’s listing originally came with that atrocious temp cover missing The Cat. Everyone freaked out over that when it was obviously some shitty temp Photoshop job.

…maybe because Series X’s cover looked like a shitty temp Photoshop job.

My point is this is almost certainly not the final cover, and we’re most likely getting the standard crew shot to match XI.

[Shades]

Amazon now have the Blu-Ray up for UK.

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Tip if you haven’t got Prime – Amazon’s pre-order price is currently about £22, which means that you can get it with free postage without having to add anything to it, and they’re guaranteed to drop the price considerably before release.

[si]

The Blu-ray is £16.99 on Zavvi, DVD £14.99.

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Amazon’s will be at least that too soon, whatever HMV price it as basically will dictate the online stores. But at least I can get it Super Saver without having to add any other bumph. I’ve spent enough lately…

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Amazon always overprice early on as it makes the discounts look better once they’ve been added to everyone’s wishlists. But it never stays there, it’s just a bit of psychology. At least this way I can play them at their own game.

[Jape of the Decade]

Any more details emerging regarding the DVD/Blu-ray release? It’s still showing up on Amazon with the ‘Everyone is Kryten’ cover (I’m hopeful this isn’t the actual chosen cover), but as we are nearing the end of the season just wandering if there had been more detail regarding the release, art work, special features etc…?

[cwickham]

Nothing’s gone through the BBFC yet, which I find surprising.

[sd99]

DVD on amazon is now down to 12.99 btw

[cwickham]

Well, we now know David Ross is on the XII docco.

So I interviewed David Ross in Blackburn for the DVD- and saw this shop afterwards! pic.twitter.com/G3gKQCYOuO

— Nathan Cubitt (@NathanCubitt) November 3, 2017

[Ben Paddon]

On word on a steelbook yet? Nothing listed on Amazon so far.

[sd99]

Any word on the flip cover? I assume there will be one?

[It’sMarilynMonroe!]

<blockquote cite=”Well, we now know David Ross is on the XII docco.
https://twitter.com/NathanCubitt/status/926568238884024321″&gt;

“Part exchange welcome” — Now *there’s* a Cat-insulting-Rimmer gag just waiting to be used.

[It’sMarilynMonroe!]

Rats.

[sd99]

Nice to see you know who from Skipper on the spine of the alternative DVD.

[si]

Nice to see you know who from Skipper on the spine of the alternative DVD.

Yeah, good job people buying episodes of Red Dwarf on DVD have usually seen them on TV, or at least have some knowledge of what happens (from TV trailers etc), or else it’d be like putting ‘JE’S A GHOST’

[si]

Fuck this phone and it’s autocorrect and inability to post properly.

*ahem*

…it’d be like putting ‘HE’S A GHOST!’ on the front cover of that film. You know the one.

[Seb Patrick]

Ghostbusters?

[bloodteller]

no i think he means The Sixth Sense

[Pete Part Three]

>it’d be like putting ‘HE’S A GHOST!’ on the front cover of that film. You know the one.

Or the Statue of Liberty on the front of the Planet of the Apes cover.

Oh. Wait.

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Anyone spotted the strapline which offers “140 minutes of extras”? That’s 50 more than XI had…

[Lily]

>it’d be like putting ‘HE’S A GHOST!’ on the front cover of that film. You know the one.

Ghost?

[Seb Patrick]

>no i think he means The Sixth Sense

There’s no ghost in the Sixth Sense. I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Unbreakable.

[sd99]

> Anyone spotted the strapline which offers “140 minutes of extras”? That’s 50 more than XI had…

I’m hoping 28 of those are the *real* version of Timewave and Doug was just having a joke with the one that’s been show on telly…

50 mins is a lot extra tho – extended episodes maybe?

That’s also 2 blue covers in a row…

[International Debris]

Not keen on blue again, although it’s contrasted with white. Also having all four in the corner rather than just Lister and Rimmer. I’ll probably be keeping the ‘official’ cover.

[International Debris]

50 mins is a lot extra tho – extended episodes maybe?

Or just up to the standard of the previous ones.

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That’s 70 minutes more if you count the gap left by 20 minutes of model shots we’ve already had.

I’d be happy with a documentary that doesn’t feel chopped down to fit a time limit, a fuller selection of deleted scenes, and a Smeg Ups reel like we used to get. That was the biggest heartbreak of the XI release, especially after how *perfect* the one on X was. All my issues with the XI extras were down to them rushing and skipping – what was there was great, there just wasn’t enough of it.

[Pete Part Three]

>There’s no ghost in the Sixth Sense. I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Unbreakable.

Don’t start that again, Seb.

[cwickham]

I suspect most of the runtime is a longer documentary – we already know that XII didn’t go quite as swimmingly as XI did.

[International Debris]

I wonder if the slightly disappointed reaction to the undercooked extras of XI played any part in this lengthier selection. If the documentary is as in-depth as the I-X ones, and the deleted scenes and smeg ups are all left intact, then that’s likely as good an extras package as we can realistically expect at this point, and one I’d be more than satisfied with.

[si]

Realised earlier that the reverse sleeve is the first of that ‘traditional’ template to feature all four cast members. It’s usually just Rimmer and Lister, even if the other side features all of them.

So that’s interesting, innit?

[Renegade Rob]

Meh. It’s a decent group shot but one that’s would better belong on the back. As a fan of consistency, I really would’ve liked shots of just Rimmer and Lister. Like Old M-Corp Lister and either Mechocracy Candidate Rimmer or Skipper old-school Rimmer. Even just the two of them as Krytens would have been fine. But four is right out.

[si]

As a fan of consistency, I really would’ve liked shots of just Rimmer and Lister.

Me too, absolutely.

‘Fan of consistency’ and ‘anal, pedantic bastard’ are the same thing, right?

[Renegade Rob]

One hundred percent.

[cwickham]

Hitler or Aniter should’ve been on the spine. (Maybe even Talkie Toaster.) I get why they’ve gone for Holly, but it’s going to annoy me no end.

[Pete Part Three]

I don’t actually buy the DVDs any more. (I know, I’m awful). Do they still alternate the size of the “series x” font on the spine, just to cover the mistake they made with Series Two?

[Moonlight]

I suspect most of the runtime is a longer documentary – we already know that XII didn’t go quite as swimmingly as XI did.

Perhaps Series XII just has more story to tell.

[Moonlight]

Oh, and let’s not forget that the XII doc could potentially address the overall production in a more retrospective manner. XI’s simply could not do that for virtue of half the episodes still being a year away, and for presumably being locked down before any of its own episodes had aired.

[si]

)Do they still alternate the size of the “series x” font on the spine

Unforgivably, the series number on the covers of series XI & XII aren’t in bold. And on the XII sleeve cover, the ‘XII’ is the same size as the ‘RED DWARF’.

I know. Shocking, isn’t it?

[cwickham]

Rundown of the XI extras
Behind the scenes: 52 mins 48 secs
Deleted scenes: 14 mins
Smeg Ups: 5 mins 35 secs
Trailers & promos: 2 mins 55 secs
VFX: 1 min 37 secs
Model shots: 19 mins 30 secs
Photo gallery: 5 mins 25 secs

Totalling about 102 mins. Note that the XI cover advertises ‘over 90 mins’, so presumably doesn’t include the photo gallery in that runtime. Either way, we can presume that the XII DVD has put on about 38 mins. So a longer docco and more deleted scenes?

[Me Own Stunts]

> Rundown of the XI extras

We probably don’t need to speculate about the Red Dwarf XI DVD release anymore, though.

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