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Marvel followers: are you involved about about latest spate of excessive profile removals of unique content material on Disney+, and that these emotions of nothing being secure from being erased from authorized accessibility for a tax lower aren’t going away quickly? Nicely, why not purchase… an empty WandaVision case that comes with no copy of WandaVision?
The Direct studies this September sees the discharge of not one, however three particular version releases for WandaVision from third-party collectors media firm Manta Labs. It marks the primary time an MCU streaming challenge has obtained a bodily launch in such a capability—even sans the involvement of Disney’s own residence launch group, as confirmed by the Digital Bits—besides it doesn’t, as a result of all three variations are actually simply empty instances that don’t include discs and even digital copies of WandaVision in any respect.
Picture: Manta Lab
For as little as $37 and as excessive as nearly $90 due to Manta Lab, you too may personal numerous states of extravagant packing containers for skinny air. Every version comes with a steelbook with a unique design impressed by the present, and a slipcase to go over that steelbook, in addition to further accoutrements like postcards impressed by paintings from the present’s retro-styled opening credit, and character playing cards that includes poster artwork. Have we talked about that none of those include a duplicate of WandaVision but? We most likely ought to. None of those include a duplicate of WandaVision!
Fancily packaged collectors’ editions of media are nothing new, and they’ll proceed to persist for the forseeable future. However there’s something really, outstandingly absurd within the making right here. Individuals would gladly pay for a bodily copy of WandaVision, or Andor, or an excellent chunk of Disney+’s streaming exclusives both instantly from Disney itself or from third celebration licensors—particularly within the wake of an ongoing string of cuts to the platform’s originals library because the Home of Mouse decides legally accessing the content material you subscribed to its companies for is much less priceless {that a} tax lower for eradicating that entry. At a time the place bodily media is turning into extra priceless than ever and the streaming period enters this part of archival consolidation, shopping for an empty field is only a weird selection.
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