Physical movies should not be so annoying to get

With Best Buy, Target, Walmart and more purchasing destinations that eliminate their film and music media, we need to buy our little entertainment treats while in errands, the adult version of being a child who competes with toy halls to see What’s new. Even buying online for films has lost part of its enjoyment, especially if you are a collector of physical media, with limited editions of films that run out too fast if you missed your fall.

A recent example: Walmart’s Wicked SteelBook, the retailer was the only one to take the collector’s edition, came out online months before the film media launch last week. Well, that’s fine, things run out online. But in addition to that, fans like me hoped to hunt the Wicked The steel book in stores has also found obstacles. The launch has not only proven to be difficult to find, but there has been a bit of confusion about whether Steelbook’s launch was really only online. On the Walmart website, the option to search in nearby stores can be click, but when you hit it, no nearby stores that take it are reflected. Meanwhile, shipping and delivery options are open, which is frustrating because not only are the entertainment corridors in stores these days, but the shortage is also reaching the online.

But you can Buy the standard cover, which is aesthetically less attractive; Instead of the movie poster, opt for large first planes of the film’s main characters. And that style choice has become so frequent in family films, especially with animation. I want to add Pixar’s Toy history To your collection with the original movie poster? No, the best thing you can do is get one with Woody’s giant forehead slapped in the front. And yes, I understand that this might seem a complaint from a collector without children, but I have a child and I prefer to have the beautiful images of the poster as part of his collection of physical media. My childhood memory is my VHS Clamshell with Buzz and Woody flying on Andy’s bed. Let the children grow with pleasure!

It is becoming more difficult for the next generations to rediscover the power to possess the things they buy. We need the Z generation to save video closes and sections as they did Books in Barnes and Noblesomething they did thanks to social networks and popularize stores as meeting spaces. They are already being expelled from theaters thanks to prices, which means that the experience of going to the movies is being lost and then going to the store to look for movies. That was a fundamental part of my adolescence, and it is something that seems to get lost in the sea of ​​internet consumerism.

Having a child now, I am learning to treat things with which they grow with more reverence, just like when my father bought the special edition Star Wars Trilogy with the Golden Fund and Vader sliding. That is a clear image of my childhood, go to the video section with him and choose it to replace the previous versions we had at home. I would like my son to have such memories about an email alert and a click of a button. It is true that I have not been excellent to follow those intentions; It is easier for me to say: “Ok, Tuesday Target Run: toilet paper, baby wipes, cheese and Moana 2 Steelbook ”once the whole adult is made. How can it be easy to remember when the release of the movie of the edition of a collector will go up to the presale, when as soon as I reach a browser or open my phone, they hit me with distractions that make me forget why I contacted him in the First place? I must confess that I was on my phone at midnight, updating the Walmart application for another opportunity in the Wicked Seelbook the night before the street appointment, just to be thrown by reels to spend time, and then it was 12:30 am and was exhausted.

The impulse to digital life and the lease of things in a space where anything can suddenly disappear is one of the ugly things of our current state of dystopia. It has been surprising to visit Barnes and Noble during this resurgence in buyers who are knowing the beauty of wandering for cured spaces to inspire knowledge and create more creators of physical culture flavors for storytelling to transmit. It is nice to see young people raised in tablets Search books, records and CD, and hopefully time will also extend their interest to movies. At least B&N carries criteria releases, which include a Really orderly edition of Pixar’s Wall at least. So, while we are sad not to have the Wicked Steelbook in hand, we hope you go better to the physical launch of SellWhat better comes in a coffin.

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