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UY box music set?
And you're not the only one with a complete set of disc art. I'm not curious enough to try that experiment though...I suspect it wouldn't go for much now simply because the main fans have moved on. Maybe after Genesis comes out and (hopefully) draws some attention back onto the series.
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And you're not the only one with a complete set of disc art. I'm not curious enough to try that experiment though...I suspect it wouldn't go for much now simply because the main fans have moved on. Maybe after Genesis comes out and (hopefully) draws some attention back onto the series.
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Alunissage wrote:UY box music set?
And you're not the only one with a complete set of disc art. I'm not curious enough to try that experiment though...I suspect it wouldn't go for much now simply because the main fans have moved on. Maybe after Genesis comes out and (hopefully) draws some attention back onto the series.
Yeah, I heard that's who you are.
Urusei Yatsura - it's this music set of about 15 cds, out of print for a while, and always sells for a few hundred on ebay when it happens to appear.
Oh, I imagine that there are a few people with the complete sets (I think that I have a total of about 10 discs, spare copies of my favorites). I liked the original disc art on the scd games much more than the art for SSS or L2EB.
Haha, nice - I'm being discussed! Have you heard about my "discovery" on EB (scd)?
It always did seem like a shame that there was never as much cel art for EB (original or remix) as there was for TSS and SSS, and the CD art variation was such a cool idea. I wonder if there was a science to getting the rare ones...I ordered TSS direct from Working Designs after I first played MCD Eternal Blue back in 1996 or so, and later realized that they'd given me what was apparently the rarest disc, the one with the whole cast on it. Same luck happened for SSS, in fact, which I also got direct!
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What, the Dragonmaster Dyne/Dragonmaster Alex set? That was the first release, and probably the most common for that reason. That's the only one I can think of that would be described that way. It's set 1 on this page: http://www.workingdesigns.com/museum/pl ... index.html
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Yeah, the page lists them in order released. I exchanged many emails with Innova getting it straightened out. I'm virtually certain WD never said anything about the comparative rarity of those discs, at least not since I've been paying attention. My own first set, before I knew about any of this, was set 3, and I got that around September 99. My bf (before I met him; we met on the WDMB after each buying this game) got his in around July 99 and got set 2, which is definitely the first -- you'll note that it's in the promo shots of the full packaging, even though there were only solid-colored placeholder labels for the soundtrack and documentary. My own comments on rarity are strictly observation of what I've seen sold on eBay and what's been found in stores; I got my Set 4 because someone on the WDMB bought the last two a store had in the hopes of getting unique sets but they were both #4 so he sold me one at cost. (Later, I returned the favor by selling him my extra EBC set 2.) I think I like one and three myself, though; I don't get much out of anime scene stills and prefer artwork. I think one reason TSS's are more interesting in general is because there's so much artwork of that game, perhaps to make up for there not being so much animation in the game itself. It was too easy for the remakes to just lean on the animation created for the game, I guess.
While the rarity of the SSSC sets isn't so obvious, it's a bit more so in the case of EBC -- there definitely seem to be fewer of set 2 of that one. They were planning a third printing, but never made it. And now that WD's sold out of Arc Collection perhaps I can mention that there were two sets of that as well, which almost no one seems to know about because the second was made in such small quantity...
While the rarity of the SSSC sets isn't so obvious, it's a bit more so in the case of EBC -- there definitely seem to be fewer of set 2 of that one. They were planning a third printing, but never made it. And now that WD's sold out of Arc Collection perhaps I can mention that there were two sets of that as well, which almost no one seems to know about because the second was made in such small quantity...
Wow, that is some excellent research, well-done! Despite MCD Lunar~EB being my very favorite video game, I had no idea that the EB remix even had multiple discs! I'm actually surprised Working Designs used animation stills for some of the SSS CD's simply because, like with TSS, there was a dumbfounding number of cels, close to ten by my count by the time the US version of SSS came out. They had the right idea getting the rarer Set 3-Disc 2 cel with Nasch, Mia, and Ghaleon, which makes it a shame they didn't get the other cels used on the novels (except for the one they used for the tray inlay, to great effect).
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Heh, rereading my post I realized I ran on two sentences and didn't make any sense -- I meant to say that my bf got set 2 a month or two after the game was released, and set 1 was definitely the first. And when I say I exchanged emails with Innova, I mean that I was correcting him, not the other way around.
I'm wondering if the novel artwork was even available, since I haven't seen it anywhere but the novels themselves even in the Japanese stuff. I think. I'll need to go through them when I get home and see, but that one pic you mentioned is pretty much the only one I remember seeing anywhere else.
I don't really get why WD opted for stills for EBC, though. Both sets are only stills, complete with that scary one of Ruby about to scratch Hiro. They did use the nice one of Leo from the credits for the second set, though, rather than him as White Knight. Odd that Jean wasn't represented, come to think of it. Maybe she would've been in the third.
I'm wondering if the novel artwork was even available, since I haven't seen it anywhere but the novels themselves even in the Japanese stuff. I think. I'll need to go through them when I get home and see, but that one pic you mentioned is pretty much the only one I remember seeing anywhere else.
I don't really get why WD opted for stills for EBC, though. Both sets are only stills, complete with that scary one of Ruby about to scratch Hiro. They did use the nice one of Leo from the credits for the second set, though, rather than him as White Knight. Odd that Jean wasn't represented, come to think of it. Maybe she would've been in the third.
It's true, the novel artwork is fantastically rare...I can't remember if it was actually produced after the SSS Newtype collection or not, but it's certainly not in there, but WD's use of at least the scary one with Luna and Ghaleon was a welcome choice. I'd love the one of Dyne and Althena from book four, but I've never seen any of the book arts on the internet...maybe in some of the Japanese strategy guides, perhaps.
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