Children Of Men DVD Amnesty

Basq · 01-04-2007 4:01pm #1

Upgrade your vanilla disc to the special edition for free.

As noted in this month's Empire magazine - May Issue of DVD REVIEW (on page 14):

The film has been re-released as a 2-disc special edition featuring documentarys, deleted scenes etc.

Universal is offering you the chance to trade in your vanilla disc for the new special edition.

All you do is send your copy (no ex-rental or pirate copies) along with a self addressed jiffy bag stamped to the value of 70p to:

CHILDREN OF MEN DVD AMNESTY
PO BOX 188
WOODFORD GREEN
ESSEX
IG8 7RW

Offer valid until June 30th 2007

Should do this more often!

Creature · 01-04-2007 4:05pm

May I ask what a vanilla disc is? Is that just the standard 1-disc no-frills edition that came our first?

Basq · 01-04-2007 4:07pm

Creature wrote:

May I ask what a vanilla disc is? Is that just the standard 1-disc no-frills edition that came our first?

Yep.. exactly.

Vanilla means just the film on a disc with no extras. One that really gets me is advertising "Interactive Menu" as a special feature! Wow-eeeee! :eek:

Creature · 01-04-2007 4:14pm

basquille wrote:

One that really gets me is advertising "Interactive Menu" as a special feature! Wow-eeeee! :eek:

Lol yeah that always made me laugh.

Anyway thanks for clearing that up. I might just give this a go. Any idea why they're doing this? It sounds a bit dodgy..

Edit. April Fools day just realised

Karl Hungus · 01-04-2007 4:45pm

Creature wrote:

Edit. April Fools day just realised

I'd laugh if someone actually did post off a DVD, only for them to find out no such offer exists, and they just lost themselves a DVD.

Basq · 01-04-2007 4:49pm

As much as i'd like to take credit for this, it IS actually in Empire this month.

And if it is indeed an April Fool's joke on their part, it's a bit underwhelming to say the least.

qwertplaywert · 01-04-2007 5:17pm

would have been a great offer though

randomchild · 01-04-2007 5:32pm

Its in dvd review too, which is a competitor to empire's sister magazine.

Karl Hungus · 01-04-2007 5:34pm

Heh, I'm hold onto my skepticism untill tomorrow, and see what happens.

Anyone here going to take avail of this offer?

Jello · 01-04-2007 6:10pm

Yeah just checked Empire and it's on page 31 - apparently Alfonso Cuarón found out the DVD had no exras and didn't like the cover when he saw it on sale in Woolworths, so he encouraged Universal to release this special edition.
Good offer though, think I might send away for it.

BopNiblets · 01-04-2007 7:48pm

What's a jiffy bag?

That sounds like a good deal, if true.

monkeyfudge · 01-04-2007 7:51pm

Jello wrote:

Yeah just checked Empire and it's on page 31 - apparently Alfonso Cuarón found out the DVD had no exras and didn't like the cover when he saw it on sale in Woolworths, so he encouraged Universal to release this special edition.
Good offer though, think I might send away for it.

Yeah. It really was a sh*te looking cover alright.

eamon234 · 01-04-2007 7:53pm

Alfonso Cuaron shops in Woolworths!!!??? I love it:D

KdjaCL · 01-04-2007 7:54pm

When DVD 1st came out Armageddon was on 2 discs (had to change disc during movie) whoever made it replaced those with a 1 disc version in the same way as above.

kdjac

ixoy · 01-04-2007 8:02pm

If it is true... how do we avail of it? If we send a S.A.E it will have an Irish stamp that won't be valid from the UK...

ObeyGiant · 02-04-2007 8:26am

Just thought I should point out that, although basquillte posted this on April Fool's Day, it comes from the May issue of Empire. So I'd doubt this is a prank.

ObeyGiant · 02-04-2007 8:34am

Also, a bit of Googling reveals that the PO Box is owned by "Capricorn Services", who have been used by Universal for some of their DVD offers.

Basq · 07-04-2007 11:58am

One or two reports of it actually arriving here

Creature · 07-04-2007 12:09pm

Well it seems legit but I'm gonna opt to be the coward here and wait for someone else to do it.

Necronomicon · 07-04-2007 3:30pm

So....is it real?? I was really pissed when I walked into Virgin and saw the special ed, I bought the crappy 'vanilla' version when it came out what, only 2 months ago, if that? :mad:

And, as noted in Empire, the cover did make it look like a pirate dvd.

ixoy · 07-04-2007 5:51pm

Anyone know how to send a S.A.E for Ireland if we send the DVDs to the UK then?

07-04-2007 6:12pm

I was really annoyed when I saw the cover when it first came out. Such an amazing film, great poster design, and then they brought out a really shoddy looking cover!

Wow, only just the movie on the disc? I'm really glad I didn't buy it when it first came out so.