I was very disappointed that they didn't include Solo and Rogue One as part of The Skywalker Saga. I guess they had to draw the line somewhere, but those seems like obvious inclusions. I know it's been rumored there will be more "Star Wars Stories" movies in the future, so perhaps that's why they weren't included. Oddly, I don't feel compelled to pick up 4K versions of those at this time - mainly I guess because I've already spent way too much money on this franchise, plus I have a Disney+ subscription.
I mainly jumped on The Skywaker Saga after I made a huge mistake not getting the Marvel 4K box set a year ago - I had no idea it would be such a limited release, and now they are super expensive to pick up used, and the only alternative is to buy each movie or subset individually at a higher cost. So now I'm on the sidelines, waiting for the next phase of Marvel films to hit 4K, in hopes there will be a new super box set - I won't hesitate next time...
Storage of disc cases is an ongoing challenge for all of us. I personally have kept all my cases, but they are stored away in boxes in the basement. I used to have a huge custom built-in bookshelf I built in my previous home for displaying all my movies, and plan to do another display in my next home (whenever that happens) - but with 6 more years and way too many more cases since then, I might have to scale back those dreams. Perhaps I only display my favorites, or even just my collectible special editions.
Displaying collectibles is also my newest challenge, as I've started collecting movie prop replicas. Some I buy, some I make. Again, my dream is to have a display area in my next home, but the more display area for props, the less I have for movies. For bought replicas, I have a Terminator arm, a Thanos Infinity Gauntlet, an Iron Man Nano Guantlet, a Sky Lord mask, baby Yoda (sorry, I mean Grogu), and some John Wick medallions. For my made replicas, I have a Harry Potter wand (Dumbledor's Elder wand), a Davinci Code inspired Codex, an Iron Man mask, and an Indiana Jones fertility idol. I'm most excited about my fertility idol - I printed it hollow and then filled it with lead shot and resin, so it weighs 21 lbs!!! For something so small to be so heavy, it boggles the mind. I've also bought real 24k gold leaf, no fake spray paint here. I haven't applied the leaf yet, hope to get to that soon. The final cost to fabricate the fertility idol will be well over $500 - shocking for a homemade special - which includes about $100 in lead shot alone. Hopefully when I'm done it will look and feel like real, solid gold. And at 21 lbs, that would be about $582,000 worth of raw gold alone, but worth even more since it is an ancient artifact, hehehe. I like the fact that the "jewel" of my collection will be something I made, and essentially one of a kind.
There's lots more movie props I want to create in the future, too. James Bond gadgets, some Star Wars stuff (light saber, blaster), Ghostbusters traps, Big Baby Hellboy gun, and so much more. I can't watch a movie anymore without being on the looking for a cool movie prop. Some props, like a Luke Skywalkers light saber, I would like to make from real metal, and I need machining equipment like a lathe, stuff I hope to have a place for in my next home.
Wow, I really got off on a tangent there. I should probably add a discussion section to the forum just for sharing movie props.
Teddyboy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:49 pm
I did finish ripping all those discs over the weekend. Star Wars was the last of it. Now I'm just curating my collection in MyMovies.
I cheated. I didn't add The Skywalker Sage to My Movies. Instead, I treated each movie as a separate 4K movie. I already have a "Start Wars" movie collection defined, so they show up inside of that.
I did it this way because when you add a box set collection to My Movies, it shows up as a single film only (at best). I had the problem a few weeks ago when I added my new "Bad Boys I & II" 4K box set - it doesn't show up as either movie, and for that reason it didn't link into my Bad Boys movie collection with the 3rd film. So I added both I and II separately, and linked them as children to the box set, just to get them to display the way I wanted in CMC. I figured why go through all the work to setup The Skywalker Saga in My Movies if it wasn't going to display each movie separately.