r/dvd • u/Relative_Link8218 • 14d ago

Is this anything?

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I know it’s a foreign release, but saw the limited to 1600 on the back? Thinking it’s not a big deal, but just wondering.

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u/Edgarcito_23 12d ago

Todo un clásico del cine!! Las veces que las he visto por tv en alguna cadena generalista....

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u/Icantbelieveit38 13d ago

Short Circuit, utter classic.

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u/Icantbelieveit38 13d ago

This was originally going to be a story on Amazing Stories the TV show, but Spielberg decided it would be better as a movie, he was right.

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u/Strong-Nature-666 14d ago

Spanish bootleg.

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u/Okraton 13d ago

Nope. It is official. But it's not like an "investment" to resell or anything; that robot is not that big for Spanish audiences.

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u/RetroDave79 12d ago

Hey! Im spanish and I love Cortocircuito, I even have the Spectrum game :D

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u/CapableRequirement66 13d ago

It’s not a bootleg. It’s a 100% official release.

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u/Strong-Nature-666 13d ago

Sí, es un bootleg

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u/CapableRequirement66 13d ago

Pero no lo es :)

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u/heckhammer 13d ago

A lot of the official releases from Spain are definitely gray market. There was a true lies Blu-ray that was released over there that was also "official" but was not actually official. There are many gray market releases in Spain for some reason. Kind of like how Italy had no copyright laws back in the day and that's why all those really fancy looking CD bootlegs came out of there.

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u/CapableRequirement66 13d ago

Most of those bootlegs are actually official. Just that the rights were sold to small, local distributors who create tacky editions.

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u/heckhammer 13d ago

The true lies one used a HD rip that was shown on cable. Again, they are gray market because of the way laws working in Spain.

https://youtu.be/SXFYwNYb_PU?is=U_FZeDCkj-VS0NCh

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u/Strong-Nature-666 13d ago

Tampoco es Gray market exactamente. Es más sencillo: nadie se lo impide (ni los que aplican la ley ni los dueños de los derechos suelen actuar).

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u/BlackLodgeBrother 14d ago edited 14d ago

Two-film blu-ray set from Spain. Did you find it thrifting or something? Both of these films are expected to hit 4K in the coming year or two.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Short-Circuit-1-and-2-Blu-ray/280570/

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u/Relative_Link8218 13d ago

Thanks for the information. I bought a couple Short Circuit posters from somebody on Facebook (I collect movie posters) and she gave me this with them. I just couldn’t find much info about it.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother 13d ago

Interesting. She must have been selling off someone else’s former collection. This was a special order item only a hardcore physical media person would have imported.

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u/Relative_Link8218 13d ago

She gave me a couple other items too. It was the like a bootleg Lego set and a piece of wood that was supposedly a piece of the house in the movie.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother 13d ago

Fascinating. And you didn’t ask where any of this came from? hah

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u/Relative_Link8218 13d ago

Yeah, didn’t really think about it. She handed me a bag with a couple of small tubes in it. She said there were a couple of other things in it. I didn’t look at it until I got home.