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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 10:57:37 GMT
DW MR NO 267 Thin Time/Madquake Subscriber PDF Script and Extended Interview DL in Accounts Regards mark687 Phew... Only just over half-a-dozen releases to go. It's getting kind of eerie watching everything fill up towards #275. No whispers on what we can expect come March 2021 yet?
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Post by grinch on Sept 7, 2020 11:03:41 GMT
DW MR NO 267 Thin Time/Madquake Subscriber PDF Script and Extended Interview DL in Accounts Regards mark687 Phew... Only just over half-a-dozen releases to go. It's getting kind of eerie watching everything fill up towards #275. No whispers on what we can expect come March 2021 yet? None so far. But it’ll reckon it’ll be playing catch up for those Fifth Doctor Adventures. The Lost Resort and Perils and Nightmares as far as I can recall.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2020 11:19:03 GMT
Phew... Only just over half-a-dozen releases to go. It's getting kind of eerie watching everything fill up towards #275. No whispers on what we can expect come March 2021 yet? None so far. But it’ll reckon it’ll be playing catch up for those Fifth Doctor Adventures. The Lost Resort and Perils and Nightmares as far as I can recall. Sounds a tenable theory. I'm still trying to take it all in, in some respects. For the Sixth Doctor alone, from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2020, we'll have gone from Queen Mary's England to Robespierre's Paris and all the places in between. It's very quietly amazing. What a ride this has been...
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Sept 8, 2020 8:33:40 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Sept 8, 2020 14:58:13 GMT
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Post by nitronine on Sept 23, 2020 12:25:50 GMT
Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere but in the latest DWM it mentions that Shadow of the Daleks was made to fill the gap left by the two delayed Marc stories. Pretty much confirming, although not 100%, that they’ll be delayed until the new box set era.
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Post by theillusiveman on Sept 23, 2020 12:56:30 GMT
Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere but in the latest DWM it mentions that Shadow of the Daleks was made to fill the gap left by the two delayed Marc stories. Pretty much confirming, although not 100%, that they’ll be delayed until the new box set era. I wonder if that means they will make one or two more stories to fit it into the box set ( i wonder if the artworks for The Lost Resort and Perils and Nightmares will be included/individualized)
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Post by mark687 on Sept 24, 2020 10:13:58 GMT
Interesting timing for this Twitter Poll Personally I'd loose the Doctor Photo Side bars on the Covers (that's only about 150 they'd have to change! ) Regards mark687
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Post by shallacatop on Sept 24, 2020 10:32:10 GMT
I'm not sure they would sell more really. They're now mostly out of print, so download only, and they're already at reduced prices and a bulk of them are on Spotify for free. Seems like the time, effort and cost wouldn't warrant the return. I'd argue that those who are a little fussy on the covers will be disappointed hearing the audios themselves, particularly the earlier ones where the soundscapes are a little more sparse and don't feel like the polished productions they are now.
I think they'd get more out of permanently reducing some of their more recent sets and getting new customers on board that way; Classic Doctors, New Monsters 1 & 2, The Diary of River Song 1, The War Doctor: Only the Monstrous & The Tenth Doctor Adventures 1. It's a very good entry into Big Finish, gives you a taste of all of the Doctors and a popular spin-off that in turn branches you onto other things.
I feel that's a little more like-for-like to what Big Finish is like now. I think if you're going to get the reduced main range stories, then you're going to stick with that. At least with the above you run a chance of widening the scope and getting pre-orders in for upcoming releases.
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Post by ljwilson on Sept 24, 2020 11:23:30 GMT
I quite like the old covers!
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Post by theillusiveman on Sept 24, 2020 11:32:29 GMT
Well i Think it would be cool if they released some of the main range stories together in a limited edition box set form with reversible covers- new covers on front and old covers in back like for example:
The 8th Doctor can have: Storm Warning, Sword of Orion, The Stones of Venice and Minute in Hell in one boxset
The 5th Doctor, Peri and Erimen Stories can be a box-set
etc
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Post by nitronine on Sept 24, 2020 11:33:18 GMT
Updating the covers could be interesting but I can’t imagine how it’d be cost effective. Unless they did special editions for some stories, with updated sound effects or behind the scenes features. Maybe they could do vinyl releases with new cover art but the upcoming ASDA vinyl cover arts aren’t really anything special so they’d probably have to change more to do proper cover art like they did with Chimes and Spare Parts, but Spare Parts still hasn’t sold 500 copies despite being available for years so that probably isn’t the best plan either.
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Post by theillusiveman on Sept 24, 2020 11:35:03 GMT
Another marketable way is to have the best of The monthly range in a boxset form so classics like Spare Parts, Jubilee, The Chimes of Midnight could have a limited pressing and allow new listeners to sample the best of the main range?
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Sept 24, 2020 11:36:09 GMT
One thing I still really want them to do is season style download bundles for the arcs in at least the first 100 like they’ve done with the various spin offs like Davros and SJS.
That’d probably help new listeners a lot as well, so they don’t have to try and figure out which stories are a part of which arc and so on. They can just jump in with The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Volume 1 or whatever.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2020 11:44:34 GMT
One thing I still really want them to do is season style download bundles for the arcs in at least the first 100 like they’ve done with the various spin offs like Davros and SJS. That’d probably help new listeners a lot as well, so they don’t have to try and figure out which stories are a part of which arc and so on. They can just jump in with The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Volume 1 or whatever. I've often wondered, in an idle sort of way, what the logistics would be for replacing the intro/outro themes on some of those early releases with their era-specific counterparts (in lieu of the Dudley Simpson version across the board). Howell for Five/Six, Glynn for Six, McCulloch for Seven, etc. I'd be interesting to know, with that part of the range predominantly download only now, would it be easer to do that sort of a remaster now or if it's a lot less straightforward than it looks still (I imagine getting a clean mix for some of those stories wouldn't be easy).
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Post by The Curator on Sept 24, 2020 11:52:03 GMT
One thing I still really want them to do is season style download bundles for the arcs in at least the first 100 like they’ve done with the various spin offs like Davros and SJS. That’d probably help new listeners a lot as well, so they don’t have to try and figure out which stories are a part of which arc and so on. They can just jump in with The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Volume 1 or whatever. I've often wondered, in an idle sort of way, what the logistics would be for replacing the intro/outro themes on some of those early releases with their era-specific counterparts (in lieu of the Dudley Simpson version across the board). Howell for Five/Six, Glynn for Six, McCulloch for Seven, etc. I'd be interesting to know, with that part of the range predominantly download only now, would it be easer to do that sort of a remaster now or if it's a lot less straightforward than it looks still (I imagine getting a clean mix for some of those stories wouldn't be easy). Updating the title themes to the “correct” would be preferable to me, rather than changing the cover artwork. What i don’t get is why they would suggest updating the old artwork when new releases are getting fewer and fewer individual covers...
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Post by shallacatop on Sept 24, 2020 11:56:12 GMT
One thing I still really want them to do is season style download bundles for the arcs in at least the first 100 like they’ve done with the various spin offs like Davros and SJS. That’d probably help new listeners a lot as well, so they don’t have to try and figure out which stories are a part of which arc and so on. They can just jump in with The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Volume 1 or whatever. Yeah, I think that’s the most logical way to utilise the early years of the main range in a cost effective way. You could even cobble together an updated “slipcase” cover for them. Nothing fancy, but a bit of an update, in style of the upcoming Asda vinyls I suppose where it’s the TARDIS Team.
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 24, 2020 12:33:44 GMT
One thing I still really want them to do is season style download bundles for the arcs in at least the first 100 like they’ve done with the various spin offs like Davros and SJS. That’d probably help new listeners a lot as well, so they don’t have to try and figure out which stories are a part of which arc and so on. They can just jump in with The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Volume 1 or whatever. I've often wondered, in an idle sort of way, what the logistics would be for replacing the intro/outro themes on some of those early releases with their era-specific counterparts (in lieu of the Dudley Simpson version across the board). Howell for Five/Six, Glynn for Six, McCulloch for Seven, etc. I'd be interesting to know, with that part of the range predominantly download only now, would it be easer to do that sort of a remaster now or if it's a lot less straightforward than it looks still (I imagine getting a clean mix for some of those stories wouldn't be easy). Didn't Nick have a throwaway line about that or something like that on the podcast a year or two ago?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 0:27:33 GMT
I've often wondered, in an idle sort of way, what the logistics would be for replacing the intro/outro themes on some of those early releases with their era-specific counterparts (in lieu of the Dudley Simpson version across the board). Howell for Five/Six, Glynn for Six, McCulloch for Seven, etc. I'd be interesting to know, with that part of the range predominantly download only now, would it be easer to do that sort of a remaster now or if it's a lot less straightforward than it looks still (I imagine getting a clean mix for some of those stories wouldn't be easy). Didn't Nick have a throwaway line about that or something like that on the podcast a year or two ago? I'm not sure. It's possible. The idea came from an unusual occurrence I remember with The Nightmare Fair. Way back in 2010 when I ordered it, I could've sworn that the final episode led into the '86 Glynn theme. I remember it distinctively because it was only used there. The rest of the Lost Stories all ended up using the Peter Howell version. If you re-download it now, that closing episode has the same theme as the others. Nothing else is really different. For the early Monthly Range stories, it could easily be one of those "Nice idea, we'd like to get round to it," sort of situations. I can see it being something they'd like to do, but have been prioritising other things over. Once everything is run in with the new Doctor-specific ranges, maybe they'll look into it?
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 25, 2020 7:44:11 GMT
Didn't Nick have a throwaway line about that or something like that on the podcast a year or two ago? I'm not sure. It's possible. The idea came from an unusual occurrence I remember with The Nightmare Fair. Way back in 2010 when I ordered it, I could've sworn that the final episode led into the '86 Glynn theme. I remember it distinctively because it was only used there. The rest of the Lost Stories all ended up using the Peter Howell version. If you re-download it now, that closing episode has the same theme as the others. Nothing else is really different. For the early Monthly Range stories, it could easily be one of those "Nice idea, we'd like to get round to it," sort of situations. I can see it being something they'd like to do, but have been prioritising other things over. Once everything is run in with the new Doctor-specific ranges, maybe they'll look into it? You are definitely right about The Nightmare Fair - I have the CD and it ends with the Dominic Glynn theme.
They can't retcon CDs the way they can with downloads!
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