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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 10, 2024 9:15:46 GMT
Has this cover been posted on here?
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This is out now.
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 10, 2024 10:33:29 GMT
Personally I think that monthly downloads, with physical box set options is the way to go. Just have a gatefold booklet (six pages) so you can include all the covers.
Everyone can get the benefit of buying the bundle, but there is still the option to pick and choose with the downloads.
To my mind that is the best of both worlds.
Let’s face it you often have to wait for the physical product at the moment anyway.
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Post by SG. on Jan 10, 2024 13:48:22 GMT
I was going to say, the easiest approach would do both - have the boxsets and the individual stories from those sets but, there's a markup if you CHOOSE to buy the individuals rather than a division by four, which encourages customers to buy the full sets. Seems like a no-brainer.
Albeit, if BF were to go that route, the website needs a HUGE overhaul, rather than the current one which sometimes feels like a clunky UI papering over a glorified spreadsheet.
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Post by elkawho on Jan 11, 2024 3:24:27 GMT
I'm happy with the monthly releases. I'm one of those who still miss the Monthly Range. I don't believe this era of boxsets has been particularly successful, with some dreadful Sixth and Seventh Doctor releases and very few stand out stories from what used to be the Big Finish core Doctors. And there are times it feels as if we are in a drought of classic Doctor stories while waiting months for these sets.
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Post by wolfdog95 on Jan 12, 2024 13:15:23 GMT
Assuming Joe Kraemer is scoring all four stories, am I right in saying this will be the first time we hear the War Doctor in the hands of someone other than Howard Carter?
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Post by mark687 on Jan 12, 2024 14:22:58 GMT
Assuming Joe Kraemer is scoring all four stories, am I right in saying this will be the first time we hear the War Doctor in the hands of someone other than Howard Carter? I believe so Regards mark687
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Post by wolfdog95 on Jan 12, 2024 14:53:59 GMT
Interesting... Carter has scored the War Doctor at BF since the very first audios with Sir John Hurt, and then continued to score the Jonathon Carley boxsets. War is my favourite BF Doctor, but for me at least, Carter's music and particularly his hero theme for the War Doctor have become synonymous with the character (Much like Murray Gold's music for Nine/Ten/Eleven/Twelve in the TV series).
I'm not worried about it. Kraemer's stuff is generally pretty good. But it will be interesting seeing the War Doctor under a totally different soundscape. I wonder if Kraemer will lean more heavily into the militaristic aesthetic of the character (particularly as a foil to the Sontarans), or if he will stick to Carter's serious, but still heroic approach?
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Post by shallacatop on Jan 14, 2024 14:36:01 GMT
I hope Kraemer actually does some new material. He’s quite the coup for Big Finish, but his output is spread thin across ranges and becomes both repetitive and inappropriate for the dialogue.
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Post by thelonecenturion on Jan 14, 2024 17:44:35 GMT
I hope Kraemer actually does some new material. He’s quite the coup for Big Finish, but his output is spread thin across ranges and becomes both repetitive and inappropriate for the dialogue. The Battle of Giant's Causeway was the second recent release he scored (after The Last Day) that reused pieces from Masterful, which I found a little frustrating.
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Post by shallacatop on Jan 14, 2024 18:24:22 GMT
I hope Kraemer actually does some new material. He’s quite the coup for Big Finish, but his output is spread thin across ranges and becomes both repetitive and inappropriate for the dialogue. The Battle of Giant's Causeway was the second recent release he scored (after The Last Day) that reused pieces from Masterful, which I found a little frustrating. Not heard The Battle of Giant’s Causeway yet, but I noticed the same with The Last Day. It’s not just cross range reuse, I don’t think Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon, The Paternoster Gang: Heritage or Missy ranges had new music beyond their initial sets. Or certainly the music introduced in those were heavily reused across the remainder of the range.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2024 18:30:27 GMT
The Battle of Giant's Causeway was the second recent release he scored (after The Last Day) that reused pieces from Masterful, which I found a little frustrating. Not heard The Battle of Giant’s Causeway yet, but I noticed the same with The Last Day. It’s not just cross range reuse, I don’t think Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon, The Paternoster Gang: Heritage or Missy ranges had new music beyond their initial sets. Or certainly the music introduced in those were heavily reused across the remainder of the range. I don't really mind that in-range. It helps, for example, a Missy set, "sound" like a missy set. I do find it incredibly off-putting if a seventh doctor story sounds like a Master one. Having said that, I listened to one story last year (can't remember which one) and the soundtrack sounded just like Empire Strikes Back, which was even more off-putting!
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 16, 2024 13:55:52 GMT
Personally I think that monthly downloads, with physical box set options is the way to go. Just have a gatefold booklet (six pages) so you can include all the covers. Everyone can get the benefit of buying the bundle, but there is still the option to pick and choose with the downloads. To my mind that is the best of both worlds. Let’s face it you often have to wait for the physical product at the moment anyway. Physical releases very slow still not released The Last Day yet from December & no physical releases from January so far. I know covid caused delays a few years ago but surely that doesn't affect physical releases now???
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Post by martinw8686 on Jan 16, 2024 17:49:44 GMT
Personally I think that monthly downloads, with physical box set options is the way to go. Just have a gatefold booklet (six pages) so you can include all the covers. Everyone can get the benefit of buying the bundle, but there is still the option to pick and choose with the downloads. To my mind that is the best of both worlds. Let’s face it you often have to wait for the physical product at the moment anyway. Physical releases very slow still not released The Last Day yet from December & no physical releases from January so far. I know covid caused delays a few years ago but surely that doesn't affect physical releases now??? Perhaps by the time the physical release of The Last Day arrives, enough time will have past for the 7th Doctor to actually appear in the story! 🤪
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2024 18:34:26 GMT
Personally I think that monthly downloads, with physical box set options is the way to go. Just have a gatefold booklet (six pages) so you can include all the covers. Everyone can get the benefit of buying the bundle, but there is still the option to pick and choose with the downloads. To my mind that is the best of both worlds. Let’s face it you often have to wait for the physical product at the moment anyway. Physical releases very slow still not released The Last Day yet from December & no physical releases from January so far. I know covid caused delays a few years ago but surely that doesn't affect physical releases now??? At the risk of taking the thread off topic, I think the shipping delays are deliberate. Pre-COVID, I knew someone who would buy BF titles on CD, then resell the CD on Amazon as soon as they received it (other online marketplaces are also available). Nobody was making a profit or scalping customers; the CDs would typically sell for about two-thirds of the pre-order price. Someone who didn't care about digital copies got a bargain CD, and my friend got the download for about half price. By all accounts there were a number of sellers all doing the same thing, but my friend stopped when Big Finish made a complaint to Amazon, resulting in their seller account being temporarily frozen. I want to be clear, I'm not endorsing the practice, but it happened, and lots of people did it. I think what happened with COVID is that Big Finish realised that those bargain CDs were no longer available online within a week of release. Suddenly the cheapest way for people to get the CDs was to buy them from Big Finish. So why would BF change back. Someone wanting a cheap physical copy of The Last Day now has a dilemma; buy now from BF at the preorder price, or wait and hope they can find a second-hand copy once CDs are finally despatched, running the risk that they might end up having to pay more. I have no issue with BF doing this to protect their IP, but if this is the case I just wish they'd be clearer with customers what their digital-first release strategy actually means - months of delay until you actually receive the product you've paid good money for.
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Post by mbt66 on Jan 17, 2024 10:22:53 GMT
Physical releases very slow still not released The Last Day yet from December & no physical releases from January so far. I know covid caused delays a few years ago but surely that doesn't affect physical releases now??? At the risk of taking the thread off topic, I think the shipping delays are deliberate. Pre-COVID, I knew someone who would buy BF titles on CD, then resell the CD on Amazon as soon as they received it (other online marketplaces are also available). Nobody was making a profit or scalping customers; the CDs would typically sell for about two-thirds of the pre-order price. Someone who didn't care about digital copies got a bargain CD, and my friend got the download for about half price. By all accounts there were a number of sellers all doing the same thing, but my friend stopped when Big Finish made a complaint to Amazon, resulting in their seller account being temporarily frozen. I want to be clear, I'm not endorsing the practice, but it happened, and lots of people did it. I think what happened with COVID is that Big Finish realised that those bargain CDs were no longer available online within a week of release. Suddenly the cheapest way for people to get the CDs was to buy them from Big Finish. So why would BF change back. Someone wanting a cheap physical copy of The Last Day now has a dilemma; buy now from BF at the preorder price, or wait and hope they can find a second-hand copy once CDs are finally despatched, running the risk that they might end up having to pay more. I have no issue with BF doing this to protect their IP, but if this is the case I just wish they'd be clearer with customers what their digital-first release strategy actually means - months of delay until you actually receive the product you've paid good money for. That makes a lot of sense from a business perspective. I really hadn’t considered that before.
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Post by mark687 on Jan 17, 2024 16:04:11 GMT
Children of the Future Trailer Online
Regards
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 30, 2024 19:10:24 GMT
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Post by number13 on Jan 30, 2024 23:53:50 GMT
More Charley! Well I'm pleased anyway.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Feb 8, 2024 10:08:42 GMT
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Post by number13 on Feb 8, 2024 10:14:18 GMT
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