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Post by mark687 on Jun 8, 2024 14:14:38 GMT
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Post by timleschild on Jun 8, 2024 14:35:18 GMT
Sounds interesting. Will hopefully be an improvement.
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Post by theillusiveman on Jun 8, 2024 16:01:07 GMT
Cool idea and I’m sure it would benefit from a remaster Just not sure if it was something I would bother buying again
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Post by enofa on Jun 8, 2024 17:02:30 GMT
I’m hoping there’s something extra involved in the Gold edition, because at the moment it looks like the cassette is adding £30 to the price.
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Post by ollychops on Jun 8, 2024 17:08:13 GMT
Just going for the download edition - I don’t collect cassettes so that aspect doesn’t interest me. I don’t care enough about the prints to drop £60+ on them. If there was a vinyl edition I’d snap it up in a second.
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Post by shallacatop on Jun 8, 2024 19:26:46 GMT
Intrigued by this. I like that there’s episodes for each individual Doctor which build up to the multi-Doctor final episode, but can also see how that would affect pacing, especially when you have an incarnation that won’t reappear for another hour, so an edit to intersperse those three parts should be a cool listen. My main issue with The Sirens of Time is just how sparse the soundtrack and soundscape is, it’s hard to escape the image of the actors in a recording booth, so that’s the main appeal for me.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 8, 2024 22:34:10 GMT
Ok.. So I happened to get woken up at 3:40am, I was having a quick catchup online chat with Elkawho about her BFDay Experience.. I saw this ^ I knew that if I had ordered at 3:40am my credit card company would think I was being hacked, despite the evidence of hundreds of orders over the last 13-15 years to the contrary.. So I just pre ordered it at 7:50am.. Gold version. I have been a vinyl and cassette collector since the mid 80's so I am down with it.
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 8, 2024 23:08:39 GMT
'Sirens of Time' is the story I mostly only remember as being the thing that convinced me that it was a bad idea to try listening to Big Finish's stuff in production-order, which is the approach I almost universally take with media.
I like the idea of a documentary, but I'd much rather see something a bit broader in scope, maybe covering how Big Finish approached that first year or two of the Monthly Range in general.
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Post by number13 on Jun 9, 2024 10:28:52 GMT
Bronze for DL only, Silver with CD, Gold also with cassette (checks archive - oh, those things) and Platinum edition with all sorts of special goodies (Platinum already sold out!)
I presume the ultra-top-level Dalekenium edition (10 copies only, produced in association with Prof. Marius, the Bi-Al Foundation), also including an authentic temporary clone of the author to provide commentary and background production notes as we listen, was shelved as they still couldn't get the clones to survive beyond 10 minutes, 55 seconds. It would have needed a lot of editing to tell the story in that time.
Oh well, Silver edition will do me nicely.
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Post by sherlock on Jun 9, 2024 10:44:29 GMT
I’m not that interested to be honest. The Sirens of Time has always been just fine for me, and I don’t think rearranging the Doctors’ storylines will really change that.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 10, 2024 8:49:30 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 10, 2024 10:43:39 GMT
ESP !
Sirens Of Time Redux update: x.com/bigfinish/status/1800115930674151718"The platinum edition is sold out and the gold edition is very close to selling out. Please don't wait too long if you want to get your hands on the souvenir cassette release."
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jun 10, 2024 10:57:11 GMT
Based on UK £ prices, the selling out of the platinum edition has netted BF £6,600 and the gold will net them £6,750 when it sell out. Given that the only costs against these editions will be the production of 250 cassettes, printing some photographs plus postage, this is a nice earner for BF.
I don't know if BF's internal management accountant works out revenue per labour hour, but I would say these must be some of the most profitable hours Nick Briggs has worked for BF in a long time
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Post by mark687 on Jun 10, 2024 14:08:04 GMT
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Post by Star Platinum on Jun 10, 2024 14:13:23 GMT
I’ll be passing on this for now.
I already have OG sirens, and it’s started at show its age in my eyes when compared to any modern Big Finish level of production design.
I think this is an interesting novelty, but I’ll be waiting for a deep sale on bronze before I consider it.
Though I must admit I’m very curious as to the documentary they’re putting together for it.
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Post by thegreendeath on Jun 11, 2024 1:14:48 GMT
I am a little annoyed that the new extras aren’t available on the download, but on the plus side I really shouldn’t be buying it anyways so anything that assures that I don’t is a good thing.
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Post by number13 on Jun 11, 2024 13:17:44 GMT
I crossed their palms with silver (as the old saying goes) for Silver. Not one to hang about for if we want it on CD (as of course I do!) Selling like hot cakes.
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Post by Ela on Jun 26, 2024 4:46:06 GMT
I decided to get the Silver edition too. More for the extras than for the re-worked story. First CD order in quite a while, But when I dropped it in my basket, it didn't turn out to be as overpriced as many CDs I might have ordered in the past and then decided I couldn't afford, so I decided I could drop the cash on this on this one time. Funny, since I wasn't that big a fan of The Sirens of Time. That nostalgia gets you every time. Since I was paying a per order fee anyway, I threw in a book I've had on my wish list for a while. And after I paid I realized I forgot to update my shipping address! So I just sent an email off to Sales@BF. That's the way the money goes: Easy come, easy go.
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Post by Ela on Jun 26, 2024 16:02:13 GMT
And...I got a response back from Big Finish this morning acknowledging the address change and asking me for the order numbers of the affected orders. I did include all the relevant information in the initial email. I'll chalk it up to the foibles of small business operations.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 1, 2024 16:02:26 GMT
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