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Summary: Macrovision Strikes Again
Review: My DVDs arrive and I sit down to view "The Wolf Man" and one hour into the movie the image freezes, shows split frames from two different scenes. Boo! So I go on to another feature and although it fares better, it does freeze for awhile. So far it seems all the DVDs are defective. One constant is the Macrovision copy protection, or should I say "play protection". One CD was loose in the Wolf Man collection. Too bad that Universal chose to use Macrovision - as I have only had trouble with Macrovision encoded discs.
As far as the contents go, great. But where was The Mummy collection? Nice try Universal, but you need to work on quality control alot.
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Summary: The Set Has 5 Star Potential If.....
Review: ...the set arrives undamaged. I pre-ordered my set on April 23 and the P.O. attempted delivery on April 30. I picked it up yesterday and found that these films still have the power to horrify when I found 3 loose discs which were scratched. The worst was "Dracula" which was so badly scratched my Panasonic won't play it. Imagine how this must have been thrown around, no "handle with care" warning on the box or padding in the box for the set. The discs may have been loose when shipped but who knows? I visited a Tower store and found a number of individual legacy sets had loose discs just by shaking them. The box sets seemed OK but they were also $80! Unfortunately, I must return this set and hope the next one is better. I may have to wait, though, as they now appear to be backordered. In perfect condition this is an amazing collection. Not only 14 films but trailers, documentaries, photo galleries, etc.
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Summary: Poor product manufacturing!!
Review: I have been waiting since late February when I first heard this was being released, my husband pre-ordered it as a birthday gift for me. I got it 4/29/04 and my Wolfman bonus disc is ALL SCRATCHED UP! It looks like something is streaked across it back and forth, like a glue or something but it will not come off AND WON'T PLAY!! I am VERY dissapointed after waiting so long for this! Needless to say it will be exchanged but the experience was ruined and has left a bad taste in my mouth! Now I have to go through the hell which is exchanging something through the mail!! Arrrghhh!!!
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Summary: Bonus material problems
Review: Got this set yesterday ... I know I will enjoy the films, as I have seen them all before. However, I have been having problems with the bonus materials in the Frankenstein set, many of which seem to crash the DVD. This is disappointing, as the bonus features were a large part of why I bought the set.
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Summary: A True Monster Mash!
Review: If you ever feel like watching the old school Universal monster movies, go get yourself a "Monster Legacy DVD Gift Set." This is the greatest box set ever made and an ultimate 14 monster movie marathon (sci-fi channel...eat your heart out)! The films: Dracula (the origional classic, Lugosi rules!), Spanish Dracula (remake of the Lugosi film with Spanish actors), Dracula's Daughter (good sequal, with great character and plot), Son of Dracula (Chaney Jr. can do it all!), House of Dracula (an okay sequal), Frankenstein (greatest monster movie ever made!), The Bride of Frankenstein (greatest monster movie sequal ever made!), Son of Frankenstein (boring), The Ghost of Frankenstein (again, Chaney Jr. can do it all!), House of Frankenstein (an okay sequal, but not the greatest), The Wolf Man (a true classic), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (origional monster mash), Werewolf of London (th origional werewolf movie), and She-Wolf of London (why was this movie even made?) were great, with the exception of three. The documenteries were great, and the statues look perfect! The commentary tracks are most informative. All in all, this is nothing less then a perfect monster set.
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Summary: Is it Closed Captioned?
Review: I'm a horror movie buff...Is this Closed Captioned? If so, I'm definitely gonna buy it. Anybody out here please let me know! Thanks!
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Summary: The ULTIMATE collection?
Review: I reserved my copy from Amazon in early March, as of 4/30/04 my box set still did not ship. Yet, another reviewer claims he ordered his on 4/5/04 and recieved it the very next day after it was released? What gives Amazon?
Cancelled the order, bought it at Best Buy for $4.00 more than what Amazon was asking for it.
Nice set but the film transfers appear to be the same as the original issues.Everyone knows how good the movies are, so no need to review them.
The DVD boxes are very nice with a cool protective sleeve.
The statues are not up to Sideshow Toys high standards though. A nice touch to include in the set, but the likeness of the actors is way off.
Overall though, it's a good deal.
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Summary: Universal Monster box set
Review: No getting around it,this is a wonderful set.In a perfect world they might have repaired some wear damage on these films.The clips on the Van Helsing Trailer of the older films seemed like they may have been restored somewhat.It just seems like they could have fixed the white spots where there are black back grounds and such.I guess this is as good as its going to get as far as picture quality gos with these Monster classics.
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Summary: A Perfect Collection
Review: I preordered my set on 4/5/04 and i got it this past wed, and i must say that i am very pleased.The DVD movies and sound is wnderful, and they are true classics that any monster or horror fan needs to add to their collections.. The busts are awesome i still have then in the original packagewhich was shipped in perfect condition.I think any fans of these movies should pick up the collectors set, it is well woth the price
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Summary: No quality control issues here.
Review: I bought my set from Amazon.com, and it came in pristine condition. I really did not want to buy this set in a store, because I knew that some stores do not handle their stock with such care, that's probably what lead to the quality control issues claimed below. I own both of the Monster collections from Universal, and I'm very happy with both of them.
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