Matt wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2026 3:34 am
I'm no big fan of slots—I curse every time I try to pull a disc out of the Pasolini 101 set—but I think it's like anything else: those few who have a bad experience will be very vocal about it and garner inordinate attention for it. No one's going to post online saying "I had a mildly positive experience taking the discs out of my Kubrick box" unless they're reacting to that person who had the bad experience.
This reminds me, I had a mildly positive experience taking the discs out of my Zatoichi box (as well as Arrow's limited edition Gamera and Shawscopes).
The discs from the top slots seem to be a lot harder to remove than the bottom slot ones. Sounds like the top slots got unfathomably tight during the manufacturing process.
Finch wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2026 5:56 pm
The discs from the top slots seem to be a lot harder to remove than the bottom slot ones. Sounds like the top slots got unfathomably tight during the manufacturing process.
The sleeves are tighter when there are discs on both sides of a page. The two discs and the two sleeves are essentially all sandwiched together, making it tougher to pry open the sleeves and take out the discs. When only one side of the page has a disc, you can slightly bend the page to make it easier to pry open the sleeve. But you can't bend the page when there are two discs sandwiching it.
midnitedave wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2026 3:47 pm
This reminds me, I had a mildly positive experience taking the discs out of my Zatoichi box (as well as Arrow's limited edition Gamera and Shawscopes).
I trashed one of its discs when I tried to extricate it from its sleeve. It was really stuck in there. Criterion replaced it for me. (This was the original dual-format box, not too long after it was released.) Now stored with the rest of the blu-rays in a 9-disc blu-ray case.
