@Mystique - Thanks for the newest news!!

完全生産限定版のみ英語字幕・オーディオコメンタリー付!!

Sweet!!

OH MY GOD! A Japanese DVD with English Subtitles! SOMEONE PINCH ME! (Literately)

Okay. I should make a note for myself to get that for my birthday... In July... Or I could ask for it for a Easter Present and I'm set!

*pinch*
hee hee
I'm still confirming it, and someone is buying it for me in Japan, so obviously by end of jan i'll know, but for now, i'm trying real hard not to get as excited as you.

*giggles*
but maaaan it'd so sweet if they are subs for the movie itself!!!!!

English subs?! Cool!

Mystique: Who else can we rely on than you to bring us our DVD new? Thanks! *gives more cookies*

Japanese movies, especially the latest ones, are coming with English subtitles, due to the big English market influencing the movie industry over there.

This means I can buy that movie since I have a no region DVD player... but I'll wait for the R1 since its:

1) Cheaper

and

2) I like the English dub.

I'm planning on getting the DVD at Amazon.co.jp site. It says ￥7,140 on the page, but when I was checking the item on page before entering the credit information, it says the price is ￥6,800, which I find weird. Is this happening to anyone else? This is my first time ordering from the Japanese Amazon site. Also, anybody know the tariffs I'll have to pay when it reachs Canada?

There's no way I'm going to pay that much for a DVD, no matter how badly I want it! I'm on a poor unemployed student's budget! If I could wait three weeks longer then I had to to get the TV series DVDs (stupid Amazon), then I can wait for a year or so for this.

Japan has a Goods and Services Tax (?) that applies to its residents so when you buy it from overseas they will charge you at the tax free rate. Then once it reaches your country there might be import duties / taxes applied to it I am not too sure. For Australia anything arriving from overseas that's under $300 is considered a "gift" so it won't incur any taxes but best to ask your local post office for all the information

Ok. Thanks. I was scared that it was some sort of pre-order fee or something. Now I can order eaisily.

Before everyone and their brother (no pun intended) tries to order the DVD off amazon.co.jp or some such place, I think a disclaimer is in order. Even if it does have English subtitles, the movie will not be Region 1 encoded (which some other posters have mentioned but not made an explicit point of). Just to clear the air for any who might not know, that means that most of us won't be able to play the DVD unless we shell out the money to get a region-free DVD player. Also, I remember hearing (but I don't remember where) that computers, specifically Dells I believe, can change region somehow, but only a limited number of times.

I agree with Ladymercury--I'll wait for the online sub and/or Region 1 version of the movie. Of course, if you have friends with access to illegally burned copies of DVDs, which are region code free, well...you have more options.

Actually It only takes about $20 to make your Xbox & PS2 be able to play all region dvd's. Just need the DVD region X program.

of course not.
REGION 2 ALL THE WAY BABY!

hee hee, Japan has same regions as the UK, so not a prob, but i guess for u guys american releases for media is better and much simpler i suppose....
but there will be the subbed versions on this online so that'll tide you over, u can burn it to dvd then

I had an awful time finding a region coding disk or my Gamecube in the States (and ended up having a friend send me one from Korea), not that it can play DVDs. Hopefully the coding disks for Xboxes and PS2s are easier to find for everyone, but I honestly don't know anything about Xboxes and PS2s (obviously). It's fantastic if they can easily be converted. Xboxes do have a purpose....

FMA movie reaching Hong Kong and Taiwanese theatres in December.

Oooooh!! Envying fans in Hon Kong and Taiwan!!
*coughpossiblymorecamscough*

you know once hong kong get their hands on it, it's black market central for christmas time... not a bad thing on you guys part if u want an 'offical' dvd in your hands pretty soon.

Hehehe, hohoho, bwahahaha!! (That's my evil laugh. )
And, about the region code thingy... I could be wrong, but if I'm correct, certain brands of DVD players sold in U.S., espicially the older models, play BOTH region 1 and region 2 DVDs. I think APEX is one of them.

BTW, Mystique, I love your Holiday avatar!!

sry if people are getting sick and tired of this question but any one have any possible clues on when the movie will be realeaed in america

*bump*
10 days before the dvd release, thought to bump this up instead of more new threads asking about dates and stuff appear....

Hi recieved my region free dvd of the movie yesterday. Anime247.com is selling it for $9.99, they ship reall quick and you get your stuff in two days

I bought it and it arrived the 25th, but I wish I could have gotten the fancy deluxe version. Instead I got a basic region 2 with No subs or features.

@Huy - Thanks for the pics and the link!! The pics look so exciring!!

Ok, here is one more pic from the link posted by Huy, of the FMA Movie DVD package.



I wanna it, I wanna it!!

here's my original source:
http://benjamin.baudrit.free.fr/news.php
Finally out...cool







Enjoy

Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie Conqueror of Shamballa
Description of the DVD collector "limited edition"
Source: http://www.cpt-tsubasa.net/fma_dvd.htm


(Of left on the right: cover of behind and cover of front)


(cover of front)

(cover of behind)


(sight of dimensioned and front view)


(Box containing DVDs + 3 small pockets containing DVD + a guide book)



(Box containing DVDs + 3 small pockets containing DVD + a guide book + postcards)


(Box containing DVDs + 3 small pockets containing DVD + a guide book + postcards)


(3 small pockets containing DVDs + postcards)


(the totality of the postcard)

*whimper* I want it....why don't we ever see stuff like that on this side of the world?

Oh, erm, I don't have it.....no I don't.....*ahem*.

I lie, I DO have it! I was going to order the special edition but only the film has subtitles and not the extras. Plus all those cards you can get will probably be sold seperatly.

So I bought a copy that just has the film (with subs of course). You see, I'm in region 2 and region 2 is what the film is sold in.

A friend of mine got the Limited Edition DVD set and we watched it at my house today. First off the packaging, as Huy has shown, is amazing and VERY hi-resolution in real life. The postcards that come with it are also really nice and glossy, which will make you feel like framing it! ^^

Now about the official english subtitles: The translations are SUPERB! I caught only 2 minor grammer mistakes. Overall you should buy the Limited Edition if you have the money; the extra's are really funny (It has Romi Paku, Rie Kugimiya, and others.)

Personally I plan on buying it soon because it's definatly a must have for any FMA fan.

*wants $90*

Yeah, that's how much I found it for. The limited edition, anyway. Ouch.

PLUS how ever much it would cost me to be able to play region 2 dvd's. Stupid regions.

O_O (drool)...ME WANT!....If only I had $90 and a region 2 DVD player...(sigh)

i want this DVD so bad... any idea where i can get it(not on the internet)

Must... aquire... RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Topics merged. Sorry if this causes problems.

Woooo, packing looks spiffy. The Japanese sure do know how to market their products.

Brutally expensive though, no way I can afford it. So I guess I will wait for the location version to come out. I'm not dying to get it anyway (don't like the movie but I digress). The extras are nice but I can't justfy spending the $$. I do want the bonus features but if they are not translated or have subs then there's not too much point. Hopefully the North American version will include those as well.

i can't wait to buy the Hong Kong version of this dvd. i just hope AVP (Asia Video Productions) will include most of these special features subbed in Chinese. then, it'll all come down to waiting for the American dvd release. but as expected, i doubt the packaging will look as attractive as the japanese dvd.

there is no market for flashy packaging in North America, which is why i usually import.

but AVP....i dunno....very doubtful. their release of "Z Gundam" movie was barebones. (but it does include DTS)

hi, can anyone please scan the cards that have the same image as the front and back cover??

i just downloaded the 6GB Intact DVD Image, and i want to make a similar dvd cover. i just couldnt afford to buy it

tnx in advance.

hey i got them, if ayone needs them (i even got the other cards hehe) , i posted them in my blog:

http://www.eberthmq.com/2006/02/11/fma-shamballa/

That makes me wonder what the heck I bought. I thought the subtitles were among the worst I'd ever seen. I still barely have any clue as to what was going on. I bought it at an Anime store so it should have been the official release. Oh wait, you got the limited edition. I got the regular one. THAT'S the problem!

You bought a bootleg. The special edition is the only one with the subtitles.

REALLY?!?!?! Then what the heck were they doing selling it in a store like it was an offical version?? Blast it all, that explains the lousy subtitles. I was wondering why they were so bad when it was supposed to be an official release.

Yea you gotta be careful, the quality of the packaging of bootlegs nowadays are stunningly good, sometimes you can't tell it apart from the real thing until you've smacked the $$ down for it, opened it up and popped it into your DVD player.

Exactly. It looked exactly like any other DVD you would buy. Well at least now I know and won't make that same mistake again. I thought if they sold it in a legitimate store then it had to be legitimate but I guess I know better now. I was wondering why everyone kept saying the subs were so good when they made not a lick of sense to me.

Yea I rented it from an anime store. Couldn't afford to buy it. If I do buy it, I'll wait for a local version to be released and get that instead.

The version I got only cost twenty dollars but I guess you get what you pay for. I thought that was cheap (Anime usually costs more) but it was the price of an average non-Anime movie so I thought it was legit. From now on I'm just going to wait for the official English release version. That way I'll know it's not bootleg and won't be wasting my money. I actually wonder if the whole movie is on there. It didn't feel like one hour and forty-five minutes and I've seen posts talking about stuff that I never saw in the movie. For instance [spoiler]a scene at the end where Ed lifts his arm and it turns into automail (imaginary or real, whatever)? I've also seen a banner that showed Ed hugging human Al which I couldn't believe didn't happen in the movie when I saw it. They'd been separated two years and Ed hadn't seen Al in his human form for five or six years and he couldn't even hug him? But that could have just been a banner that somebody created and it looked really good. At least I've got an idea of what happened and I'll get to see it next year when the English version gets released. [/spoiler]

Well I checked the prices, and the special edition with the english subtitles (for the movie only, not including the bonus features) costs over $100 Canadian since they have to import it and I really don't have that kind of cash avaliable.

[spoiler]I don't recall Ed and Al ever hugging in the movie, except that brief scene when Ed was captured by the Thules the first time, and he dives into the pile of armour to evade Rudolf Hess, and he runs into one of the armour that Al had attached part of his soul to, and Al sees him and hugs him before they make their escape.[/spoiler]

Must have just been a cool fan banner then. Yeah, I don't have that kind of money either. I'll just wait for the english dub.

YOU ARE TOTALLY AWESOME! Thanks for the cards! *is saving all of them*




*cough*AndIAlreadyDownloadedTheDVDOfficalSubtitleVersionOfTheMovieAlready*cough*

They had all the Niisan translated into Ed... that's what proves it as the genuine version (language & culture wise, Al should be calling Ed "Ed" in the English version...) I guess. XD I am too poor to afford the genuine DVD itself... *sigh* The price of the genuine DVD = my tuition for a lab course...

I don't know where you've been looking, but I ordered it from Amazon Japan and it didn't even come close to $100. I got charged about $77 Canadian, and they didn't even charge me customs, but if they were, it probably total up to be about $90. And that's just the special edition.

The regular edition is only 3,192 Yen at Amazon Japan, which converts to about $31 Canadian. Add in shipping and customs, the price would be only around $45.

Also, there are only two editions of the movie. The Special Edition, which contains Japanese and English subtitles, collectors cards, 3 DVDs and a book; and the Regular Edition, which is just the DVD with only Japanese subtitles. What you've mentioned, a special edition with english subtitles with no bonus features does not exist. If it does, then it's a bootleg and it's ripping you off good it's over $100.

Yeah, it was all Niisan in my copy. Curses, that makes me mad. I had no intention of buying a bootleg, I honestly thought it was the official release. I SO hate getting ripped off. I still can't get over that it was a legitimate store that I got it from, it's not like I meant some guy on a street corner. Ah well, you live and learn and, if you're lucky, don't get killed in the process.

I rarely buy stuff online. Prices I'm getting are the anime stores that I know of.

Hi there. Could you please please tell me where you downloaded the offical subbed movie from?? I downloaded one that turned out to not be subbed after all Thanks!

Honestly, even thought it means I'm waiting probably another year, I'm waiting for Funimation (or whoever gets it...) to release the US version IN THE US. Only way to guarantee that I won't get a bootleg, which I will not settle for!