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HBO Home Entertainment® Announces February 18, 2014 Street Date For Game of Thrones®: The Complete Third Season
Unveils Box Image & Gives Fans the Opportunity to Choose Exclusive Best Buy® Packaging Art
The triumphant third season of Game of Thrones is set to be released on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Download on February 18, 2014. The box set will feature the beautiful dragon shadow image however; the fate of the exclusive Best Buy packaging is in the hands of fans. Over the past two years, the sigil box art sold at the nationwide retailer has become a favorite among fans who have taken to message boards and social platforms to speculate over which images will be featured then struggle over which one to purchase. Now they can decide!
Via a social media poll, Game of Thrones devotees will pick the Season 3 exclusive covers. There are three stylish options: a “Character Edition” featuring third season poster art of Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke; “Season 3 New Sigils” featuring the sigils of Houses Tyrell, Tully and Stannis Baratheon who were prominent this season; or “Bring Back Your Favorite Sigil” with Houses Stark and Targaryen (Season 1) and Lannister (Season 2).
“We love that Game of Thrones fans are so passionate and vocal about our home entertainment products and the reaction to the Best Buy exclusive packaging has been fantastic for two years running,” said Meredith Vincent, VP of Marketing, HBO Home Entertainment. “This is a fun and exciting way to reward fans and give them a direct voice into what is created for the next release.”
The polling begins Monday, June 24th on the Game of Thrones and Best Buy (US) Facebook pages. Each page will host a gallery of the exclusive packaging options and fans can cast their single vote by “liking” the appropriate image. The votes will be tallied in real-time so fans can keep track of which option is gaining the most support. Voting ends on Sunday, July 21st and the winning art will be revealed on both Facebook pages, and available for pre-order, on Friday, August 2nd.
The Best Buy exclusive packaging will be available in all retail locations nationwide as well as Future Shop in Canada and additional international stores to be confirmed at a later date. Information on the BD/DVD bonus features will be announced by the end of year.
Fans can head over to the Facebook page and vote on their favorites here:
Best Buy Exclusive Packaging Fan Poll
I'm surprised they chose Jon over Robb for the face option. Surely Robb makes tons more sense for this season.
ReplyDeleteI hate that they even put the faces on as an option. They have the exclusives for two seasons and there is a chance the art is all changed for the third set? The only option is the Tyrell, Stannis, and Tully set.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't really mind the original three as an option again but why not add the new three to it?
You're probably right!
ReplyDeleteSome people think Blackfish may be on next year, but I'm not sure and was not really even thinking of who plays a role next year. I was just hoping that they may carry the 3 options over to next year since by the looks of things on the voting site, the Stark, Lannister and Targaryen houses will be the winners if the totals hold.
Eventually I would like to end up with all the ruling houses...
HBO should offer the slipcovers for the DVD box sets as separate items on their site! I'm sure a number of people would buy a few of them.
the tullys have no part in season 4.
ReplyDeleteYeah,i would have to agree with Darq and Wanderer,House Tryell,Stannis and Tully.
ReplyDeleteOh god, the normal packaging is hideous :(
ReplyDeleteI don't know which to buy now, Season 3 will look stupid next to my Awesome black Season 1 & Season 2 covers.
That is my issue with the faces too, well one issue! XD
ReplyDeleteIf they did that I would hope they do a re-release with faces for the previous seasons as well. Maybe a gift set of all seasons to date etc
I would be okay with a repeat of the Stark, Targ and Lannister covers for Season 3 and then having Tyrell, Tully and Stannis Baratheon next year.
Maybe Martell, Greyjoy (Crow's Eye) and Tarly for Season 5?
House Connington, Targaryen and Manderly in Season 6?