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    Official: Babylon 5 coming to Blu-ray in December

    I wasn't going to say anything....! ;-) :) I know the Laser Discs were not all completed, but didn't all the show get released on VHS in the States? Part of me wishes I still had all my VHS. It was quite a collection. I think I've still got about a dozen tapes in my parents' loft – I kept hold...
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    Can anyone ID this ship?

    I've just re-watched the battle again on my iTunes version of the episode, looking for the gunships in the background of the battle. We see them exit the jump gate, and on approach to B5 on the left of the screen, possibly flanking the breaching pod. I don't think we see them again in the battle...
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    Official: Babylon 5 coming to Blu-ray in December

    Welcome, Marsden! The Blu-rays are definitely worth getting, especially now that their price has dropped (we all should have waited to buy it, lol!). But you're right, the Blu-ray doesn't contain the movies, or Crusade, or any of the extras that were on the DVDs. Just seasons 1 to 5 and a bad...
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    Commentary Repository?

    Welcome to the boards! I don't know of anywhere that has the DVD commentaries, but if there is I'd love to know too – I guess it would be up to WB to release them. Has JMS done new commentaries on his Patreon for all the episodes that had commentaries on the DVDs? I've watched a few of them on...
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    Dune

    They always did say Dune was 'unfilmable' (despite this now being the third time it's been filmed). The Lynch version was, as you say, heavy on the narration and exposition, the Villeneuve version focused more on the emotional state of the characters than all the details of how the Dune universe...
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    Dune

    I read the first book just before I saw the first film, and it became my favourite novel of all time. Finished Dune Messiah before seeing Part 2, and it was a more difficult read, but it's rare that a book makes me think about things the way that Messiah did. Brilliant stuff, very deep, very...
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    Alternative Universe

    The original plot was going to have Sakai go missing while out exploring on the Rim, and then coming back altered by the Shadows, so that part of the storyline would have remained roughly the same (though not sure it would have involved Sinclair going to Z'Ha'Dum). As was implied by the ending...
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    question about an episode

    I'm fairly certain that's not a quote from the show - perhaps one of the novels or comics? It does sound like something Ivanova would say though. I googled the phrase and it seems to be a popular phrase to put on t-shirts and memes, so maybe it is from somewhere else?
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    Show off your B5 collectibles

    That's a great website, thanks for the link! I'm surprisingly not taken by many of the items they have for sale (all those Psi Corps badges look... not great?), though there's lots of interesting jewellery if you're into that, and that Grey Council staff is definitely something I would want if...
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    Show off your B5 collectibles

    Fantastic, I did see them on eBay and kept my eye on them to see what they went for. I get the impression they will have more items for sale in the future?
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    Show off your B5 collectibles

    Where's the envy emoji for me to use?! I was at school and university when these figures were all coming out so I didn't have money to buy any of them, I have to resort to eBay now. Most of the B5 stuff that I got as a kid I did so by saving up money for the annual pilgrimage to a convention...
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    Show off your B5 collectibles

    I'll keep an eye out for issues 1 and 2, and let both of you know if I see any! @Looney oh gosh I'd love to get that Pak'ma'ra too. Or a Zathras figure. Or for that matter another entire wave of figures – Sinclair, Zathras, Zack, Talia, Na'Toth. In the meantime I'm just going to have to hope I...
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    Show off your B5 collectibles

    Someone has issues 3 and 4, unopened, for sale on eBay for a good price, they say they ship to the United States but if not I'm happy to help out again. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386609058924 I think the Pak'ma'ra was meant to be part of the final wave of figures that also included Lochley...
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    Show off your B5 collectibles

    Ah, now, so there was only ever four issues of these DVD fact files released. I've got the magazines for issues 2, 3 and 4, but not issue 1 that came with the pilot, so I'll have to hunt that one down. Here's some pictures of the ones I've got. Look at all this swag that was never put into...
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    January 26, 1994 - And so it began...

    Cool video and a nice tribute! The screenshots of the episode look great. At the end what is that Collector's Edition video tape?
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