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I saw Jerry Doyle use a great deal of restraint once at a Wolf 359 con at Heathrow. During a signing everybody was using flash photography to take pictures, which began to cause him a problem, so he asked the organiser to put out an announcement asking if people could refrain from using their...

What I meant about SDCC is that (from a distance as I've never been - wrong country) it seems very heavily commercialised, like it's there to allow Hollywood and Disney and toy companies to promote their products, rather than to create a fan community experience. But I definitely agree about...

To a point, I do understand why they sometimes charge so much, because there's a going rate for autographed stuff on the secondary market, and why should they charge so little just for people to then sell their autograph for so much on eBay or whatever? I think the most I've paid for an...

Thanks for the list of contents! On closer inspection then, looks like this new streaming package is the material from the Cast Reunions blu-ray, plus the Space City Con material with the exception of Maggie Egan's panel, 'The Promise' panel from Phoenix, a bunch of new short videos, and the UK...

https://b5books.com/b5-live-streaming-4k-video/ Trying to decide whether this is worth getting. I've already got the blu-ray of the B5 cast reunion. I know there was a big boxset of DVDs (or was it CD-ROMs?) from one of the cons - do they make up the rest of this streaming package? I know...

To be honest, I've not watched The Road Home since it came out, and I even gave it a good review. I think it's just that I prefer live action at the end of the day. And I agree the soundtrack is terrible, Chris Franke could have elevated the movie so much. But I think terrible soundtracks is...

Are you enjoying it? For me it's the perfect microcosm of the 80s. Season 2 had a great episode, Out Where the Buses Don't Run, with another B5 alumni, Bruce McGill.

The B5 books in the UK were published by Boxtree, but I think they had a publishing deal with Channel 4 Books (I'm assuming C4 had the UK publishing license for Babylon 5). David Bassom, Jim Mortimore and Jane Killick were all UK-based writers (they were regulars in magazines such as Starburst)...

Wow, and an absolute bargain price as well! I take it you won this auction? Well done! Yes, this is the UK edition, there was a US edition as well with I think the Army of Light fleet on the cover.

Oh, we definitely had a very active and dedicated fanbase - it just wasn't huge in the way Star Trek was. So here's a graph that shows that (you can find the full page on the second page of the Collectibles thread). These are the ratings and the 'audience appreciation' values for season 4 on...

To be fair, I hardly ever see these cards in auctions either – I've just done a search of UK eBay and I can't find any. A couple more things. First while I was searching eBay I was reminded that the TNT movies were also released on VHS in widescreen. I'm assuming these are like the widescreen...

More cards! (Plus a free video, lol – at least it's my favourite cover) Got these off eBay, and I think I'm going to have to start hunting for all the cards now. And look at that price – £12.99 for two episodes. We must have been crazy spending that much money on just two episodes back then, it...

Bringing this ancient thread back to life, but the latest newsletter from Master Replicas (the company that took over all Eaglemoss' old stock when they went out of business) says that they are "tantalisingly close to doing deals for ships from one of the greatest games ever made and a classic...

The only thing I've shipped to the US in recent years was to your good self; I can't remember exactly how much it cost but $8 sounds about right. Though prices for postage do keep going up in the UK, so that might have something to do with any price increase you're seeing. Going the other way...

One more thing that I've just remembered. When WB released season 5 on VHS, they had a giveaway; each cassette included a leaflet with a voucher, collect so many vouchers and you could mail away for either a B5-branded bag or a sweater. I got the sweater back in the day (which still fits!) and...

A few days ago I watched a third season Miami Vice episode directed by Richard Compton, and thought it looked flat, with none of the stylistic elements (MTV cops) from the first two seasons when Michael Mann was more actively involved and the show had directors such as Rob Cohen. Compton's...

Almost forgot, there was a trailer that appeared on the videos for the VHS collection, which was pretty good actually! I found it on YouTube – quality isn't that great, but you can get the gist!

And today is the day! It's the 30th anniversary of Babylon 5 being shown in the UK. I shall watch Midnight on the Firing Line later to celebrate.

Babylon 5 did very well on VHS here in the UK, with new releases regularly making it into the top 10 best sellers. And with that success, the main chains – HMV, Our Price and Virgin Megastore – competed for our custom with collectable free gifts, starting with the release of the third season...

For the second season, they smartened the covers up and I think the overall production was more polished, with some sharper and striking images such as the season 2 cast photo and Ivanova in a Starfury. But there were some that were not so striking – I mean, why would the cover to the volume 17...