But who buys a Christmas special the day before Christmas?
You and I may think it's strange, and we may not impulse buy in the situation - but apparently enough other people do or it wouldn't continue to be a marketing strategy that seems to always show up for the holidays. And with online shopping, it's only only gotten even more widespread.
I see NO MENTION of the new movie on the covers? Wow. Wonder if it will be incorporated somewhere else in their marketing. If not, that is telling.
The Depp/Burton film may be mentioned on the backs of the cases. Who knows? But even if it isn't I don't know how telling it might be. If the decision to move the release up to October and not to do the restoration had been made after the Depp/Burton film came out, then maybe one could make a case that it had something to do with the Depp/Burton film. But as the decisions were made before the film was even released, it seems more like what I was saying yesterday - WB has had the inclination all along to release both films without extras and not to do the restoration. The Depp/Burton film has pretty much been immaterial. In fact, if as Darren indicates that the previous decision to hold off the DVD/Blu-ray release of the original films until 2013 so as to keep their release separate from the release of the Depp/Burton film was made even earlier than this latest decision was, then in all likelihood WB never had a plan to tie the original films to the Depp/Burton film.