Gimmicky video packages.

[Svengoolie 3]

On a post i just made i referred to a movie called "frankenhooker" having a gimmick on it's VCR box. It was a little "push here" spot that if pressed triggeed a voice chip that recited a line from the movie, "Wanna date?"

A movie who's title escapes me had a monster on the cover of the vcr box that looked like a mummy/frankenstein combo with greed LED eyes. Push the press here spot and the eyes flashed green for a few seconds.

I don't think anyone ever put a sound chip on a vcr box of "Blazing saddles" that played an excerpt from the campfire scene but it's a pity they didn't.

I don't recall a dvd  with a gimmick case, so maybe gimmick video packaging is an art that had a brief shelf life. Too bad.

I could see a dvd of star trek first contact who's case when opened played "resistance is futile, you will be assimilated." I don't think it ever happened.

[claws]

I recall Microwave Massacre (1983) and The Dead Pit (1989) VHS boxes having a push for glowing lights gimmick.

I liked the hanging/counter display of The Amityville Curse (1990) at one of my favorite rental places. It was a replica of the Amityville house with blinking lights inside. Funny thing is the actual Amityville house is not featured in The Amityville Curse   

[Trevor]

I've got a VHS of Jurassic Park in a box made to look like an artefact from an archaeological dig.

[claws]

I don't recall a dvd  with a gimmick case

There was Anchor Bay's The Evil Dead (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition) DVD with a latex rubber casing resembling the book of the dead. This edition is notorious for the rubber starting to smell and shrivel after some years   

[Svengoolie 3]

Well,  yeah,  special shaped packages are still around.  I remember the battle star galactica cylon head shaped dvd case.  I guess the little electronic gadget gimmick is over tho.

[316zombie]

i have the phantasm set that's inside the deathball, it's a PITA to get the discs out though.

[Pacman000]

A few movies or TV shows are sold in metal tins. Saw a box set in an actual wooden box the other day.

Speed Racer Inc used to sell their DVDs with small extras. One came with a little car; another in a circular tin. They're gone now; the rights reverted to the show's creators who licensed it to Funimation, I think.

[The Burgomaster]

I have The Blind Dead DVD set that comes in a coffin package:





I have the Land of the Giants set that comes in a cage package:





I have The Man from U.N.C.L.E. collection that comes in a briefcase:





And The Beyond tin box:

[beat_truck]

The Wicker Man came in a limited edition wooden box with the theatricaland extended versions.  I lucked onto my copy on ebay at a really reasonable BIN price.

I'm too lazy to look for it, but I think I have a VHS copy of King Kong that I picked up at the thrift store where the cover actually roars when King Kong is pressed.

[Chainsawmidget]

I don't recall a dvd  with a gimmick case

There was Anchor Bay's The Evil Dead (Book Of The Dead Limited Edition) DVD with a latex rubber casing resembling the book of the dead. This edition is notorious for the rubber starting to smell and shrivel after some years   

I have it and I can confirm that it doesn't hold up over time.  My has started to decay and fall apart. 

It's s shame too, because I really liked having a necronomicon. 

[retrorussell]

How 'bout all them HOLOGRAM video covers?
Like Jack Frost-- tilt it one way, and he's a pleasant, smiling snowman.. tilt it another way, and he's EVIL!!!

[JaseSF]

There was a King Kong VHS that roared when you pressed on it.

http://youtu.be/Oz11AmEPkuA

[The Burgomaster]

There was a King Kong VHS that roared when you pressed on it.

http://youtu.be/Oz11AmEPkuA

My stomach roars when you press on it.

[Alex]

How about these VHS tapes.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/home-video/3489593/custom-horror-movie-vhs-tapes-way-cool/

[Raffine]

There was a King Kong VHS that roared when you pressed on it.

http://youtu.be/Oz11AmEPkuA

I had that one. The roar feature finally wore out and it just went "Gnnnnn..".