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Today I completed my 100% custom cover movie and TV show Blu-ray collection. I wanted to do this because the official releases are extremely inconsistent from case to case (even within the same show!), and look really bad when all together like this. Mine aren’t perfect either (finding consistent covers for all seven seasons of The Clone Wars is difficult) but I’ll get them eventually.

The only viewable media I haven’t included in this collection are the shorts, such as the 3 minute shorts that came out with the Young Jedi Adventures show. I may add these in the future but I don’t think they add much canon value, and it would be quite the waste of a disc.

They are currently in chronological order (up to a per season granularity), but that’s not perfect because some shows jump around the timeline from episode to episode. For the Tales shows specifically, I’ve placed them after their last timeline appearance, so Tales of the Empire is right after Return of the Jedi, once the empire has fallen.

I should also mention that some of these shows don’t even have official Blu-ray releases (such as Resistance), so for those I have custom discs. Another road block for my collection is I need Traditional Chinese subs on my discs for my wife to read, but some of the shows don’t have Blu-ray releases for the Traditional Chinese market, so for those I ripped the international disc to my PC, added the subtitles and re-burnt them to a fresh disc.

Also, these covers weren’t made by me, I found them all online. I printed them on my cheap Epson L3550 printer, and cut them out with a metal ruler and an X-Acto knife.

EDIT: The Acolyte should actually be after Young Jedi Adventures, I misplaced it when moving to this rack. Upon the recommendation of others, I’ve also moved Skeleton Crew to after Ashoka, Resistance season 1 to before The Force Awakens, and Andor season 2 to after all of Rebels.

Just got these in the mail, from the US to Taiwan. Eric Stuart and Wayne Grayson are the English voice actors for Kaiba and Joey. These tokens are both from Legendary Decks II, they are the best tokens to get signed (in my opinion) because they also feature the characters’ signature monsters. Legendary Decks II also has a Yugi token but I haven’t been able to find one signed by Dan Green yet. Once I have all three I’ll frame them.

I decided I wanted to display the entire Star Wars canon on Blu-ray, but was annoyed at how inconsistent all the cover art is, so instead I found some custom covers on hirescovers.net and started printing. I can’t get every piece of media all with the exact same style, but at least for all nine movies, plus Rogue One and Solo, there is a single designer (Matush) who has made cover art in a consistent style. For the shows I’ll be mostly using artwork from Ace. Even on my very standard budget printer (Epson L3550) and cheap photo paper, I was able to get a believable print. I messed up a little when cutting but that is something I can improve upon over time.

After washing these jeans for the second time yesterday, this morning I noticed the beginning of a crotch blowout on my Made in Japan 501 Originals. It’s hard to tell from the photo but they have started to fray around that white mark. I’ve worn them roughly 85 times, so a little sad to see they might not last another 85 given their insane price tag. See picture 2 and 3 for how they fit me and the exact pair of jeans this is.