ALBUM BOX SET

Here's the Amazon link

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Five-Album-Box-Set/dp/B004ODBIHI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299752376&sr=8-1

Hi

on Amazon UK is this:
Queen 40 (Five Album Box Set) [Box set]
Audio CD (4 April 2011)
Number of Discs: 5
Format: Box set
Label: Island
ASIN: B004ODBIHI

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Five-Album-Box-Set/dp/B004ODBIHI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299837415&sr=8-1

only single disk edition

on Play.com is this:
Queen 40 (5 x 2CD)
This special 40th Anniversary Box Set contains the first 5 studio albums by Queen (Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera and A Day at the Races) as 2-disc expanded and remastered editions. The box set also has room for the subsequent 10 studio albums released as remasters later in 2011.

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/19101836/Queen-40/Product.html?searchtype=allproducts&searchsource=0&searchstring=queen+40&urlrefer=search

Cheers
Norbert

Cheapest I've seen it so far is £64.93 at Asda online - only a fiver more than buying the deluxe editions anyway, so may be worth it if you can wait another three weeks?!

A Dutch retailer already has the cd's and posted some pictures on his Facebook page. Seems that they're all in super-jewel-cases. No deluxe digipacks or anything. Fuckers.

Yes, they are out in Ireland as well. I went to HMV at lunch time and I saw them:
two editions. Normal one at 13.99 euros and "extended" one at 16.99. They both look the same: crap.
Very dissapointed. At least they are not expensive.
I ended up buying an "A Night at the Opera" T-Shirt for 14.99. :-) I  will eventually order the box from an online seller.

I was looking forward to beautiful fold-out digipacks, as that is the way they seem to appear at QOL. But no, just throw them in jewelcases. Fuck quality, the fucking fans will buy it either way.

Bloody Digipacks. I HATE them with a passion.
There's nothing like a stupid fold out cardboard  thing for receiving damage, no matter how careful you are.

Can't believe people actually like them!

Mark me down as another digipack hater. Dinged and dented cardboard corners are not attractive. I prefer my music encased in hard, cold, replacable plastic.

Seriously? Seperate album reissues and then a multi-album box? RIP-OFF!!!! Are they forgetting about the 1995 15-CD set Ultimate Queen? The 2011 box is basically UQ with 75 mediocre leftovers tacked on. (we all know the bonuses are/will be quite lousy). Let's hope they come up with some interesting packaging for it to entice us even a minuscule bit!

Hi people, my advice is to wait, let's see what happens with this box set. Maybe we will get an extra ( a book, a cd ) with it. Patience is a virtue.

br5946 wrote: Seriously? Seperate album reissues and then a multi-album box? RIP-OFF!!!! Are they forgetting about the 1995 15-CD set Ultimate Queen? The 2011 box is basically UQ with 75 mediocre leftovers tacked on. (we all know the bonuses are/will be quite lousy). Let's hope they come up with some interesting packaging for it to entice us even a minuscule bit!
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This isn't a 'separate' multi album box, but simply the option to buy the first five remasters in a box rather than on their own - you can then add the remaining 10 albums which you buy as normal when they are released. 

I was going to buy all five in the first batch anyway, and know I'll buy the remaining ones, so to have a limited edition case to house all of them in for only £5 more is goood for me so I've ordered it.  The only gripe is that they should have released it on the same day as the first five albums.

Having said that, I'll bet my house that they DO release a separate box containing all ten (plus possibly some extra material) very soon after the last batch of five are released.

why not just release a box set with all the bonus tracks that they are adding to these reissues? i love queen,have for as long as i can remember,but i'll be damned if i'm going to buy these again after owning the lps and the remastered cds in the 1990s!i'll just get copies of the unreleased tracks of the www.i don't have the money to rebuy these.