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If you're an Abbott & Costello fan, this'll blow you away
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Check this out

Personally, I'm in, but then I never thought A&C would get anything that resembles the deluxe treatment.  I figure I should grab it while it lasts.  It's unlikely that they'll merit something like this ever again.
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oops badlink.. no connection to your link..
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Where is it available for Pre-Order? I Gotta have that!!!
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Quoting widescreenforever:
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oops badlink.. no connection to your link..

Huh, it works for me when I click it.  Anybody else having a problem with the link?  It's attempting to link to the news section of the official Abbott and Costello webpage:  www.abbottandcostello.net

The webpage has some actual packaging photos, but the details of the announcement are as follows:

Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection
will be released on DVD on 10/28/08.
This high-end gift set will include the following:

- All 28 Universal films - first time available together in one collection*
- Includes It Ain't Hay - available to own for the first time ever
- Digitally remastered for optimum picture quality
- 15 single-sided discs
- Highly collectible trunk packaging
- Exclusive book "Abbott & Costello: The Universal Story"
- 6 audio commentaries
- Bonus disc includes The World of Abbott & Costello, Abbott & Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld and Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters
- 20 original theatrical trailers
- Production notes on all 28 films
- Retail price is set at $119.98

*Titles include: One Night in the Tropics (1940), Buck Privates (1941), In the Navy (1941), Hold That Ghost (1941), Keep 'Em Flying (1941), Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942), Pardon My Sarong (1942), Who Done It? (1942), It Ain't Hay (1943), Hit the Ice (1943), In Society (1944), Here Come the Co-Eds (1945), The Naughty Nineties (1945), Little Giant (1946), The Time of Their Lives (1946), Buck Privates Come Home (1947), The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Mexican Hayride (1948), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949), Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), Comin' Round the Mountain (1951), Lost in Alaska (1952), Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953), Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955), Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

According to a guy on HTF the commentaries are:

Buck Privates - with Film Historians Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo
Hold That Ghost - with Film Historian Jeff Miller
Who Done It? - with Film Historian Frank Coniff
The Time of Their Lives - with Film Historian Frank Thompson
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - with Film Historian Gregory W. Mank
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - with Film Historians Tom Weaver and Richard Scrivani

And finally, according to Bob Furmanek on HTF:

"The transfer of BUCK PRIVATES that we watched while doing the commentary was a sparkling new transfer with the correct "End" title."
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Where is it available for Pre-Order? I Gotta have that!!!

It literally just got announced today, so I doubt the etailers have pages ready for pre-orders.  I figure they should have something by next week.
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Link worked for me...nice looking set.  I loved these guys as a kid.
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Link worked fine for me as well.

It is a nice looking set. I already own 9 of the titles, 8 in the Franchise Collection Vol. 3 and the Universal Studios Comedy Legends Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy & Abbott and Costello Meet the Frankenstein. But having them altogether in a set like this would be great and I could just gift the others to my brother.
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Heck, I own 27 of them.  Got all 4 of the Best Of collections.  At the time they were making them, It Ain't Hay was in rights hell.  I'm still down for this set if for no other reason than to dump these damned DV-18s that Universal used on the old releases.  Commentaries, packaging and new transfers don't hurt either.
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oops badlink.. no connection to your link..

working now...    wierd ..
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Man I grew up watching Abbott and Costello on Saturday mornings and afternoons!!!  Since I currently own none of these classic films, I will definitely be picking up this set!!! 
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