Release date: September 6th, 2017 Purchase links:FNAC - Box set Price: €34.99 (SteelBook) - €64.99 (Box set) Note: Boxset includes Booklet, Rocket Raccoon torso with Baby Groot on shoulder h:12cm, w:10cm (approx.), film poster and a pack of collectable artcards.
You get a 5 € discount if you are a member.
For anyone interested the COFFRET COLLECTOR back on sale at FNAC at the time of writing.
Word of caution though . . . massive problem with many of the Rocket Raccoon figurines - they are turning up at their destinations either *smashed to smithereens or with detached limbs. It's reported that all will be replaced from October 1, 2017 "Voici enfin des nouvelles pour ceux qui se retrouvent avec le buste cassé. Vous devez vous manifester auprès du service client de la fnac au 09 69 324 334, vous laissez votre adresse postale, et ils vous enverront une nouvelle statuette d’ici début octobre."
Q: What's in the box ?
A: This:-
. . . or maybe this . . . I can imagine - what with the state of poor old Rocket Raccoon in many of them - that opening this collector's box will be as nervewracking and trepidatious as it was for Marian Carr in that famous box opening in "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955):-
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Looks like yet another case of title on magnetic spine:-
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*Some examples in what condition poor dear Rocket Raccoon arrived at its destination:-
Here begins the end of the smashed figurines saga with replacements now being sent out in suitable packaging to all those who reported receiving them damaged . . .