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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-17-2010, 02:32 PM:

Well some good news from Deluxe this morning -- Shrek 4 will have one locked can, but the UNLOCKED can will have the trailers and reels 1 & 2. So maybe some of our gripes from Iron Man 2 got to the right place.

Posted by Matt Johnston (Member # 5457) on 05-17-2010, 04:50 PM:

I saw this earlier. Can't say that I'm happy, but definitely better than the alternatives.

I wonder when the hard drives will be delivered for 3D shows....

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 05-17-2010, 06:01 PM:

The day after it opens. Good news is the keys will be out 2 days early. [Razz]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 05-17-2010, 06:46 PM:

They really should ship it on two separate hard drives. The odd minutes on one and the even minutes on the other. One of the drives will have a padlock on it. Knowing the studios, it would be a magnetic lock.

Posted by Michael Hossen (Member # 4274) on 05-17-2010, 10:27 PM:

Oh Joe, you never cease to amuse me.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 05-19-2010, 02:38 PM:

Not that I'm condoning this practice or that we do it but...

Take a wood block, set it on the top of the lock body. Hit with hammer.

Lock pops open without breaking it.

Posted by Geena Phillips (Member # 3726) on 05-20-2010, 11:35 AM:

So, did anyone else's Deluxe depot get this exactly backward? All three of my prints, at two locations, had reels 1&2, plus the trailers, in the locked can. Dipshits.

Posted by Ross Oba (Member # 3433) on 05-20-2010, 10:51 PM:

Our print was "correctly" locked, however none of the combos worked. I called them and they told me to use bolt cutters to open it. You'd think after years of this practice they would do it properly.