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Author Topic: New Fox Shipping Cases: anyone else seen 'em? Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-30-2003 06:12 PM                     Has anyone else seen the new Fox shipping cases? I am not talking about the venerable 'Fox Box' but a new case that appears to be a cross between a water jug and a Warner Bros. ELR case. I just saw a print of X-Men: United come in a pair of these. Sorry I don;t have a pic for you, but they are all plastic construction, molded from gray plastic, and have several parts made from white plastic. They have a 'snap-lock' front clasp with a plastic 'security pin' that slides in to prevent the latch from popping open. Inside, there is quite a bit of room for the reels, and there are 'slots' in the inside that the reel flanges are supposed to slide into to keep things put as the reels are shipped. I wonder how these will hold up in the long run... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-30-2003 06:28 PM                     Aaron I saw those cases on a print of Fox's "Dancer Upstairs". They look very nice and roomy. Bill  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-01-2003 12:23 AM                    I havn't seen the new containers yet. May see them tomorrow if they are going to be standard. I wish Sony would have done that instead of using the Fox Box approach.  |  IP: Logged John Scott Master Film Handler Posts: 252 From: Oakdale, MN, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-01-2003 12:57 AM                     Our prints of Xmen 2 today came in normal ETS metal cans. I was shocked they weren't in the ackward Fox Boxes, frankly. Very pleasantly suprised.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 05-01-2003 04:31 AM                     Hello all. We got X2 in these new cans. I liked the fact that they were easier to carry upstairs than the boxes or the metal cans. However, it was a pain to get the darn thing closed after we were done buidling! I'm sure I'll figure out a trick to it soon. Cheers! AJG  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-01-2003 05:40 AM                        Anyone with a photo? Any indication of who makes these cases?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-01-2003 12:05 PM                     I'll take some pictures tonight.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-01-2003 12:34 PM                    Here's the real question: Do they leave room for the DTS disks?  |  IP: Logged Michael Cunningham Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: Anchorage, AK Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-01-2003 01:44 PM                     Yes, there is room for the DTS discs. In fact, they fit in snugly and are held in place by the case design. I'll try to explain this, the cases have ridges in the sides that hold the reel flanges so the reels don't flop around freely. Between these straight ridges are curved projections. These don't quite touch the film when a reel is over them, but a DTS disc tray fits directly into the curve. This has the added benefit of allowing you to put the tray into whichever reel slot you want. So the number of reels in the print doesn't matter, just fill the case up to the last reel than add the discs in the next slot. - Mike  |  IP: Logged John Spooner Expert Film Handler Posts: 186 From: South Australia, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 05-01-2003 01:54 PM                     Dear colleagues. You are really getting spoilt having prints actually come on spools and in proper cases. Here down under our prints all come on flats and in flimsy cardboard boxes!  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-01-2003 08:43 PM                     Saw these buggers today, and boy are they nice. The biggest problem that I have with the metal cases that everybody uses, other than the fact that they weigh a ton and are usually beat up, is the fact that the handles always dig into my finger bones when carrying them. It's just not ergonomical to have 40 lbs. be supported by such a small handle. The new plastic cans have a much larger handle and solve that problem. Just wonder how long these things are going to last, as plastic tends to crack and break when mistreated, and we all know that prints aren't shipped in the best of care.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-01-2003 08:58 PM                     The cases will hold up fine, as they are of high quality durable plastic. However these get the prize for shittiest latch ever. Full pics will be posted Friday night.  |  IP: Logged Andrew Duggan Expert Film Handler Posts: 127 From: Albany, NY, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-01-2003 11:03 PM                        Yeah, I felt the same way about the latch. I give them one or two more print runs before those latches start to break and disappear and end up getting replaced with all manner of strange things, paper clips and what not. They're a real pain in the ass to close, too. All in all though I'm a big fan of these boxes. Pretty light, easy to carry, easy to store semi-compactly, great wells for the reels and DTS. I'd certainly like to see more of these put into use.  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-03-2003 12:30 AM                     Never tried to latch 'em before today, and ya, these things aren't going to last long. I'm actually surprised that we received all of our cases with the latch pin still attached.  |  IP: Logged Tim Sherman Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: North Ridgeville, OH, USA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 05-03-2003 01:40 AM                        Our Print came in the the grey cardboard plastic type box. That thing was a pain to carry being a 7 reels. Seems like fox and sony are using them more and more these days. My print of Anger Management and Idenity also came in the same boxes.  |  IP: Logged

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