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AFTER FOOTBALL, turkey, stu;ng and
pumpkin pie, what better way to spend
a ;anksgiving evening than to settle in
with the family for exhilarating DVD watching? Costco has some great DVDs to add to
your collection. Here are our buyers’ picks.
(* denotes available in DVD format only)
The Pacific
HBO
;e Girl Who Played with Fire*. ;e second of
the Swedish ;lm adaptations of late author
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy novels ;nds
anti-heroine Lisbeth Salander on the run a;er
being accused of three murders while investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist tries to help
her clear her name. Don’t wait for the English-language version; this is the real deal.—CY
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;e Paci;c. A;er the success of their HBO
miniseries Band of Brothers, which honored
the World War II vets who fought in Europe,
executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven
Spielberg wanted to pay similar tribute to the
men in the Paci;c theater, and this incredible
miniseries does so in a powerful way. ;e series focuses on three real-life heroes and how
the war a;ected their lives—and how they affected the war—and it does so with vivid realism.—Lucy Correa, assistant media buyer
Scooby Doo, Where Are You?: ;e Complete
Series Collection. Young or old, you can’t help
but fall for Scooby Doo, the large, lovable Great
Dane who helps his teenage pals, Fred, Velma,
Daphne and Shaggy, through mystery adventures. ;is is good old-fashioned animation,
not the computer-generated stu;. Forty-one
episodes and more than 16 hours of cartoon
fun for the whole family are packed in a special
Mystery Machine DVD box.
—Stacy ;railkill, media buyer
WAREHOUSE ONLY
Pixar Blu-ray Gi; Sets. Five of the studio’s
best titles—Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Up, Wall-E
and Monsters, Inc.—are available in very special box sets created exclusively for Costco. I’m
excited about these sets, because they each
contain not only a great movie, but also an
Essential Guide book, a set of 10 mini lithographs
and a sticker book. ;is is not just for Pixar
fans, but for the serious collector as well.
—Cody Yaple, assistant media buyer
You’ll also ;nd A Christmas Carol, Alien
Anthology, Avatar, Back to the Future 25th
Anniversary Trilogy, Cats & Dogs 2*, Eat Pray
Love, Cars Toons: Mater’s Tall Tales, Santa
Paws, Sex and the City 2 *, ;e Kids Are Alright,
Toy Story 3 and a special Twentieth Century
Fox 75th-anniversary mega set with ;lms from
throughout the studio’s history. C throughout the studio’s history.
Exclusive Christmas music CDs
For the ;rst ime ever, three pic award- winning war documentaries— World at War, Victory at Sea nd Century of Warfare — together in one complete set. WAREHOUSE/ COSTCO.COM Experience WWII
IN FEBRUARY 2010 our team began working on an exclusive custom Christmas CD
program. We wanted to put together a compilation of holiday music from the artists who
are most known and loved by our members.
;e process took seven months and lots
of negotiating with record labels and artist
management to secure the perfect collection
for Costco members, but the result was well
worth it.
;is Christmas is a collection of 26 songs
by contemporary artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Diana Krall,
Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand and others,
some of whom are contributing songs to a
custom compilation for the very ;rst time.
With Classic Christmas, we have put to-
gether the top 30 Christ-
mas songs of all time—
the original, remastered
recordings of the songs
our members know by
the artist most closely associated with that
song. Artists include Gene Autry, Nat King
Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Burl Ives, Dean Martin
and Frank Sinatra.
It’s that easy.
• Enjoy up to 1,600 of your
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WAREHOUSE/ COSTCO.COM
NOVEMBER 2010 ;e Costco Connection 61
