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[AUGUST UPDATE] - www.mantalab.com

Hello everyone! We hope everyone is having a great summer! We are very sorry for posting the update later than what we promised! It means we are working hard on production so we hope our customers can understand . `We have a lot of good news for this update so please read below for more information

1. EX_MACHINA
All materials have arrived to the packing facility and we are packing them at the moment. We hope to ship out everything on time. Thank you very much.

2. Ready Player One
Pre-order is tomorrow at 8PM, August 3rd, 2018! We thank everyone for coming to our pre-order.

3. The Greatest Showman
Pre-order will be in August and we are scheduling the pre-order at the moment. This release includes something we have never made before and we hope it will come out as our expectation.

4. The Shape of Water
Pre-order will be in September. We have finished all designs and we are currently producing the materials so packshots will be updated soon.

5. Deadpool 2
We are currently working on the Exclusive Steelbook for the Deadpool 2 and we hope to release another amazing release like the first one! More info will be updated after approval.

6. Forgotten releases....
*Kingsman 2*
- Approvals have been quite difficult with this release because our entire designs have been rejected few times. We are working on this again but the release is going to be delayed until later this year.

*Dunkirk*
- There's a good news about this release because we were having problem with the approval from the director but we've heard that the approval process is moving again. We hope to post good news about this release.

*Alien Series*
- TBA, we are working with one of the best illustrators in the industry for our package and hope there's more news on this within this year.

*Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them*
- 50% of production has been finished and we are planning to release it in around October.

*BladeRunner 2049*
- Again... we are rejected with few ideas so we are starting over with the designs. We hope to release this by end of this year.

7. Steelbook Production and feedback
As our customers know that we've been switching back and forth with the steelbook production for our products and we thank everyone for the honest feedback. In our opinion, we are having difficult time deciding which production we want to use for our products because different factories have different pros and cons. Traditionally, we've been using super glossy steelbooks for our products but the problem we've faced was that the super glossy steelbooks have softer coating and it's more vulnerable than the hard coating. Regardless of the production we use, we will continue to QC our product to send out the best products for our customers.

Thank you very much and we hope to publish more good news with our next update.

Best regards,
Manta Lab

Hello everyone! We thank everyone for coming to the pre-order of The Shape of Water. Slips and materials will be posted soon so we hope everyone is excited! Also, we are very happy to announce our 2nd Universal release and the first Tarantino's film from us. Please read more for the updates and the release schedules for our products. Thank you.

1. [ME#23] Inglourious Basterds
Finally, we are approved with the Inglourious Basterds Manta Lab Exclusive Steelbook. We've been working on this release since last September (not 2018) and took us 1 year to finally get the rights, design and final approval for this movie. It is one of our favorite movies of all time from Tarantino so we hope we've done a good job with the package. We had a plan to start the pre-order for this movie in late October but due to our recent late production and delay with the previous releases, we have decided to put on a hold until we finish all shipping up to The Shape of Water. Thank you very much for your interest in advance and we will release the information soon. OOoooooohh, That's a BINGO!

2. [ME#19] The Greatest Showman
We are currently shipping out single editions of the movie but due to our holidays in early October (National Day), there's been production delay and QC problem. We are rescheduling the Box dispatch starting 25th and we are going to finish all shipping by end of October. We are again very sorry about the frequent delay with the boxes and we are very disappointed as well because we've been working on this box since June and it's quite upsetting that the mass production is not coming out as well as we've expected and getting delayed. Again, we are stopping all future pre-orders to fix all production schedule so we don't make delays anymore in the future. Thank you for your understanding.

3. [ME#20] Deadpool 2
We are still waiting for the approval and we might be able to release this by December. Thank you for the wait.

4. [ME#14] Se7en
Se7en is one of the titles we've been working on since 2016 and we've never mentioned about this release because there was no progress for 1.5 years. There's been many releases of this movie over years but we think our versions will be the definitive version of the movie. We hope to release more news on this before 2019.

5. Releases that are kind of got forgotten.
- Fantastic Beast 1: We are expecting to start the pre-order for this soon. We are having a bit of hard time with the sampling and production for the box at the moment.

- Blade Runner 2049: Design is still in progress. This might be our first release with Sony so we are adapting to their style for the designs and specification.

- Kingsman 2: Design is still in progress. Due to lack of artworks and restriction from the Studio, this is taking longer than usual. All materials are finished except for couple.

If we didn't mention other releases, it's either under works or taking more time than the ones we've mentioned so please bear with us because we are a small studio lacking different types of resources but we always try our best to make the best versions of the packages for each movie.

6. Future Possible Releases from us in Exclusive Steelbook format
- A Star is Born (2019 Q1)
- First Man (2019 - Q1)

Above movies are under research and we will post more update when we decide to release them.

We are getting closer to the end of the year and our 3rd anniversary (Dec, 3rd). We had many ups and downs this year but quite proud of all the products we've released. Please wait for more updates in next months!

If you have any questions or comments, please

Thanks!

Best regards,
Manta Lab

Hello everyone.

This is John from Manta Lab. Today is our 3rd Anniversary and I am super glad that we've come this far. Thanks to our customers and our GB hosts first for supporting our brand throughout 2018. I want to thank our designer Claudia and other freelance designers who helped with our projects. Also, thanks to our licensees partners and studios that helped us to make fantastic business in 2018.

There were many ups and downs like 2017 and many projects were cancelled and changed due to the request from studios but I am pretty satisfied with what we have produced for our customers. I know many customers enjoy what we bring to the market that are different from other retailers and we really try our best to be produce the ultimate package for each movie. Thanks for the support as always and we will continue to make great products in 2019.

I know everyone is expecting an anniversary sale but this time, we've decided to move the sale to New Years (February). I hope you guys are not disappointed with this news. We are planning to do some events and promotions for next couple of weeks to give out some coupons and prototype samples we've made throughout 2018.

We have December update coming up and we are hosting pre-orders for Deadpool 2 and Fantastic Beast Exclusive steelbook in December. More details will be posted soon.

There are many things I want to share (mostly my thoughts over the year) but I think continue to produce great products and providing great service speak for itself.

Again, thank you very much for another fantastic year and I look forward to receiving more in 2019.

Thank you!

Best regards,
John

Hello Everyone. This is John and I would like to apologize for the delay with the shipping for Deadpool 2 and Inglourious Basterds.

I've tried my best to ship out everything as fast as possible but it wasn't easy to process all orders quickly and Chinese New Year also added more problems with the packing and shipping. With the future releases, I've decided to have more packers to process the orders faster so I hope it helps with the current problems.

From the beginning, most of the releases were packed by myself and couple others and it seems that we are always having problem with the shipping. Also, working on the packing has affected the Customer Service as well because I've been too focused with the shipping out the products and not paying attention to the emails. All emails will be replied within next week and again I do apologize for those who experienced inconvenience.

Update will be coming soon and in short, there's Fantastic Beast and where to Find them Exclusive Steelbook Pre-order next Thursday (Product Info uploaded next) and we have few exclusive releases that are planned as below

[ME#14] Se7en
[ME#21] First Man
[ME#24] A Star is Born
[ME#25] Aquaman

They are all exclusive steelbook releases and pre-order will be held around March-April. More information will be updated with the next update post.

Again, many apologies to everyone who felt inconvenience due to the delay with the shipment and customer service.

Thank you!
John

For Dunkirk, we are very close to cancelling it because after negotiating with the studio, the director will not approve different designs for the release. We've changed the design few times and used around 2 months to complete this release but at the end, we are not getting an approval from the necessary people. We don't think we can do anything further to change the situation unless the director changes his mind.

This time, the release's design was very strict and everything was set by the director. DVD design is this, 4KUHD is this type of strict design rules so we are not sure what will happen.