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| My SNSD Haul! |
SO, continuing my chronicled descent (ascent?) into the K-pop Madness that was initially sparked by KARA, I now enter the SECOND phase of K-pop Obsession, this time with the lovely ladies of SNSD- GIRLS' GENERATION!!
After falling in love with the girls and their variety shows, specials and music I knew that this group was another "keeper" that fueled a need to get my hands on whatever CDs I could find, and was happily able to locate a dealer in Korea with an ebay store who hooked me up with the goods straight from the source… and O MY GOSH, did those GOODs turn out to be GOOD!
Upon receiving my SNSD care package, the first thing I noticed was that there was a separate parcel- a tube for the Bonus POSTERS! HOLY CRAP, can you DIG IT?! Ah, the joy of unpacking that box of Girls Generation goodies...Though the SNSD albums I picked up may not look like much in the above picture, trust me when I say that besides the terrific music and stunning pictures of the girls within each release, a whole treasure trove of GOODIES was packed within!
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| Girls Generation First Album, Gatefold + Booklet |
The first two albums GIRLS GENERATION and GEE were your standard (non-limited) releases, but both featured thick picture booklets with terrific glossy shots of the SNSD members, and as someone who doesn't own much stuff "image-wise" of the girls, It was a thrill to immerse myself in pages and pages of pictures of the girls! Flipping through the books, little did I know it would only get better and better!
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| First Mini Album Gee |
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| Gee Inside Booklet |
Breaking open the wrapping of SNSD's first Mini album OH!, I didn't even have to go searching for any bonus stuff, as the collectible card featuring all 9 members fell right out and into my lap! Once again, this CD contained a nice thick picture book of the girls, and then but I didn;t have time to stall as I moved onto the NEXT CD...
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| OH! CD, Booklet and Collectible Card |
DJ, Put It Back On! Next we have the song that stepped up the girls from mere idols to sexy goddesses and first introduced me to their music, the majestic TELL ME YOUR WISH~GENIE, featuring another wonderful glossy picture booklet and featuring one of the SEXIEST covers SNSD's ever put out! The cover featured luscious Yoona and the inside booklet cover featured YURI! As this was a period of time when I REALLY liked how each member looked, the Booklet's pics were a MUCH CHERISHED item indeed!!!
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| Tell Me Your Wish~Genie CD |
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| Tell Me Your Wish Booklet |
Then we've got the amazing MR. TAXI CD (a repackaging of The Boys, see below), which came wailing in with a mighty 13 huge glossy postcard set, a cool 16x24 poster of the CD cover, and if things couldn’t get any better, the bonus card of the random member was none other than…JESSICA!!!! Yes, If there was such a thing as luck on my side, it was here now! LOL!
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| Mr. Taxi 18x24 poster , Booklet, Glossy Postcards and Jessica Trading Card! |
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| Mr. Taxi Postcards (back) and CD Gatefold |
Then we’ve got their RUN DEVIL RUN album (which technically I kind of had since it was more or less their “Oh” album with Run Devil Run” thrown on), Got it just 'cause, what a wonderful surprise to find that each CD came with a fold-out randomly chosen poster of one of the members, and once again I lucked out as this time I was rewarded with SNSD’s reigning Dance Queen Hyoyeon!
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| Run Devil Run CD, Booklet and Fold-Out Hyoyeon Poster |
And now we come to the BIG TIME regarding what we call the "Bonus" stuff, simply put, SNSD's HOOT and THE BOYS albums push the envelope once again of what quality goods really are!
Opening the amazing HOOT! "Spy Themed" gatefold, you're already presented with two terrific gifts: a 5x7 sticker sheet of the girls (with individual die-cut circles around each member should you only want to stick your fave!) and a glossy bonus trading card of a random member (who turned out to be YOONA, doing her best Diana Rigg!)
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| HOOT! Cd, Stickers, Yoona Trading Card and Postcard Book |
I had seen pictures of some of the HOOT bonus postcards (one of Yuri) and was hoping the edition I bought still included them...little did I know that they were actually part of the thick Postcard Book , each postcard actually a page in the booklet (with perforated edges to remove), these cards are SO DAMN nice, I wanted to scan 'em but the thickness of the pages made it difficult, and there was NO WAY IN HELL I was gonna tear them out! In the end I simply took a picture of the book where you can clearly see the colorful, James-Bond styled Swinging Sixties designed cards!
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| BEAUTIFUL 36x24 HOOT! Poster |
If those wonderful cards weren't enough, there's also the POSTER included with this EP...a HUGE 36x24 sheet printed on thick paper of the girls in "austin Powers" mode, SO COOL!!
I have to say that this poster would be something worth buying, so AMAZING to get it for FREE!
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| Elegant, Collectible Tin for "The Boys" CD |
But for bonuses beyond bonuses we must give the crown to the incredible First Pressing of THE BOYS. Released in a beautiful collectible tin, the points were already ratcheting up for this one, upon opening and checking out the contents, was presented with a trading card of randomly selected SEOHYUN and a pack of 13 glossy postcards featuring the girls all done up in various states of cosplay, from retro, techno to classic portrait!
Then there’s the two external bonus POSTERS which I have to say were soo soo fricking g0rgeous, I was just beside myself with happiness, sooo beautiful! The first one was the poster featuring a randomly selected member, in my case it was the lovely "kid Leader" Taeyeon all done up in an old Victorian styled outfit, and keeping with this theme, the OTHER poster was this GORGEOUS 24x36 poster of all nine girls done up in similar fashion, looking so pretty and elegant- MAN, what a PRIZE!
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| The Boys CD, Postcards, Booklet, Seohyun Trading Card & Taeyeon Poster |
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| Gorgeous 36x24 Poster for "The Boys" |
Just Fantastic! And if that wasn't enough, for some reason, the dealer ALSO threw in a poster of the Girls' First Asia Tour album, if not for any reason than to prove that this SNSD order went beyond the call of duty for GOODIES and to show how SNSD was the GUIDING LIGHT for AWESOME Fan Appreciation!
