Talk:Video Gems

St. Michael

Is there a source for the info that the St. Michael DI/RoB cover was designed by Video Gems, as opposed to just being ripped off from them? There's no packaging credit that I can see, or anything like that. Personally, I reckon the Video Gems DI/RoB tape actually is the St. Michael one, and would love to merge the two pages, but I can't find anything to back this up. - Magnus Maximus 20:07, 22 December 2009 (EST)

Cropped scan from my personal collection (includes the reference number seen on Rockman's smaller scan for added proof). This was the only 1986 release of Dinobot Island/Revenge of Bruticus; since at the time Video Gems were the only company releasing Transformers on UK video, I'm guessing St. Michael simply did a deal with Video Gems to make the tape with them, albeit as a store exclusive. Video Gems only released their version of this tape couple of years later, with the episodes swapped around. --Jon T 07:33, 23 December 2009 (EST)

Thanks, that's exactly what I was expecting. Still not enough of a link to merge the pages, though. I'm pretty sure that St. Michael was an M&S-owned brand, and my theory is there was something in the contract that said if anyone wanted to have a tape be an M&S exclusive it had to go through their brand, so the two St. Michael tapes are basically just Video Gems releases under a different name. But as I said, nothing to back this up. - Magnus Maximus 10:07, 23 December 2009 (EST)