#VHS clamshell

[satiricalgraphics]

[skinetom]

Midnight Video ~ Video Distributor ~ 1982 ~ 1985

[acosmicvoyager]

ca

[gaykarstaagforever]

A little sus how VHSs at the thrift store used to be 99 cents a pop. Then this #canceldisneyplus thing started and suddenly, all the animated Disney clamshells are $3.99.

...I mean I still bought six because if anything, these stores seem to low-ball stuff to get it to move because it's all about the cash flow.

But I still suspect I am being fleeced by people who are trying to raise money to support homeless drug addicts trying to improve their lives.

I'M ON TO YOUR GAME, YOU RAPACIOUS BASTARDS!

[eggbem]

Presenting: The Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie VHS: Clamshell Edition!

Okay, so I have been dying to share this project since I completed it last November, but I've been waiting until I was a little more active on my socials. And now I am!

I was inspired by thecolinstein on instagram to make this. I found his version back in 2023 and I wanted to buy it, but then I thought, hey, I could just make my own how I want it! With a clamshell case! How hard could it be?

Very hard, as it turns out.

That's not to discourage anyone from trying themselves. There were just a lot of roadblocks unique to my own process. Like the fact that I went through, like, five tapes recording the video file because I thought they were bad tapes. Nope, it was my stupid "smart" tv trying to automatically adjust the aspect ratio that was making the picture black out periodically. And before I got a computer that DIDN'T take 1 million years to boot up, it was difficult to design the cover and labels too.

Here's the playback:

Yes, I did record it at (almost) full aspect ratio, not 4:3, but 1.85:1 because that's how I'd watch it (I didn't want cropping on certain scenes and I REALLY didn't want letterboxing). And those glitchy parts on CJ's face are from my phone's camera, not the recording itself (you have no idea the heart attack I had before I double-checked lol)

Now, obviously since there's nothing on the tape to say that this is just a fanmade product, I will NOT be recreating this VHS for sale, not like thecolinstein (he has disclaimers on his). I'm not sure of the legality of selling my version. My whole intent was to simply make it look like the real deal, like you could find this in a garage sale bargain pile and believe it might have once been widely distributed. Also, I cannot be bothered to try taping the video file again, you can't make me lol. This was just a passion project. But I do hope I've inspired someone else!

[robsheridan]

Enjoy some glorious retro textures from these pristine old VHS tape label sheets I’ve acquired.

I have no shortage of old used VHS tapes, but the ones I find almost never have unused label sheets in them. Well shoutout to my Mom’s husband, who gave me a box of his old tapes where he had also saved a HUGE stack of label sheets, meticulously preserved!

Also in the box were some really sleek Fuji black plastic hard clamshell VHS cases (last slide), for only your very finest recordings of course.

This is all big treasure to weirdos like me.

[briarberrythornedhart]

Eddie Casts Song of Restoration

Content: Sick hurt/Comfort, innuendo and flirting, reader described as having breasts, reader has never heard of Vic’s vapor rub going on your feets 😅. I know, that’s gonna ruin this for some of us. Just pretend with me.

🦇 ♥️ 🦇 🎸 🦇 💀 🦇 🎸 🦇 ♥️ 🦇

You’d been together for 19 days and 6 hours when you caught the flu.

You told Eddie to stay away from your house until you were well, but Eddie is not exactly stellar at following orders.

It was the fatigue that was the worst and you didn’t want to ever see Eddie as listless as you felt. You liked it best when he was revved up and bouncing around like a coiled spring.

He was very bouncy right now.

“Orange juice, check. Ginger ale, check. Chicken soup and crackers. Check Check. More tissues - the Good Ones.” Eddie said, plopping his purchases onto the counter. “Vapor rub which Uncle Wayne says cures what ails ya’. And Of course - movies for distraction purposes. Plus me, as a bonus distraction.” He bowed to you, but he was the opposite of humble.

“Babe, didn’t want you to get sick.” You said weakly. “Didn’t Dustin tell you I said to stay away?”

You clutched the afghan around you and shuffled further away as if a few measly feet would protect your beloved from the plague you carried.

What you needed was hazmat suits, then you could hug him safely. You wanted to hold him so badly.

Eddie cocked his head and licked a canine. “You ever known me to do what that little shrimp says? Also, I knew you needed me.” He held out his arms to catch you up in them, but a sudden sneeze caught you without tissue in hand and slightly green goop was now dripping from your nose

“Awwww gross…” you complained and begged him. “Don’t look at me, I’m so disgusting.”

Eddie laughed, not cruelly, “Sweetheart, where is all that ectoplasm coming from??” He brought his bandana up to wipe your face off, ignoring your complaints that it would need to be BURNED afterwards. “Listen, you are not gross. It’s just snot. You are as gorgeous as ever, and I loooove the outfit.” He had clocked that you were wearing a Megadeth shirt and just underwear underneath your your afghan ‘cloak’. His voice dropped an octave - you felt it rumble in your ears. “That’s my shirt...Don’t you know what that does to me…?” sliding his warm hands under the afghan to meet your thighs.

You felt the traitorous cough building in your chest and couldn’t stop it no matter how hard you tried. It bent you double. It sounded atrocious.

“Whoa-whoa, hey, I’m sorry, I won’t molest you while you're sick, don’t cough up a lung on me.” Eddie slung an arm around your shoulder and led you back to the couch.

“You would… if I wasn’t sick, though?” You asked glumly, “You’d molest me to my heart’s content?”

Eddie did a double take at that, and then chuckled in his best demonic manner, “Say the word and you’ll be thoroughly molested, good and proper. Soon as you want it.” Quixotically changing tone to be sweet again, his doe-eyes soft and concerned. “Do you wanna lay down, or prop up against me?”

“Can’t lay down, get too stuffy.” You sniffed, a bit pathetically.

“Okay, sit here, imma put on the first movie and then we can cuddle up.” Eddie popped open a white clamshell VHS case. “You said you loved Muppet movies, Robin suggested I get you ‘Hey Cinderella’ - and ‘The Frog Prince’ - both are Muppety versions.”

“I think you might be the sweetest boyfriend in the whole world.”

“I know, right?…and now…” he unscrewed the cap of vapor rub, “to put this mentholated greasy shit…sorry... stuff.. on your feet.”

“What? Vapor rub is…chest…stuff. Chest rub. For chests??”

“Wayne said he puts it on his feet when he has a cold - said he did that for me when I was a toddler.” Eddie suddenly looked at you with a little smirk, “Dooooo youuuu want me to rub this on your chest? All over it? Cause that’s the kinda sweet boyfriend I am, I will do that, for you, if you want?” He licked his upper lip, face all mischievous.

He was a good distraction. “Yeah, well... when they say ‘chest’ they mean upper chest,” You patted just below your neck. “... not these.” You cupped your breasts at him.

His eyes widened and so did his smirk. “Show me again, I’m confused. Where doesn’t it go??” He scootched closer.

You tsked your tongue. “Actually what would be best - is if I rubbed this on your chest and stomach - and then laid my head on you. Like a big warm sexy healing pillow.”

“I don’t want to be described as a pillow - but I’ll take the rest.”

He let you put the chest rub on him, only wrinkling his nose up until you started massaging it in (avoiding his nipples), then you sent Eddie shivering into a little body-roll of pleasure as you drifted your hands down to his naval.

“Your hands feel s-s-so good... go lower??” His voice broke slightly on the ask.

“I’m not sure this is okay to go on any sensitive skin - like - pretty sure crotch is a no-go, babe.”

Eddie sighed a laugh, “Whoops, I didn’t come over here to have you take care of me. C’mere.” He held out his arm so you could get as close as possible and lay your heavy head on his chest. He held you sweetly and watched your silly muppety movies and sang you some Led Zeppelin until you drifted off to sleep.

But it has to be said, that as soon as you felt better, you gave him a full body massage with body safe oil and it did not disappoint.

[monithewhale]

This is so cool are you kidding me?!

[frogshunnedshadows]

Gobsmacked by the weird old home media at my local Goodwill (thrift store). Combo-pack DVD and HD-DVD – remember those? The red ones? Half a dozen "For Your Consideration" promo 'booklets' with select clips from FX TV shows – must have come from some local TV critic. And a surprising amount of VHS tapes, including some from as late as 2002! Even a bunch of those big white Disney clamshell ones.

[vhshistory]

The VHS release of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2005)

This is the last animated Nickelodeon film released on VHS and it is the only SpongeBob film released on the format. It is also one of the last VHS releases to be released in a clamshell case.

[skooodles]

Film Threat hawking Nekromantik. I own the VHS clamshell that they used to sell in the magazine.

[ronmerchant]

Anyone buy vhs tapes from these guys back in the day? I did-WHITE ZOMBIE (1932), the SHE MONSTER (1959),and the BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1959)! In clamshells! Still got 'em!

[thewisestwizards]

VHSeptember Day 6: In the Not to Distant Future. My Mad Maxes and the beautiful clamshell VHS of The Road Warrior.

[gwydionae]

I was tagged by @provider-of-guardians (thanks! ^_^)

I've never made a poll before am I a cool kid now lol

Behold... my stuff. XD

I tag whoever wants to make a poll sharing all the fun and weird things in their room!

[brokehorrorfan]

Spirit Halloween carries VHS-inspired Collector's Boxes for Halloween II, Corpse Bride, IT: Chapter Two, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Trick 'r Treat.

Priced at $14.99, each set contains six title-specific items - a patch, two buttons, two decals, and a lanyard with badge - all housed in a clamshell video case with reversible artwork (clean and faux-aged).

[gaykarstaagforever]

I watched Disney's Tarzan, finally. On VHS from the clamshell, because these are like $.50 now at thrift stores, assuming the thrift store near you even bothers to stock them anymore.

I bought my first copy awhile ago, but I didn't know enough to check the tape for the dreaded Tape Mold, and it certainly had it, and my VCR wisely refused to play it (at which point I threw it out, because there is no salvation once Nature has turned on a tape).

Plus these are literally $.50 now.

This new copy has no mold, and plays fine, aside from weird random audio warbling. No, it isn't the tracking. Probably just a much-loved tape, and they are slowly destroyed by our love. One big flaw of that media. I still have my original Karate Kid VHSs from the early 90s that I used to watch 4 times a week, and they are getting very rough indeed.

Anyway. I'm not going to review Tarzan, because it is a good movie I like so I don't have anything interesting to say about it. It makes Tarzan - a weird old character who is weird and old - cool and sexy, and that's cool. He tree-surfs and does the Tarzan shout in a way that is cool and not stupid and everything about this is heart-warming and cool.

I literally cried when a white guy in dredlocks and 1890s clothes hugged a monkey. That's good filmmaking, right there.

Goddammit, Disney. Good job.

I doubt the orginal story ended in a way where more gorillas got hugged than shot, but I have no idea because I'm not terribly familiar with it. And I'm okay with this being the definitive version of this. You're not going to do better than this with a story about a man white-savioring apes. It is an IP with limited adaptability in the present time, I think.

The Phil Colins music is great. I didn't even notice the characters weren't constantly stopping to do theater kid shit in the middle of the woods. ...Except for that one time, when monkeys and a red elephant destroy a camp to do a song. N*Sync plays the monkeys. Yes I'm serious.

And this tape has a bonus feature showing the recording of that song. And this was JT's Ramen Hair phase. So that made me very happy.

I recommend it utterly. ...I mean this specific VHS version of this movie. Fuck Disney+ and find you a $.50 Tarzan clamshell.

...Assuming you have a working VCR. You can't play this on a PS5. Also be sure to check it first for Tape Mold.