My Elvis Presley Blog

GDC-GameDevCo Ltd Announces Release of Elvis Presley DVD Board Game

It’s a not a real board game in the sense that we all think of board games but a DVD with a board game on it. Still that may be just semantics if you’re a diehard Elvis fan who simply must have everything ever made with Elvis’s name on it.  I used to be that way but not so much anymore.  The music for sure.  The other stuff that comes out of EPE Merchandising can be pretty cheesy and I’m not sure even Elvis would approve of some of it.  I mean, Pez Dispenser?  Bobble Heads?  You’d almost think that old carnie Parker was still hawking his goods around town.

However I think Elvis probably would get a kick out of a game about him that tests your knowledge of his life,  his music and his career. I admit, I am curious. On the other hand, I would be interested to know just how much information is in a game that only takes 30-40 mins for 4 people to play.  If it was the calibre of Trivial Pursuit which could take hours to complete if you’re with equally knowledgeable people, you’d hope it would take longer to play.

Nonetheless, it is $39.99US at Shopelvis so not a cheap board game (or DVD with a board game on it) either.  The picture makes it look like you’re getting a boxed game like you would if you bought a real board game but it IS a DVD, so you know that for your $40.00US,  you are only getting a DVD sized package. 

And that gives me the perfect opportunity to go into the rant that I’ve been holding back since last week:

So last week I wanted to buy my three Elvis Calendars that I always buy every year for my office (last month, this month and next month) from Shopelvis.com. After a nice discount for purchasing over $30.00 (35.97 to be exact), I clicked on the check out button and imagine my surprise when the total invoice came to $115.79!!! 

Over $70.00 to ship three calendars to Canada???  Click, cancel!  I had just previously ordered a print from the US for a friend and had it delivered via UPS no less for $28.00 so don’t tell me that it cost $70.00 to ship a package the size of a calendar!  Oh did I mention that if you purchased enough goods over a certain amount you got free shipping?  So those of us who aren’t willing to buy a large amount are going to pay for those who do? 

I wrote them a pretty sharply worded email and told them where to stuff their $115.00 calendars as well as letting them know I could just make my own damned calendars with the images of Elvis obtained freely anywhere on the internet. I received a reply back from them with instructions to call them about it.  I haven’t done that yet and probably won’t.  I’m just warning my readers that if you buy from Shopelvis, be very careful how much shipping charges are tacked on at the end.  There are lots of places to buy Elvis stuff, Shopelvis isn’t the only market on the street.

Having said that, this board game (or the DVD with a board game on it) is exclusive to Shopelvis and you probably won’t get it anywhere else except for possibly Ebay after some folks have managed to buy an inventory of them.  Will keep you posted if I hear any news or reviews about it.