2012 Japanese SHM-CD replicas question

Nick

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I have a question about the 2012 Japanese SHM-CD miniature vinyl replicas.

I purchased all the albums from Ticket to Ride to Lovelines, and recently The Singles -1969-1973. I was very happy to see great details that went into reproducing Obi strips, posters, inserts, booklets and even hype stickers.

Ticket to Ride to Passage were great and the details very impressive but then from Christmas Portrait to Voice of the Heart, I personally found them a bit disappointing. The replica inserts (where the vinyl would have been inserted) seemed to have been made on the cheap. The inserts for Christmas Portrait, Made in America and Voice Of The Heart were double-sided card or a flip-card unlike the earlier albums, in the case of Made in America. The colouring was also completely wrong on Voice of the Heart.

It just seems strange that so much detail went into making these and the majority were so good and they included the Japanese details and the US version.

Did anyone else notice this? Is this the same for the 2016 re-releases?
 
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