Disney has started to include a copy of the Pixar Shorts DVD with all the other Pixar DVDs, but instead of using a regular slip case, they've wrapped a piece of cardboard around the two movies. The titles are also packed side by side, instead of being stacked. Im wondering if these releases should be submitted as a box set or not.

Here's a picture:



Each of these pairs has its own UPC, so even if there's no actual box here, this is two movies in one package with a unique UPC. According to the rules, a box set is "any release that includes more than one film", and one of the examples is "Sets where each film is packaged individually, and held together in a package of some kind.". This is definately "a release", it definately includes "more than one film", and it's also definately "a package of some kind", so it seems to me that this should count as a box set. It still feels a bit odd, though, to accept it as a box set when the package that holds the films together is the plastic wrapping.

If it is a box set - what should the cover be? Should one scan the package with the plastic wrapping intact, or should one remove the wrappings and organize the two covers on the scanner together with the cardboard wrapping? I didn't take a picture of the back, but the back of the cardboard wrapping is full height, and it's basically an ad for the movie "Up".

I agree with Martian

I've purchased similar items in the past.  The way I've approached it is to see if the "set" has a unique UPC.  Sometimes I've found things like this that are just a couple movies shrink wrapped together with a price tag.  The second factor I use is if the "container" holding them together is permanent or just for looks.  In this case, it looks like a cheap piece of cardboard.  Not something you'd put the movies back into after viewing like a normal "box" or slipcover.

So these wouldn't go into my collection as a "box set".  They just bundling a few movies together.

A 'release' is an act, so there should be an actor. If the release of such joined movies is by a studio or distributor, I would be more inclined to see this as a box set, than if it were done by a retail chain.

It is a box set, and its not the first Disney DVD that is like that.
The Region 1 version of 'Aladdin II & III Collection' (UPC 786936258806) is packaged like that and is included in the database as a boxset.

When you buy this "box set" and open the package, it looks as if you can't put the "set" together again, at least not without using tape. Not much of a box set in my opinion, or a "temporary box set"  at best.
If I can't have it as a box set in my collection, then I wouldn't call it one, even if it was a box set in the shop.

(PS. I am going by the pictures here, I have never seen one of these in real life).

Per rules a box set, according to this "•Sets where each film is packaged individually, and held together in a package of some kind"

... but in my personal opinion i wouldn't enter it as box set. I think most people will enter the two included DVDs seperate, so that even it will be as box set in the database most users never see it as such one.

At least you have to pay for these as an ordinary box set, ie. together...
As a box set they will have a SRP, too.

The cardboard is afaik included in each packaging. (Picture)
They are sold in multiple stores. ( a.o. Lefdal + Smart Club + more.)

I have seen other box sets, where the "box" only is a sort of paper wrapping, - still box set.

IMO this qualifies as box sets.