My grandma bought this for me as a motivation for getting my drivers license! I'm 17 and my birthday is coincidentally on June 13th but we ordered it before they pushed the release date back to June 13th so it wasn't at all a birthday present but still really cool to get this on my birthday nonetheless! Overall it's really amazing and definitely worth the $90 I paid for it! The special edition is thicker than the regular edition but this is because the pages are thicker not because it has more pages in it. The monocle doesn't seem too cheap since it has some weight to it and actually works as a magnify glass. The pages are roughly cut and the textures on the cover are more realistic than the textures on the cover of the regular edition Journal 3. The pages are sewn in so I doubt anyone is going to have a problem with the pages falling out like some people had with the regular edition of Journal 3. There's unfortunately not invisible ink on every page, every other page in the authors first section has invisible ink, but only 1 page in Dipper's section and maybe 2 pages in the authors second section has invisible ink. All those blank pages between the authors first section and Dipper's section are filled with invisible ink writing. Many of the photos and notes are removable but don't stick back in again once you take them out, I used clear tape to tape them back in and that held up good. I'm not disappointed that it didn't come with a black light because Disney press said "black light not included" when advertising it once on twitter. If you don't have a black light already I'd recommend getting one from TheMysteryShack website. After all, you need a really good black light to get the invisible ink to show up, a cheap black light or an invisible ink pen that's got a small black light on the end won't do the trick. I know Alex Hirsch said on his twitter that he hand signed all 10,000 copies and Disney also posted some pictures and videos of him signing the books on their twitter so the signature or intitals from Alex Hirsch is real and not printed or stamped. Overall I highly recommend this to diehard gravity falls fans and collectors. But casual fans will probably be more than a little disappointed and say it's not worth the price.