How many times will they release the trilogy do you think? I wish I could just see the new features only.
Can anybody who gets the set sum up the new features?
Pretty much has all of the same things the DVD release had. With the addition of a "time travel science" feature with the gay-haired Asian man who makes appearances on many Discovery and Science channel shows (if you watch any type of program on either of those channels dealing with physics, space, and theoretical physics you likely know who I'm talking about.) There's some new cast and crew interviews and the addition of The Ride aspects. (The History of the Future Museum stuff and the ride itself.)
So, all and all, a good upgrade of features over the DVD release not to mention the very nicely looking upgrade of the video and audio to the new format. How many times are they going to re-release the movies? Everytime a new media form comes out. They've hardly gone overboard with "re-releasing" the movies. There's been VHS releases, DVD trilogy release, I believe individual, stripped, DVD releases and now a BD release. It's hardly any thing over the top like, say, Star Wars or countless other movies so what's the problem?
My biggest problem with this set is that the packaging
sucks! It's cheap, flimsy and lame.
You know how for the past, like, 20 or 30 years that we've had optical disc media to get the disc out of case you slightly press a button in the middle of the disc and lift it out? Well, apparently, Universal decided that was too hard for people to do so they decided to change it without filling anyone in on how to do it! The disc is wedged in there and no clear way to get it out. I ended having to bend the disc ever so slightly to lift it out. Research revealed the "secret" is to pull down on the disc slightly and then lift it out.
The box is too colorful and cartoony looking and the "jewel case" is flimsy and contains that cumbersome locking mechanism. I hated the look of the box so I simply put the BDs in my DVD trilogy set's box (which has a much nicer looking packaging) and put the DVDs in BD's case/trays. The BD release comes with six discs. 3 movie discs (extra features are on them) as well as 3 "digital copy discs" which I need about as much as I need another hole in my ass.
I recommend everyone does this, just replace the DVDs in your old DVD set with the new BDs. The box the BDs come in is bulky (it has open-able flap to reveal features), it's cheap looking, feels cheap and has the crappy design for locking the discs.
And I want to express, again, my disappointment over there being no collectors sets or anything in the US that contains all of the swag that various R2 sets are getting like toys, newspaper clippings, etc. I mean, seriously, what the fuck?
Suddenly I finally understood why he had that nickname...
