I know you posted this awhile ago, but I was at Best Buy yesterday and it’s indeed barebones. All the extras are on the digital version that comes with it.

The previous FOX box set had extras in the movie disc like the commentary track from Lucas. Then there was a separate disc for the extras.

^ I hope that doesn't become a trend for all new releases.

My local Target is selling these for $20 a title - what a rip off (probably not Target, but Disney). You're paying for new art work.

Not that I disagree, but Fox/Lucasfilm and now Disney/Lucasfilm has been doing this for years. They re-issue the movies with new cover art every 2-3 years on VHS, DVD, BluRay, so it is sort of expected at this point.

Has anyone watched any of these releases? Did they take the Fox Fanfare off of all of them?

I know they took them off of the digital releases already, just curious if they bothered to mess with that for 2 reasons

1. They own Fox now, so it doesn't matter
2. Taking it out of the first 6 films is more work than I expect that they put into this particular release.

A comment I read on bluray.com said that they had only watched Phantom thus far, but that it DID have the Fanfare.

I'm sure they are the exact same discs that were in the 2011 saga set from FOX, which is why they would still have the fanfare.

Yeah, it's unlikely they would bother remastering the discs just to remove that fanfare. They're saving that for the 4K release.

And since Disney bought Fox, why wouldn't they leave the fanfare on the older ones anyways?

The most interesting question is whether A New Hope will have it...since Fox had rights to that in perpetuity, but then Disney bought Fox...so can Disney replace the fanfare now?

Well, come on, who can trust that person?!

I saw these at Target for $20 each, too. This is such a bizarre release. There are going to be so many peg warmers when people pick and choose. I was surprised by how muted the artwork appeared to be on the shelf compared to other nearby titles, there's not a lot of "pop" to any of this. And add up the cost on all those, why would someone do this instead of a set? The release seems bound and determined to prey on uninformed consumers who don't know any better. Grandma will buy a Star War for a kid at Christmas and just pick one not knowing anything about the barebones bizarrity of this release. And I don't care if "bizarrity" isn't a word, it should be!

So I'm looking into the 4K77 and 4K83 releases because, you know, I like to watch the real movie and not the dreck that George Lucas has been putting out since '97 (and yes, I own DVD copies of the original trilogy).

For those of you who have these versions, did you prefer the DNR or no DNR version? I'm not sure which is 'better'


edit: after looking into it more, it appears that DNR is better tv viewing experience, while no DNR is better if you want to project it onto a screen. In case anyone else has the same question

The 4k editions are becoming hard to find at Amazon and probably have more value now that Disney is no longer doing physical media.

I looked Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith and the foreign releases are all you can find at Amazon.

That's pretty much par for the course for Amazon these days. In order to find almost any movie on the Amazon site you need to either go through a link on an outside site (like blu-ray.com) or find the UPC and search for it instead of a title. Amazon also tends to qeird about keeping DVDs and blu-rays in stock and seem to outsource most of their sales to places like Movie Mars or some other third party. So even if something is in print, you still need to look through "Other Sellers."

It still baffles me to no end that the biggest name in online sales is such a user-unfriendly experience -- filled with counterfeit goods, dodgy brands, sketchy third party sellers, and a search function that's basically useless.

I thought Disney outsourced physical media to Sony now, not stopped entirely.

I should get Attack of the Clones. Only one of the first six I’m missing.

Maybe Walmart and Deepdiscount have the U.S. Star Wars 4k releases.

I wouldn't say you've been missing it, Bob.