9-Disc Ultimate Star Wars Saga Set Delayed for up to 2 years

[disneyboy20022]

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Well... we've got some new info that may crash your Astro droid's OS. And no, we aren't out punking Padawans with this.

You know that mega-bombad 9-disc Ultimate Star Wars Saga box set that's been in the works for a few years now? The one that was expected to be released later this year to celebrate the 30th Anniversary? Yeah... maybe not so much anymore. We've been hearing from multiple sources now that the folks up at Lucasburg were surprised enough at the lackluster sales of last year's Star Wars Trilogy DVD re-run ("Now with Han shoots first!") that they're afraid they might have gone to the Sarlacc Pit one too many times, so to speak. There's talk apparently that the box set could get delayed a year or two to amp up demand for the films on disc again. Don't know how serious this all is, but that's the word that's blowing in the wind.

I just don't get Team Lucas anymore. They release the same DVDs we all already own last year and try to pull the "Hey, we're doing you all a favor by giving you the special non-anamorphic, zero-effort original versions as a bonus item!" and then they're actually flummoxed when they don't sell. What the REST of us know, is that they didn't sell because they were crap, and because everyone is waiting for the damn box set.

Interestingly, New York Comic Con kicks off today, but it doesn't look like the Steve Sansweet dog and pony show is going to be there, or I'd say that people should raise the box set question with him. Hey... Stephen Colbert's going to be there in a couple hours though (3PM Eastern), so somebody ask him if we're ever going to get a Tek Jansen DVD.

Anyway, WonderCon happens in a couple weeks up in San Francisco, but I don't see that Sansweet will be there either. Probably the first place we'll get the real skinny straight from the minions will be at Star Wars Celebration IV here in L.A. in May. We'll see.

Ugh. I hate being the guy who has to bring you frustrating Star Wars DVD news, but it seems like it happens EVERY damn year. Please don't Force choke the messenger. I'm feeling a bit like Captain Needa these days...

Of course you know, many Bothans died to bring you this information.

[Escapay]

Old news but still disappointing.

Besides, with the sale prices on the individual titles at Wal-Mart and Target, a boxset would be superfluous unless it offered good stuff like restored and anamorphic OOT, individual bonus feature discs for Episode IV, V, and VI, and The Phantom Edit for Episode I.

Escapay

[disneyboy20022]

Old news but still disappointing.

Besides, with the sale prices on the individual titles at Wal-Mart and Target, a boxset would be superfluous unless it offered good stuff like restored and anamorphic OOT, individual bonus feature discs for Episode IV, V, and VI, and The Phantom Edit for Episode I.

Escapay

You know 9 discs sound like its too little to carry a lot of specail features of the movies on DVD. pluss all 6 movies unless its disc 1 - 6 is just the movies and disc 7-9 are special bonus features.... So do you think just possibly this will be a Blu Ray 9-disc box set or a 9 disc HD DVD 9-disc set... Not sure what Star Wars would fall under either blu ray or HD DVD .... I suppose Blu Ray since Fox is Supporting them at least I think....

[SpringHeelJack]

This News comes from www.thedigitalbits.com

Well... we've got some new info that may crash your Astro droid's OS. And no, we aren't out punking Padawans with this.

You know that mega-bombad 9-disc Ultimate Star Wars Saga box set that's been in the works for a few years now? The one that was expected to be released later this year to celebrate the 30th Anniversary? Yeah... maybe not so much anymore. We've been hearing from multiple sources now that the folks up at Lucasburg were surprised enough at the lackluster sales of last year's Star Wars Trilogy DVD re-run ("Now with Han shoots first!") that they're afraid they might have gone to the Sarlacc Pit one too many times, so to speak. There's talk apparently that the box set could get delayed a year or two to amp up demand for the films on disc again. Don't know how serious this all is, but that's the word that's blowing in the wind.

I just don't get Team Lucas anymore. They release the same DVDs we all already own last year and try to pull the "Hey, we're doing you all a favor by giving you the special non-anamorphic, zero-effort original versions as a bonus item!" and then they're actually flummoxed when they don't sell. What the REST of us know, is that they didn't sell because they were crap, and because everyone is waiting for the damn box set.

Interestingly, New York Comic Con kicks off today, but it doesn't look like the Steve Sansweet dog and pony show is going to be there, or I'd say that people should raise the box set question with him. Hey... Stephen Colbert's going to be there in a couple hours though (3PM Eastern), so somebody ask him if we're ever going to get a Tek Jansen DVD.

Anyway, WonderCon happens in a couple weeks up in San Francisco, but I don't see that Sansweet will be there either. Probably the first place we'll get the real skinny straight from the minions will be at Star Wars Celebration IV here in L.A. in May. We'll see.

Ugh. I hate being the guy who has to bring you frustrating Star Wars DVD news, but it seems like it happens EVERY damn year. Please don't Force choke the messenger. I'm feeling a bit like Captain Needa these days...

Of course you know, many Bothans died to bring you this information.

Old news, yeah, but still disappointing. I guess I should get around to buying the original trilogy on DVD now...

[DarthPrime]

2 years? Time for more changes I guess...

I'm happy with the editions I have now. I'm glad I have the Original Original Trilogy on DVD even if its non-anamorphic. However I would gladly buy the Trilogy again if we got an anamorphic O-OT as part of the set. They don't even have to clean it up, just make it anamorphic.

Delaying this 2 years also says to me HD release. Then again we waited forever to get a version on DVD, so an HD release could still be a wait.

Anyway I'm sure the CGI Yoda will finally be put into The Phantom Menace when this set is out. I also bet there will be changes to all six films to make them fit together better. And please someone fix the Lightsabers in the Original Trilogy. Vader's pink and Luke's color changing sabers are horrible.

Now will we ever see the 1997 versions of the Trilogy on DVD?

[numba1lostboy]

9 Discs? Wouldn't that just be the existing editions all packaged into a huge cardboard display box? Each new trilogy title has two discs and then you have the three single disc original titles...

Are they going to put anything new on this set? It sounds to me like you're better off owning the existing DVDs.
The only reason for me to upgrade would be color-matching DVD spines.

[slave2moonlight]

What I want are the Star Wars Holiday Special, the Ewoks animated series, and the Droids animated series. Sorry if I'm forgetting something. Some of the old toy commercials would be sweet too.

I do still need those DVDs of the unaltered classic trilogy, and the two DVDs of the Ewoks and Droids toons they did release.

[memnv]

I believe the droid and ewok ones are already out, as for the Holiday one. Lucas said never, I cant wait for the new series

[slave2moonlight]

I believe the droid and ewok ones are already out, as for the Holiday one. Lucas said never, I cant wait for the new series

They're not the complete shows, they're just certain episodes compiled into movies like Disney has done in the past with Winnie the Pooh and other TV shows. I have the VHS releases of them (which have less content).

As for the holiday special, yeah, I know Lucas hates it, but I still wouldn't be surprised if it turned up as an extra... someday...