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SW Blu-ray Set Release Day Coverage

Posted By Eric on September 16, 2011

This will be a day long remembered. Star Wars: The Complete Saga is out on Blu-ray today! Already a number of major websites have posted their reviews, and Lucasfilm is doing what it can to promote the release of the set. Check out our coverage of Blu-ray Release Day below.

Reviews

Entertainment Weekly gives it an A-, saying, "The Complete Saga is so visually drool-inducing that it should come with a bib."
The Toronto Sun says that it "does its job with panache and technical virtuosity."
Screenrant provides a shot-by-shot analysis of the changes to the Original Trilogy, as does DVDActive.
Den of Geek says, "The original trilogy certainly gives the best transfers of catalogue titles a run for their money. The prequels fare less well, but still have breathtaking moments that more than justify the upgrade."
Jamie Benning of Star Wars Begins fame reviews the set for Wired's GeekDad blog.
Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits writes, "[T]he deleted scenes alone are almost reason enough to buy the set. On top of that, the simple fact of the matter is that these films - especially the original trilogy - have simply NEVER looked better at home than they do here.".
IGN's Cindy White says that "this may not be the best Blu-ray you've ever seen, but it is the best Star Wars could ever look and sound on Blu-ray. At least, until they get around to converting them all to 3D."

Publicity Stunts

Bring on the Jawas. As if New York City wasn't weird enough already, yesterday a number of folks spotted three Jawas and a stormtrooper traipsing around the Big Apple to promote the release of the set.
A more elegant weapon... Star Wars fans in London got to witness the power of the Force on a grand scale (although size matters not) as the city's BT Tower was transformed into a giant lightsaber with the help of Anthony Daniels.

Embrace The Humor
On such a momentous day for the saga, there will naturally be jokes and spoofs aplenty. Here are some of the best and most viral.

Next Media Animation, the Taiwan studio famous for cartoon renditions of major news scandals, has created a video for the re-editing controversy.
Thanks to Conan O'Brien, we now know what the lightsabers were originally supposed to sound like.

"George Lucas Re-Edits Classic Movies." Enough said.We'll continue to update this post as we find more coverage to share with you.

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