It looks like 20th Century Fox wants to get you your Star Wars Blu-ray discs a week earlier than Amazon had predicted. Back in January, shortly after the announcement of the discs, Amazon posted a pre-order which was quickly updated to include a September 27th release date. Well, Fox and Lucasfilm have now officially set that date more than a week earlier, putting the discs on store shelves on Friday, September 16th.
The studios should be commended for such a forward thinking move, releasing the discs right before the weekend when fans will actually have time to sit and dig into the hours of extra content on the discs, not to mention the the high-def debut of the films themselves. Had the discs been released on a Tuesday, as originally planned, I have a feeling there might’ve been a nasty mid-work-week case of Star Wars-flu going around! Or Wookie-fever. Or Jar-Jar-itis. Or something. You get the gag, right? … People skipping work…y’know…to watch Blu-rays? … Right? (insert Krusty the Clown grumble here.)
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