Official Confirmation: SW Episode III DVD on November 1st (1 Viewer)

[Dharmesh C]

Anyone going to do the marathon???

 

[Aaron Thorne]

I'm planning on watching all six films in order in a single weekend.

 

[Colby]

I hope to do a marathon, but I won't be able to do it on a Tuesday. It'll have to wait 'til the weekend, but I don't know if I can wait that long to watch it.

 

[Tim Glover]

Bonus disc huh? Guess I'm buying at Wally World then!

 

[TravisR]

I won't do a marathon when I get it just because I'll be watching all the Episode III features. As some others have said, maybe that weekend.

 

[MikeRS]

Hopefully, it's updated with RotS entries.

 

[Greg K]

I think "The Story of Star Wars" might just be a rehash of that VIDEONOW disc for the kiddies that come out a while back:

http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?pa...oduct_id=15456

 

[Brent M]

I've never even heard of that VIDEONOW release. Hopefully the bonus disc has something worthwhile on it.

 

[Dave Moritz]

I plan to do a marathon but will most likely watch my original versions of 4-6 off my THX laserdiscs. It will be fun to kick back and watch all 6 movies.

 

[Jaxon's Dad]

Nope. You're thinking of a featurette that focused on Owen & Beru, and featured behind the scenes footage from Clones of Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piess. The Connections shorts were shown during the Fox network's broadcast of the (at the time) 4 Star Wars films during May of '02 to ramp up for Clones' theatrical release. They were basically a video Skywalker family tree, hosted by C-3P0 and R2-D2. Since the label on the bonus DVD appears to mention Threepio and Artoo, I'm thinking the disc is nothing more than these shorts.

 

[TheBat]

they played the family connection when episode 1 aired on the fox network for the first time.

JACOB

 

[Jaxon's Dad]

Nope again. The first time that Episode I aired, Thanksgiving 2001, they played a trailer for R2-D2: Beneath the Dome. You're partly right that they played the Connections pieces during a broadcast of Phantom Menace, just not the first broadcast.

 

[Colby]

I'm betting that this DVD will indeed be the Connections bits with Artoo & Threepio.

Here are some links from when these originally aired:

http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/r...s20020418.html
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/r...s20020423.html
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/r...s20020425.html
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/r...20020501b.html
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/r...s20020509.html

 

[Brent M]

I don't think it will be those Connections segments because they were all done around and before Episode II. I would imagine that somrething called "The Story of Star Wars" would have to include Episode III as it is the bridge between the prequels and the OT.

 

[MikeRS]

They *might* have just updated the original "connections" segments with RotS info.

 

[Matt Birchall]

Okay, yeah. I remember being pissed with the 2000 featurette because of the Episode II stuff, which I really wanted to see, but never did because of my refusal to buy yet another set of the films on VHS.

The Connections shorts, I don't remember at all, but that sounds pretty reasonable.

There was also a freebie DVD which was included with some of the Hasbro role-play lightsabers earlier this year. I never got one, but I think the only things on it of note were maybe an episode of Clone Wars and an Episode III trailer/preview. Probably not very much of a chance for that to wind up being a bonus disc (for Wal-Mart, or anybody, for that matter), but it's worth mentioning.

 

[Brad M]

Thanks to my 4 year old son we (by we, I mean me :b ) have about three of those dvds. It includes 2 Clone Wars episodes, the Episode 3 teaser and a short version of The Birth of the Lightsaber from the OT dvd. (This is from memory so it may be a little off.)

 

[Bill Williams]

The Wal-Mart ad for the DVD touts "almost 60 minutes of additional content". Here's the link to the ad:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=4242488

 

[Brent M]

Hmmmm, maybe it is those Connections segments updated with Episode III info as MikeRS suggested.

 

[Kain_C]

I've never bought a DVD at Wal-Mart. Since they're 24 hours, do they usually start selling new releases at midnight of the release date?