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I hope your hard work on the restoration as well as the original work by all the talented artists on the film were loudly and lengthily celebrated.

I reviewed that one here. It may offer some information to help you with your decision.

Seeing the packaging makes me so excited!

Argh! I'm SO envious! Can't wait for the disc release.

Glorious news for those of us who have had to make do with a hideously brown, artifact-laden laserdisc for so many years. I know this will more than be worth the wait. Thanks for all of your hard work!

Just whetting our appetites to see the completed project. The fall seems far, far away....

Dave, You have the undying gratitude of many fans of this movie which charmed us so much during its original release and who have been hoping against hope for decades to one day get to see it in something akin to viewable quality. You are making our dreams come true, and we will always be in...

Same here, and I've held on to the LP in your avatar as well since it was a big part of my childhood. The true soundtrack release was a revelation, but I still enjoy hearing some snippets of the songs and dialogue mixed with Charlie Ruggles' narration.

Yes, the laser is crummy, and the print that TCM regularly broadcasts is so dark and artifact-ridden as to be unwatchable. Can't wait to dispose of both and enjoy something that will remind me of my seeing the original as a pre-teen in glorious Cinerama.

So exciting to read this, Bruce. You're right: it's never been thought of as a brilliant film, but there is so much entertainment value there that I'm more than happy to take the gnarly parts to get the choice bits. Cannot wait to get the Blu-ray.

Thank you, Crawdaddy.

Brothers Grimm is already a dream come true, but those others would make it a truly surreal 2021. Here's hoping.

David's post is thrilling beyond belief for those of us who saw this film as youngsters and were completely enchanted by it. I cannot wait to cue the disc up, pull my chair a bit closer to the screen so I can be totally immersed in "Cinerama" and experience this film: the same procedure I used...

The surprise of the revelation may be gone, but the excitement over its eventual release isn't dissipated one little bit!

Compared to what is living presently on my DVR (a standard definition eyesore so brown and so dark that real color finds it hard to break through and compression artifacts so thick as to make certain scenes (heck, most scenes) unwatchable, this news is absolutely thrilling. The film has flaws...

For those of us who hold cherished childhood memories of this film (in its original Cinerama, BTW), this news is over-the-moon joyous! I hope I live to see the results. In these precarious times, I take nothing for granted any longer.

How I wish it could be true. I have the TCM broadcast on permanent display on my DVR since it's a chore to drag out the laserdisc, but it really looks horrible: all dim and brown and dirty.

I think he's pretty much answered this before.

If you'll carefully reread my first sentence or two, you'll notice that I said "discs" meaning that I have both Grimm and Lao on CD which are among my favorite leisure listening discs. My rant was about having to wait decades to get the soundtrack to Lao instead of instantly being able to buy it...

Same here. Both Harline scores for these Pal films are among my favorite leisure listening discs, and I'm so glad to have the REAL soundtrack albums even if I had to wait decades after the movie releases to get them. Dr. Lao never had any kind of album. I wore out my Brothers Grimm storybook...

Yes, 4K upscaling did this transfer absolutely no favors. Impossible to make something beautiful from such pallid raw ingredients.

No different at all. Seemed exactly like the same transfer we've been shown for years on TCM. I recorded it anyway and started watching. I got through the beginning of "The Singing Bone."

The necessity for perfection only seems to hold true for WA Blu-ray releases. Many of the WA DVD releases are from mediocre elements.

I believe someone said Warner Brothers would never sanction such a thing (but they certainly followed through with the movie of Veronica Mars which was crowd sourced).

One glance at Brothers Grimm and you can see the join marks of the three panels very clearly. Dumb.

I see its faults clearly, but I retain from my preteen youth (when I first saw it) my delight with the film especially the fairy tales themselves. Those marvelous MGM fantasies of the era: The Time Machine, Brothers Grimm, The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao just enchanted me so much as a kid that the joy...

Well, it's a wonderful job and a noteworthy suggestion to the powers-that-be that they have something of value here.

If you'll scroll back to post #3 in this thread, I acknowledged that it got up to laserdisc before Warners stopped issuing it. How the West Was Won got the VHS-laser-DVD-Blu-ray journey complete with improvements in each iteration.

I knew you must have because there was no DVD release for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm.

Not a separately filmed version, but a 35mm print from the large format elements for use in regular theaters after the roadshow Cinerama engagements ended.