Heads up users, it looks like Tron Legacy and Tron (now dubbed ‘The Original Classic’) are both headed to Blu-ray on April 5th. It looks like you’ll be able to pick up a few different versions, including a crazy-expensive collectors edition with five discs. Actually, six if you count the replica of an identity disc that comes bundled.

Say what you will about Tron Legacy, but it was visually stunning and will look great in HD. We’ll find out on April 5th how the original Tron looks.

Here’s the Full Press Release

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This is the news I’ve been waiting for. My favorite film of all time (along with it’s underrated first sequel and the-sequel-who-will-not-be-named) is coming to Blu-ray. I could watch Jurassic Park every day if I had to, and now that it’s going to be available in HD for the first time, I just might.

Blu-ray.com is reporting via a French website that someone at Universal has mentioned the Jurassic Park trilogy, Scarface, and various westerns and Hitchcock films will be making their way to the Blu-ray format later this year. I could ramble on for pages about how badly I want Jurassic Park and The Lost World on Blu-ray like yesterday, but I’ll save my rambles for when they’re released.

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Will you be picking any of these Blu-rays up in 2011?

Source: Blu-ray.com

This doesn’t really come as much surprise, but today Lucasfilm and Fox announced that the complete Star Wars saga is coming to Blu-ray in September 2011 and is available for pre-order now. Surprisingly, Lucas is giving us some choices, just not all the choices that we want. You can pick from:

• The Original (good) Trilogy – $45 on Amazon
• The Prequel (not-so-good) Trilogy – $45 on Amazon
• The Whole Saga – $90 on Amazon

The individual trilogies are 3-disc sets, with the complete saga clocking in at an impressive 9 discs. They’re claiming over 30 hours of special features, including never-before seen deleted and alternative scenes. No one really expected Lucas to do the right thing and release the original cuts of his films, so instead we’ll be treated to Han shooting second, extra CG, and young Anakin’s ghost in glories HD.

I really want to say I’m only buying the original trilogy, but I know I’ll end up with the complete saga. Episode I came out when I was 14 years old, and for a few years the prequels excited me because I was young and didn’t know better. It took me a few years to realize that they were not good films, and that George Lucas truly didn’t care about his fans, only about making more money. But that’s the topic for another post (or podcast).

Are You Buying Star Wars on Blu-ray?

Let us know if you plan on picking any or all of these sets up, if you’ve been looking forward to them, or if it’s Star Wars that’s going to finally make you switch to Blu-ray.

A few days ago I reviewed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Disney’s attempt at making an action-adventure film out of the classic Mickey Mouse sequence in Fantasia. Seeing that so-so movie really made me want to watch the original, and luckily Disney released Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 on Blu-ray last week.

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If there’s a product I’ve bought more times than any other, it has to be the Peanuts Holiday collection. I’ve owned these classics on VHS, twice on DVD (someone borrowed and never returned), and now on Blu-ray. In twenty years, if movies are downloaded directly into chips in our brains, I’ll be sure to make room for these. The Peanuts holiday specials are like comfort food for your TV.

The Blu-ray box set contains the previously released Remastered, Deluxe Editions in a special slip-cover. (I previously reviewed the Charlie Brown Christmas Blu-ray by itself). Each disc contains it’s own bonus episodes and features. Here’s the rundown:

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