Blu-ray (4K UHD & HD Blu-ray) Box Set First Look: 'Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga' (Best Buy Exclusive)

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Promotional photo of Buena Vista Home Entertainment's Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga box set. © 2020 Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL)


On March 31, Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Lucasfilm Ltd. released Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, a 27-disc box set that collects the nine "Saga" Episodes set "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as a Best Buy exclusive. Dropped on the same day that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was officially released on individual 4K UHD and HD Blu-ray sets, this huge box set marks the first time that the three Star Wars trilogies are collected in a single bundle.

From a young Anakin Skywalker's descent into the dark side to the rise of the Resistance and their struggle to restore peace in the galaxy, the story that electrified a generation comes to a striking conclusion. The saga will end. The story lives forever. - Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga publicity insert.

Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is arguably a direct descendent of 2011's 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's Star Wars: The Complete Saga.  Like that nine-disc box set, The Skywalker Saga contains its discs in a collectible DigiBook case, which itself is ensconced in a black monolith-like box with a Death Star motif.  The box also features the famous Star Wars logo and The Skywalker Saga title stamped in foil on the front cover.

The box (which is in two halves that join at the center and slides open to reveal a tray) contains a hardcover DigiBook, similar in function to the earlier Star Wars: The Complete Saga one from 2011. Like that first box set, The Skywalker Saga's pages feature art from the film, but there's no text save for the film titles and a few informational details. Each page holds two discs for each feature film ﹘ the 4K UHD Blu-ray, and the "regular" Blu-ray disc. There are more pages for the bonus features discs, which are all on regular Blu-rays,

In all, there are 27 discs in Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and they are divided like so:


  • Nine 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) Blu-rays, one for each Star Wars Episode
  • Nine 1080p Blu-rays (BDs), one for each Star Wars Episode
  • Nine 1080p BDs, one for each Star Wars bonus features disc
The box set also comes with a booklet with digital codes redeemable on Movies Anywhere, as well as a collectible letter written by actor Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker).

Photo Credit: Bill Hunt (The Digital Bits)

Weighing at 4 lbs., this is definitely the biggest box set of Blu-rays that I own. So far, I have been content with opening it once to retrieve the Movies Anywhere Codes and to look at the DigiBook; hence this blog post's title: First Look. I haven't even taken the regular Blu-rays out to check them out to see if they have any new extras or, in the case of the George Lucas/20th Century Fox era movies, new menus. 

As for the 4K UHD Blu-rays, I can't watch those till my Significant Other finishes fixing up the master bedroom and sets up the UHD TV and compatible Blu-ray player that I bought some time ago.  

The Skywalker Saga box set is not inexpensive: I ended up shelling out $271.14 for it at www.bestbuy.com when I preordered it two weeks before its release date. But even though I don't have money to burn, and it doesn't have the "unaltered original versions" that many fans want to see in Blu-ray, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was a must-have for me. 


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