Back to the Future 30th birthday!

[JakeSully]

This year is the 30th anniversary to a unique sci-fi fantasy comedy masterpiece from Spielberg and Zemecks.

Man, i feel old! i remembered seeing this 3 times in theaters when i was 4 and became one of my faves. I saw the sequels in theaters, been on the Universal ride alot of times, watched the animated show and all that.

[Storm Eagle]

Yeah, good series. Also, of course they'll be putting out a 30th anniversary set of the movies on DVD and Blu-ray. They even have a 25th anniversary version.

[chrisdude]

While I can't say I was there when it came out, it's one of my favorite franchises. I have some vague memory of the cartoon. I did get to ride the ride before they shut it down. My friends and I are having a party to celebrate Back to the Future Day, October 21, 2015.

Lots of stuff releasing on Back to the Future Day, too:

Back In Time, a Back to the Future documentary.

Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines, a new comic series from IDW.

Back to the Future: The Complete Adventures, a box set that includes the full cartoon series. (Releases October 20, because that's a Tuesday.)

[Wesley]

I liked watching the films and cartoon as a kid, but I don't remember much about them, except the characters. Doc Brown was my favourite character.

[drgon78]

I remember seeing all three in theatres when they came out.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

While I can't say I was there when it came out, it's one of my favorite franchises. I have some vague memory of the cartoon. I did get to ride the ride before they shut it down. My friends and I are having a party to celebrate Back to the Future Day, October 21, 2015.

Lots of stuff releasing on Back to the Future Day, too:

Back In Time, a Back to the Future documentary.

Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines, a new comic series from IDW.

Back to the Future: The Complete Adventures, a box set that includes the full cartoon series. (Releases October 20, because that's a Tuesday.)

That's interesting, I got the Blu-ray box set of the 25th anniversary, hopefully they release a box set of the animated series separately.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

That's interesting, I got the Blu-ray box set of the 25th anniversary, hopefully they release a box set of the animated series separately.

http://oi59.tinypic.com/dw6ix.jpg

They will.

[chrisdude]

I've got the 25th anniversary set, too. And I remember buying it, thinking, "I want it because it's blu-ray, but I know they're gonna do something for the 30th." Worth it, though. Beautiful HD remasters. Friggin' stunning how good it looks.

From what I can tell, aside from the cartoon and a little book, the special features in the new set are the same.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

I've got the 25th anniversary set, too. And I remember buying it, thinking, "I want it because it's blu-ray, but I know they're gonna do something for the 30th." Worth it, though. Beautiful HD remasters. Friggin' stunning how good it looks.

From what I can tell, aside from the cartoon and a little book, the special features in the new set are the same.

Actually, the 30th anniversary set will have some new special features.

-All New Original Shorts, Including Doc Brown Saves the World!, starring Christopher Lloyd.
-OUTATIME: Restoring the DeLorean – An inside look at the 2012 restoration of the most iconic car in film history.
-Back to the Future: The Animated Series – 2 episodes (“Brothers” and “Mac the Black”) from the 1991 series featuring live action segments with Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...y-trilogy.html

Now here's something odd. They released the movies individually on DVD in 2009, and the copy of the first movie had a few new special features. Two of them being the featurettes "Looking Back into the Future" and "Back to the Future Night". So I got it for those, although I already had the trilogy on DVD.

The trilogy gets released on Blu-ray for the 25th anniversary and they basically have all the special features that were on the DVDs. It has "Back to the Future Night", but not "Looking Back into the Future". I retired my DVD trilogy when I got the Blu-ray set.

Now the trilogy is getting re-released this year for the 30th anniversary. It's essentially the same set as the 25th anniversary version with a few new featurettes, but it'll have "Looking Back into the Future", but not "Back to the Future Night". You'd think it would have both of those.

As for the book, while it's 64 pages in the complete adventures set, it looks like a more extensive version will be available individually, and will be 224 pages long. So I'll just get that. I don't want the animated series anyway.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/back...=9780062419149

[JakeSully]

Originally Posted by drgon78

I remember seeing all three in theatres when they came out.

Me too and did you went on the ride at Universal?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Storm Eagle

They will.

And your right.
http://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Co...nimated+Series

[sdp]

I re-watched all the movies and the cartoon last Christmas, the first is awesome and a true classic. Second one is a lot of fun. Third one still hasn't won me over, don't like it. The actual animated show is ok I guess, a generic early 90s cartoon. It's not bad but nothing really special either. I also "watched" the video game, that was a little better than the cartoon but overstayed its welcome.

[drgon78]

No, I never got to go on the ride at Universal.

[Storm Eagle]

I remember going on the ride at Universal Studios in Florida when I went in 1993, but the memories are kind of vague.

[sdp]

I went many times, it was fun, I don't remember much of it but I guess it wasn't anythign special, you're in a cabinet and travel through different eras as the cabinet moves. You can watch the "ride" on youtube, of course part of the experience is waiting in line and seeing all the BTTF props and references. While sad I guess it also makes sense they'd remove it since no kid would even know what that movie is, when we went to universal as kids that movie was still hot.

Too bad there's no way to "archive" these things outside of the video montages, there should be a reitred amusement park for all these rides. I'm still sad I never got to ride the original Star Tours one last time or King Kong.

[JakeSully]

Well i did ride the BTTF for one last time before it was replaced in 2007. Same for Jaws the ride in Orlando in 2011.

And since it's 2015, where is our hoverboards and Cafe 80s and Cafe 90s? we want those.

[chrisdude]

We should at least have a Cafe 80s...

[cryan]

Originally Posted by sdp

I re-watched all the movies and the cartoon last Christmas, the first is awesome and a true classic. Second one is a lot of fun. Third one still hasn't won me over, don't like it. The actual animated show is ok I guess, a generic early 90s cartoon. It's not bad but nothing really special either. I also "watched" the video game, that was a little better than the cartoon but overstayed its welcome.

The cartoon was too slapstick for me. As for the Films I saw 1 and 2 in the theater, 3 I rented. The thing with part 2 was they kind of made it like the Empire Strikes Back. There were some dark tones to it. The 3rd one was ok.

[Prowler]

Like many, I've watched those movies countless times. They're fun and it's a classic trilogy and all, but can't say I'm a huge fan overall.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

While I can't say I was there when it came out, it's one of my favorite franchises. I have some vague memory of the cartoon. I did get to ride the ride before they shut it down. My friends and I are having a party to celebrate Back to the Future Day, October 21, 2015.

Lots of stuff releasing on Back to the Future Day, too:

Back In Time, a Back to the Future documentary.

Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines, a new comic series from IDW.

Back to the Future: The Complete Adventures, a box set that includes the full cartoon series. (Releases October 20, because that's a Tuesday.)

damn! all wishlisted for me

Originally Posted by Storm Eagle

Also, of course they'll be putting out a 30th anniversary set of the movies on DVD and Blu-ray.

i'll need this as well

my local theatre is playing either just parts 1&2 or the whole trilogy