The Star Wars Collection (Johnsonverse)

The Star Wars Collection was released on May 4, 2017 by Johnson Home Video in collaboration with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It contained innumerable edits to the original and prequel trilogy films called the Ultimate Editions. The Ultimate Collection set also includes the original versions of the films, the Alternity film, the 1978 and 2016 Holiday Specials, The Force Awakens, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, all of which were presented unaltered.
The 2017 Ultimate Collection came in three boxsets: a six-disc UltraStorage Disc boxset, a twelve-disc Blu-ray boxset, and a 18-disc DVD boxset; discs 1-9 (1-3 on USD) contain the first seven films, Alternity, and Rogue One (the first six discs also feature the original theatrical versions and the Ultimate Editions, as well as the "Lost Cut" and 1977 and 1981 crawls for A New Hope, and every altered edit of the movies, along with a huge amount of language tracks for each film), while the remaining discs have all of the behind-the-scenes material, including deleted scenes, featurettes, interviews with surviving cast and crew members including Tim Johnson and creator George Lucas, the Holiday Specials, the 2004 documentary An Empire of Dreams, the entire 2003-2005 Clone Wars cartoon, the 2008-2014 The Clone Wars series, the Ewoks and Droids series, the Ewoks TV movies, the Lego Star Wars specials, a B-roll of the newly-made scenes (which were all written and directed by Johnson), a featurette about the restoration and alterations, and a newly-made documentary about the history of Star Wars video games, narrated by Johnson. The set also comes with a booklet that answers frequently asked questions regarding the changes made to the films, explaining changes such as why the lake scene in Attack of the Clones was removed, why no edits were made to The Force Awakens, Rogue One, or the Alternity movie, and others. Notably, this was the first release of the original versions of the original trilogy since the 2006 bonus disc (which was sourced from the 1993 Laserdisc masters), as well as the first time said versions were digitally remastered (which was made a selling point, both in advertising and on the cover). The films' covers depict the original theatrical poster artwork with the original logos in a shiny silver. This set was rereleased as the Star Wars Ultimate Collection on August 31, 2020 as an 80-disc USD, Blu-ray, and Ultra 4K HD set with The Last Jedi, Fett: A Star Wars Story, Duel of the Fates, the first thirteen seasons of the Underworld series, the complete Scars of Mustafar and The Dark Times series, the seventh season of The Clone Wars, the first fourteen seasons of the Alternity series, the first seasons of both The New Republic and The Mandalorian, all 39 episodes of the unaired Detours series (which is considered non-canon) with an additional commentary track from creators Seth Green and Matthew Seinrich, the Star Wars parody episodes of Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Phineas & Ferb, Episode 417 of The Muppet Show and Episode 406 of The Muppets, and the complete Star Wars Rebels series, all presented unaltered, alongside a vast array of even more bonus material, including the radio dramatizations of the Original and Prequel Trilogies, The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi (a radio drama based on Duel of the Fates aired in 2021, and was added in later versions of the Ultimate Collection), documentaries R2-D2: Beneath the Dome and Return of the Ewok (the latter being released for the first time on home video), a variety of Star Wars-themed commercials, an assortment of fan films including Troops (a 1997 parody of the television series Cops), The Jedi Hunter (a 2002 parody reimaging Boba Fett as a Steve Irwin parody who hunts Jedi to avenge Jango's death), Star Wars - Stormtrooper Target Practice from 2015, and 2018's Vader: A Star Wars Theory Fan Series in a separate disc labeled "Fans Take the High Ground", The Story of Star Wars (a recap of the Original Trilogy and the first two prequels hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 which had been released in 2005 exclusively for people who had pre-ordered a DVD of Revenge of the Sith at Walmart; it was also available on the long-obsolete VideoNow Color format), selected trading cards, reproductions of original posters and lobby cards (both American and international), a digital copy of the entire set, miniature keychain replicas of Anakin, Luke and Rey's lightsabers, one film cell for each movie, an envelope containing a letter from Mark Hamill (the same letter that was packaged with the Skywalker Saga box set, which had been released on March 31st of the same year), new letters from Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, George Lucas, Tim Johnson, and Sheldon Johnson, Jr., and twelve specially-minted silver coins (one for each film; the coins are only packaged with the first 77 copies, representing the original film's release year).
== Description ==
===2017 version===
On May 25, 1977, Star Wars was first released in theaters. Its gripping story and innovative special effects forever changed how movies are made. 40 years later, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are proud to offer you the Star Wars Ultimate Collection, containing every version of all nine feature films including brand-new versions of both the prequel and original trilogies personally overseen by Tim Johnson, as well as the original theatrical versions, all the television series, the two Holiday Specials, old and new bonus material, and other surprises. May the Force be with you!
=== 2020 version===
Often considered to be one of the greatest motion pictures ever made, Star Wars first opened in cinemas in 1977. Its massive success has led to further theatrical films, plus television series, merchandise, and more. Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are proud to offer you the Star Wars Ultimate Collection, containing every released version of all twelve feature films including original and new versions of both the prequel and original trilogies, all the television series, and other surprises. May the Force be with you!
==Bonus Features==
* Deleted scenes for each film
* 1978 Hagoromo Sea Chicken commercial
* Troops fan film
* Host segments from the last telecast of the pre-Special Edition Original Trilogy on the Sci-Fi Channel in 1996, featuring Leonard Maltin and George Lucas
===2020 bonus features===
==Gallery==
===2017 set===
File:The Phantom Menace Ultimate Edition disc case.png|The Phantom Menace
File:Attack of the Clones Ultimate Edition disc case.png|Attack of the Clones
File:Revenge of the Sith Ultimate Edition disc case.png|Revenge of the Sith
File:A New Hope Ultimate Edition disc case.png|A New Hope
File:The Empire Strikes Back Ultimate Edition disc case.png|The Empire Strikes Back
File:Return of the Jedi Ultimate Edition disc case.png|Return of the Jedi
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