Good news everyone - Planet Express is back in business! 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has officially announced the Blu-ray release of Futurama: Volume 5, with a street date of December 21. This two-disc BD set will include 13 new episodes aired on Comedy Central, with 1080p video and a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.
Special features include:
Audio commentaries
Deleted and extended scenes
Bend it Like Bender
Previously On...
Fry's Crudely-Drawn Comic Book - The Crudely Animated Edition
As with most modern animation, I suspect the question of whether previous seasons get released on Blu depends on whether the original CGI effects were rendered in HD or not.
I don't appreciate the $35 price tag for 13 episodes. South Park and Family Guy pull this shit too. Hopefully, the price will come down before the release date.
Love this show. Still waiting for the blu-rays of the first 2 movies, though. I was hoping they'd tie-in with the release of this season. Maybe if it has decent sales.... Ah well. Love the quick release of this set regardless.
I LOVE Futurama but to me this new season wasn't as funny as the older series. I hope it's just shaking off the cobwebs. Would love to get 1-4 on Blu as well.
13 episodes is still close 5 hours not counting bonus materials. So $35 really isn't that unreasonable of a price compared to buying a movie. Especially for me since episodic cartoon content like this gets a lot more repeat viewings in my home than movies do.
@ Nathan Arizona - No, these were the individual half-hour episodes that just aired on Comedy Central (season ended last month). As mentioned above, they saved a Christmas episode for later so only 12 of the 13 episodes aired.
I thought, all things considered, it was a fabulous season. Still the Futurama I know and love.
