Warner Home Video has announced that they have compiled a '
Essential Holiday Collection' for Blu-ray that they will make it to store shelves on October 28th. The set will include Blu-ray releases of '
The Polar Express', '
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation', '
Elf', and '
A Christmas Story'.
Interestingly enough, Warner claims the set will be a mix of BD-25s and BD-50s. Both 'Elf' and 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' are listed as BD-25 titles. The original releases of 'The Polar Express' and 'A Christmas Story' are also both on BD-25s, but 'The Polar Express' gets a
3D re-issue that same week (possible BD-50) and 'A Christmas Story' gets a
re-issue the following week (again, a possible BD-50). That said, it is still unknown which version of the 'The Polar Express' and 'A Christmas Story' will be packaged in the set.