Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy Blu-ray (Pre-order up)

This October, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring one of the most popular film series of all time to Blu-ray: the Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy, which is available right now for pre-order from Amazon for $55.99. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, director Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park created a world where science brought the dinosaurs back to life, a world further explored in its popular sequels The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.

As previously reported, Universal is also offering the Jurassic Park Trilogy in a special "Limited Edition" Blu-ray gift set, available from Amazon for $83.99; check back later for further information on that version of the trilogy.

Universal presents the Jurassic Park Trilogy remastered for 1080p, with all films shown in their original aspect ratios of 1.85:1 and given DTS-HD Master Audio tracks. In terms of special features, the Blu-ray collection will feature all supplements from the previous DVD editions, including (but not limited to):

• The Making of Jurassic Park featurette
• The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park featurette
• The Making of Jurassic Park III featurette
• Steven Spielberg Directs Jurassic Park featurette
• Early Pre-Production Meetings
• The World of Jurassic Park featurette
• The Magic of Industrial Light & Magic featurette
• Location Scouting
• Phil Tippett Animatics: Raptors In The Kitchen featurette
• The Jurassic Park Phenomenon: A Discussion with Author Michael Crichton featurette
• Industrial Light & Magic and Jurassic Park: Before and After The Visual Effects featurette
• Industrial Light & Magic and The Lost World: Jurassic Park Before & After featurette
• The Industrial Light & Magic Press Reel
• A Visit to Industrial Light & Magic featurette
• Hurricane in Kauai featurette
• Dinosaur Turntables featurette
• The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III featurette
• Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs featurette
• Animatics: T-Rex Attack featurette
• The Special Effects of Jurassic Park III featurette
• The Sounds of Jurassic Park III featurette
• The Art of Jurassic Park III featurette
• Tour of Stan Winston Studio featurette
• Feature Commentary on Jurassic Park III with Special Effects Team
• Production Archives: Storyboards, Models, Photographs, Design Sketches, and Conceptual Drawings
• Deleted Scenes
• Theatrical Trailers

Furthermore, the Jurassic Park Trilogy has digital copies of the three films and over two hours of bonus materials newly produced for Blu-ray; the new material takes the form of a six-part retrospective documentary titled Return to Jurassic Park. This documentary - made up of the Dawn of a New Era, Making Pre-history, The Next Step in Evolution, Finding The Lost World, Something Survived, and The Third Adventure behind-the-scenes segments - features never-before-seen interviews with the cast and crew of the three films, including Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg.

Exclusive to Blu-ray will be Universal's BD-Live, My Scenes, pocket BLU, Advanced Remote Control, Video Timeline, Mobile-To-Go, Browse Titles, and Keyboard interactive functionality components. The Jurassic Park Trilogy streets on October 25th, 2011.