Every disc release says what is on it sooner or later, and this one has been unusually slow about it. Amazon listed four editions of Masters of the Universe through the summer and into October without a special features section on any of them, the blu-ray.com database entries were no better, and MGM never published a list of its own. The discs went on sale this morning regardless, and within hours two reviewers had copies in hand.
Matt Brighton at Blu-ray Authority scores both the video and the audio at 100. His one word for the picture is “perfection.” He reads the transfer as a 2.39:1 HEVC image working off a native 4K source. The HDR grade, he reckons, does most for the contrast between the film’s darker sequences and its “brighter, more colorful fantasy elements,” while the Dolby Atmos mix leans on its height channels to give the bigger set pieces a sense of scale.
Jeff Beck at The Blu Spot got there independently and landed in much the same place on the disc. The transfer, he writes, is “of marvelous quality” and “brilliantly sharp & clear throughout its entire 140-minute runtime”; the “Dolby Atmos-TrueHD audio track is outstanding.” His conclusion is that “MGM has done a wonderful job in both departments for the film’s 4K debut.” On the film itself, though, he runs a good deal cooler, giving it three out of five and calling it “another mixed offering of the material.” A JoBlo pull quote for the film runs across the front of the box.
So the two of them part company over the movie, but they agree about the disc, and the disc is the same disc whichever of them you side with on the film.
That leaves the extras, the one section no listing ever carried. Both reviews name the same two extras, and neither turns up a third. Beck is the one who puts a clock on them. The Behind-The-Scenes Promotional Gallery runs about fifteen minutes, but, as the name on the box says, it is a run of short promotional pieces rather than a making-of. Masters of Light: Skies of Eternia Drone Spectacle runs three, and covers the drone show MGM flew over Los Angeles during the campaign [1].
It was printed on the back of the case. A band across the back of the 4K case reads SPECIAL FEATURES, lists those two titles either side of a bullet, and stops. The content specification strip below it adds a line neither review mentions. “Special Features are not in 4K or HDR and may not be in High Definition.” The extras are the one part of a 4K disc that is not in 4K!
Two more things on that strip close questions our disc guide has been carrying since August: the audio and subtitle specification is printed in full, which confirms the extra language tracks we had been listing as retailer-sourced and unconfirmed by the studio. There is DTS-HD Master Audio in Parisian French, and Dolby Digital for the English descriptive track, Canadian French and Spanish, alongside the English Atmos. The playback requirements at the foot of the panel also name Dolby Vision, which the guide has asserted since the announcement went out.
One caution, though, for anyone clicking through to read the reviews. Blu-ray Authority’s sidebar carries a Disc Features list naming an audio commentary, deleted scenes and a documentary. That list does not describe this disc. The review’s own prose names two extras, and so does the back of the case [2].
Prices have not moved since the discs went on sale. The 4K Ultra HD, the edition both reviews are describing, is $28.99 and in stock. The Blu-ray is $19.96 and the DVD $13.16. The Amazon exclusive SteelBook is $46.99, which buys the metal case, the mini-comic and a delivery window running into the first week of November [3]. The special features are the same on every edition, so what separates the standard 4K from the SteelBook is packaging, and the steelbook guide is the place to settle whether that is worth it to you. BigBadToyStore carries no edition of the film at all, checked again this afternoon.
Buy this one for the way it looks and sounds.
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[1] Blu-ray Authority describes the drone featurette as covering a 1,600 drone show flown over Los Angeles that set a Guinness World Record during the film’s marketing campaign. The disc itself prints only the title. The runtimes are Jeff Beck’s, from The Blu Spot, which also counts twelve separate pieces inside the promotional gallery.
[2] Read off the Blu-ray Authority page on 20 October. The sidebar Disc Features list names a theatrical trailer, an audio commentary, deleted scenes, a featurette, a documentary and a digital copy, while the review body names two extras and the supplements score is 30.
[3] All four Amazon listings read first hand on 20 October from a United States connection, with every buy box confirming delivery to Dallas, so the figures are US dollars. The SteelBook is ASIN B0H37TNCQV, the 4K Ultra HD B0H37TKF4D, the Blu-ray B0H386STXS and the DVD B0H37X35JB. The three cheaper editions quoted free delivery for Sunday 25 October, and the SteelBook quoted 31 October to 4 November.
- Masters of the Universe (Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray) - Blu-ray Authority, Matt Brighton, 20 October 2026
- Masters of the Universe (2026): A New Rendition Brings More Middling Results (4K) - The Blu Spot, Jeff Beck, 20 October 2026
Package photography: Amazon MGM Studios, via the Amazon product listing.
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