Hey, dark_jedi! I have some terrible news to say. It appears that the newly released 30th anniversary blu-ray of The Neverending Story uses the same exact transfer as the previous US blu-ray.

Here is a post Croweyes1121 sent on the blu-ray.com forums:

"Honestly, this was the *last* scenario I expected. I'll be damned if this isn't the exact same transfer as the previous US blu-ray. I've checked the color timing against several screenshots from this site, and they look identical. Same very dark push, same crush, same oppressive orange hues over the initial flight to the Ivory Tower. Grain structure is definitely there - so this is NOT the German Extended transfer by any stretch. But what's there is murky, just as it tends to be on early blu-rays - just as it was on the previous blu-ray. I got the same overall impressions of this as I did of that release. This is...terribly, terribly disappointing as far as I'm concerned. This being marketed as a remaster is a total and complete lie IMO. It seems to me that they simply took the 2012 restoration featurette and slapped it on the old presentation with some new extras. I'm REALLY sorry to report this, folks. I'd post screens if I had the means. I can take a few with my phone if it's needed, but take my word...the grain structure and opening scenes at the Ivory Tower are a dead giveaway (the contrast boosting and dark push are so heavy there that you can barely make out the man talking to Atreyu). It's the old transfer."

Are you still doing the Neverending Story International and Extended Versions project now that WB did it wrong again?