There must be a massive markup on Blu-ray's in America. I see the MSRP for the 3D version is $53 but Amazon is selling it for $30. 3D Blu-ray's RRP here is normally $50 but you are lucky if you can buy them at retail for $40.

When it comes to voting with my wallet I normally vote to keep Australians employed with games and Blu-ray's and buy the AU release of them but this time I think I'll order the US version because of the long delay and the massive discount Amazon has off the MSRP.

Trev, I feel fairly confident that AOE will not be region locked because only 3% of Paramount's Blu-rays are confirmed region locked so far. http://regionfreemovies.com/studio/Paramount