At least I have a goal for the San Diego Comicon when I go this year.  Search the floor for a good copy of Coby and the other ones we are missing or find the Mexico tape.

Just the same SciFi channel rips.  I never got ahold of the ontherun DVD's for The Ewoks.  The watermarks just disgusted me too much.

Video Collector said:

I take it the Sci-Fi Ewoks are edited as well?

Yeah it looks like they edited about 30 seconds off each episode.  Things like a frog snatching a fly and such.  We do have the lead ins for those episodes though on the scifi copies. Pittrek I have a feeling its going to take a lot of editing to splice all the little things together for each episode like the lead-ins for the Ewoks on the second season mixed with the PAL copies and then the same with the recaps for the Droids episodes we have.

I found someone who appears to have a bunch of Spanish copies of VHS rips, to include Coby.

EDIT: aaaand this was a dead end.

An interesting note, the ontherunvideo end credits for Droids actually contains the "Droids and Ewoks Adventure Hour" credits.

Didn't notice this until now.  

But it is completely different from all of the other endings.

Video Collector,

I know you asked before if you can get the opening for Droids... I have never seen the PAL tapes.  Does that mean the opening isn't included on the tape?

I have the J2 NTSC North American VHS releases copied to DVD.  They include the un-altered original opening for Droids.  They are pretty crisp and clean too.

So if need be, those can be used for the Opening credits.

Just to give you guys an update, retardedted and I have been talking.  We are going to look into seeing if we can have professional transfers of the PAL tapes done.  It will be easier for us cost wise, since we live closer and the quality for all of us (not to mention the time involved).   Pittrek, we are in no way taking this project away from you but we figured it will be the easiest, quickest and cleanest result and I believe that is what we all want.  After the transfers are made (our understanding too is they can adjust for proper color corrections too) then we can collectively decide how we want to proceed to the next step in the editing process.  This method will be expensive but I think it is going to really be worth it in the long run since we all have that "oh i want the best" mentality.

Do you have "The ABC Saturday Sneak Peek and Fun Fit Test".  It was the preview show for the season the Droids and Ewok started.  R2 and 3po appear throughout the show.  (it's on one of the SW Rarities discs, can send it to someone)

Do you have "The ABC Saturday Sneak Peek and Fun Fit Test".  It was the preview show for the season the Droids and Ewok started.  R2 and 3po appear throughout the show.  (it's on one of the SW Rarities discs, can send it to someone)

That sounds great! What format do you have it in?

So it's not this one?

Tobar,  sorry but that looks like the Spanish (as in Spain) release.

From reading the front cover it looks like the episodes are...

"Tail of the Roon Comets"

"The Roon Games"

"Across the Roon Sea" 

"The Frozen Citadel"

But thanks for looking!

I have the ABC Saturday morning fun fit test too.  None, we need to compare mine and yours and we should go with the best quality.  Mine is in NTSC... I think it would make a good addition on the restoration.

Is anyone good at making Fan based DVD covers?  I found these UK poster images and they may make good fronts for the covers for the restoration project, since it hasn't been used on any other custom (or produced) Droids and Ewoks videos that we have seen.  Just throwing it out there to see what you guys think.  The posters are available right now through ebay in the UK.  Maybe someone can get them and scan higher resolution images for the future.

Also, I have a single copy of an Ewoks episode "Night of the Strangers" that is the original 1985 broadcast.  It has the full intro, commercials and bumpers.  The pic below includes the narrator saying... "We now return you to The Ewoks!"

Other pic to show you the station call letters

Sweet! We can incorporate it too. 

Does anyone have a good copy of this clip too or do you know how we can get ahold of this guy to get a copy of it.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf-gBgnUFfI

It would be a good addition to put with the ABC Saturday Morning Fit Test and anything else relevant we can find in an "extras" section if we collectively decide to have one.  It would be great if we can find clean copies of the commercials for the toys for both Droids and Ewoks too. 

Don't forget we still need to track down the full length missing Ewok episodes too if anyone has any leads on those so we don't have to resort to the SciFi versions.

This is getting MUCH bigger than I originally expected :-)