it's kinda funny, I also thought I remembered seeing Luke miss, and I never read the novels

only times I saw ANH on TV were german dubs in the 90s

maybe something like that happened in some other movie?

Corky said:i've never seen it but i wish i had its like the scene when luke jumps up and grabs the bars above the rancor i've only ever seen the pictures but they must have filmed it right?

I agree with SKot (and the rest) on the whole 'mis-re-memories' line of thought. So many things influence your memory, especially when you're talking about two and three decades passing. I know I ate, slept, and breathed Star Wars. I had the Star Wars record, where R2 beeped when it was time to turn the page. I had the Storybooks, which were basically movie picture books (and where I think most 'mis-re-memories' come from, including my own). I even had a book with R2 and 3PO telling me about space. Oh, had the pop up book too (my favorite page was the one with the McQuarrie X-Wing in the trench). And then there's all the dreams I've had about Star Wars... (there was one I remember vividly of a young Kenobi flying around with Anakin in ships that were something between an X-Wing and the EpIII Starfighter. This had to be 30 years ago)

As for ANH, I don't really have any memories of things not happening. I assume it's because I watched about every showing of Star Wars on Showtime when it came on.

I do, however, remember in ESB that a snowspeeder crashed into the AT-AT the blew up the generator. I can totally accept that it never happened, and I think that I'm transferring the scene from ROTJ into my Hoth mind.

And as for Corky's comment - I too remember the scene where Luke jumps up and grabs the bars. I also remember the 'people' in Jabba's court quickly stomping on his fingers. No proof, just a memory, but it sticks out. I assume it's from the storybook pictures.

Here's a weird one.

I was only born about a week after Star Wars was first released, so I didn't actually see it until Empire came around - our local cinema (like many, I'm sure) was showing the pair as a double bill, so that was my first exposure to the saga (a pretty intensive one, I guess!)

Anyway, I VIVIDLY recall Empire having a completely different title sequence from Star Wars - no crawl, no big theme, just photos of the characters with their names, underscored with some fairly tranquil music.

Retrospectively, I can just about rationalise it with the assumption that the cinema showed the Empire trailer directly after Star Wars, before the intermission - the main trailer certainly does have stills of the characters appearing amidst the live-action footage. But still, that's not really what I remember...

Like I say, weird! And it looks pretty absurd in writing, but I thought I'd share anyway...

V said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64qf6cRijYU

Yep, that's the one. Closest thing I've found to the thing that I remember.

I quite like having fantastical childhood recollections - memories get much less creative as you get older ;-)

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and when I was seven I used to argue in the playground that after Luke had blown up the death-star that there was a ghostly image of Vader superimposed over a starfield and he said " I WILL RETURN"  it wasn't until the first rerelease a few years later that I  got see the movie for the second time and I was proven wrong. to this date I'm not sure if my false memory was due to a TV commercial for STAR WARS merchandise ,  a DARTH VADER LIVES tshirt I got for Xmas 1977  or perhaps even the teaser poster for Empire Strikes Back, or a combination of the three.

This one is REALLY kooky: At the end of Return of the Jedi, I clearly remembered somebody wanting to shoot down Luke's stolen shuttle but Lando saying, "No, don't. I think that's Luke."

Normally I'd think I'm nuts, but when my dad and I watched it together on video for the first time, we both looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute." He remembered that moment, too, and described it on his own before I even had a chance to say anything. I guess it was a shared father-son hallucination from one sunny '83 afternoon at the Showcase Cinemas in Louisville, KY?