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#478452
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Info: Droids and Ewoks, anybody ?
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Just a quick update (so people don't think that the momentum has died) I just mailed off a package full of goodies for ringwraith to start working on.  It may be a week or two until we have any results to post, but trust us, we will be working on it.

In the meantime, we still need the following episodes:

Droids: Coby and the Starhunters

Ewoks: The Three lessons and Prow Beaten/Baga's Rival

Also if anyone can track down bumpers/eyecatchs, commercials or any other footage concerning this show, it would be greatly appreciated. 

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#476664
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Info: Droids and Ewoks, anybody ?
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yep. 

I have done a number of side by side comparrisons of the Sci-Fi channel rips to the ontherunvideo.com and the UK VHS rleases (heck even the official DVD's) and the Sci-Fi channel releases always have less footage.

I am sure this was down for two reasons...

a) for time

b) because there is a lot of painful moments in both series :)

Truth be told, the edits aren't that bad and actually kind of move the story along.  Comparable to most fan edits.

 

As far as the other person working on this a year ago...he kind of fell off the map.  And that was what sort of what motivated me to start stockpiling all of the videos that I do have.  This set needs to be done one of these days and we need to make sure that we have the best possible transfer when we do it.

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#476660
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Info: Droids and Ewoks, anybody ?
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Nice.  I was actually the one that got him to transfer his old Droids S-VHS tapes to DVD.  He had only made Ewoks transfers when I ran into him and I persuaded him into getting me a Droids DVD set as well.  He is a super nice guy.

Now, as I said earlier, there is an actual official release of Coby and the Starhunters in Mexico.  I have yet to see a copy for sale anywhere, but I have seen photos and screenshots.  This site swccmty.page.tl used to have photos and screenshots of it up.  But it looks like they have gone through a redesign and are a little shady now.

That would cover it for Droids.  Using the UK PAL releases for all other episodes, plus the Mexican release for video and the ontherunvideo.com audio for Coby.   This would make a complete set of Droids.

Because as I am sure you guys have noticed, the Sci-Fi channel versions are edited.  There is about a good 2-5 minutes missing from each episode.  Not always a bad thing as they sometimes just edited out the groan worthy "comedy" bits.