I’ve been watching the theatrical Podrace over and over and I am just not seeing that specific shot to begin with, so I’m wondering if that shot was added as part of the extended Podrace with that rendering mistake for the DVD, but fixed in the Blu Ray. I do know that the same type of rendering mistake when Qui-Gon grabs Jar Jar is still there on every release of TPM, including the Blu Ray.
Oops! I just watched the Podrace from DVD and the mistake is actually in the extra scene where the announcer yells “Skywalker’s spinning out of control!” 😄
Also of note, the Battlefront II Theed gameplay debuted this week, and noticed this little detail
https://imgur.com/gallery/Xln7c
It appears that (for this pre-alpha at least) the digital assets from TPM were used for the Theed palace, assets that DO NOT include the bridge added in to the “canon” Blu Ray and DVD. wondering if the team working on BFII either overlooked this for the alpha, or if it’s an intentional detail, seeing as how nuanced and attentive they’ve been with the rest of the map.
Good eye! I’m pretty sure they just overlooked that little detail or they knew about it but didn’t bother to add it there because nobody probably knows where the exact location of that bridge is since it was’t in the digital assets and the “fix” only exists on Blu-Ray. The “blueprints” were never updated after 1999. That’s just my guess…