I vaguely remember Ady addressing this a couple times years ago. Essentially, the gist of it was that after deliberating on it for a bit he felt that the effect wasn’t realistic enough, and subsequently felt it was too distracting and dropped it. I certainly recall that the YouTube video noted it was an FX test that may or may not be used in the final product and nothing more.
Of course, stuff like this is always interesting to track IMO, especially with a project with such a long gestation as ESB:R.
Well maybe when he gets around the the Verison of ESB:R with special features, it’ll be there to veiw. Maybe it’ll be a special feature. He had other test footage on ANH:R. That being a option and a hidden dvd easter egg. I guess we can only see. Thanks for letting me know. I was on curious.