The rumor started back in 1999 with the FIRST PHANTOM Edit 1.1 - My friend and I both saw a post on some newsgroup when the Edit first surfaced - One of the sources of the KS rumor, another source, more and yet again more and NOT related to Kevin Smith AT ALL - the Phantom Editor even put up his own site I found the link here back in 2001

- there was later some talk on the old Phantom Menace Yahoo and AOL Chats that someone was gonna edit the new DVD of the Phantom Edit - THIS is where I heard about the MagnoliaFan87 Edits then a few days later I found the Phantom Edit Forum and more talk about this Magnoliafan - Episode I: Balance of the Force - Edit - BACK to the AOL chats some said it was Kevin Smith (again) that did it.

SO it seems it's just "Internet" hype/rumors - but who really knows BESIDES all the real Editors themselves, respectively.

Dude I'm such a geek

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