Been reading the conversation here and was thinking maybe my memory, which is long and increasingly filling with holes as I age and more gaps appear in it, was playing tricks on me. So I went to YouTube and typed in “Yoda comparison,” which brought up this video. So I put it on fullscreen and watched it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxaZxpNTm8A

The CGI model is a massive improvement in basically every way. It looks better, it interacts better, the performance (paired with the vocal work) is better… I certainly can’t agree with the idea that CG work for the blu-ray is “pulled out of a not-very-impressive cutscene.”

That puppet was a big, well-intentioned misstep, but a misstep nonetheless. The CG correction is just so observably, obviously better that I’m wondering if you guys are just trying to trick people into rewatching The Phantom Menace, haha.