One, there’s some short but great behind-the-scenes footage from the OT that’s clearly been restored in HD or better. Makes me wonder what else they’ve got tucked away in their archives. FWIW this footage may have already been seen in some of the previously released BD or 4K disc sets.
We got confirmation a couple years back that the LFL archive has been digitizing their entire video collection. There’s been a couple cool instances of new never before seen footage popping up since then. The Making of TROS for example has BTS footage from ROTJ that had never been released before. It really is exciting to think about what other treasures they have at their finger tips now.
There are actual motion-control shots of spaceship miniatures! They even talk about how it actually costs more to do that than CGI now, but the filmmakers wanted it so bad they managed to make a “Low budget garage version” of the dykstraflex to make those shots happen.
Yeah they talked about the miniature work at Celebration before the series was released. That’s what got me the most hyped about the series. The revelation that there was actually a stop motion shot of a blurrg in the show sent me over the moon.
I’ve got a few more episodes to go but it has made me love the show even more. The people working on this show clearly understand what went right for the OT to capture lightning in a bottle, so to speak, and are doing an amazing job expanding (rather than shrinking…) the Galaxy far far away. I can’t help but feel this is the team that should’ve been in charge of the ST.
Yeah Filoni and Favreau have a clear and deep passion for Star Wars and I really hope they get more say over its future.