What changes were missed in this awesome edit?
The changes that I noticed were:
R2-D2 and C-3PO’s escape pod cover on Tatooine remained grey and was not changed back to blue.
Darth Vader’s lightsaber stayed red when Luke blasted the door on the Death Star.
The detention hall’s hallway remained altered with the special edition version when Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca were attempting to escape.
These were the only changes that I noticed which were not restored to the theatrical version; otherwise, everything else was pretty much originally unaltered and theatrical.
I remember hearing that special edition “thud” noise from when the Storm Tropper hits his head on the blast door.
When I was checking it out on the computer and comparing it to other projects side by side, I think there are some shots that can be updated to better versions. You know the film scans used to cover up the crappy CGI.
One thing that surprised me was when Luke and Leia were in that tube where they had to swing over to get away from the Storm Troopers. Their voices were super echoey.
i thought the audio was sourced from schorman’s Star Wars LaserDisc Audio Archive and hairy_hen’s 70mm recreation
Was the “thud” noise in those audio versions? I had thought the thud was added for the special edition from what I remember people saying about it in the 2000’s. I remember being in a message board where people thought it was brilliant to add a “thud” noise to the Storm Trooper hitting his head. At the time, I hadn’t seen the Original Trilogy since the 80’s, so didn’t know what they were talking about at the time. It seemed like in the mid-2000’s, a lot of people were liking the special edition what I saw talking about it. But at the time as mentioned, I didn’t get it as I’d had mostly forgotten Star Wars other than seeing the prequels, which were still fresh.
I’m pretty sure the “thud” was originally added in the elusive 1977 mono mix.