Not exactly a homage, that was the way George was used to writing, they told him to remove it because it was becoming American Graffiti in space.

With that making magic CD-Rom, it was great to see parts of Star Wars that had never been seen before for the first time. But it is so little and I think there is a lot more out there. It is sad its locked away never to be seen. I really, really want the deleted stuff from Empire. The first time I found out about the wampa subplot in echo base was when a friend and I were watching an old ESB trailer and saw the part with threepio ripping the sign off. We recongnized right away that it was not in the film. Later it was cool to realize that in the game Shadow of the Empire in echo base there are doors with that same sign on it with wampas inside (my friend and I actually used to film mock documentaries about wampas using that game and a VCR). I would really love to see any deleted footage of that those scenes that they have. I was kind of surprized when the first SW DVDs came out. I thought they would all be in two disc cases like the PT with a bonus disc each, instead just one bonus disc with very little of anything important on it.