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auraloffalwaffle
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Happy 30th Anniversary, Star Wars!
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30-May-2007, 6:12 PM
So. 30 years. Happy Birthday, Star Wars!

I bought issues of Empire and Total Film yesterday which both have Star Wars themed issues this month.

Total Film comes with a booklet of photos from the studio shoot in the UK. The very first photo is (blatantly) of Red Leader. Total Film think it's Mark Hamill. Sums it up, I think...

Empire have done a rather good series of 30 different character covers. Guess which one I bought?

Where's our beautiful, deluxe, extras-laden, retrospective original theatrical cut release of Star Wars? THAT'S the question that...

...no-one apart from us seems to be asking.

I dunno... I still refuse to buy the GOUT. I'll back-up my VHS tapes to DVD before I'll buy the GOUT. But why hasn't there been some kind of commemorative release this year? I felt certain that there'd be some massive boxed set of the whole "saga" coming out. Stands to reason, I thought.

As Darth Chaltab so rightly pointed out, we got...

...stamps!

Fuckin' STAMPS?!!!

I'm finding it very hard to keep the faith here...

British new kid cuddling 3 VHS tapes... and weeping for what could have been...