So you guys really knew that that the SEs would replace the originals? For some reason I was really ignorant of it. I remember the one last time campaign very well, but I thought it was just marketing. Disney has been doing that forever, saying such and such a movie was only going to have a limited release, then they would put it out again years later.

The one last time never came off to me as literal, though perhaps it should have. When the SE came out I was very excited and went to see each one in the theater. I loved seeing them on the big screen, and I considered the changes a bonus. I thought the changes were kind of cool, but just to experience something different. I even set aside the money to buy them on VHS even tough I had a perfectly good faces set.

I didn't get a DVD player until 2001, and didn't start collecting DVDs in earnest until a few years after that. For years my DVD collection consisted of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Star Trek Insurrection. One day I decided I probably ought to get Star Wars on DVD and discovered that it wasn't out yet. I read that George had no intention of releasing them until after Episode III came out, and that seemed too long to wait, so I bought the trilogy on VCD. I was annoyed only the special edition existed on VCD, but went with it, deciding it would hold me off until the real DVD release. I actually made my own edit of the VCDs before I even knew OT.com existed or heard about fan editing. I made Han shoot first, removed Jabba, and inserted the line "You're sure lucky you don't taste very good" into ESB.

Until I started doing research into the matter, which is about the time I discovered this place (about 2003 or 2004) I did not realize the originals were going to be permanently replaced with the SE.