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Post #340322

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Vaderisnothayden
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Question about the 1995 VHS and when the Special Edition was going to be the only version
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22-Dec-2008, 10:46 AM
Baronlando said:

I remember that campaign quite well. In fact there was a HUGE billboard (with that half-face Vader from the laserdisc/vhs covers) that I passed every day going to school that said "get the original ONE LAST TIME". At the time it was no big deal because, hey, what could ever be better than laserdisc? Lucas had been on the rag for years about a couple of cantina masks and some of the X-Wing manuevers, but nobody expected whole scenes would be turned into fucking Who Framed Roger Rabbit. (Actually, my friend thought the Jabba scene looked more like those Frosted Flakes commercials)

It really is Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Jabba and that awful Jabba's palace musical number. Wtf is that stuff doing in my Star Wars? And of course, he pulled the same splicing Mickey Mouse into live action with Jar Jar and co in TPM. And I think he even had a joke of referring to TPM as "the animated movie", as if it was a good thing.