Vaderisnothayden said:
Yeah it was. It came from Han walking around him in the original footage, which would only have been possible with a human Jabba, not with a huge monster, proof that they originally planned to put Jabba on screen as human. Zombie84's Secret History of Star Wars site has an article about Jabba originally being meant to be human in the finished film despite official accounts claiming he was intended to be alien. But the walking around bit is my own observation.

There was an old CD-ROM called Making Magic, which came out before the SE and is about the SE changes. It is kind of funny to watch, because it documents George and his small army of yes men as they go about brainstorming how to make some of the SE changes work. I haven't watch this thing since it was released, though I still have a copy lying around. I remember a scene were George and his guys discuss the problem of the tail, and eventually decide having Han step on it is the best way to make it work. There is also a scene where they come up with the name for the Ronto, and they decided it looks somewhat like a Bronotosaurus, which is often appreviated Bronto, and so decided on the name Ronto.

I wonder if anyone has ever decided to preserve this CD-Rom as a DVD? If all the video could be extracted, it would be very easy to remake the menus and build a DVD with it. Video is highly compressed, but it is an interesting piece of the SE chapter of Star Wars' history.