Bingowings said:
Cute as the Tauntaun trophy is it does represent so much of what is wrong about ROTJ, sticking stuff in because they have paid for it already makes sense in terms of saving money but if Hoth was meant to be the middle of nowhere how the hell did that head get there.

It makes the Star Wars universe a much smaller place and kind of takes you out of the moment and yes I did notice it when I was 13 because I had been inspecting every publicity photograph I could get my hands on for months before the film came out.

The same with bloody medical droids in the briefing room.

Boba Fett appearing in some capacity in the film pales in terms of how those little things grate for me (and they are easier to remove too).

It looks like a joke photoshop job (like sticking an Alien skull in Predator 2).

I was never really sure that the taun tauns were native to Hoth at all. I had always assumed the taun tauns were cold climate animals from another planet that found even Hoth to be too cold if they were out in the snow for too long (hence one dying from the lower-than-they-are-used-to temperatures). They seemed like animals easily tamed and mountable, brought to Hoth after the Rebellion chose the planet as their next hidden base, and not some random animal that just so happened to be conveniently mountable upon the Rebel's arrival.

But, this is just my assumption, and there is nothing to say it is canon or not.