zombie84 said:
It was in the novel. Thats why a few people remember seeing it. Just like they remember seeing the spaceships crash into the DS shield in ROTJ. They saw it in their minds when they were kids and twenty years later it feels as though it was seen on a screen. It never happened.

As for the S-foils, them opening was in all versions. There has only been one visual change from 1977-1996, and that is the Episode Iv crawl.

I don't know about that I didn't get the novelization until sometime after I had seen the 70mm 6track premiere in Paramus, NJ. Anyone else see that premiere on opening day and recall the miss?

I asked my dad and he said he didn't even remember the chasm haha!

There have to be a few people out there who say the premiere print there. I think the theater sat like 2200 people and it was totally sold out the entire first day, at the least.