Erikstormtrooper said:
I haven't had a chance to listen to this yet. Are the lines different when Han is talking to the Cloud Car pilot?
Nope. Exactly the same as the 35mm. R2 does not taste very good, the shelter is built, Yoda does not squawk with fear when Luke points the blaster at him, Chewie does not roar and drown out part of Leia's dialogue when he strangles Lando, Luke doesn't say "this is it!" before Zev is blown up, C-3PO doesn't say "there's nowhere to go" in the asteroid field, Leia still says "I know where Luke is", etc. Apparently most of the SE dialogue changes really were just revisionism, and most of the 'Story of ESB' differences seem to be exclusive to that version.
The only different ADR I heard was Lando at the end. "Luke, we're ready for takeoff" is the one heard in the SE, while "Princess, we'll find Han--I promise" is different take that I've never heard before. Hearing that scene without the extra music and without the line "When we find Jabba the Hutt and that bounty hunter, we'll contact you" is strange, but it works in its own way.
When Luke runs out of the wampa cave, there was a sound of his lightsaber deactivating, as there is in the SE. This has to have been done mistakenly, because onscreen it stays lit, which is probably why the 35mm mix removed it. The double-ignition thing is still there. I heard different laserfire during the Battle of Hoth at one point (the sound used for TIE fighters rather than X-wings), and there is a different sound for TIE fighter engines after the magic tree scene (not the one used for the SE), but other than that it was all extremely similar. The levels may have been different at times but it is hard to tell due to the nature of the recording.
If msycamore says the length of the bacta tank scene is exactly the same, I believe him, because it certainly sounded that way to me. They must have simply edited the picture differently but kept it the same length. It seems to me that the ESB 70mm version really is virtually the same film, just with a few small things that were finalised afterwards. The kind of large changes made to the SW mono mix are not to be found here, though admittedly it is the only one of the three movies to have actual visual differences.