Info Wanted: Weird Japanese VHS tape "Star Wars Highlight". Anyone know what this is?

Author: the ugnaught
Date: 13-Jun-2011, 12:35 PM

Author: the ugnaught
Time: 13-Jun-2011 12:35 PM (Edited)
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I was wandering around on the Yahoo Japanese Auction site and found this video for roughly $250 US dollars.

So it must be somewhat rare, as I can’t find anything on it.

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d115306311

Here is a link to the photos in case the auction disappears.

http://imgur.com/a/OknJG

Author: the ugnaught
Time: 13-Jun-2011 4:07 PM
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Ok, after some further digging, it looks like Maclord is now Panasonic. So I think this may be related to some of the marketing that Lucas did in Japan in the late 80's. Still a very odd VHS tape if I do say so myself.

Stuff like these commercials...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHwhg8xpnyA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWY54u-EA2Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfuY685b08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T95f9ctsVw

Author: none
Time: 3-Jul-2011 2:20 PM
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That's neeto. Rebelscum.com did a retrospective of this compaign, maybe they sourced it from this tape.

http://www.rebelscum.com/panasonic.asp