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Originally posted by: jimbo
Lucas never advertised them as original versions. Therefore there is no false advertising. What about Disneys false advertising. It did lable Fantasia DVD original and uncut but it wasn't. Same with The Lion King. Tell me where it says original versions on the package and then I will agree.
Even if it's not blatant false advertising, it IS misleading. The DVDs are labelled as the original Star Wars Trilogy. It has NO mention of Special Editions anywhere (out of all the artwork we've seen, anyway). The Original Trilogy came out in 1977, 1980 and 1983. The Star Wars Trilogy - Special Edition came out in 1997. They're NOT the same thing. Like it or not, it IS still at least somewhat misleading.
There are probably going to be lots of returns of the set when people discover it's not the original versions they saw. Who knows, maybe Lucasfilm will even get sued for false advertising (which would serve them right for trying to pass off the Special Editions as the Original Trilogy as if the Special Editions were always there).
Too bad they won't make any notice of the sets being the Special Editions. At least the THX 1138 DVD is being labelled as the "George Lucas Director's Cut". Couldn't they even just put a small label on the Star Wars boxset saying these are the Special Editions (or Ultimate Editions or whatever they're now called)?