SilverWook said:

msycamore said:

SilverWook said:

I'd like to think George respects Frank Oz too much to do that to Original Puppet Yoda (tm).

This is what Bill Hunt had to say in his blu-ray review:

"For those of you who hate the past changes (and the new BD changes), believe me I get it. Let me just say, it could be a LOT worse. Sources well-positioned to know have told me that Lucas actually seriously considered replacing the puppet Yoda from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi with the all-digital version, and even had tests conducted to see how it would look. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. (For the record, I'm told that the digital Yoda just didn't look right or mesh well with the real, physical, practical Dagobah sets. Shocking, I know.) In any case, the films are what they are - changes and all - and now they're finally available on Blu-ray."

I'm afraid Lucas doesn't respect anyone's workmanship on these classic films these days. Frank Oz's voice performance maybe. This set was also released very close to Kershner's death, when a few years have passed it may be easier to go ahead with more alterations. I would like a commentary track where Lucas explains in detail why he changed certain things, what about Lukes' scream in the '97 SE that was lifted from the Emperor in Jedi, talk about creativity. ;)

That's pretty damn disturbing if true. The CGI tests must be hidden away in the deepest levels of the ranch that never see daylight. ;)

They tried that TESB CGI Yoda thing when they were doing the prequels as a test to get it look right, maybe that's just blown up in the media? There were some rough clips of that on some of the extras. I really can't believe they would actually replace it... It would take a lot of time and money, it wouldn't make it any better and it would create a serious backslash from the public.