I believe that you strongly remember the event. I tried to make it clear that I wasn’t saying it didn’t happen. The fact is that if the scene was cut into the film, shipped to a theatre and shown then it was very likely a one-off (or close to it). An unintended error by Fox or the production team (?) The fact that nobody involved in the production has mentioned this scene being cut into the film on its original release to the public coupled with the fact that the Special Edition was used to allow them to get the scene cut in makes me think it’s more likely you’re misremembering. It’s not an attack on your memory or on you personally, nor is it me trying to bolster my “denial” about your recollections. We’re not having an argument here because neither one of us can do anything of value with our “side” of things.

But false memory syndrome is a reality, it’s hugely interesting to me and I think that reading up on the phenomena would be of interest to you too. As you can see from this thread you’ve been posting in, memories of things happening in Star Wars that might not have actually happened or that very few other people have seen is not uncommon!

I want you to be right, cinebird. I think it’d be brilliant if there was a rogue copy of Star Wars released that had the human Jabba scene in it. I wonder in forty years if people will be saying the same sort of things about The Force Awakens?!