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OCPDVD3: Special Edition Hype (Released)

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Hey everyone! I’m proud to announce the third Orange Cow Productions Star Wars disc - Special Edition Hype!

Coming hot on the heels of Deleted Magic and Return of the Ewok, this fun little disc will transport you back to 8 years ago in a galaxy very near … when Star Wars was coming back out in theaters and you couldn’t watch TV without running into some cheesy special about the Special Edition.

The DVD collects the specials The Magic and the Mystery (FOX), Star Wars: An MTV Movie Special, and The Force Returns (Sci-Fi).

This DVD is based on a VHS tape Alex Brunelle (ReverendBeastly) sent me … the quality isn’t great, but then neither are these specials! I’ve done them what justice I could by including the original commercials from 1997, which you can watch the specials with or without. It’s amazing how dated/cheesy these specials already are …

Also included, as an easter egg, for the first time ever on DVD, is my 24-minute documentary from 2002, “Talking to People About Star Wars” … in which some friends of mine … amateur actors and actresses I know actually … express their thoughts about Phantom Menace, and how it’s hard to be a Star Wars fan these days. It’s a very interesting watch, as they kind of speak for all of us, in different ways, with different opinions. The doc can be watched at orangecow.org somewhere.

Here’s the specs for the DVD:

Original ads:
Taco Bell - “Feel the Force”
Pizza Hut - “The Pizza Head Show”
Pepsi - “Boy/Usher/Vader”
Empire Strikes Back SE tv ad

Star Wars: The Magic and the Mystery: Hosted by Howie Long, this hourlong special by FOX looks back at the impact of the saga, talking to the cast (Fisher/Ford/Hamill) and famous filmmakers (Ron Howard/Ridley Scott/Irvin Kerschner), while hyping the Special Edition. Features footage of Declan Mulholland as Jabba the Hutt unavailable elsewhere. Interviews are taken from the same sessions as “Making of The Special Edition,” but are occasionally different. Interviews with famous filmmakers used in this special were also used on the 2004 DVD, for that featurette with Peter Jackson in it. The special is fairly cheesy, and Howie Long is a particularly awful host. We see footage of the SE premiere. Notorious USC professor Drew Casper is also featured, frightening any USC film student who might be watching. Steven Spielberg, Magic Johnson.

Star Wars: An MTV Movie Special - Fairly amusing interviews with Fisher/Ford/Hamill. Very random MTV type celebrities are asked about Star Wars. Carmen Electra. Gwen Stefani. Green Day.

Sci-Fi: The Force Returns - Ultra low-budget documentary. The Sci-Fi Channel was still kind of in its infancy then, and this one is kind of amusingly ghetto. More stock interviews from Making of the Special Edition sessions, and poorly-filmed stock from some convention somewhere. Men dressed up as Princess Leia. And hype, Jabba hype, Jabba hype!

Talking to People About Star Wars - 2002 doc by myself … Real fans talk about coping with their disappointment about Phantom Menace, and what comes next …

The three specials can be watched either with or without the original commercials. Menus have chapter selection. There is also a section for just the four Star Wars related ads.

The opening menu is kind of my very non-affectionate tribute to the Special Editions. Might amuse those O-OT purists.

Enjoy, folks!

My email is, as ever, tygerbug at yahoo.com.

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Sounds like it'll be an interesting watch!
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Sounds like it'll be an interesting watch!

It certainly does. I don't even remember half of the stuff mentioned on the disc. But that probably has something to do with living in the UK and not having a satellite/cable subscription.

Wow, you're a busy man, OCP, that's your second disc in a week - Inconceivable! Sounds like you're releases couldl be a great compliment to babyhum's - giving great SW coverage from both sides of the Atlantic.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work. News of your releases is starting to have a Pavlovian effect on me

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Can't wait to see my rotted old VHS forever on DVD

I still gotta get ROTE...

I used to be very active on this forum. I’m not really anymore. Sometimes, people still want to get in touch with me about something, and that is great! If that describes you, please email me at [my username]ATgmailDOTcom.

Hi everybody. You’re all awesome. Keep up the good work.

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Sorry to hijack this thread but ...

This is a public forum. Let's not talk about money, nor use real names.

My $0.02
(There I go talking abount money)

However, in practice you must take into account the “fuckwit factor”. Just talk to Darth Mallwalker…
-Moth3r

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Ocpmovie, these are coming out at an amazing rate! After all those months waiting for Deleted Magic, we get all this within one or two weeks of each other.

Great job! Keep up the great work.

Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side

Emperor Jar-Jar
“Back when we made Star Wars, we just couldn’t make Palpatine as evil as we intended. Now, thanks to the miracles of technology, it is finally possible. Finally, I’ve created the movies that I originally imagined.” -George Lucas on the 2007 Extra Extra Special HD-DVD Edition

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Yep all his projects rule.
"A Jedi can feel the force flow through him".
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"nor use real names."

I would agree. Usernames are just fine.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Wow, I actually have all of those sitting on a video somewhere. Which one was it again where Rick McCallum was talking about "the essence of the storytelling" being "sacrificed due to the limits in technology"? What a way to say that Star Wars was all about the SFX.


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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I think you are referring to my quote.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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SPECIAL EDITION HYPE IS DONE!


I burnt the final version of this disc today.

It is available.


Enjoy.
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I just watched this disc PRETTY Cool

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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All OCP discs can be gotten from me. If anyone wants to put them up for download, that would be good. Currently no one has.
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I'll see about getting the 4 DVD's that you've done uploaded AFTER the Cowclops set is done!!!!!!

“My skill are no longer as Mad as the once were” RiK

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I will be uploading the disc in a few days to a.b.starwars, and would like to include artwork if anyone has some made!
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So I guess that no one has made cover art for this.
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Hello,

Has this disc been torrented please ?


Long live and prosper



Live Long and prosper
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"Tom Baker is
one and only

doctor who".............
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hey ocpmovie when you going to ship my dvds
btw i used my alternate address mbillian at verison.net

thanx
catofong

(james billian)
"Tom Baker is
one and only

doctor who".............
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Originally posted by: catofong
hey ocpmovie when you going to ship my dvds
btw i used my alternate address mbillian at verison.net

thanx
catofong

(james billian)


I think things like this should be handled in PM's.

A long time ago in the faraway galaxy...

Star War: The Third Gathers
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Yes and Yes I will..........

I have the '77 DVD now so I will be mailing shortly.

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