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#54800
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54800/action/topic#54800
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My covers feature the backsides of Dean's covers, and the spines of covers fit to look like the prequels.
For the front I use the SE posters. But ONLY because the posters look better. There's no mention of 'special edition' on them, so it's ok.

I also modified some inserts to fit with the TR47 version chapter stops.

I can post them here if anyone is interested in them.
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#54813
Topic
Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54813/action/topic#54813
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R2 D2 & C3PO are also to be found in Raiders Of The Lost Ark...they're represented as Hieroglyphics on the wall of the Well Of Souls, just behind the Arc.

In Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom the club theyr in at the very beginning is called Club Obi Wan.

Does this mean that all these films are connected in some way? that they all exist in some parallel universe?

According to my theory, they'd be EU.

It's a joke. I was only being half serious.

These are frickin movies! Of course things are gonna contradict.
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#54778
Topic
Prequels from an Expanded Universe POV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54778/action/topic#54778
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I know of som other-worldly things appearing in Star Wars:

The space pod of David Bowman from the USS Discovery 1, cira 2001: A Space Odyssey
E.T. alien in the senate, cira "E.T."

And we will assume that anything where Star Wars appears in other movies, it'll be EU. But when other movies appear in Star Wars, we have to regard them as canon.

Now, how the HECK does David Bowman's space pod get from the year 2001 to Watto's junkyard "all long time ago in a galaxy far far away"??
Maybe this means that Star Wars really is set sometime in the future, albeit in another galaxy.
Of course, at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the space pod is whisked away with Dave inside to a mysterious place via the 'star portal' or Tyco-Monolith-Anamolie2. (TMA-2)
Now after David was transformed to a giant fetus (or 'star child'), where did the space pod go? Matter can't simply cease to exist, and I don't think the higher intelligence (be them aliens or w/e) would bother sending it back to earth.

Fast forward OR rewind (we really don't know which) to the GFFA.
At this time, there is no real intelligent life. Maybe the 'higher intelligence' from 2001: A Space Odyssey also place a monolith (or maybe even multiple monoliths) in planet(s) there. Perhaps Cornellia, which is where humans supossedly began in the GFFA. But with how many species of intelligent life, and how many planets with life there are, we'll say multiple monoliths.
Among these new intelligent species is what we call the "E.T.s". In EU, and EU only, they go to earth and the movie "E.T." happens. But this must be regarded as EU as Star Wars is appearing in other movies at that point. Don't forget the contradictions in E.T. such as Elliot already knowing about Star Wars. So we can regard this as EU that contradicts the films.

Now back to the space pod. With the space pod still 'beyond the infinite' in wherever that mysterious hotel room is, my guess is that the extra material it took in (the space pod, and perhaps Dave's suit and maybe even body) was ejected to a somewhat or entirely random space where other monoliths were placed. In this case, somewhere in the GFFA. It was a matter of time before it ended up in Watto's junk shop.
Now, since Star Wars doesn't make an appearence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, we can use that as a non-canon but reliable source of information.
Now we all know that the events of 2001: A Space Odyssey did not really occur in the actual year 2001.
We would assume that it would be an alternat timeline, or simply ficticious but that isn't as fun.
Now we would also assume that Star Wars also existed as a far away galaxy in said timeline. That goes along nicely with 2001's outlook on the universe and monoliths. Because of how much intelligent life exists in Star Wars.



Any questions?
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#54773
Topic
HD-DVD
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54773/action/topic#54773
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Will Blu-Ray or HD-DVD improve the quality of the movie, or simply leave room for more bonus material, languages, and stuff?



Wouldn't this just be the biggest kick in the balls? :

It's 2007 and the Star Wars Trilogy HD-DVD comes out. GL says that the original version is also in the set.
So we all buy it and pop it into our player. It seems the main feature is a ultimate edition with tons of hoopla and BS mixed in.
Then when we select 'original version' we get what we now refer to as the 1997 Special Edition.


Sad thing is, I can actually picture this happening.
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#54691
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/54691/action/topic#54691
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This just in!

The covers of the official DVDs:

http://www.filmcompagniet.dk/presse/video_dvd/images/2004/Star_Wars_EP4_DVD_salg.jpg

http://www.filmcompagniet.dk/presse/video_dvd/images/2004/Star_Wars_EP5_DVD_salg.jpg

http://www.filmcompagniet.dk/presse/video_dvd/images/2004/Star_Wars_EP6_DVD_salg.jpg


Almost suitable for printing, if they weren't in German.
Not that you'd want to.

Look, see, just how much these cover suck.


They are nothing compared to the excellent work on covers you've made here at OT.com!