Roobyoo

double post, please delete

I have no hopes. But I expect:

• new Movie Collection on Blu ray (probably just the latest releases in new packages)
• new toys & merchandise to buy
• an anniversary trailer on the official YouTube channel

End of story.

hharlan23 said:

Have you finished it yet?

ZigZig’s last interaction on this forum was 4 years ago. Last login in October 2024 with no response to anything. So you can say this project is dead.

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G&G-Fan said:

Roobyoo said:

In the german translation, C-3PO is saying "Lando Calrissian and poor Chewbacca never got out of this palace (“Lando Calrissian und der arme Chewbacca sind aus dieser Burg nie wieder herausgekommen.”)

Translations aren’t always accurate.

I’ve watched enough bad English dubs of Godzilla movies to know that 😄

Yes I know, I just wanted to point out that in the german context, showing Chewbacca in the prison scene first would make sense.

G&G-Fan said:

When he said he never came back from “this awful place” he was probably referring to Tatooine.

In the german translation, C-3PO is saying "Lando Calrissian and poor Chewbacca never got out of this palace (“Lando Calrissian und der arme Chewbacca sind aus dieser Burg nie wieder herausgekommen.”)

benduwan said:

Does anybody know the sources of the human Jabba the Hutt scene?
Thanks

Best would be to write Jamie on Instagram, he is very active there and responds to messages, as far as I know.

instagram.com/filmumentaries

Ben Kenobi 80 said:

Hallo und erstmal Kompliment für die tolle Arbeit hier.
Ich hätte auch gerne einen Link zu den restaurierten Originalversionen
der ursprünglichen Trilogie auf deutsch. Wie kann ich den bekommen?

Genau einen Post über dir wird zitiert, wie man das Projekt bekommen kann…

Does anyone still has the trailer from the first post with the cinema 5.1 DTS sound and could re-upload it?

I don’t want to open a new thread, so I’m trying it here:

Is someone in the possession of the DTS/AUX tracks or CDs of the first and second trailers from The Phantom Menace? Maybe they are titled Trailer A and Trailer B, but I’m not sure. Because I found a picture from a DTS CD titled ‘Trailer C’,… but don’t know what trailer that could be.

Wer weiterhin interessiert ist, kann mir eine Persönliche Nachricht schreiben. Ich versuche dann zu helfen.

Anakin94 said:

Is there any update for a source?
Or some preservations which include it?

I do have the german ROTJ SE 97 DTS files if still needed.

YAREL_RGP said:

Does that mean that the original negatives are archived in a place where they are available for scanning at any time today? From what source do you get this information? It is really very interesting

One can only hope. They are trying to tell us that the negatives were used for the Special Edition in 1997, but there are too many references and hints that this may not be true. There was a dedicated website to this matter, but I can’t recall its name.

Why are there trailers from Twisters, Titanic, Men in Black and Air Force One attached to the prints? With the exception from Twister, all these movies are from 1997 - the year the Special Editions were released. Strange… but the movies themself seem to be definitely older, as they have the old Fox and LucasFilm logos.

The other hope Yoda speaks of is Luke’s sister Nellith, who has been trained in the Jedi arts at the other side of the galaxy. Leia was just a princess / love interest.

To me that is the thing I would like to have seen the most. I very well love Vader being Luke’s father, but the Luke/Leia thing… it still bugs me.

Awesome and thrilling read, thank you!

Thank you so much Harmy! Great result!

This looks great! I would love to see the final result. I can’t get enough open mattes.

timdiggerm said:

LexX said:

Well, there’s the confirmation. Congrats to the OP, he was probably the first one to find it.

I almost wonder if OP was actually a researcher for Prop Store, running this by the fans discretely to judge if we’d accept this as true.

(for the record, I do think it’s true)

Haha, no, I am not. It was just a coincidence. I saw EC Henry’s YouTube video and thought ‘Na, this definitely looks nothing like a tennis shoe’. A few days after that I saw 4K83 (or a scanned 35mm ROTJ trailer), and then out of nowhere it hit me directly in the face.

It’s great to finally see the real ‘prop’ after all these years, I must admit. Now give me all the TESB asteroid potatoes!

Fang Zei said:

Roobyoo said:

jpb19 said:

Roobyoo said:

This is a punch into the gut. I recently tried to watch The Phantom Menace (don’t blame me) on Disney+, but the low bitrate and bad sound quality had to force me to turn it off. So I decided to plug in my HDD with an own rip of the film from my Blu-ray, with a prestine bitrate and DTS sound. The podrace scene was like night and day compared to the stream.

Bad bitrate and sound quality? Disney Plus version is 4K. Streams are based on your Internet connection. I prefer digital 4K versions of Star Wars over Star Wars on disc for the altered versions of the six films. I own Star Wars on digital HD. Eventually, I will purchase 4K versions of all 11 Star Wars movies. If you have ITunes, you can download 4K versions locally to your PC and cast the video to a smart TV screen or Roku device.

Resolution isn’t the same as bitrate. The lower the bitrate, the more compression artifacts you’ll get. With a 4k Blu-ray you’ll probably will get around 1000 mbps, although Disney+ in 4k dumps around 17 Mbps.

My internet connection is very good, and I’m streaming via direct cable connection.

I’m guessing that’s a typo, but just to be clear, a 4k disc will peak at 100mbps, not 1000.

Whoops!
Yes, a typo. Sometimes I’m glad not to work at a money bank 😄

jpb19 said:

Roobyoo said:

This is a punch into the gut. I recently tried to watch The Phantom Menace (don’t blame me) on Disney+, but the low bitrate and bad sound quality had to force me to turn it off. So I decided to plug in my HDD with an own rip of the film from my Blu-ray, with a prestine bitrate and DTS sound. The podrace scene was like night and day compared to the stream.

Bad bitrate and sound quality? Disney Plus version is 4K. Streams are based on your Internet connection. I prefer digital 4K versions of Star Wars over Star Wars on disc for the altered versions of the six films. I own Star Wars on digital HD. Eventually, I will purchase 4K versions of all 11 Star Wars movies. If you have ITunes, you can download 4K versions locally to your PC and cast the video to a smart TV screen or Roku device.

Resolution isn’t the same as bitrate. The lower the bitrate, the more compression artifacts you’ll get. With a 4k Blu-ray you’ll probably will get around 1000 mbps, although Disney+ in 4k dumps around 17 Mbps.

My internet connection is very good, and I’m streaming via direct cable connection.

This is a punch into the gut. I recently tried to watch The Phantom Menace (don’t blame me) on Disney+, but the low bitrate and bad sound quality had to force me to turn it off. So I decided to plug in my HDD with an own rip of the film from my Blu-ray, with a prestine bitrate and DTS sound. The podrace scene was like night and day compared to the stream.

I was 5 or 6 years old when I first saw TESB, so I can’t really remember if I was ‘fooled’ by Yoda’s speech about ‘Yoda’. But I do remember that I was very afraid of him. There was something menacing about his apperance (real looking puppet, strange way to speak, lived at a dark place). So it took some years for me to finally realize that he was really one of the good guys!

I made a quick YouTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAVyXMNrdC0

…
And I really hope EC Henry doesn’t consider this as an insult! I just think he is mistaken or did find another shoe used as another model specifically in the Executor destruction scene.

Hello dear members.

Many of us have known that during the making of ‘Return of the Jedi’ one of the special effects artists, Ken Ralston, placed a sneaker as an easter egg within the Battle of Endor. For many years, fans have been trying to figure out where - and if - one can see this shoe. So far there has been no notice.

The YouTuber EC Henry claims to have found the shoe in one of the shots (www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyomUOwLBpA). But he admits himself during the video, that the model he found may look like a shoe, but not like a tennis shoe - as stated by one of the special effects guys. It looks more like a slipper.

I have my doubt about this conclusion that this has to be the tennis shoe easter egg. The problem with the new releases of ‘Return of the Jedi’ is that they denoised the hell out of the movies for the newer blu-rays, streaming and 4k versions of the movies.

I recently saw the teaser from a complete scan of an original 35mm print. And immediately my eyes catched something:

Are you seeing it? Let’s take a closer look with a little help from me:

Let’s zoom in one more time:

It is still blurried, but this looks more like a tennis shoe/sneaker from the 80s.

And it became clear to me why the fans couldn’t find this easter egg for years - simply because the newer ROTJ releases have this and a few other models removed from this shot:

Of course this isn’t a 100% confirmation, but I think it is at least a little closer to the real thing.