SilverWook

Thanks for the info. :)

Okay, my memory was really faulty. Here's what it says on the back of the first card in the set about the print they used.

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They needed Lucasfilm's permission for that? There was more SW content in the film "Zack and Miri Make a Porno". ;)

The only thing more disturbing than TPM Creepy Puppet Yoda! ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJo8GaTc8U

IIRC, those Topps cards are just fancy video captures, so you can probably guess the source material.

I wonder if that has any connection to Mayhew's book "Chewbacca and Me", which never came out?

Ruined purity and charm? About 14 years too late for that. ;)

There is at least one shot where Artoo's eye seems artificially darkened. I think it's at the door to Jabba's lair?

At long last, a storyboard of the long lost never filmed ending!

walking_carpet said:

only episode I saw was the rocky horror one.  the kid that played rif riff was pretty good.  too bad susan saradon couldn't make a cameo :(

as far as LFL involvement.  I guess it would depend if the producers approached them first or vice versa.

either way, its free publicity and keeps star wars in the public eye - so its a win win.  very few people have seen the holiday special since 1978 so from a newbies POV (do people still say newbie?), its another parody.

After TPM, i stopped believing lucas had nothing to do with the holiday special.  when you factor in the PT, howard the duck and a lot of the crap in IJATKOTCS, the holiday special is pretty consistent with lucas' true sensibilities - save for the cyber sex scene.

You clearly haven't seen THX 1138! ;)

I still enjoy Howard the Duck more than any of the prequels. Hopefully, Marvel will figure out how to do a more faithful adaptation of the comic someday.

Don't know if anyone is still following this, but I lucked out in finding yet another Beta tape from roughly the same era.

I asked the seller nicely to separate it out from the huge batch it was in. (Along with a "video rental library" Fox tape, for which I needed the unique case to replace the broken one from my '82 SW Rental Beta.) I don't need another pile of old tapes cluttering up the house again. ;)

The tape arrived yesterday, and it appears to be in very good shape. The case it came in really kept the dust out. The homemade cover seems to be a video store flyer announcing the release of SW on video back in '82. Too bad it's been cut up to fit the case.

If I don't get a hernia from hooking the Betamax back up tonight, I'll let you know what I actually find on the tape. Keep your fingers crossed!

Disney has the advantage of going back to the animation files even for BATB, since they've been coloring the cels in the computer since the early 90's.

I'm not sure they could convert any of the older films done with traditional ink and paint methods and get the same results.

I've got a bad sector or something on a DVD-R of a Betamax transfer I'm not going to be able to do over. (The tape gets worse with every play.) The freeze up occurs well after the movie is over though, in the middle of some promos that were at the end of the tape.

Is it possible to salvage this thing?

I saw pics somewhere that were taken just in the past few years, so apparently yes.

News to me. You'd think the blogger would link to the alleged interview in question.

I thought it was common knowledge Lucas probably got the idea for the Ewoks from a series of SF novels...

Numero Uno bounty hunter sure is lingering long after the job is done. Was Slave 1 in the shop or something? ;)

So the apologists are familiar with the disco porno music genre then? ;)

SW to Jedi is not on the Blu Ray, sadly. The Rebo band is only one segment of the whole documentary. Classic Creatures covers them too, and it is on the set.

The old fan club gave away pieces of the Falcon as contest prizes in the mid 80's. I wonder how many are floating around out there?

A museum might be an attractive alternative to hauling all the props and models around for exhibitions down the road.

I've been wondering if all the wear I saw on the Blu Ray archives was age related or these things are simply becoming too fragile to travel the world now. (The text for the DS II miniature claims it's too fragile to ever leave the Ranch at all.) Vader's TIE looks like someone dropped it since the 1993 DC Laserdisc archive tour was shot.

Meco, (of disco Star Wars fame) also covered Lapti Nek.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NVkHU3bP6Y

I wish somebody had the museum idea back in '82 before the full size Falcon prop got trashed. Imagine what people would pay just to gawk at it?

If the blueprints still exist in the archives, I imagine it could be recreated some day.

That Hollywood themed Disney park in Florida has a desert skiff, a Rebel Snowspeeder, and the Falcon's chess table, but who knows if they're the real deal or not?

Maybe it was a cut scene then?

The CW episode where she killed Ziro the Hutt is probably the source of the double agent thing. Backstabbing little hussy!

I'm so out of the loop when it comes to these things, I don't even know what channel it's on! ;)

I still want to see Chewie though.

One of the ILM guys in the old docs mentioned the script merely said something vague like "and the band began to play", and little else in the way of a description.

The song wasn't a last minute thing though. In Classic Creatures and Making of a Saga you see Sy Snootles being built at the same time the others were made. Lucas apparently came up with idea of her singing when he saw the her in the ILM creature shop. The song had to be finished enough to have playback on the set. (The English version anyway.)

I think Sy went off to powder her nose in the other scenes. Didn't she show up on the sail barge later?

But will they do songs from "A Christmas in the Stars"?

Disney makes merchandise and built a theme park ride based on a movie they refuse to release on video in the U.S., so don't read too much into this. We've already had the HS Boba Fett action figure.

As Robot Chicken has already proved, all you need is permission, and cut George a check. ;)