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Original Unaltered Star Wars Trilogy on DVD!
Source: Lucasfilm
May 4, 2006


Lucasfilm has announced that this September fans can look forward to the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic "Star Wars" trilogy!

In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release attractively priced individual two-disc releases of "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi." Each release includes the 2004 digitally remastered version of the movie, as well as the original theatrical edition of the film. That means you'll be able to enjoy "Star Wars" as it first appeared in 1977, "Empire" in 1980, and "Jedi" in 1983.

See the title crawl to "Star Wars" before it was known as "Episode IV"; see the pioneering, if dated, motion control model work on the attack on the Death Star; groove to Lapti Nek or the Ewok Celebration song like you did when you were a kid; and yes, see Han Solo shoot first.

This release will only be available for a limited time: from September 12th to December 31st. The international release will follow on or about the same day. Each original theatrical version will feature Dolby 2.0 Surround sound, close-captioning, and subtitles in English, French and Spanish for their U.S. release. International sound and subtitling vary by territory.

"Over the years, a truly countless number of fans have told us that they would love to see and own the original version that they remember experiencing in theaters," said Jim Ward, President of LucasArts and Senior Vice President of Lucasfilm Ltd. "We returned to the Lucasfilm Archives to search exhaustively for source material that could be presented on DVD. This is something that we're very excited to be able to give to fans in response to their continuing enthusiasm for Star Wars. Topping it off with a new interactive adventure makes September 12 a red-letter day for Star Wars fans."

It's about time...

Why did they ever take out that "Ewok Celebration" anyway? That was fun! I was watching it with my kids and was telling them about this song at the end of the movie and then it was not there. It was one of those "Yeah right Dad" moments. Now I can show them this is and say "See I told you so...."

ken "didn't mind the other modifications as much as missing that music" k

Doc wrote:I'm still waiting for the boxed set of all six.

Just get these 3 and the Indiana Jones Box set and you'll have the only 6 good movies GL ever made!



Doug "who finally saw THX 1138 last year... "

I thought that the new song in Return of the Jedi was an improvement, along with the celebrations shown on the other planets. Showing everyone rejoicing gave a much bigger scope of the fall of the Empire. However, showing the Gungans on Naboo made my blood cold. As did replacing the "old" Anakin with the "new" one.

However, I really think Lucas should have addressed this in the "revised for DVD" Special Edition: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html

fpoon wrote:http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html

The technical principles underlying power systems in STAR WARS technology are not fully clear to us. "hypermatter" annihilation is the main and ultimate power source for large warships and battle stations [SW:ICS p.10, AOTC:ICS p.5], however nuclear fusion and antimatter annihilation play a subsidiary or secondary role. For all we know, they may also employ more exotic and potent technologies: perhaps tapping into deeper subatomic realms, portable miniature black holes or other phenomena unfamiliar to Earthly engineers. We know that hypermatter involves supralight particles [AOTC:ICS p.5], and we can infer that its annihilation produces radiant decay products like antimatter annihilation or nuclear reactions do. The mass/energy conversion of hypermatter must be as complete and as practically effective as antimatter annihilation, otherwise the latter would have been used instead.

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