The 2008 edition of the Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Theatrical Edition). It’s the one with Luke and Vader in silhouette fighting on the cover, with lots of blue and IV, V, and VI at the bottom; apparently the other versions of this lack the original theatrical release. …And it goes for $300 on Amazon, which fascinates me, because I think I only paid sixty bucks or so when I grabbed my copy back in ’08.
Guess that means that I don’t have to wait for Disney to get on the stick with this one after all. But my sympathies, folks. It really does make a hell of a lot of difference in Han’s character when it’s established right from the start just what kind of guy he is.
Moe Lane
PS: Needless to say, my children will be taught from this version only… until I think that they’re old enough to handle the horrors that came later.
I bought the real Star Wars (2006 version) here: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Episode-IV-Limited/dp/B000FQJAIW?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00
It recreates the theatrical version from the laserdisk (!) release with the original crawl edited back in. Needless to say, the quality is not fantastic, but at least it’s the way I remember it.
Reading about the various releases is fascinating. Lucas clearly has some issues.
Is this the double-sided DVD that has the original movies on one side, and the Special Edition releases on the other? Because I remember buying those some years back. I still have them in my collection. Pretty bare-bones on extras, of course, but they were the only DVD release I ever saw of the Star Wars movies I wanted.
No, it’s a six-disc set.
Just explain to your kids that the things that came after was poorly written fan fiction from Lucas.
Yeah, but be careful how you broadcast that type of viewpoint. I once said something similar about the Buffy Season 8 comics, but made the mistake of saying it on Whedonesque.
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Yeah…they’re a little cult-ish over there…