He wants to wait with the releases until one of the HD-formats (Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) has survived. So it can take a while, but don't count on the complete saga coming to normal dvd. It will also be the 'ultimate' Star Wars dvd box, with more enhancements to his films (Yoda has been replaced by CG in The Phantom Menace, and there were some rumors about a scene with Padme in the old trilogy) and hopefully some tweaking for continuity's sake (lightsabers clearly lacked consistency in the original trilogy dvds). Along with more bonus features (the 2 1/2 hour documentary was great, but the Star Wars archives are so enormous, that there must be tons of material) they will be the final dvds. Hopefully.Prince Phillip wrote:For years now, I have been waiting for them to release a boxset with all 6 Star Wars movies. I remember George Lucas announcing that such a boxset would be released. I thought that 2007, the 30th Anniversary of the release of the first movie would be the ideal time for such a boxset, and yet 2007 and drawing to a close and I have heard no news of a release. Has anyone else?
It seems to me that the greedy bastard (Lucas) saturated the market with unneccessary releases and rereleases of the Star Wars movies for the past few years and now that he's soaked most of the fans for all their worth, he's not delivering on what many of them have truely been waiting for. He really makes me sick.
He originally said he was going to wait for all the movies to be done before he was to release them to DVD at all. People kept asking for them on DVD, so that's what they got. As the other folks said here, maybe when the format war is over we'll get a mega set, who knows?Prince Phillip wrote:For years now, I have been waiting for them to release a boxset with all 6 Star Wars movies. I remember George Lucas announcing that such a boxset would be released. I thought that 2007, the 30th Anniversary of the release of the first movie would be the ideal time for such a boxset, and yet 2007 and drawing to a close and I have heard no news of a release. Has anyone else?
It seems to me that the greedy bastard (Lucas) saturated the market with unneccessary releases and rereleases of the Star Wars movies for the past few years and now that he's soaked most of the fans for all their worth, he's not delivering on what many of them have truely been waiting for. He really makes me sick.
I can't get enough of Lumpy, Crusty, Itchy, Snotty, Smelly, Scratchy, or whatever the wookies were called. 
I doubt this will ever see the light of day on a legal DVD release, as Lucas is too embarrassed by it. It's just a pity he doesn't have the good sense to be equally shamed by the prequels.Barbossa wrote:They should release The Star Wars Holiday Special as a bonus disc.
Thats one of my problems with the scene too. Its really pointless after the run in with Greedo.SpringHeelJack wrote:I still loathe the Jabba scene in "A New Hope". He looks better than that CGI beanbag that was in the '97 Special Edition, but he still doesn't look like Jabba from ROTJ. Plus the scene just reiterates everything Greedo said previously, AND Han Solo steps on Jabba's tail. COME ON. Jabba put a bounty on Han's head for dumping spice. Do you really think he'd just sit and take Han literally walking all over him?
Yeah, I knew that about Lak, but I thought he looked great anyway and it was too late to remove his people from Star Wars lore. In fact, they now have a Jedi character of that species that was created for the Clone Wars cartoon after fans voted on the internet, so people clearly liked the idea and look of the character. Of course, there were originally two werewolf masked characters in the cantina, and the other one didn't look as good. Oddly enough, the other one is the one they called a wolf-man while working on the film, and Lak Sivrak was being called Hyena-man, if memory serves.Maerj wrote:They already changed Yoda in Episode 1. You can see the footage in the Revenge of the Sith DVD, I believe. They have a docu about Anakin and they go to the scene where Yoda is saying "Fear leads to the Dark Side..." and he is indeed CG.
Lak Sivrak was removed because it was just an off the shelf wolfman mask and George wanted something more alien looking.
I think that they put young Anakin in the end of Return of the Jedi to show the good man he once was not the mechanical monster he had become. The images afterall are just visual representations of the individuals, so that would probably how he would see himself, rather than the kindly old man they had originally since that version of Anakin never existed.
SpringHeelJack wrote:I still loathe the Jabba scene in "A New Hope". He looks better than that CGI beanbag that was in the '97 Special Edition, but he still doesn't look like Jabba from ROTJ. Plus the scene just reiterates everything Greedo said previously, AND Han Solo steps on Jabba's tail. COME ON. Jabba put a bounty on Han's head for dumping spice. Do you really think he'd just sit and take Han literally walking all over him?
Thanks, I'll check it out. I would prefer a puppet Yoda, but I just don't think the one they made looked good.SpringHeelJack wrote:The CGI Yoda from Episode I can be seen in footage in one of the documentaries on disc two of "Revenge of the Sith". I don't know what one, but it's the scene where he does his "Fear leads to anger..." bit. It looks okay, but I'm still a fan of puppet Yoda.
