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More Changes to the Star Wars Original Trilogy on Blu-Ray, Including the Attack on the Death Star!

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Yesterday, we shared with you some of the um… controversial changes that are happening in the Star Wars Original Trilogy Blu-ray discs. Like Darth Vader shouting “Noooooooooooo” as he tosses the Emperor. And Obi-Wan’s baffling new attack cry.

https://gizmodo.com/darth-vader-will-lose-a-little-more-of-his-dignity-in-s-5835951

(And according to the New York Times, a Lucasfilm rep has confirmed the changes are real.)

And now some more changes have cropped up. Like Lucasfilm itself released the above featurette that shows how the attack on the Death Star in Return of the Jedi will be teaked to add more X-Wing fighters. (Thank goodness, there are no changes that we know of to the original movie’s Death Star sequence.)

Also, the approach to Jabba’s front door will be tweaked somewhat to make the door look massive and fake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoOsNnsfsk

And in a scene in the first movie when R2D2 is hiding behind some rocks, the rocks have now been digitally enlarged so that it makes no sense that Artoo could even have gotten back there:

[via Topless Robot]

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