George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away

Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by godson_drafty on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:57PM (#13322912)

I wish we legally purchase a copy of the original theatrical release of episodes 4-6.

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by vonzeppelin on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:05PM (#13322968)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Trilogy-VHS-1992-3-Tape-Se...

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by agumonkey on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:11PM (#13323014)

Ahh, the glorious FOX SET.

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by thom on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:09PM (#13322993)

The 'despecialized editions' are reasonably faithful. These are certainly the ones I intend to bring my kids up on.

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by omnibrain on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:25PM (#13323121)

The 2005/2006 "Limited Edition" DVD sets contain the theatrical release as "bonus". http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Original_unaltered_trilogy

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by lnguyen on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:29PM (#13323155)

I have that set. It's not really a quality image, more VHS than DVD

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by legodt on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:04PM (#13324637)

That's because it is a transfer from the laserdisc pressing

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by serge2k on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:03PM (#13322953)

There was a story I saw a while back that the Rogue One director was saying Disney has (at least?) 4 restored.

Gonna be a while though. Fox has distribution rights to 4 for forever and 5/6 until (IIRC) 2020.

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by khedoros1 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:29PM (#13323157)

I did, a few years ago for $0.25 each at a garage sale. I'd love an HD, professionally done and legally available version, though (Disney De-Specialized edition, or some such).

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by cmdrfred on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:01PM (#13322938)

Han shot first.

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Re:George Lucas Can’t Give a $1.5B Museum Away by ozaark on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:55PM (#13323733)

Not sure why this is being downvoted. It perfectly summarizes in brief what the re-releases did to change the original artworks. Some things like replacing cardboard cutouts are nice, others not so much.

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