New DVD's

BrandonMustang · Post by **BrandonMustang** » 2006-09-25 02:22am

I would sure like to see commentary by a cast member not named Carrie Fisher. Six hours of whining about how they asked her to lose weight and about how she never really wanted to be a film actress was torture.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2006-09-26 06:23am

Man I hate Studio 8

These are the best shots I could get of the blue lasers.

Green laser from scene immediately before, so you see that it's not just some weird colour issue with the tape (or that it's so weird that it only affects green and yellow colours in the other scene):

The blue lasers of doom (compare with boring normal lasers from 2004 DVDs):

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-09-26 09:00am

Yes, Blue Lasers were definitely in that VHS release of TESB, I remember.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2006-09-26 09:08am

Vympel wrote:Yes, Blue Lasers were definitely in that VHS release of TESB, I remember.

I thought you might be upset that the TIEs went from green lasers to blue lasers. You seem to be content over it.

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-09-26 09:35am

Stofsk wrote: I thought you might be upset that the TIEs went from green lasers to blue lasers. You seem to be content over it.

That's because at the time I saw them I was convinced the change had been mandated to demonstrate that these TIEs were shooting ion blasts (the blue ion cannons from the X-Wing games). I was really young, and didn't yet know that blue ion cannons are bullshit ...

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-09-26 01:27pm

Dooey Jo wrote:Man I hate Studio 8
These are the best shots I could get of the blue lasers.

Green laser from scene immediately before, so you see that it's not just some weird colour issue with the tape (or that it's so weird that it only affects green and yellow colours in the other scene):

The blue lasers of doom (compare with boring normal lasers from 2004 DVDs):

Were the bolts blue in the version which was aired on TV4? Then it couldn't have been limited to that particular VHS release (Dooey Jo, weren't the original versions of the movies aired in the beginning of the 90's on TV4 or am I remembering wrong?)

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2006-09-26 02:11pm

Mange wrote:Were the bolts blue in the version which was aired on TV4? Then it couldn't have been limited to that particular VHS release (Dooey Jo, weren't the original versions of the movies aired in the beginning of the 90's on TV4 or am I remembering wrong?)

No, that recording is positively ancient. I think I taped it in '94 or something. In the other versions they've aired since, they were green, because it was the special edition.

It was the first time I saw Star Wars, BTW, back then

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2006-09-26 02:21pm

Dooey Jo wrote:
Mange wrote:Were the bolts blue in the version which was aired on TV4? Then it couldn't have been limited to that particular VHS release (Dooey Jo, weren't the original versions of the movies aired in the beginning of the 90's on TV4 or am I remembering wrong?)
No, that recording is positively ancient. I think I taped it in '94 or something. In the other versions they've aired since, they were green, because it was the special edition.

It was the first time I saw Star Wars, BTW, back then

I believe I wrote "in the beginning of the 90's on TV4?" (alright, it was more in the middle than the beginning)

Anyway, I found my ancient TESB tape which I taped in '89 and the bolts were green as opposed to the blue bolts in the "Last time available" edition. So it seems as if the blue bolts were restricted to the "Faces" edition (at least the European version).

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2006-09-26 03:50pm

Mange wrote:I believe I wrote "in the beginning of the 90's on TV4?" (alright, it was more in the middle than the beginning)

Oh, well I wasn't sure if you meant the ones they aired recently, since you mentioned the old ones later...

Anyway, I found my ancient TESB tape which I taped in '89 and the bolts were green as opposed to the blue bolts in the "Last time available" edition. So it seems as if the blue bolts were restricted to the "Faces" edition (at least the European version).

That's really strange. Was the bolts green first, then changed to blue, and then changed back again?

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2006-09-26 11:27pm

So they were thinking "Let's kill them, no wait, how about we just disable them... nah, kill them after all."

Good point about the games. If these were really meant to be ion blasts, they'd be red.

But, mood lightsabers are now canon, so I don't know where this stands (I was kidding in this sentence, btw, before anyone jumps on me).

Thanks for the screenshots!

A color gaffe surely, but an odd one, to say the least! It must have been introduced in the 1995 THX version and then corrected in the SE's. Otherwise we'd probably have bright purple shots by now... or something.