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Star Wars Holiday Special Released on DVD 78

Posted by CmdrTaco from the bringing-back-an-old-friend dept.
Crow T. Trollbot writes "LucasFilm has finally released the long-delayed and never-awaited Star Wars Holiday Special (aka A Very Wookiee Christmas) on a special "Platinum Edition" DVD. Long maligned as the worst project ever associated with the Star Wars universe, the LucasFilm DVD includes all the original special (complete with Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and The Jefferson Starship), plus a short documentary, The Highway to Life Day: My Search for the Star Wars Holiday Special. The reviewer isn't impressed. "If you want to hang onto any fond childhood memories George Lucas hasn't already managed to destroy, avoid The Star Wars Holiday Special like the Crimson Plague.""
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  • YEAH BABY YEAH!!! don't use caps... it's like Yelling
  • Is it just me or is this the world /. April Fool's Day EVER?

  • April Fools Jokes (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 01, 2005 @06:54PM (#12116078)
    /unsubscribe

  • Seriously (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by Homicide ( 25337 )
    Give up with these tired old stories.
    Yes it's april fools, we get the bloody picture. *enough*
    • The problem tho', is that this isn't one.

      It's just a -very- bad memory, to some.

      At one point, Lucas himself was actually trying to buy up all masters, just to stop it from broadcasting ever again. He failed [;

  • really hilarious (Score:2, Informative)

    by jagsy ( 859881 )
    I seem to remember 10 full minutes of nothing but Wookies talking, and a rock concert by jefferson starship inside a computer.
    • And who could forget a tone-deaf Princess Leia signing the fabulous Life Day song:

      LEIA

      (singing)
      We celebrate a day of peace. A day of
      harmony. A day of joy we can all share
      together joyously. A day that takes us
      through the darkness. A day that leads us
      into might. A day that makes us want to
      celebrate the light. A day that brings the
      promise that one day, we'll be free to
      live, to laugh, to dream, to grow, to
      trust, to love, to be.

      (Lyrics and complete transcript. [blueharvest.net])

    • I seem to remember 10 full minutes of nothing but Wookies talking, and a rock concert by jefferson starship inside a computer.

      No... hilarious is watching someone get hit on the head with a "gong" sound effect.

      The star wars holiday special, on the other hand, is sheer pain - only to be enjoyed by Star Wars fans that have a truly masochistic side.

      Try, just try, to watch "Itchy" (chewie's elderly father) use a holo-imaging-device to get off to Diahann Carroll.

      Then try to watch Mark Hammil with enough ma
  • Slashdot gets slashdotted! Film at 11!
  • George Lucas is being praised by hardcore Star Wars fans around the world in the Netherlands begging for his autograph on a picture of Jar Jar Binks :X

  • Ebay (Score:5, Funny)

    by thesupermikey ( 220055 ) on Friday April 01, 2005 @06:55PM (#12116090) Homepage Journal
    I just bought a bootleg on ebay...like 3 days ago. I wonder if i can get out if it.
  • I bet all those Great Slashdot Blackout dorks are sitting in their basements smug as hell right now.

  • First Post! (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    April fool day sux
  • There is need for more humor at work.

    It increases productivity as you see how much is getting done on april 1st.

  • Please (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Oh please, God, please speed up time to make April 2 arrive faster.

  • Help! (Score:2, Troll)

    by valkraider ( 611225 )
    When will it end...

  • Wow....new stories every 3 minutes now... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by GillBates0 ( 664202 ) on Friday April 01, 2005 @06:56PM (#12116111) Homepage Journal
    Even the trolls're having trouble keeping up with the editors today. Looks like every April Fool story submitted is making it through :)

    Appreciate their (the editors') special effort today though...had my bellyfool of laughs through the day.

    Hope the whiny comment posters would STFU though. Lighten up folks.

    • After 6 years or so of the same lame crap I think we have a right to whine. If it were clever, I wouldn't complain. If it were funny, I wouldn't complain. If it involved more than two neurons worth of creativity I wouldn't complain. It's just sad really. A good April Fool's joke looks real at first, until you read it. A good April Fool's joke taker you by surprise. And finally, a good April Fool's joke isn't as dumb as a box of hammers.

      Besides, don't tell us not to whine, it's the official pastime
  • Did someone not get enough April Fools when they were a kid and have to take it out on us?
  • Sure, April fools and all that. Was it really that bad? I think I was 7 or so when it was aired. All I remember is Chewie's mom watching a cooking show. On the show, a four-armed woman was cooking and utilizing all of her four arms to mix, pour, sift, etc. Chewie's mom was getting flustered, because she couldn't keep up. The four-armed chef was saying, "Stir... whip... stir... whip...," and mamma wookie was howling or barking, or whatever it is that pissed-off wookies do.

  • Uh-huh (Score:1)

    by fpp ( 614761 )
    This coming from the guy who said if he had a hammer and enough time he'd track down every bootlegged copy of the show and smash it...

  • Filter? (Score:1, Troll)

    by NoodleSlayer ( 603762 )
    Is there any way to get a filter to remove out all the April Fools Day joke articles on Slashdot?

    It's getting old. Really.
  • Jokes stop being funny at some point, where they start being annoying. And This joke was never fun in the same place, since this kind of behavior from the editors is the kind we get everyday in /. (dupes, false historys, etc.), only today they are actually making an effort to do it worse than they do everyday.

  • Please God Make It Stop. (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    We've only had about 4 real stories today, and most /.ers are staying away.

    What happened to April Fool's jokes stopping at 12 midday?
    Wouldn't that be a nice tack to take for next year?

    Or how about one story next year that is just for people to put all the April Fools jokes in the comments so we don't have to get a load of stories on the front page about them?
  • Wow, it looks like scans of the cover have already hit the net. [fantasticdamage.com]

    *sigh*
  • And it's just like the old debate about if a tree falls in a forest...I have these modpoints, but it's April 1st...

  • Good grief (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Mascot ( 120795 )
    All other sites on the net: Be careful so you don't get caught out by the april fool joke.

    Slashdot: No worries. They're all jokes. Go elsewhere for real news.

    This is one tradition I could do without.
  • Yes, but I hear that in this edition Diahann Carroll shoots first...
  • Long maligned as the worst project ever associated with the Star Wars universe

    Well, that was before Jar-jar and mitocondria came along.

  • Long maligned as the worst project ever associated with the Star Wars universe

    I thought that was Episode one??

  • Fool me (Score:5, Funny)

    by Richard Allen ( 213475 ) on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:03PM (#12116215)
    You can fool me once.
    You can fool me twice.
    You can fool me three times.
    You can fool me four times.
    You can fool me five times.
    You can fool me six times.
    You can fool me seven times.
    You can fool me eight times.
    You can fool me nine times.
    You can fool me ten times.
    You can fool me eleven times.
    You can fool me twelve times.
    You can fool me thirteen times.
    You can fool me fourteen times.
    You can fool me fifteen times.

    But you can't fool me sixteen times!!

  • Hollywood won't fool me again! (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rjelks ( 635588 ) on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:04PM (#12116236) Homepage
    There's no way I'm going right out to buy this. Just wait, six months after I purchase it, they'll come out with the Star Wars Holiday Special: Extreme, Director's Cut, Extended Version. I already own like nine versions of the LOTR DVD's.
  • Here's the really sick part.

    I have an eMule repository with a bunch of documents, legit software, a few cracks, Mame roms and lost videos like the Star Wars Holiday special. No porn, no warez.

    The Star Wars Holiday special is *easily* my number one upload... 235MB of cheese in two .avi files.

  • Bah (Score:2)

    by saddino ( 183491 )
    Since I already own the way superior LaserDisc edition, why should I care?

    P.S. Does anyone know if there's a tube amp powered MP3 player? I want some way of adding back the "warmth" to my ripped ELO LPs. TIA.
    • I don't know about a dedicated tube amp mp3 player, but I remember seeing a motherboard a few weeks ago with tubes in the built-in sound card stuff.
      Found the product page [aopen.com.tw] and there is quite a bit on google from pre-April 1st, so I think that one is real.
      So get the motherboard and you could build your own mp3 player, although it probably won't be as portable as you might like.
  • ...releasing the SWHS footage... he plans of inserting it into the original triology for the next revision that he will be doing to it.
  • You guys could at least put a little effort into this!

  • Seriously, Please DONT... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Valiss ( 463641 ) on Friday April 01, 2005 @07:38PM (#12116880) Homepage
    ...give George Lucas any new ideas. I swear he'll take this and run.
  • Who knew this really existed! Video linked here [blogspot.com]
  • I want the Star Wars public service message collection on DVD!

    C3PO - "R2D2! You're on fire! Why, R2D2 you've found a cigarette. Smoking is terrible for your lungs, and very bad for your heart. I don't think it makes you look grownup at all!"
  • I saw Episode One, and this can't be worse than that.

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