Altered position of lightsaber in the snow so it is more covered to match the way it is buried in other shots. Re-edited the Wampa cave scene to closer match the original theatrical version, eliminating all SE additions (apart from one shot). Covering Anthony Daniel’s neck which is visible while Han calls over the Deck Officer. Swapped hair colour or rebels when Leia is watching Han as he enters command centre to help fix issue with flipped shot. Changed Falcons turret gun in all studio set shots to match the studio model. Removed puppeteers’ arm (done before the blu-ray fix). Removed boom mic reflection in Luke’s goggles. Flipped the Wampa’s arm as it looks like he is back swiping Luke because they used the wrong arm. New shot of Han on Taun-Taun when he is speaking to Luke. Flipped shot of probe crashes when Luke see it to match the first time we see the crash. Smoothed Taun-taun stop motion animation. Added crater debris when probe emerges to match previous close-up shot. Removed footprints in snow when probe crashes. Replaced pinks streak with flames for when probe crashes. Added flames as probe enters atmosphere. Fixed juddering starfield as camera pans as probes fly away from the belly of stardestroyer. New 20th Century Fox opening (based on the post-Avatar logo). Fixing as many garbage mattes as possible. TIEs will be blue and ANH:RHD will have blue TIEs also. Attempting to fix spaceship/snowspeeder transparency issues. Re-rotoscoping all of the laser blasts for consistency. Re-rotoscoping all the lightsabers to fix colour (and other) errors. Rebuilding the sound mix with new sound FX. Special features DVD-5 (only needed for mkv & DVD version as all these will feature on the Blu-Ray). erm, no, not sure about that one actually).There will be several official versions released: There’s two levels, allowing the Imperial crew to stare at the Bounty Hunters’ feet (as in the film) there’s Darth’s meditation pod, which opens and closes (as in the film) there’s a sort-of holographic representation of the Emperor (as in the film) and there are even little pips on the ceiling which allow you to hang figures upside down (as in…. On the other hand, in terms of getting a lot of elements into a small space, a great deal of thought has clearly gone into it. In terms of look, it’s not immediately recognisable as the same wedge-shaped craft that dominates the imperial fleet in TESB. I have to play the nostalgia card here, because in the cold light of day this isn’t the most successfully-realised conversion from film to toy. This meant that our house regularly echoed to assorted laser blasts, the command “There’s one, set for stun” and most addictive of all, the cry of “R2D2, where are you?” I got this at Christmas 1981, which must have been a dark time indeed for the Rebellion because I also got… Perhaps concerned that its questionable origins might affect sales, the wily toy makers added a much-celebrated feature, namely the ability to play back sounds and speech from the film at the press of a button. It’s a very good realisation of the vehicle seen in the strip ‘Return to Tattooine’ and was regularly stolen from the Empire for use as a getaway vehicle by sundry escaping rebels (or at least, it was in our house). Perfect for any would-be smuggler!Ī bit of an oddity, this is a toy based not on the films but on the Marvel comic strip. One delightful, albeit unintentional, feature of the Snowspeeder is that if you take the batteries out, the empty cavity is just the right size for an R2D2 figure. But that’s the Walker’s fault rather than the Snowspeeder’s, as the speeder is sized around the figures that pilot it. Scale is a problem we’ll return to again with these early toys, and certainly the ‘speeder is totally out of scale to the AT-AT Walker that I got the year before. It was a nice little toy to go out with, as it happens. This was the last Star Wars toy I got for Christmas (by 1984 I was into large format Doctor Who books, although that’s another story) so in hindsight it’s wrapped up in a fair dose of wistful nostalgia. 
So let me take you back to a galaxy not all that long ago and not very far away, and remember a more simplistic toy for a more innocent age…Ĭhristmas 1983, and although we didn’t know it at the time, the first great Star Wars age had already peaked.
It’s a shame, because I’m sure I can’t be the only child of the 1970s who spent many a happy hour creating further adventures for Luke, Han & co. It sometimes seems, with ever increasingly-detailed playsets and figures coming on to the market, that ‘toys’ today aren’t really designed for children at all, but are in fact aimed squarely at the adult collector market.
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