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Happy holidays from Chewie
3.23.2006 5:31 PM \| Link	I can still remember watching the Star Wars Holiday Special when it originally aired in 1978. Now it's hard to believe it was ever made, but back then it was so exciting to see some "new" Star Wars action only a year after the craze began! Since that time I've seen several clips here and there, but never the whole show, since Lucas has vowed to pretend it never existed. Well, recently I caved in and ordered a great bootleg DVD of the show, and watching it was like a geek time-machine! The storyline is so stupid, of course - the idea of Chewbacca having a wife and son (plus his father) at home is silly, but it's fun watching all these wookiees grunting at each other for long periods with no subtitles. The guest stars are really dated (folks like Harvey Korman and Bea Arthur), and the way they use clips from the original movie with newly dubbed voices is pretty funny. The Boba Fett animation is much longer than I remember, so it was cool to see that again, and who could ever get tired of watching Princess Leia sing lyrics to the John Williams' main title score? The DVD also included over 50 Kenner toy commercials! They were so much cheesier than I remember, but my heart still jumps to see those cool Star Wars toys. This show is never going to be available as an "official" DVD, so if you haven't seen this masterpiece in a while, just go ahead and buy one of the many fine bootlegs available all over the web - Lumpy will be glad you did! Labels: star wars


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