Star Wars DVD Cover Art Leaked

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Star Wars DVD Cover Art Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 2, 2004 @02:32AM from the god-i-really-can't-wait dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Everyone already knows that Star Wars is coming to DVD. In related news, the Digital Bits reports that the proposed cover art for the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy box set was "accidentally" leaked over the weekend by design company Neuron Syndicate. The images were pulled, but not before copies were made. Three versions of packages for the Star Wars Trilogy can currently be viewed at French fansite KamuiWeb. If only those were packages of the original versions of these childhood classics...."

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Great! Now we can get started by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Great! Now we can get started and make the DVD clamshells, and get all ready for when we can download the divx's off Grokster and burn them.
1. Re:Great! Now we can get started by Jotaigna · 2004-03-02 03:02 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  my preciouss......my tresure....we likes the dvd's dont we preciouss??....the arts covers are mines!!!
  
  oops wrong trilogy..sorry, it was too smashing at the oscars.
  
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Warming up the credit card... by FraggedSquid · 2004-03-02 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

All look rather nice, which one has the Danish Pastry recipe for Princess Lea's hair?

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Damn it! by Quasar1999 · 2004-03-02 02:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Why isn't it 3d? Holographic cover would be the LEAST that Lucas could do for making us wait this damned long.

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1. Re:Damn it! by dr_dank · 2004-03-02 03:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Holographic cover would be the LEAST that Lucas could do for making us wait this damned long.
  
  "Buy me, you miserable geek. You're my only hope!"
  
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2. Re:Damn it! by Damek · 2004-03-02 03:31 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Don't you mean:
  
  "Buy me, you miserable geek. I'm your only hope!"
  
  Remember, it's Lea...
Re:FIRST POST by mirko · 2004-03-02 02:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Does it show Greedo shooting ?

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Re:remember folks... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 02:40 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't buy this DVD
Right. SuprNova.org is the way to go.
Top 10 Star Wars DVD covers by AtariAmarok · 2004-03-02 02:42 · Score: 4, Funny

From a Lucasfilm contest:

10. One of the belching muppets from "Return of the Jedi"
9. A Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans
8. Legolas the Elf. (after a marketing survey showed that this would double sales)
7. Headless Jar Jar
6. Tongue-less Jar Jar
5. Favorite stills from "Star Wars Christmas Special"
4. Carbonite DVD case that only opens with special electronic key
3. Free "Phantom Edit" DVD Inside
2. Bonus: "The Best Non-Star-Wars Films of Mark Hamill"
1. Dancing "Star Wars Kid" hologram

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CC getting warmed up!! by ITR81 · 2004-03-02 02:43 · Score: 3, Funny

Looks like I will be buying all three...damn you GL!!!!!!!
Re:come on by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 02:43 · Score: 5, Funny

You obviously aren't a big enough nerd.
Re:Versions? by pixelbend · 2004-03-02 02:44 · Score: 1, Funny

Unrated version of Star Wars? What would that entail? Greedo shoots first and Han chops his head off with a katana?

Personally, I would like to see an unedited version of the dancing girl at Jabba's.

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oh goodie by nizo · 2004-03-02 02:46 · Score: 5, Funny

For some reason the actual link wasn't posted (it is here

Now if the DVDs have the scenes they talked about in one of the "making of" shows where Leia keeps slipping out of here bikini top in the 3rd (6th, or whatever the hell it was) movie, I might buy it!

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1. Re:oh goodie by real_smiff · 2004-03-02 02:50 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  lol. your sig is curiously appropriate.
  
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2. Re:oh goodie by nizo · 2004-03-02 02:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  lol. your sig is curiously appropriate.
  It really is suprising how many different problems it will solve isn't it???
  
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3. Re:oh goodie by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 03:13 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  >It really is suprising how many different problems it will solve isn't it???
  
  such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
4. Re:oh goodie by The+I+Shing · 2004-03-02 03:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I heard that halfway through Empire Strikes Back, Han rips Leia's dress, exposing her right breast in front of eighty-thousand stormtroopers.
  
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5. Re:oh goodie by sharkey · 2004-03-02 08:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Luckily, she was pierced and was wearing her "Yavin 4" nipple-ring.
  
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undoubtably wrong.... by freerecords · 2004-03-02 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny

*waves hand* this is not the cover art you are looking for!

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Re:Is it just me? by djeaux · 2004-03-02 03:00 · Score: 2, Funny

is anyone else holding tight to their "virgin" and unaltered original vhs tapes of Starwars 4-6?
You mean you've never played them? (The nature of VHS & oxide media in general is that, when you play 'em, you alter 'em. ;-)

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Getting Lame.... by CodePyro · 2004-03-02 03:01 · Score: 2, Funny

This is getting lame....every week some part of the movie is getting leaked....just leak the damn movie already...i know one of you out there has it....
1. Re:Getting Lame.... by reidbold · 2004-03-02 03:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I think it was leaked near 30 years ago.
  
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There are leaks. Everywhere! by plams · 2004-03-02 03:16 · Score: 5, Funny

Seems like everything leaks these days? Even an open source game, work in progress, "leaked" recently - but I think they only used that term to be cool and trendy.

Too bad the leaks sometimes contain spoilers, though. Or as Triumph the Insult Dog puts it:
Triumph: Spoilers? I've got some spoilers for you! (StarWars nerds starts to look a little more curious and alert) Triumph: You will die ALONE!
Re:I doubt they were really unknowingly leaked.... by lambent · 2004-03-02 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, but they've been dicking the fans around for ages about this. It wasn't so much a question of if ("You know, we're doing okay these days ... we don't really need the billion dollars the dvd box set will bring in") as of when ("Really, we should have released these by now. Who's going to be fired?") and how often ("Three different sets? Okay, I take it back ... you're not fired, you're promoted.")
Re:remember folks... by lacrymology.com · 2004-03-02 03:18 · Score: 5, Funny

You insensitive clod! I'm a stuntman and have kids to feed!

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Re:Box art... by visgoth · 2004-03-02 03:18 · Score: 3, Funny

After EP1 and 2 you would be correct. There WAS an obsessive geek/nerd attraction to that series.

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Re:Versions? by elwell642 · 2004-03-02 03:24 · Score: 1, Funny

Say goodbye to repeat Christmas gifts!

"YES! Thanks Aunt Tillie! I was starting to worry that I would NEVER get the cover with deleted scene 00042 on it! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!"

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Re: Issues by BenBenBen · 2004-03-02 03:49 · Score: 4, Funny

French-style slashdotting!!

Freedom Slashdotting, please.

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Why in the world... by shigelojoe · 2004-03-02 03:53 · Score: 2, Funny

...are they holding walkie talkies?
Trying to imagine worst possible cover by PinkStainlessTail · 2004-03-02 04:10 · Score: 2, Funny

How about a defraction grid one image of which is Greedo shooting first (the other would be Han firing back in self defense, while being cheered on by a crowd of ewoks and gungans)? Also, the box could have a little sound chip that continuous plays whatever replaced the Yub-Yub song at the end of Return of the Jedi...

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Re:come on by miskatonic+alumnus · 2004-03-02 04:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Dude, you're wasting your time complaining about other people wasting their time posting comments about other people wasting their time. Oh shit! I'm wasting my time!!!
Move along... by Pig+Hogger · 2004-03-02 04:24 · Score: 2, Funny

... (wave hand) those are not the artworks you're looking for.
Re:remember folks... by milkman_matt · 2004-03-02 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

I was expecting the cover art to have something to the effect of Lucas lighting a cigar with a hundred dollar bill while laughing at us and giving us the finger or something :)

-matt
Re:Versions? by p3d0 · 2004-03-02 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny

I wish I had created something, anything, that I could sell over and over, and people would just keep buying and buying.
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Re:Self Defense by alChandler · 2004-03-02 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Flunky: Uh, sir, what are you doing?

Lucas: I'm fixing this bit so that Greedo
shoots first.

Flunky: But sir, that sceen is a classic, you can't...

Lucas: I am altering the scene. Pray I do not alter it further.
Product updates by Animats · 2004-03-02 05:47 · Score: 2, Funny

In other news, next year's Coke can will have a slightly smaller "dynamic ribbon" logo. Liquid Tide is discontinuing the "Fresh Spring" version and adding an unperfumed option. The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 box will have the new east span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on the front. Dell Computers is experimenting with ultradark green cases in selected markets. And the new Ford Bronco will have aggressively squared-off styling.
Re:remember folks... by Surak_Prime · 2004-03-02 06:49 · Score: 2, Funny

Some of my friends and I were playing Star Wars D20 (before the revisions) and we think we know what happened in the Special Edition. Greedo tried to shoot Han and missed because you can't shoot from an adjacent 2 meter square. Han, though, was experienced enough to know this, and thus shot the at the wall behind Greedo and "missed". Perfectly straight forward rules there.

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