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Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD
thebus writes "I just wanted to let you know that I got an email from Amazon today informing me that two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on one DVD on Nov. 23rd 2004. Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures - Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor."
Are these the originals or special editions?
Also known as:
Return of the merchandising
Notice this DVD has no special features (commentary tracks, making of featurettes, inside the ewok villiage, etc.). Obviously they're planning on releasing a second "special edition" version after everybody buys this one (all 5 of you out there). So wait and don't buy it now!
they'll match my furby bed sheets.
If I throw a stick, will you go away?
New Jack City
I think I just threw up in my mouth (again).
404'd!!
English is easier said than done.
When's the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD? I'm looking forward to the re-edits and deleted scenes (I hear the scene with a few minutes of untranslated wookie dialog was originally meant to be twice as long)!
In this version Wicket better shoot first
So when is the Star Wars Holiday special coming out on DVD?
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OK, I just wanna officially laugh at/with whoever modded this Informative, before it (rightly) gets squashed as '-1, Stupid Joke'. Thanks!
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
English is easier said than done.
Yub nub, eee chop yub nub,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah.
Yah wah, eee chop yah wah,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g'noop dock fling oh ah
Coat ee chah tu yub nub,
Coat ee chah tu yah wah,
Coat ee chah tu glo wah.
allay loo ta nuv
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah, ya glo wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa.
Coat ee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coat ee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
coat ee cha tu too (ya chaa!)
allay loo tu nuv (3 times)
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah.
Ya glow wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa
allay loo tu nuv.
I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.
Actually, the hammer/club is an extremely effective weapon against people wearing armor intended to protect against piercing/slashing weapons. Even if it doesn't kill outright it knocks them down and stuns them long enough for you to stick your stiletto through their eyeslits.
Even armor intended to protect against such concussive impacts can only do so much if the wearer is to retain any sort of fighting mobility.
In any case the Stormtrooper's armor was clearly intended to protect against weapons such as the blaster, so you can only really judge it by its effectiveness against them.
Oh. Wait. Nevermind.
Ok, new theory. Stormtrooper armor was used primarily so that they could go out in public without having to worry about their hair and makeup.
KFG
Ewoks get a bad rap. Sure, they were furry and cute, and you could see the zippers... but they carried spears and wanted to barbecue and EAT Han et al. Plus, they had big... sharp... pointy... TEETH! Fuzzy little cannibalistic attack machines, they were.
Because it made the baby jesus cry. (well, it made me want to claw my own ears off...does that count?)
I can see it now... Tusken Raiders perched a top the hillside. Already back from several visits to the Cantina. They decide to have a little fun and pick off Jawas and their junk heaps, Ewoks, a couple of Stormtroopers, no one is safe from their sights. When finished, they laugh incessantly as they place their rifles down. The one Tusken Raider stands up and proclaims, "You know, I think I can do this blindfolded..." The other Tusken Raiders stare at him in silence, then at each other, then they all fallback from the hilariousness of his statement! They are the rednecks from a galaxy far, far away! God love'em!
You mean the one where Carrie Fisher shoots first? Oh. . .wait.
I want the fire back.
Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
I can hardly wait.
I love those little dudes!
.to all you Ewok-bashers out there. . .
Me too!
. .
Well, that's kinda what you have to do to get 'em to lie still long enough to get 'em on the open pit barbeque.
As a cooking tip just make sure you turn them often enough to burn off all the artificial bear fur, assuming you haven't skinned them for fly tying material. Lotta good Squirrel Tail streamers on an Ewok.
Skinning is prefered anyway, as that removes the zipper as well.
KFG
all of my films will be collectors items.......
Even the Ewoks have taste!
Enhanced by marinading.
KFG
Eee-chee-wa-wa! 'Nuff said.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
i am just about fed up with you clowns mocking my masterpiece... my creative genius is far superior to you and the slashdot crew.... directors Note: I modeled JarJar after CowboyNeil
Just think how much cooler these made for TV movies would have been if Lucas had kept the Wookies on Endor.
Yeah, then they would have been The Wookiee Babies Special with baby Kermit and baby Miss Piggy as the guest stars.
KFG
Think Richard Geere living on the planet of the gerbils.....
Meesa so horny. Meesa love you long time.
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Facts:
1. Ewoks are mammals.
2. Ewoks fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the Ewok is to flip out and cook people.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
I've seen it. Twice. (Why? Evidence suggests I',m an idiot. No, wait, that wasn't it. I was going to do an article on it for someone, but never got around to it. Anyone out there want to pay me to write and publishthat article? I've just bought a house, so I need the money...)
As God is my witness, The Star Wars Holiday Special is worse than Manos, the Hands of Fate. SEE! Bea Arthur sing a Kurt Weil-esque ditty in the Cantina! SEE! Wookies speak incomprehensibly to each other for ten minutes. SEE! Jefferson Starship perform! (Actually, that's one of the higlights, not because its particularly good, but because it's a blessed relief from the show itself.) SEE! Mark Hamil wearing enough mascara and eyeliner to play the MC in a Fire Island production of Cabaret! SEE! Harvey Korman play three roles! SEE! Grandpa Wookie watching human psuedo-porn! SEE! An embalmed Art Carney! SEE! Carrie Fisher sing! SEE! The lowlight of careers for every single peraon involved!
He only appropriate way to release it on DVD would be with an extra track that consisted of nothing but everyone involved aplogizing for the entire length of the film. ("I'm really, really sorry. It was the 70s and they gave me an awful lot of coke before I signed the contract...")
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
Does an ewok shit in the woods?
Dear Lord NNNNNnnnnnnnooooooooooooooo,
I take it you haven't been to "Barely Legal Oral Ewoks.com
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.