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Star Wars Holiday Special Released on DVD

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. April Fools Jokes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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  2. really hilarious by jagsy · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  3. Ebay by thesupermikey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just bought a bootleg on ebay...like 3 days ago. I wonder if i can get out if it.

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    1. Re:Ebay by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny
      I just bought a bootleg on ebay...like 3 days ago. I wonder if i can get out if it.

      How much did the seller pay you to take it of their hands?

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  4. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    April fool day sux

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    Even the trolls're having trouble keeping up with the editors today. Looks like every April Fool story submitted is making it through :)

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  6. Good grief by Mascot · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

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    This is one tradition I could do without.

  7. Fool me by Richard+Allen · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can fool me once.
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  8. Hollywood won't fool me again! by rjelks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  9. Re:Is it just me by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: 2, Funny

    It might be you, if that sentence made any sense......

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  10. Seriously, Please DONT... by Valiss · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...give George Lucas any new ideas. I swear he'll take this and run.

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