Star Wars Holiday Special

Happy twentieth anniversary!

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happy life day y'all

Star Warts

gotta love that the only dialogue in the first 10 minutes consists solely of grunts and growls

pretty avante garde!

for the time

fighting the frizzies, at 11.

you can make sure that many others see this
(having been subjected to this, feel others shld also suffer)

http://io9.com/5088902/get-out-the-vote-again

Just the Bea Arthur part alone makes this an amazing movie. There should totally be a Star Wars figure of her character, since they've churned out a million variations on all of the other Star Wars characters already.

MAYBE I CAN HELP YOU

god this is bad

Just the Bea Arthur part alone makes this an amazing movie. There should totally be a Star Wars figure of her character, since they've churned out a million variations on all of the other Star Wars characters already.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Monday, November 17, 2008 7:55 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

The 2nd Ewok movie is better.

minus the holographic Journey

wtf have you guys READ the posted comments?

btw Lucas needs to remaster this

Just the Bea Arthur part alone makes this an amazing movie. There should totally be a Star Wars figure of her character, since they've churned out a million variations on all of the other Star Wars characters already.

Mon Bea Fortuna Akbar.

I remember watching this on tv in 1978. Seeing Boba Fett riding a dinosaur through a pit of hot lava... nothing was better than that!

Nate OTM, that ruled.

It was shortly after that that I sent off 5 proofs of purchase and got my own Boba Fett figure in the white box. Years before Empire.

And for the record, no one ever had a Boba Fett with a missile launching backpack. There was an unpainted prototype... but this figure was never distributed at all.

I did buy a lot of blister packs that had black tape over the add for the rocket launch version though. I would carefully peel off the tape and wish for one...

http://io9.com/5095275/meet-the-wife-than-han-solo-never-had

All of a sudden Chewie's dad's virtual reality porn seems tame.

I saw this in 1978 at my grandmother's house. I was 3 years old, so I may not have even seen Star Wars at that point, although I'm pretty sure that I liked all things related to Star Wars by then. The only hazy memory that stuck with me through my life was of having watched some Star Wars show on TV that had a bunch of Wookies on it.

Then, about 10 years ago, a friend of mine showed me a video tape of it and it blew my mind. By that point in my life, I wasn't even sure if my memories of those Wookies was real or just some imagined episode from my toddler years. So seeing that it was in fact real and so laughably bad was a real shock.

It's the only time I know of where something happened to me so early in my life that I didn't even trust my memory of it, only to have the memory confirmed much later on.

We were stationed overseas in 1978 when I saw this, and I was a couple weeks shy of 9 years old. I had already become a Star Wars fanatic, but via the comics and the enthusiasm of friends who had seen it in the US before getting stationed in Europe. I had never seen the movie, so this -- until the Muppet Show episode -- was the first time I had actually ever seen the characters moving, talking, etc. It was like the most exciting thing ever for me.

x-post -- Yeah, that was almost my reaction when I first remembered it again, it was sometime in the early nineties -- some sort of atavistic callback in my head: "Wait, wasn't there this weird-ass show? I KNOW I saw it!" I was seven rather than three so I was more positive, but the sheer silence around it was the key thing. Then the Net fully geared up...

btw Lucas needs to remaster this

Library of Congress is already on it:

...the center's new visual technologies will allow for the first time for significant increases in the preservation of hundreds of thousands of deteriorating videotapes in the library's collection. Videotape is a slow rot -- it's just not a long-term medium. It ranges from CNN's 24/7 coverage from 20 years ago to "The 'Star Wars' Holiday Special," which is one of the first things we're going to digitize. It's incredibly, wonderfully campy, a must-be-seen-to-be-believed artifact of its time. We've selected it as the first tape to be preserved in our new robotic digital videotape preservation system

(from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032801007.html)

This is what I call a true maintenance of priorities.

Well, I never was a Star Wars fan, but until last nights David Walliums prog, I never knew about this.

different times, I guess..

was 11 when it aired and already a huge fan of the first film, had seen it several times, covered my half of the bunk bed with chewie and threepio stickers, burned and blown up all the figures i could convince my parents to buy. sucked totally. such a massive disappointment, kick-ass animated boba fett nothwithstanding.

LEGO sequel on the way: https://ew.com/tv/star-wars-holiday-special-disney/

hmmm. I think part of its appeal was the lack of official recognition.

I recently discovered ABC's Earth Day Special. It stars everyone who was alive in 1990. Including Bea Arthur. worth a watch for fans of aged cheese.