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As someone who grew up watching his dad's Star Wars vhs tapes, to me it seems unbelievable that some people still haven't seen the original versions of the original trilogy. It should be obvious since they haven't been readily available in almost 20 years, but it's just something I've never thought about.

The Despecialized Editions are still my go-to versions, and I think they provide the best balance providing a restored, cleaned up, high definition look. 4K77 is also really well done if you want a more authentic experience and you want to know what it must have been like to see Star Wars for the first time in theatres in 1977.

I bought these dvds not too long ago myself. They're good to have even though the picture and audio isn't the best. In a way I think there's some charm and maybe even some benefit to older movies not being completely polished and pristine. I think it adds to that retro, nostalgic feel these movies can have.

The problem isn't that George made changes, the problem is that those original cuts aren't available to the general public.  Also something can be said that for every category Star Wars '77 won Oscars for, George altered.  That's messing with months of hard work done by other artists

The original releases are still the best. Please Disney, release them in Blu-Ray and 4K

If Lucas is so intent on constantly making tweaks and changes to existing Star Wars material, then someone should hand him the original print of the Star Wars Holiday Special.  Let's see what he can do with that!

Fun fact: Did you know the Maclunky version of A New Hope was actually from what was supposed to be a 3D re-release? Back then, every movie was supposed to be released yearly in 3D but was only able to do one movie before the Disney buyout. So If Lucas still held onto it, it would've came out in 2015

I vividly remember finding these on the shelf at target when they were first released. I thought oh great another special edition release. Then I looked at the back for special features and… bought them immediately! I knew then and there that this was the last chance to own the original cuts. Still watching these dvds to this day. ⭐️ 👍

OMG!! I remember I borrowed one of these copies from my library when I was in high school and, I remember hearing people always saying how the original theatrical release was never digitalized... thank you for proving me right!!

I still have my old VHS tapes of the original trilogy that I bought in the 1980's. I could not give them up and kept them in a box for years. I used to view them for old time's sake until my VHS player died. I still keep them anyway. I saw the first releases when I was a kid.

I have the original unaltered cuts and recently ran Star Wars through one of my programs to get it looking like theater quality. It took 14 hours to render and ended up 10 gigabytes in size. But when it was projected on my outdoor 7x4 metre drive-in screen it bought tears to my eyes. A labor of love from all. I shared it with my brother on the eve of his 45th birthday. Under the stars and he didn't even complain once about the mosquitos. You see, I never got to see it when it was first release in Australia. My mum wouldn't let me because with the hordes of people queuing up she thought it was a rock concert and I'd get trampled as a nine year old. But you do what you gotta do to live the dream. And erecting that huge screen almost got me squashed anyway...

I grew up watching the original versions on VHS and then saw the special editions at the cinema when released.

Happy that I got to see Return of the Jedi back in 1983 at the cinema when it was first released and so got to experience it in the highest picture and audio quality that is likely to ever be available. Hopefully one day they do release those original version in 4k home video.

Absolutely, those editions with the “extra disc with theatrical version” are the best thing yet released.  Not the nicest version by any means, but better than no original theatrical version at all.  So those are nice, and allow a person who saw them in the theatres to say, “This is what we actually saw.  From 1977 to 1983, this is what the technology allowed, and there weren’t CG effects at the time, they didn’t exist. This is before the films were altered.”

BACK THEM UP! I bought the Limited Editions back in the day when they were still brand new, and all my bonus disks are now suffering from so much bit-rot that no DVD player will even admit they have data on them, let alone play the theatrical version.

Idk why people always forget about these. Whenever you see people talking about the originals they always say the last time they were released was on laser disc. I remember these releasing and you could get the whole trilogy in a really cool metal tin box set.

I picked out that A New Hope copy in 2008 when I was 5. Never had seen SW before and it’s what started it all. Super nostalgic.

I grew up with the original versions of the original trilogy, and I watched Star Wars (aka A New Hope) over 100 times on vhs, so the new scenes stand out a mile to me. I have these same DVDs so I must dust them off and have another watch of the theatrical version. I wasn't aware these versions had also been updated so I'll see what changes I can spot.

I still have these DVDs and pull them out occasionally. ESB is the only one that I think, on-balance, is better. The upgrades in Cloud City are very fitting. My major problems are the Jabba scene in ANH that literally just repeats Han’s conversation with Greedo, the awkwardness of Han dodging a blaster, and the musical number in RotJ that grinds the narrative to a halt but isn’t actually any good. The rest is white noise at worst.