Well, looky here. Did m'self some diggin' over at the
Eye Emm Dee Bee, and I done found out about some of the new revisions.
Star Wars:
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a new version of Jabba the Hutt, looking more like he did in Episode I;
in the cantina, Greedo and Han Solo now shoot almost simultaneously;
the Death Star control panels are changed from English to alien language;
during the Vader-Kenobi duel, all visible swords are colored in as lightsabers |
Empire:
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Ian McDiarmid replaces Clive Revill as the Emperor, with new dialogue added;
Temeura Morrison provides the voice for Boba Fett |
(in addition to the aforementioned sissy-scream-ectomy)
Jedi:
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The 2004 DVD release has the ending celebration altered slightly. A CGI shot of the planet Naboo, from the prequel trrilogy, has been inserted in between the 1997 Special Edition shots of Tatooine and Coruscant.
In the 2004 DVD release of Return of the Jedi, the ghostly image of Sebastian Shaw as Anakin Skywalker is replaced with Hayden Christensen. |
So, that's the dilly, yo; some mistakes left in, some taken care of or lessened, and some all-new mistakes for us to gnash our teeth over (I, for one, can't fathom the logic of replacing Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen in the last shot. Anakin's an old fart at the end of 'Jedi'; putting in the young version of him is incongruous at best. (That is, unless Lucas used his ILM powers to age Hayden Christensen some thirty-odd years.))