So there have been some changes to the movies and fans will be happy to hear. Now when I first read this, I automatically assumed that George Lucas changed his mind about Greedo shooting first, and he was going to change it back to Han shooting first in the Cantina scene. Unfortunately, this is not happening. But these changes will somewhat satisfy us fans.
So first, in "The Empire Strikes Back", a lot of people, including me, noticed that when Luke was on the planet, Hoth, and he's patrolling, he is attacked by a giant monster called a Wampa. When the arm sweeps in and hits Like, the Puppeteer pushed the fake arm too far and you can see the pole attached to the arm.
As you can see in the photo above, the top shot shows the pole of the fake arm. To fix this problem, the Digital Effects artists at ILM went back and fixed this problem (as you see in the bottom shot) so that it's no longer visible.
For the second fix, in "Return of the Jedi", after the DVD release, fans were upset with how dull the color of the lightsabers were from the original theatrical release.
As you can see in the picture on the top shot, the lightsaber colors are very much darker and don't look as bright as they should. Also, I noticed that the colors kind of go through each other. Now, I will admit that I never noticed this before, but with the comparisons it's obvious.
So on this Blu-ray release, they have restored the right brightness of the lightsabers.
As for the last fix, this one is the most notable change. In "The Phantom Menace", the Yoda puppet they used looked very strange and different from the original movies. But also completely different from "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith". A lot of fans, including myself, complained that he didn't look right. They made Yoda this way to seem like he was younger, but it just didn't work.
George seemed to agree with what us fans had to say and completely changed Yoda over to CGI. I know that a lot of people complain about how much CGI is used in the prequels, but I think that this change is needed. Plus it gives an opportunity for Yoda to show more emotions like in the 2 other prequels. You can clearly see in the video the big difference and now Yoda looks the way he is suppose to.
Those are all the major changes in some of the "Star Wars" movies. Not very major changes, except for the Yoda change, but I'm sure this will please the fans. I know a large amount of fans want Han to shoot first, or basically just having the original theatrical release of the classics, but it's probably not going to happen so we should be grateful that they did these things for us, plus the hours of extras that weren't included on the DVD releases.
The "Star Wars" Blu-rays are being released on Friday, September 16th, 2011 (at least in the U.S.)
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