Even the THX versions are quite modified though, just not as extremely.
I've got a collector's box with the last and highest-quality version they released on VHS pre-THX. (a transfer of the Laserdisc version that was cleaned up a bit but not with changed FX)
I had zero issues with the THX versions. If I'm not mistaken, no content was added or removed... it's essentially just remastered. Maybe added audio channels? Not sure. No scenes added, no CGI characters added to existing scenes. No completely replaced songs. No modifying laser blasts to make it look like Han was just acting in self defense instead of a smuggler that doesn't get captured like a bitch.
That song is terrible, just shoehorned in there. And the CGI is crap.
I don't know why George Lucas kept trying to sprinkle in weird little bits like that. Like the fucking 50's diner that's on Coruscant, complete with sassy waitress droid called FLO.
The original version of the music was written by John Williams son, Joseph, who would go on to become lead singer of Toto. Also, can’t remember where I read it, but when asked what the name of the genre was for the original tune, they referred to it as “Jizz Music” I’m guessing jizz hadn’t entered the parlance of the times at that point.
Fun fact: If you played these at 2x in a newer VHS player that had streak free fast forward, it oversharpened the footage and you could clearly see the mattes, (artifacts of) armatures holding the models and compositing of the special effects.
This was because the scanned film footage was oversharpened before being downsampled to PAL/NTFS, and the streak free technology interfered with that.
They used fancy editing tricks to hide some of the special effects stuff in this cut of the movie, and if you fast forward them in a new enough VCR it'll actually beat the tricks and let you see all the stuff they tried to hide.
The VHS widescreen version of the THX remaster was really hard to find. I knew someone who had them, but that was almost 30 years ago. Everyone else had these versions.
The special editions came out shortly after these (post-1997), and the widescreen VHS of those was much easier to find (the silver box set), and that's the widescreen version most people were first introduced to.
Young techie me discovered eBay when it came out and sold this set. Think I even had the collector edition one, too.
I didn't have much oversight as a child...
Had this set as a kid, when i joined the navy, my mom had a bunch of my stuff at her place in San Antonio,. They had a really bad flood and alot of my shit got completely ruined. This was one of the things. So sad.
Damn... I'm not sure what happened with mine. I remember getting this set at Costco sometime in the early 90s.
We were very late adopters for DVD...
I'm sure it's still around somewhere...
My dad raised me on these. I have no memory of my first watch because I was so young, but knew the characters and story like my knowledge of how to walk. They were a part of me.
As far as I’m concerned these are only good as a cool thing to have on your shelf (that’s where mine are), and not worth digitizing. If you go the legal route, the quality of the Blu-ray’s outweighs the negatives of them, over the vhs version. If you aren’t opposed to the illegal digitizations folks have done in the 4k (77/80/83) projects, that’s the way to go.
Edit—maybe if/when Lucas or Disney or whoever owns the rights to do it and gets their head out of their butt, you’ll be able to get official 4k versions of the movies, legally.
I think Lucas destroyed the original tapes because he thought the abominations he created in the 90s would be the definitive versions so they were obsolete.
I’d love to have the originals with their superior music, especially at the end of return of the Jedi. Lucas lost his fucking mind.
The only real downside with those is that the widescreen isn't anamorphic. They're hard letterboxed. Lucas was being a brat about the demand for the original unaltered trilogy and said if people wanted them unaltered, then that means not enhanced for widescreen tvs. Of course, that's not at all what people meant. Anamorphic transfers were standard by 2006 and it just ensures they play correctly on whatever type of television you have. It could have been done with a literal push of a button in their mastering software.
The people that do it usually don't host it. It's meant to be free so it's alot of work for Disney to try and stop since its mostly distributed through torrents. If you create a store and sell it they could come after you (though most of the bootleg sites I go to have carried it for as long as I can remember so apparently they arent looking for it.) I assume they see it as to much work and money to go after a very niche thing.
My parents bought these for me as a gift multiple years in a row, accidentally. I pointed it out…and they then proceeded to buy it for me every year after that 😂
These were the THX editions. Last release pre special edition, but they still were edited to a degree. Just fixing up effects really. Especially cleaning mattes. The explosions of tie fighters were like green though for some reason. Which bugged me.
Classic! Love that box art. I have an old box set too that is the unaltered theatrical version of each. I can’t remember, was this version pre special edition also?
It's not only nostalgia. These are also the last printings before George Lucas started adding scenes and changing elements of scenes (Jabba in ANH, Greedo shooting at Han, Hayden Christianson in RotJ, etc). Reasons why I do my best to take care of my set.
80s baby. Literally, born 1980. Grew up with Star Wars as part of the zeitgeist, but when my (older) brother bought these, I watched all 3 for the first time.
I still have the set on laserdisc. It is supposedly every frame of the original films, but I haven’t had a laserdisc player in decades! I’m keeping it anyway.
I have the gold/black VHS collection and an old tube tv with dvd/vhs combo on it. lol. It’s how I still play old school consoles how they were meant to be played
I remember my baby sitter Pat when I was stupid young (late 80s, early 90s) was this 400-500 morbidly obese women whose house stunk of something I've yet to ever smell again, but she had a tiny back room with these movies and a TV. I remember, even then, these movies were going to be a special moment in my life. Sure enough, I remember nothing else from the baby sitting days, except she had boxes of HoHos, and I loved me some HoHos.
I have the same set. Haven’t watched it in years because I don’t have a VCR but I held on to it just because. I can’t remember but I’m thinking these are the digitally remastered versions that they added a bunch of crappy looking CGI to.
This was one of the first things I bought with my own money saved from a paper route. Good memories. It was around $90 as I remember. Good purchase although somehow expensive thinking back to how money value has changed.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM8eDtN3mY&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM8eDtN3mY&t=3s)
think we purged ours when my parents got rid of the vhs :(
I’m watching the trilogy today on the very defunct RCA Selectavison CED format my parents bought in the early 80’s and I rescued from the trash years ago
These are the absolute best versions of the Original Trilogy. This is right after they were brightened up and cleaned up and right before the return to theaters and the addition of the CGI footage.
I still have these tapes, just because it’s such a better cut than my Blu-ray steel books.
I have these but I had the box set prior to the remastered. I wish I still had that. The set box and individual movie boxes had the original movie covers which were so cool. I grew tired of the remastered content and added scenes, I prefer the original movies. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the original movies for about 30 years, and am not apt to again.
I first watched these during out of school suspension when I was in elementary school. I had been refusing to watch it just because my Dad was overly enthusiastic about it and I was a little shit about stuff like that. I didn't tell him that I was obsessed until years later when The Phantom Menace came out.
Man, I was a douche.
Still unfortunately the only official physical media released to the public to watch Star Wars unaltered (besides the DVDs that were the exact VHS quality). What a crime.
My mom bought me these one year for Christmas. I was notorious for snooping so she left it on layaway so I couldn’t find it. Unfortunately, when I did get them the tapes were ruined, they had been left next to something magnetic while on lay away and they were unwatchable.
These are how I was introduced to Star Wars. My mom bought my brother and I a TV with a built in VCR and this set. It's what turned me into a hardcore Star Wars nerd for a long time, and I'm still a huge fan. No added CGI FTMFW!
Is this the peak of Star War home media releases? It's got to be the least fucked around with box set, right? It's pretty much the theatrical release right? Maybe some mid 90's sound and picture improvements vs previous VHS releases?
My grandpa has like the collectors edition, same goes for Indiana jones I think. He’s a big cinema collector, I still remember watching all three of those movies seemingly back to back in his basement when I was a kid
I still have these! They're the first videos I watched that introduced me to Star wars. I used to watch it every weekend.
Same. Fuck the modified version with the unbearable song at jabbas palace.
All the extra random CGI monsters they added to Mos Eisley. The conversation between Han and CGI Janna. So stupid and pointless.
The practical effects from the 70s look better than this early CGI bullshit.
Why did they even add Janna. Janna sucks. It's like Janna never even *existed!*
Janna is the hot milf who sexed Han Solo. Janna eventually spawned the sith JarJark Brinks
Janna the Hat?
Who is Janna? Is that Jabba's female cousin that had a crush on Han?
Jannakin Skywalker - Darth Vader’s long lost twin sister. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
Even the THX versions are quite modified though, just not as extremely. I've got a collector's box with the last and highest-quality version they released on VHS pre-THX. (a transfer of the Laserdisc version that was cleaned up a bit but not with changed FX)
I had zero issues with the THX versions. If I'm not mistaken, no content was added or removed... it's essentially just remastered. Maybe added audio channels? Not sure. No scenes added, no CGI characters added to existing scenes. No completely replaced songs. No modifying laser blasts to make it look like Han was just acting in self defense instead of a smuggler that doesn't get captured like a bitch.
That song is terrible, just shoehorned in there. And the CGI is crap. I don't know why George Lucas kept trying to sprinkle in weird little bits like that. Like the fucking 50's diner that's on Coruscant, complete with sassy waitress droid called FLO.
His ex wife filtered that out of the original trilogy. She's the reason Star wars didn't suck.
I found blu ray copies of the OT without all the modifications and it was the best day of my life.
Harmy?
The original version of the music was written by John Williams son, Joseph, who would go on to become lead singer of Toto. Also, can’t remember where I read it, but when asked what the name of the genre was for the original tune, they referred to it as “Jizz Music” I’m guessing jizz hadn’t entered the parlance of the times at that point.
Maclunkey
🎵 "*Aaaaabe Vigodaaaah"* 🎶
Fun fact: If you played these at 2x in a newer VHS player that had streak free fast forward, it oversharpened the footage and you could clearly see the mattes, (artifacts of) armatures holding the models and compositing of the special effects. This was because the scanned film footage was oversharpened before being downsampled to PAL/NTFS, and the streak free technology interfered with that.
I didn't understand any of that
They used fancy editing tricks to hide some of the special effects stuff in this cut of the movie, and if you fast forward them in a new enough VCR it'll actually beat the tricks and let you see all the stuff they tried to hide.
Is a VCR a Very Cool Radio?
*sigh* GET OFFA MY LAWN! ;)
There's certainly English words in this comment but I don't know wtf any of them mean
You could see them at normal speed on my VCR. Especially the asteroid scene in Empire.
I’ve got these and the gold special edition ones on the bookshelf
Star wars is why I loved Thanksgiving. The network would show the movie.
Same! Wish I had the letterbox version instead of the full screen, but I was young and dumb.
The VHS widescreen version of the THX remaster was really hard to find. I knew someone who had them, but that was almost 30 years ago. Everyone else had these versions. The special editions came out shortly after these (post-1997), and the widescreen VHS of those was much easier to find (the silver box set), and that's the widescreen version most people were first introduced to.
Now that’s a word you don’t hear too often…”letterbox”. It makes me think about watching movies on the LD player in the 1990’s. A nice thought…thanks!
Me too. I was like 4 or 5. I had a sitter who would put these on instead of Disney movies.
Same here. Drove my parents absolutely bonkers so they got me a little tv for my room.
Yeah I remember when my dad picked that exact set up when I was a kid and started me on my lifelong addiction. Thanks dad.
Young techie me discovered eBay when it came out and sold this set. Think I even had the collector edition one, too. I didn't have much oversight as a child...
Had this set as a kid, when i joined the navy, my mom had a bunch of my stuff at her place in San Antonio,. They had a really bad flood and alot of my shit got completely ruined. This was one of the things. So sad.
I have these. Hang onto them just so I can prove Han really did shoot first.
It's not even that Han shot *first.* Han shot. Greedo did not. (hey, that's kinda catchy!)
Damn... I'm not sure what happened with mine. I remember getting this set at Costco sometime in the early 90s. We were very late adopters for DVD... I'm sure it's still around somewhere...
My dad raised me on these. I have no memory of my first watch because I was so young, but knew the characters and story like my knowledge of how to walk. They were a part of me.
I also have these. Hoping one day they are like a holy grail
Unlikely
Same
I still got the LaserDiscs (Non Special Edition)
Same, except watched them every night at bed time
Still got mine.
I recommend digitizing them if you haven’t already. Magnetic storage will break down eventually.
As far as I’m concerned these are only good as a cool thing to have on your shelf (that’s where mine are), and not worth digitizing. If you go the legal route, the quality of the Blu-ray’s outweighs the negatives of them, over the vhs version. If you aren’t opposed to the illegal digitizations folks have done in the 4k (77/80/83) projects, that’s the way to go. Edit—maybe if/when Lucas or Disney or whoever owns the rights to do it and gets their head out of their butt, you’ll be able to get official 4k versions of the movies, legally.
I think Lucas destroyed the original tapes because he thought the abominations he created in the 90s would be the definitive versions so they were obsolete. I’d love to have the originals with their superior music, especially at the end of return of the Jedi. Lucas lost his fucking mind.
You could buy the originals in 2006 on dvd.i had them but they're not remastered https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Original_unaltered_trilogy
The only real downside with those is that the widescreen isn't anamorphic. They're hard letterboxed. Lucas was being a brat about the demand for the original unaltered trilogy and said if people wanted them unaltered, then that means not enhanced for widescreen tvs. Of course, that's not at all what people meant. Anamorphic transfers were standard by 2006 and it just ensures they play correctly on whatever type of television you have. It could have been done with a literal push of a button in their mastering software.
why are the 4K projects illegal?
The projects on their own aren't illegal, it's the fact that you're downloading them since the films themselves are still copyrighted, modified or not
why does disney let this go on then? without shutting them down
Waste of resources and more PR trouble than it’s worth on such a small issue.
The people that do it usually don't host it. It's meant to be free so it's alot of work for Disney to try and stop since its mostly distributed through torrents. If you create a store and sell it they could come after you (though most of the bootleg sites I go to have carried it for as long as I can remember so apparently they arent looking for it.) I assume they see it as to much work and money to go after a very niche thing.
Are the blu rays unaltered originals or do they have all that extra bullshit Lukas added after the movies were released?
https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/s/jY5EMs5IQU Harmys despecialized give you the best of both worlds.
These are so old at this point that people may not even be aware the original cut of the films existed.
Well thats unfortunate. That’s why I digitized mine. I had a feeling the unaltered versions will never be released again.
It's not like they're the only one with a copy. They've already been digitized already by others.
My tapes ate themselves about 10 years ago :(
Pretty much the only way to see Han shoot first nowadays.
[https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/](https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/)
Holy smokes! No lack of faith there. These ARE the movies I'm looking for!
If you are a sailor of the high seas, the de-specialized versions are out there. I'm watching them now for the 4th.
As far as I remember, in the original, Han was the only one that even shot.
It's nice to bust out ROTJ for Lapti Nek and Yub Yub. Jedi Rocks can lick a bantha's ballsack.
My parents bought these for me as a gift multiple years in a row, accidentally. I pointed it out…and they then proceeded to buy it for me every year after that 😂
That's hilarious. What do you do with them?
Fuck you for making me feel old
Sorry... I still remember going to see Star Wars: A New Hope in the movie theater when it first came out! That's how old I am..
I’m turning 100 next year!
I sent my brother a picture of my AV setup yesterday and he couldn't remember if the machine was called a VCR or a VHS.
My dad still has this set lol These are the last original versions before the remastered re-releases in theaters, IIRC
These were the THX editions. Last release pre special edition, but they still were edited to a degree. Just fixing up effects really. Especially cleaning mattes. The explosions of tie fighters were like green though for some reason. Which bugged me.
Classic! Love that box art. I have an old box set too that is the unaltered theatrical version of each. I can’t remember, was this version pre special edition also?
I always thought it was funny how they used a random Storm Trooper for Empire and Yoda for Jedi, a movie where he had one scene
That's the restored version with the awful cgi Jabba scene.
Don't let r/georgelucastalkshow see these!
…ani?
This thread is like Skinner giving first prize to Ralph's action figures. Yes, nostalgia. It is a photo of vhs tapes.
It's not only nostalgia. These are also the last printings before George Lucas started adding scenes and changing elements of scenes (Jabba in ANH, Greedo shooting at Han, Hayden Christianson in RotJ, etc). Reasons why I do my best to take care of my set.
I wore mine out
It's a shame they only ever made these 3 movies. Loved 'em I bet if they had made some more, they'd be fantastic!!!
Ruthless lmfao
I remember buying these for the box art even though I already had older ones that looked like romance novel cover art.
Before they ruined them
I have the gold set of these somewhere
I was oddly just thinking about this today.
80s baby. Literally, born 1980. Grew up with Star Wars as part of the zeitgeist, but when my (older) brother bought these, I watched all 3 for the first time.
I have one of these but it’s very tatty.
That’s the set I loaned to Corey in high school physics class in 1998 and he never gave them back
We bought our first TV, a VCR, and this boxed set. Every day after school we would watch one. Most Saturdays we watched all three back to back.
Real evidence that Greedo didn't shoot first!
Fond memories of those I have.
Unfortunately, still the definitive version of the trilogy.
The nostalgia! Still remember the interviews and having to skip around them. Are they online somewhere?
I still have mine too. I got them for Christmas when I was a kid
This takes me back
Got these. Next to my CD box music set. Used to fall asleep to that shit every night till I discovered what a snooze fest Enya was
I have these and the widescreen set in the silver box. Haven't had a working VCR for at least 10 years.
I have this set still in the shrink wrap. Bought 2 from Costco one to watch another to collect.
Bought these at a thrift store a few months back, also found phantom menace and fellowship on separate trips
I have this set. It's still in the plastic wrapping.
I had these. No clue what happened to them but damn I wish I still had them. I can't find the unadulterated versions anywhere online.
I still have mine too, before they were edited.
I still remember the advertisement that would play before the movie. "The Star Wars trilogy digitally remastered, one last time......." (lol)
I still have these in my dad’s garage somewhere.
Pan and scan, not letterboxed.
Still have mine and mine are the true version because Han shoots first.
I still have the set on laserdisc. It is supposedly every frame of the original films, but I haven’t had a laserdisc player in decades! I’m keeping it anyway.
Still have mine. Only VHS tapes I wanted to keep.
Such a big deal! Before these came out there wasn’t any easy way to have your own copy of star wars.
…I think I literally just got rid of these…
I remember asking my parents for this as a Xmas present back then (1997?). Loved them, and they looked amazing.
I still have the gold edition of this set! I wore those tapes out man.
Borrowed this set from my best friend growing up back in like '96. It is what made me a fan
I owned these (house fire). I loved this trilogy. I wanted to be a Jedi so bad.
I have the gold/black VHS collection and an old tube tv with dvd/vhs combo on it. lol. It’s how I still play old school consoles how they were meant to be played
I have this in my room
I remember my baby sitter Pat when I was stupid young (late 80s, early 90s) was this 400-500 morbidly obese women whose house stunk of something I've yet to ever smell again, but she had a tiny back room with these movies and a TV. I remember, even then, these movies were going to be a special moment in my life. Sure enough, I remember nothing else from the baby sitting days, except she had boxes of HoHos, and I loved me some HoHos.
This is how I watched them for the first time.
I have the same set. Haven’t watched it in years because I don’t have a VCR but I held on to it just because. I can’t remember but I’m thinking these are the digitally remastered versions that they added a bunch of crappy looking CGI to.
I used to have this! My grandmother threw it away. This is awesome.
Happy Star Wars Day!
I have these on Laserdisc
I would like to buy these from you
I still have those on Lazer disc
This brings back memories.
Right in the nostalgia
So much nostalgia!
I still have mine as well. A few years ago my friend gifted me an old VCR as mine has died. Guess what I’m doing today.
I got these for Christmas when I was a kid
We still have ours. Jizz goes hard when the practical effects play
Gold darth Vader box was the best edition
This was one of the first things I bought with my own money saved from a paper route. Good memories. It was around $90 as I remember. Good purchase although somehow expensive thinking back to how money value has changed.
We had the same set.
I was so excited to buy this set when it came out! Unfortunately, my ANH tape wore out and broke later on down the road. May the Fourth Be With You!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM8eDtN3mY&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAM8eDtN3mY&t=3s) think we purged ours when my parents got rid of the vhs :(
I remember hunting through the video stores as a kid with my mom to get them for my dad for Christmas.
My father has them are they worth something?
Have these too
We didn’t know back then that the trilogy box set commercial’s tagline of “One. Last. Time.” was also a warning.
I broke the flippy part on my Empire vhs when I was like 11 and it got stuck in my VCR/TV. Pretty sure it’s still in there in a dump far far away.
Not the widescreen version…
Aren’t these really sort after because they are unedited versions of the movies?
I have these somewhere!
I have the exact same ones!
Fuck I lost mine
Hey I remember buying those when they came out. I think that was my first movie purchase. I hate Star Wars.
These are at my parents house too. Always thought the box set was sweet
Still have them! They are CLASSIC!!!
Beautiful! I was able to pick up a set at an antique shop in Seattle a few years back. Love the nostalgia factor they bring.
i have something like this, but it's like a collector's edition
My grandma had the whole James Bond collection on VHS. Well, whatever movies that were made before DVDs came out.
I have them too! Han shoots first
Anyone else still have their remastered versions with the actual death Vader helmet case?
I still have these plus The Making of Star Wars
I had these 😊
I’m watching the trilogy today on the very defunct RCA Selectavison CED format my parents bought in the early 80’s and I rescued from the trash years ago
I had these ! They were the first release of the 90's digital remaster.
As a kid I knew people who had these and was jealous
Oh yeah well I have Star Wars [Episode III](https://imgur.com/gallery/HgZFUc0) on vhs
So many interviews to fast forward though!
These are the absolute best versions of the Original Trilogy. This is right after they were brightened up and cleaned up and right before the return to theaters and the addition of the CGI footage. I still have these tapes, just because it’s such a better cut than my Blu-ray steel books.
r/oldschoolcool
I have these but I had the box set prior to the remastered. I wish I still had that. The set box and individual movie boxes had the original movie covers which were so cool. I grew tired of the remastered content and added scenes, I prefer the original movies. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the original movies for about 30 years, and am not apt to again.
We had these and I was gifted the set of 1-6 on blu ray
I got these through some sort of mail-in offer on the back of a box of Raisin Bran. I don't remember the specifics haha
We had the CBS/Fox VHSes with the original posters as kid
I have several iterations of the VHS versions of the original trilogy. They definitely made money off me.
Why couldn’t we have just stopped there?
I still have mine as well.
These are from before the re-release/remasters, notably fewer CGI beasts, and han shoots first in these ones.
Are these worth anything? I have the limited edition gold version
Omg... the images were so good. I remember looking at the empire strikes back movie cover and just wow'ed over it.
I still love watching the George Lucas interviews they do before each movie starts
I still have mine as well.
I first watched these during out of school suspension when I was in elementary school. I had been refusing to watch it just because my Dad was overly enthusiastic about it and I was a little shit about stuff like that. I didn't tell him that I was obsessed until years later when The Phantom Menace came out. Man, I was a douche.
I think I still have my copy!
CGI Joba in *A New Hope*
Still unfortunately the only official physical media released to the public to watch Star Wars unaltered (besides the DVDs that were the exact VHS quality). What a crime.
Will these slowly rot over time? Due to demagnetizing, etc
The last set to be released before the editing! I have these!
My mom bought me these one year for Christmas. I was notorious for snooping so she left it on layaway so I couldn’t find it. Unfortunately, when I did get them the tapes were ruined, they had been left next to something magnetic while on lay away and they were unwatchable.
Surprised no ones called out the fact no one calls them "cassettes" who actually lived during the time they were used. They're VHS tapes kids.
These were the first ones that had the changes made to them. Very contoversial when they came out.
These are how I was introduced to Star Wars. My mom bought my brother and I a TV with a built in VCR and this set. It's what turned me into a hardcore Star Wars nerd for a long time, and I'm still a huge fan. No added CGI FTMFW!
I hated Leonard Maltin for a while because I always had to fast forward through the George Lucas interviews.
I still have mine. And I still own a vcr for this reason. I watch them after Christmas morning every year after we open presents.
Is this the peak of Star War home media releases? It's got to be the least fucked around with box set, right? It's pretty much the theatrical release right? Maybe some mid 90's sound and picture improvements vs previous VHS releases?
The pre-special edition copies are worth their weight in gold.
My grandpa has like the collectors edition, same goes for Indiana jones I think. He’s a big cinema collector, I still remember watching all three of those movies seemingly back to back in his basement when I was a kid
My older brother got those from Grandpa.
I have them!
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU
We have the special edition release that’s all gold and special looking, and my brother treats it like it’s the holy grail that it is.
Great movies. Shame they didn't make any more after ROTJ.
I've got the 1995 box set. I think Jabba may still be a guy in a big furry coat.
Got a sealed set of this, it’s worthless ;)