They criticized Pod Racing in this film, but the theatrical version is the shorter version

6:13 wow, this expression is so realistic

Heh, at 01:30 the pilot's animation is played first forwards and then in reverse. Never noticed that before. A bit lazy animation there? :P

bro ds wins

15:14 the tusken raider: that shot seems real: it really doesn’t look as though they played it back and forth to make it look as if he “did it a number of times”. I think that guy is misremembering

24:06 why did bro chase him idk why this is funny to me 💀💀

The one that scratches his head.. it always bothered me how they reused the same footage. At least the theatrical didn’t have that

This is a good example of the importance of editing. The original sets the scene and get's it going without being overly long and tedious like the extended versions. But on the flip-side, if you're not watching the whole movie and just want to watch the race, it's better with the full-length introductions.

Back in 1977, my 7 year old self would have still been in awe with any lost or otherwise obscure footage. Star Wars wasnt just a movie. It was a significant world event. From the movie to the toys to the myriad of merch, it changed me from just a normal dorky little kid to a certifiable nerd. I consider 1977 a milestone in my life. Im greatful for it.

I love futurama, enjoyed disenchantment and I'm a bit eh on the simpsons but I like watching youtubes about it. So this was a fun video combining all that.

Underrated video

3:08 well no wonder, who would wanna watch a 70 second episode!

Great video, very well made

original is easily the best, wish it had the deleted scenes included though

"too much world building, lets delete all that, it'll make the race too long" said some idiot in 2001 and then proceeded to say the same thing throughout the entire editing of the prequel movies.

as somebody already said, u did a fucking amazing research bro. did u just watch the shows or went into some wiki of sorts?

So there are even more interminable versions of this terrible sequence.

Your research amazes me!

I love disenchantment

Mufasa

Fat midget Greedo in Phantom was so disturbing to see. All these normal sized kids, then an obvious midget stuffed into a costume is hanging around them.

Theatrical looks the best. Every time they fiddle with it, it just gets worse.

My dad never believed me that there was different scenes in the later releases. He made me think I was crazy 😂

What's wild to me is how much world building, characterization, and set up was cut to trim down the sequence... which was already way too long.

Some cut parts gave me goosebumps, I would have liked if I viewed the complete version of the pod race.

1:24 <--- "Elon Musk"? :O

The bluray version you left out. It contains some of the deleted scenes.

RIP Ratts Tyrele (might have Said his last name Incorrectly pls don't kill me)

Silas Carson, who did an Odd in Doctor Who.

2:56 Oh yeah i know Deep Roy, he’s the oompa loompas in the 2005 charlie and the chocolate factory and teeny weeny from the neverending story

crazy elon musk was in the delete scenes version at 1:22

De la puant

Super interesting!

Didn't the race start out with one of the minor characters stalling, and one of their engines going flying off, and the commentators say "Looks like XXX has just lost his YYY power coupling!" Fairly certain the guy with the family crashed and burned too. Which version were they, if not any of them?

Davis was a huge fan of the franchise so his being multiple characters in the same movie is probably fan service more than a paycheck…but the money helped! plus being a little person helped immensely as he was able to do a lot and not worry about speaking lines

“Mr. Lucas, ILM is telling us every second of full CGI will cost us $20,000, a week of animator time and ten hours to render.” “Great, so we’re keeping the creature farting in Jar-Jar’s face - make sure to really draw that one out, let’s add a few more forgettable shots of those wacky characters waving to the crowd, intersperse plenty of tedious announcer reactions, and Sam - really go nuts with the hijinks and gimmicks. I mean, GO NuTS.”

1999 image looks much better, much more realistic and tangible

I swear I thought I heard Elon Musk but it was Elan Mak…

I'm so glad the poop joke ended up in every version...

Peter Diamond.

I truly love all of your videos and the information you provide in them. I’ve been a silent viewer for a while, but please keep going.

Plz do more of these. Gotta be more actors pulling double duty, I'll watch & support every episode. A little confused why 3PO got a somewhat lengthy history about his suit look, though.

The deleted scenes looks so bad (I know they're unfinished but still lol), still cool to see Ark Roose and other racers

Jar Jar is pretty cool, not very funny in the phatom menace but funnier in other shows

thats it, I'm finally gonna rant on this after years of this stupid argument. I was already 17 when the Phantom menace came out, in fact the first movie I ever saw was empire strikes back..... I was a very very small baby and it was at the end run of Empire but that's the story and I'm sticking with it for this explanation. I loved everything star wars for a loooong time, I became an apologist for the Ewoks, of which most people out of their small childhood hated, even when they grew out of small childhood that hate snuck back in(I still highly suggest the second ewoks movie to everyone I can, it's prolly more of a emotionally formational movie than the rest of the movies for me..... not a good sign, but diabetus staff master fight is still soooo gooood) The arguments of how ewoks are little meat eaters who consider everyone meat until a literal incarnation of their god steps up to tell them no.... they were gonna eat our heros!!!!! that's still cool. Anyway..... I saw phantom menace, and I was disappointed in a lot of things. Anakin was such an annoying little brat and having him play hero in the space fight reminded me of all the bad movies I watched in the 80's where most of the kid heros would have been dead thirty seconds in...... still to this day I think phantom menace is(barring one lightsaber fight and omg liam neeson ) the worst of the movies, fight me, and yes that includes all the side movies. I can't yell at the child for ruining the experience, I thought about it, argued with walls about it, but I couldnt...... and the betrayal felt real, and I couldn't blame george and the rest of the writers were just invisible forces....... I hated that everyone had a hard on for darth maul, he was a skilled throw away minion..... like woooo great fight dead dude, but couldn't hate on a character that obviously wont be used ever again except for maybe in a flash...... yeah gonna stop that bs..... still hate maul especially because he didn't die(although his end end was probablly the best death in all of star wars media). the second most unpleasant part of watching phantom menace in the theater on opening day was Jar de fricken Jar. No hate towards the actor, that I will never defend, he did probably the second best job acting in that movie right behind the opening scrawl. I hated JarJar, he was comedic relief, and when I went to see the movie I didn't laugh at him, other than the scene when liam grabbed his tongue...... and I rooted for him to pull it out of his face. JarJar distracted from what was supposed to be 20+ of waiting for many, and my entire lifetime. He wasn't funny at the time and while I knew the series had a massive death toll waiting around the corner I at least left the theater thinking to myself, "at least he is a main character, and one I'll likely get to see die." You see JarJar was great for kids, and some adults, especially those with kids. He is a comedy character, and he did a fantastic job, but was probably too much. Episode 1 has many flaws on a serious note, and too much humor was probably one of the factors. But it was an easy factor for a younger internet to latch on too. It was easier thing for my young adult, too serious for his own good little goth nerd reject self. See the hatred for Jar Jar might be mildly well placed for anyone who had reached puberty, especially given the build up for the movie, which we all expected to be lightning in a bottle to destroy the movies the war the first did back in 77 and we didn't get that. We got a decent movie, with meh editing, and an overemphasis on its child audience. I understand it was in theory a tonal thing they were trying to do across all three movies, and I understand why that works so well as opposed to so later trilogies that were made by the seat of their pants writing. But the easiest thing to point out, other than the movie feeling a little racist back in 99, which let me tell ya something is twelve hyperspace lanes different than today, was jar jar... being jar jar...... too much screen time jar jar..... so yeah we hated that mo fo, on mesage boards, everywhere.... we didnt know who else to blame for our dissapointment, we didnt know where else to send the hate. Eventually the world calmed, and by clone wars we had new things to be dissapointed by. And Jar Jar, it was nice seeing an old friend. Because he became a friend through our hate.... and even deep down hatred of Jar Jar.

In the UK, the name Anthony is pronounced Antony.

You technically missed one. Amandla Stenberg plays two separate characters, albeit twin siblings, on _The Acolyte._ There was also Sam Witwer who played Darth Maul in _Solo: A Drinking Cup_ as well as supplemental voices in the Sequel Trilogy. But that’s some of that deep dive you said you wouldn’t waste too much time chasing.

What annoys me about Starwars is just home much Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher hated the movies.

thank you for bringing up both versions of star tours, its such a shame that attraction really isnt taked about much. also thanks for bringing up the fact he's done the VO for the DL paris ver. He also did the alien voiceovers for the original attraction, alongside Biran Cummings (who did the announcer and Tour package videos)

I'm surprised Warwick never played a Jawa so far.