The Star Wars Trilogy - 1990 VHS collector's promo

Classic Promo Trailer for the Star Wars Trilogy VHS Collection. @ 1990 Lucasfilm Ltd.

[@MrPersonalityProductions]

"Hello in TV Land!" Man that takes me back...

[@GasPoweredProductions]

This promo is engraved in my mind forever.

[@JML101582]

Nothing like seeing the unaltered original trilogy especially on VHS!

[@gregorbegger9291]

so does this version say episode IV a new hope in the opening scene?

[@Dayman90]

@@gregorbegger9291 All the VHS releases have Episode IV in the opening crawl. The original crawl without Episode IV in there has only been released in the 2006 GOUT DVD release.

[@DeweyMaplez]

this was the VHS tape we had when I was a kid... pure nostalgia. I love the clip of Vader saying "There is no escape, don't make me destroy you"

[@davidschristmasgiftstoyou3304]

Same Here

[@kylecurtis1130]

Me too!

[@__Crunch__]

I used to love watching these promos before the movies. This brings back memories of Christmas '94, when my mom's friend bought me the trilogy.

[@natev6306]

I grew up with this box set and this trailer. It’s etched in my mind forever

[@The43scholz]

My first introduction to star wars as a kid!!

[@Amp661]

Back when the Original Trilogy was just the " Star Wars Trilogy". Damn i'm old.

[@ThePoreproductions]

And before it was Special Edition-ized.

[@sanandreasgamer9695]

I love that trilogy too and hate the sequels and I am 15

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

Rat 5he toilet how old are you

[@Amp661]

@@zacharyjochumsen9677 very old. How aboot you?

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Yeah, the good old days.

[@Firespray421]

I grew up watching these VHS tapes over and over again with my mom. she used to be really into Star Wars and had a pretty big collection, but she has since then lost the interest she used to have in it....so she gave me all of her stuff, these tapes included....ohhh yeeeah :)

[@Hewylewis]

My god, this brings back so many memories!!

[@jaysonrogoz8822]

Hewy Toonmore Amen to Original Trilogy. May the Force be with you Hewy always.

[@ianluetkehans7822]

I miss this. This trailer gets me teary eyed

[@daustin8888]

2:13 "And the climactic clash between good and evil!" His narration, the dialouge, the inages, and music never fail to give me goosebumps

[@MCLegoboy]

Sat through this all three times just to watch these movies, and then I did it again, and again, and again, and again... I was always disappointed my family never had "From Star Wars to Jedi" because I wanted to see more of Salacious Crumb talking to the camera. XD

[@ShenmueAtheist]

The 1990 VHS trilogy release was how I was introduced to these movies back in 1992/1993. I was only 5 at the time and these movies changed my life forever. I vividly remember these promos before the movies even though it's been probably over 20-years since I last watched these specific releases. Sadly, my dad lost these in storage years ago; I'd love to have them still even as a keepsake.

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

Endless Infinity What about the improved Special Edition versions? Those had improved Special Effects.

[@wyattmund9286]

I was born in 1998, so honestly I feel pretty lucky that at age 6 I was introduced in exactly the same way. Technically they were loaned from my Uncle, I might’ve even been 5 when I first saw the original. I do still hold Episode I very special and nostalgic because I saw it quite young, but distinctly after I had seen the original trilogy. I watched the original by myself on VHS, I really don’t remember why nobody watched it with me or if perhaps my Dad did. In any case, I am almost sure I first saw both V and VI a little bit later and on 2 separate occasions with my Grampy. We used the same set as I had watched Star Wars on. In the next few years I remember endlessly rewatching all 3, and my Uncle basically let me keep the set & later a VHS of Episode I. It would be a few years before I got to see Episode II on DVD from a rental store. So if I saw all these at age 6, around 2004, I definitely had seen them all by 2005 when Episode III came to theaters. Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to go see it thanks to the PG-13 rating, but I knew things that happened in it thanks to cultural osmosis, friends, school, seeing trailers and video games, and I eventually watched it on old youtube haha. Star Wars was my absolute favorite movie series in my childhood.

[@dja-train2265]

"improved" is debatable to many "Star Wars" fans. The 1997 "Special Edition" tapes had the crummy CG Jabba added to "A New Hope", before they replaced it with a less cheesy one for the DVD and hi-def versions.

[@mathgasm8484]

I watched it on laser disc in the 90s. My grandma was a librarian so she had the trilogy on laser disc for some reason.

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Same. I remember saying I liked what I saw over at my Uncle's when he was playing A New Hope and later Empire Strikes Back on separate occasions. My father went ahead and mailordered all 3 films. Best birthday present I ever had. He later picked up the From Star Wars to Jedi documentary on VHS a few years later. While I don't have the 3 films I still have that documentary. Such nostalgic times! Also a bit of a dark age for Star Wars fans as we hadn't had a film since 1983 (on the big screen anyway).

[@Batman8657]

"A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing." LOL!!!!!!!!! Good one, George.

[@jorklind]

That line went through my head when I watched every prequel movie...

[@unclestone8406]

Those of us that grew up with the theatrical cut before the "Speshul Eddishuns", we never forgot...

[@joziahchama2735]

@@jorklind ok boomer

[@Amp661]

@@jorklind and sequel trilogy as well.

[@AxleMyths]

@@jorklind the execution sucked... But the story he was TRYING to tell was good.

[@tomrule123]

Alas, the preview was one of the best video cassette previews ever made. Too bad the new DVD's couldn't show this preview. I, too, had the videos back then, and I thought it would be the only way to see the original versions (that is, until the 2006 DVD's had them). This preview was the first thing I see when I play each movie.

[@PLANETWILDFIRE-fj7dz]

When I was a kid, I found this box set in a shelf of other tapes, next to The tend commandments and God father tapes. Boy, I learn how to use the VCR right away!

[@dtwhitney]

eff yeah. this is how i first experienced star wars, these cassettes.

[@alecton]

I used to borrow these movies all the time from my neighbor, awww good times

[@SonGara]

Found the complete box set a local salvation army for $3 the other day, now I want to find that From Star Wars to Jedi documentary.

[@isaacmapes]

It's on KZbin if you want to see it

[@hotcandlefilms4137]

Well then sir, I guess your video library isn't complete.

[@Peniche5]

I own it

[@joebundens2197]

Need to buy a VCR from one of those antique stores in Boulder City to play it. My Return of the Jedi VHS had a flicker (from a faulty VCR that like to eat the tape) right when the rebels were captured at the Endor base when the chicken walker starts. I played the movie so many times I now anticipate it even with the Disney+ release. Ah the memories.

[@RadicalRewind]

I have the pack of this VHS. I remember seeing this on all the 3 VHS's.

[@dragoninthewest1]

RadicalRewind my grandfather has it. So I remember this trailer. Good times.

[@RadicalRewind]

4:10 HELLO IN TV LAND

[@minespatch]

***** That part scared me as a kid.

[@ThePoreproductions]

+Minespatch the channel same here, and the voice at 0:07.

[@gunslave99]

RadicalRewind This is exactly what I have been searching for. This is totally Star Wars to me.

[@infinitlycool]

Yes! I was hoping someone had posted this! Thank you so much! Brings back so many memories.

[@CraigBickerstaff]

I remember watching this promo so many times as a young child, I don't know how old I was when I saw it for the first time but I turned 5 in 1990 so it could've been I saw it a year or 2 later since it's on all of the Star Wars videos or maybe a shortened version of it. One of my life's goals is to see the Star Wars trilogy on the big screen, the way I grew up with them. I missed out on the 97 special editions because my parents didn't get around to taking me for some reason but I did manage to see the blu-ray version of the movie I guess you could say on the big screen. Star Wars didn't have Macklunky but Jedi did have Vader screaming NO!

[@Sir_of_Sirs]

may the trilogy be with you for the best price ever

[@goORIOLES236]

When I was a kid, the dentist office I would go to had a TV in the waiting room, and the receptionist had the box set and would always put on one of these tapes for us if we asked nicely (I usually picked Return of the Jedi). I’d get through about ten minutes of the actual movie before getting called in for my appointment, so this trailer is pretty much ingrained into my memory.

[@crissrudd4554]

My dad got me the 1995 box set last year from an estate sale for a quarter!!!!

[@loganidol]

That was the first release I owned too! Then my grandma sent me the Special Editions for Xmas in '97. Still have those and haven't upgraded to DVD or Blu-ray. :)

[@HuttForYou]

I am such a Nerd and fanboy and proud to call my self that; I know this was the preview on "From Star Wars to Jedi" documentry.

[@thebourg]

I had this exact video collection when I was a kid...and wore it out! I could almost recite that trailer word for word lol

[@SlasherFilms]

My parents had this VHS collection of Start Wars when I was kid, I did not watch them until 1997 ironically. I remember the first time I watched the trilogy, I rewatched these movies several times in the same week! :D

[@traceyflores5652]

Liar!!!

[@traceyflores5652]

Just kidding!!! : )

[@gmfd76]

I got the "Collectible Gift Pack" for Christmas, 1990. I'd actually forgotten most of this promo trailer although I always remembered the bit with Salacious Crumb saying "Hellooooo in TV lannnd!" ;)

[@RDarth]

I remember seeing this trailer on the TVs at Blockbuster when I was little.

[@JonnyDeeFilms]

Thank you for uploading this! I grew up watching this promo countless times. Thank you thank you.

[@dustinyost8404]

My favorite starwars movie is: Return of the Jedi & my favorite starwars tv show:Star Wars: the Clone Wars!

[@TheSpacey52]

Throughout the 90s, we only had this copy of New Hope which I watched over and over and had never seen either of the sequels. The previews for it in this promo is all I had ever seen of them. Eventually in early 1996, my Dad was digging through our bin of blank tapes with movies and show taped onto them and revealed that had taped Empire and Jedi off from the Sci Fi channel years prior. So we put in the tape for Empire and it began in the middle of the fight between Luke and Vader in the carbonite chamber. I was confused by the events as I had no idea what was going on. Luke is suddenly fighting Vader, and Leia, Chewie, and the droids are in a shootout with stormtroopers and are preparing to escape the planet in the Millenium Falcon. It had me very eager to find out what it all meant. And recently, I imagined that if Empire was told in the media res, this would actually be an effective opener for it before flashing back to the beginning of the Hoth scenes and showing it's way up to the Bespin battles.

[@GabeReal9009]

Wow. Can't believe these promos are on here..I remember being like 6 or 7 and playing the shit out of the CBS/Fox versions of the trilogy. Ahh memories..😪

[@aigomar]

Have you heard the news? Walt Disney is going to own the distribution rights to "The Phantom Menace", "Attack of the Clones", "Revenge of the Sith", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". But the distribution rights to "A New Hope" will stay with 20th Century Fox.

[@hilarioph]

I wish Disney will get the right from A new hope so that they will restore it again. Is not yet completed without A new hope

[@popularkid86-xg1tu]

Nothing like seeing the special edition of star war's on laserdisc VHS and DVD's and Blu-ray.

[@miniroll32]

The colours look really good on these prints. The newer ones are actually darker!

[@jasonpp1973]

I just bought the same Star Wars Trilogy package thats shown on this promo at my local thrift store this morning, the price I paid:, A QUARTER! (box and tapes are in A1 condition!)

[@vapeymcvape5000]

3:30 Oh, the irony of this man saying that.

[@josephbecker3220]

3:08 May the trilogy be with you for the best price ever

[@pleaseenteraname1103]

My family probably went through like 15 different VHS tapes of return of the Jedi as a kid because of how often me and my brothers watched the movie. I think we literally watched it like over 200 times. And the same with the Empire strikes back in a new Hope but not as excessive.

[@thesir27]

fuck yeah i always watched this intro thing before the movie as a kid cause it always got me pumped for the movie

[@epcotman32]

I remember I wanted that video package but could never find it.

[@theandrewkchannel34]

Thans man for sharing this! Loved it!

[@eagl3ye]

I was born a month after ROTJ was released in theaters. THIS is my indelibly ingrained memory of seeing Star Wars for the first time.

[@magicpaladin567]

These bring back good memories.

[@jonzu4]

Still have it on my shelf.

[@Ilovemovies917]

The versions without the fake new scenes

[@jedijones]

This promo is definitely burned into my brain. Was it on the Star Wars cassettes themselves? I had those. Not sure where else I would've seen it.

[@Master83236]

Just watching this video makes me want to find those vhs tapes on ebay

[@jgfear]

I find 1 persons lack of faith most disturbing. ( force choke...)

[@brandonthorpe9905]

Oh my god, haha. I wanted this, but we didn't have a lot of $ growing up (London, ky.. no one has much $ here) I had this orange toy car, you used your feet to propel yourself with off the ground, like a Flintstone car. I was about too big for it, and mom made a deal with me that if I let her sell it, she would let me use the money on this. I don't know what she got out of it, but she covered the rest needed. I burned these tapes out. Each one had this preview at the beginning. I can quote the announcer verbatim.

[@spaceace4387]

I remember this trailer

[@funguyhere5696]

Fuck, so nostalgic. My stepdad had this copy of the original trilogy and i wore those tapes the fuck out. Probably my favorite part of being a young kid and growing up. Watching these movies whether i was sad or happy. Excited for The Last Jedi!

[@dtwhitney]

@Methrt3 haha. You're right, he does. I remember watching this preview as a very little kid, age 2-4. I think "galaxy" was one of the first words I learned, at least from these Star Wars videocassettes.

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

I had these growing up

[@harrykearns5508]

For some reason this trailer played on the tapes from this box set. Regardless, this video is the highest form of nostalgia.

[@MagicianMovies1992]

I have to Thank George Lucas for creating Star Wars and I want to be a new actor to enter Lucasfilm and help George enter full retirement someday.

[@sleepymackenzie]

I have 2/3 of these VHS tapes. I only have ESB and ROTJ, i really need ANH

[@classicmovieentertainment8467]

It's NOT "A new hope", it's "Star Wars".

[@serge014]

@@classicmovieentertainment8467 It will always be just "Star Wars" to me, not "A New Hope."

[@metalalan]

Hello in TV Land!

[@phoenixwyvern355]

I still have this collection gift pack but not a good VHS player and but DVD collection is still here.

[@notime4350]

Man I could dictate this from memory.

[@aviatorgamer3057]

1:02 Mark Hamills line was redubbed into the audio at this part by mistake.

[@spgfan7007]

Holly crap i havent seen this in years

[@crissrudd4554]

RIP Mark Elliott

[@mikedski9698]

May The Force Be With You!

[@mathgasm8484]

I have this set somewhere in the attic probably.

[@__Crunch__]

Even Lucas could tell you about the irony. As I think he says in the THX-1138 DVD documentary, he says something like, "I became Vader. I became the big studio that I used to be fighting against."

[@amusedtodeath1]

Great thanks for posting this. I always thought this VHS collection was really cool. Was this the very first time Star Wars was released on VHS? Was the original series ever put out in Laser Disc?

[@horrorbreakdown]

0:53 is one of the rare times that I've heard "epic" used in a manner where the marketers weren't trying to cash in on a fad (as opposed to anything created after 2008).

[@omegamaximus1727]

My dad still has those VHS 📼 tapes .

[@jayce79]

Yeah, that's happened to me before too. Thank goodness Amazon has a hell'ava better policy than E-Bay. But I Hope you enjoy'em. That's a fun set. For me, there's something about watching Star Wars in those VHS classic's, the origianl way that Blu-Ray Disc can't even top.

[@jdude9365]

Was the narrator for this trailer also the announcer for Nickelodeon during the 90's?

[@dtwhitney]

Michael irons from scanners?

[@jdude9365]

Nope. Bill St. James

[@sanandreasgamer9695]

I have watched this movie thausend times

[@Papa_Khan]

Always wanted to see from star wars to jedi.

[@thomasturtle7207]

It’s up in KZbin if you would like to see it, I don’t know how tricky it would be to find though

[@drewwhitney7327]

Michael Ironside’s dulcet tones are unlike anything in our galaxy.

[@GregofCanada]

I have to ask, what video capture /program did you use for this?

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

Is that Don LaFontaine doing the voice over??

[@ElleRoni]

You said it, Jorgé...

[@TheUnbreakableOtaku]

God, it's like the George Lucas from then and the George Lucas from now are completely different people.

[@97Lordflash]

I actually bought the original versions on VHS last year at a bargin sale. They were too valuable to just lie there.

[@Ljordan093]

Good times 😁😁

[@hitman8795]

Does anyone know the difference of the 1977 box set trilogy that has cbs fox and the other just fox?

[@spgfan7007]

I used to think the first movie was actually called “ star wars the saga begins” lol

[@fgdj2000]

Ahhh, Pan & Scan - the only way to watch movies.

[@donovanhoxtell4374]

4:20 but don't stop there.

[@KingOfBladesM80Productions]

4:09 scared me when I was a kid

[@pelamar121]

ya but the trailer i mean is the one on the actual tape its a good one

[@pelamar121]

i cant find the trailers to the vhs tapes i own there the widescreen letterbox versions

[@jjrj8568]

ah, the good old days of pre-senile Lucas, the original theatrical films, no "Greedo shoots first" or Jedi Rocks

[@alcarbo8613]

Senile George? Seriously Jedi Rocks is so much better then Lapti Neck and Greedo Shot First get over it

[@jaredzanders4550]

i love return of the jedi

[@darbycrash59]

Just listen to what he said at 3:36. "sighs"

[@MrBurgundy76]

@97Lordflash i have this trilogy unopened on vhs, but i want to open it badly since the dvd and blurays are the terrible new editions.

[@Sir_of_Sirs]

video library complete

[@Kalfus2007]

@Batman8657 Irony indeed :(

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

3:39 Creature Creation.

[@kanalvisenepostojijelstada3379]

Force strong my family

[@KingOfBladesM80Productions]

hello in tv land

[@MD-gj4hr]

2:35