On September 12, 2006, Lucasfilm and Fox Home Entertainment will release the original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD for the very first time. These editions, which will be packaged with the Special Edition versions released in 2004, will be restored to their original incarnations, and feature Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound. Each of the three films will be available individually for the MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price) of $29.98.

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As we continue exploring the different elements that went into creating Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, we turn to the Ewoks and their native planet of Endor.The primitive warrior tribe at the end of this film was originally supposed to be a tribe of wookiees. In pre-production, though, the decision was made to go to short creatures with short fur rather than very tall creatures with longer fur and, hence, the ewoks were created ('ewok' may very well have been created by rearranging the sounds in the word 'wookiee').Several ewok lines are in the Filipino (Tagalog) language. Most ewok lines, however, were inspired by the Kalmuck language, spoken by nomadic tribes living in Central China.One of the songs that the ewoks sing sounds like "det luktar flingor h¿r," which is Swedish for "it smells of cereal here." (In fact, that line's lyrics are supposedly, "G'noop dock fling oh ah.") Another song sounds identical to a song sung in Caveman, starring Ringo Starr.Endor is the name of a place in the Bible; it's a village found in Biblical Israel's territory of Isaachar, where king Saul went on the eve of his final battle with the Phillistines and came across "The Witch of Endor". It also the Elvish name for Middle-Earth in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.Kenny Baker's ewok character, Paploo, was supposed to find Princess Leia unconscious after the speeder bike sequence, but Baker got a case of food poisoning before the scene was going to be filmed so Warwick Davis's character, Wicket became the ewok that finds Leia.In the part where Paploo was barely hanging onto the speeder bike, Paploo was played by stuntman Tony Cox.For the shot of Paploo riding a stolen speeder bike, the crew propped the bike up vertically and filmed the actor dangling from the handlebars and then simply rotated the camera.Chris Parsons played C-3PO in 3 or 4 scenes, including the part where 3PO was carried on the chair by the ewoks.The victory trumpet call that the ewoks used at the end of the Battle Of Endor was the same as the trumpet call that was used in The Ten Commandments. It can be heard when the Jews are about to leave Egypt for the Promised Land.The Endor shots were filmed near Crescent City, California. Forest work was especially hard on the ewok actors. Production Assistant Ian Bryce arrived on the set one day to find a note from the ewok actors saying that they had all had enough and they were on their way to the airport. Bryce tried to drive to the airport, but got a flat tire not far from the set. He found another car and was about to leave when the ewoks' bus pulled up. All of the ewok actors got off wearing "Revenge of the Ewok" t-shirts.

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