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One of my favorite trivia items about A New Hope:

- there was a children's book (that my family had) that accompanied the movie

- there is a scene in the book where Biggs comes back to talk to Luke

- this didn't make any sense to me as a child b/c that scene isn't in the movie

- I realized years later that they cut the scene but AFTER the book was printed.

The scene in question is here btw: https://youtu.be/O7J_IZ9agRI?t=318

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I also remembered that scene and the early Jabba the Hutt scene from the novelisation. And because I knew them from the book, I initially loved it when the Special Editions added them back. Until I realised they don't really work. Well, Biggs does, but Jabba becomes much less terrifying from having Han talk to him like that and even walking over his tail. Jabba being just a feared name works so much better.

Yea I think the added Biggs scenes are the one thing from the Special Edition that is a clear improvement over the original.

Yes!! I remember reading this book at the library as a kid, and for years afterwards I wondered if I had just hallucinated the whole thing.

I think it's a really important scene, and I'm sad that it was cut from the movie.

Side note: the (extremely well-done) Star Wars Radio Drama [0] included a great many expanded scenes on Tattoine (with quite a bit of expansoin on Tosche Station), and I think those scenes (which include the aforementioned scene with Biggs) really add to the richness and flavor of the setting.

If you're a fan of Star Wars and haven't yet listened to the radio drama, I highly recommend it!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-29uKdckL4

Wow, I feel like new DLC just dropped. The first twenty has echoes of American Graffiti, and expands on the Luke-Owen-Beru relationship.

There was also Luke looking up at the space battle and "Treadwell" the droid, which would have played just before all of the Biggs scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPZfPe5F-w (a cleaner version is shown in How Star Wars was saved in the edit)

It doesn't affect the specific point in question here, but it's probably best to treat the RocketJump video with caution: https://youtube.com/watch?v=olqVGz6mOVE .

This is the gold standard for response videos.

Yeah I knew someone would point out the controversy. Unfortunately the only other version of the clip I could find was some super grainy version, but I hadn't seen that rebuttal. Amazing.

There was also a comic book that came out before the movie.

In the scene where the sand people shoot R2D2, it looked like the other way around so it was quite confusing to see them captured in the next frame. Who knew the little guy didn't have a blaster?

that scene is in the radio drama version as well (along with many others that aren't in the movie)

Also Dune came out before star ears

if you've seen this scene, does that mean that you've sailed the high seas?

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