Star Wars - The Do-it-yourself Edition  #
Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:42AM
Wired has some fun with Star Wars fans' never ending desire for the perfect edition of the original trilogy by making some suggestions such as the "8 Year Old Edition" and the "All-Wampa Edition". [via BoingBoing]

Personally I think ultimately some of those wacky fans will never be happy until we get the "Do-it-yourself edition", or even better, the "Time Machine Edition".

Star Wars - The Do-it-yourself Edition

The SW-DIY comes on five thousand 120Gb hard drives and includes thousands of hours of raw Star Wars footage including every shot George and his extensive crew ever produced.

Included is ever media file, sound clip and 3D model. A bonus disc includes Final Cut Pro project files for each released edition so you can patch and edit until the cows come home.

For an extra $20 million you'll get authentic replications of all the props used throughout the original series.

For another five bucks you get the props for the new trilogy (some blue paint).

Star Wars - The Time Machine Edition

The Star Wars Time Machine Edition is a complete computer model of the universe from the Big Bang until now. In it, you can use TimeySearchr(tm) to the moment G.L. made the directing decision that you hate and tweak it. TimeySearchr(tm) to the first screening to see if your tweak worked. As a bonus, you can see if your change destroyed the movie at the box office.

As a further bonus, let Sony lose the Betamax case and see what happens to the world.

As a safety feature, any tweaking of world politics ends in nuclear war and total annihilation.

As an easter egg, you can enter a special code to TimeySearchr(tm) to "a long time ago" to watch the Star Wars story in real time.