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What the heck is this?

You haven't seen it yet? It's funny. They just came out with a special edition. It's a 13-20 min. parodie of Star Wars, In the form of a coming atraction. It looks cheesy on purpose, and uses apliances found in a hardware store. The Charachters are Darph Nader, Princesn Anne Droid, Fluke Starbucker, Ham Salad and his copilot Chewchila, the wookie monster, and space drones Artie Decco and 4-Q-2. Special thanks to Charles Cabe (I hope I got it right) for setting this up.

Hardware Wars is WAY older than the Special edition. I remember seeing it back ages ago. It came out shortly after "A New Hope" (then just "Star Wars") came out originally.

Yes, but the makers of "Hardware Wars" came out with "Hardware Wars:The Special Edition" when the Special Edition films were released. Like SW:TSE, it's got new scenes and computer-generated effects crammed in everywhere. Blinkety-blankety hilarious.

I think its hard to nit this...has some greatlines though...

"What is it Augie Ben- Doggie? Do you sense a great disturbance in the force, like millions of souls suddlenly crying out in anquish?"

"No it's just a stomachache"

I've seen HWW maybe twice in my whole life -- the first time was at a friends house when I was very young (late 70's). I've never seen the Special Ed. -- didn't know there was one!
Who owns these? Are they in the hands of the cable station who originally aired the first HWW? Which cable station was it? Where can these gems be found? Maybe we should petition whoever owns them to show them again (and again, and again...)

btw: I thought it was a headache, not a stomach ache...

It was a headache!

I've never heard of the **** things!

I saw a satire called
Star Warz
on television in Australia recently. It was quite funny. I taped that.

But hardware Wars?

What the...?

I got sensored for saying
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Hee hee! I got around it! (Yes, but not for long. Just because you haven't seen something, please don't insult a movie because other people may have enjoyed it. -Moderator)

You still censored me! Oh well, I'll get you next time...

Only joking. You win. Bygones.
I didn't really consider that what I said might be considered insulting. It is part of common language here. Please accept my sincere apologies.

For those who don't know, Hardware Wars was an 8 minute student film produced in 1978, by film majors at the University of CA. The kid who produced it, Ernie Fosselius, so impressed George
Lucas with this film, that Lucas hired him to work on "Return Of The Jedi."

All the characters are there. Luke is Fluke Starbucker, Han is Ham Salad, Leia was Princess
Anne-Droid, Ben was Augie Ben Doggie, and Vader was Darph Nader.

The ships and weapons were all household utilities. The death star was a waffle iron, an outhouse served as a stormtrooper, and R2 was a vacuum cleaner.

You can find the special edition in any Suncoast store. Costs about ten bucks. I'm sure you can also find the original at Star Trek conventions.

It's also on DVD--I just got it today. It was funny, but I sure wish it was longer. BEST JOKE: "The tractor beam"

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I think its hard to nit this...has some greatlines though...

"What is it Augie Ben- Doggie? Do you sense a great disturbance in the force, like millions of souls suddlenly crying out in anquish?"

"No it's just a stomachache"

I too, thought it was 'headache' and I thought it was said in a way, that it came out quick and funny like--

[Fluke]:

"What is it Augie Ben- Doggie? Do you sense a great disturbance in the force, like millions of souls suddlenly crying out in anquish?"
[Auggie]
"Nope, just a headache."

Like SW:TSE, it's got new scenes and computer-generated effects crammed in everywhere.

Actually, it doesn't. They make it sound like it does, but it seemed exactly the same as the version I used to rent all the time back in the 1980's. Well, other than it didn't have Bambi Vs Godzilla and all those other spoofs that were formerly included on the tape.

Yeah, they did include some DVD extras, but they were pretty disappointing. But the short itself is the same as ever.

Incorrect J. There were definitely some cgi-updated scenes. One specifically I recall (not having watched it in some time) was replacing an 8-track tape with a cassette tape (I think for the escape pod?).

It was always a cassette tape on the version I watched as a kid, in the early 1980's.

And Star Wars always had "Episode IV" in the title, right?

And Star Wars always had "Episode IV" in the title, right?

No, it sure didn't. And anyone claiming otherwise should checkout the Empire of Dreams documentary included with the Star Wars Trilogy DVD set, as they show the original scroll. No Ep 4, not even A New Hope.

Okay, here's the deal. Apparently my DVD isn't the "Special Edition" of Hardware Wars, but actually the "Collector's Edition" of "The Original" Hardware Wars. So I suppose you may have seen another version which did have CGI mucking things up. My bad.

However, I did check, and yes, the "escape pod" is in fact a cassette, same as it always has been on every version I've seen. Are you sure they didn't change it TO an 8-track on the version you saw?

If they do have multiple versions, then they should've just stuck both on the DVD, because it's not like they wouldn't have the room, and the extras are not particulary noteworthy.

Frankly, if I could get ahold of it, I'd prefer the old VHS tape with the other shorts on it (Bambi vs Godzilla, Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind, etc.) because the extras on the DVD, pardon my French, blow.