George Lucas has finally succumbed the the fans, and has admitted he was wrong for the drastic changes he made in the re-release of the original Star Wars movies (ie: Episode IV - Greedo did NOT shoot first!).

Since declaring that the original movies would never be released on DVD, many fans have been protesting - including several funny websites that Lucasfilm has seen to have shut down in the past few months. That caused a massive campaign of protest against Lucas, and the threat of boycotting the next movie apparently worked. Seems that the reasons we all loved the films as kids, the reasons that were destroyed by the craptastic re-writes, will be saved for future generations.

According to LucasFilm, they will be releasing Each of the original Trilogy as a multi-disc set which includes the original film, with digitally enhanced audio, as well as the "Special Edition" release. The Box Set that is being released later this year will still only be the Special Edition version, as Lucas has decided to wait until next year to release a box set of the original to coincide with the theatrical release of Episode III.

Makes me happy!

:-)