10 Star Wars Moments You'll Never See Again

Another divisive change Lucas made for the Special Edition release of Return of the Jedi was digitally altering the sarlacc from its original design, adding CGI tentacles, a beak, and a tongue.

Yet this ultimately reeks of over-design that gives far too much away.

As originally presented in the movie, the sarlacc was made all the more terrifying in its ambiguity and mystery, but by making it seem more recognisably animalistic through its physiology, the sarlacc was too made considerably less interesting.

Lucas has stated that he revised the design to make the sarlacc seem more "alive," but wasn't that precisely what made the sarlacc so damn creepy in the original version of Return of the Jedi?

By making it more obvious and cartoonish, much of that initial cosmic horror vibe was aggressively ripped away.