10 Things Learned From Re-Watching Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
4. This Isn't The Podrace You Remember
If you aren't someone who has regularly revisited The Phantom Menace's pulsating mid-movie Boonta Eve podrace over the last 25-years, then you would likely have been left feeling a little surprised by the action that burst onto the screen on Tatooine here.
So much new material has been added to this high-speed Star Wars F1 race in the time since its 1999 release that it almost feels like an entirely different sequence. That George loves a good tinker, doesn't he?
An extended line-up sequence, Anakin's conversation with his mother pre-race, an alien selling treats in the stands, and a bunch of clashes between the pods in an extended second lap weren't included in that original theatrical cut many will remember viewing the last time they sat down for a Phantom screening at the cinema.
Whether you're a fan of the DVD or Blu-ray alterations or not, the end result is still a far beefier slice of Anakin battling against the likes of Sebulba amidst the sand than the one that Lucas first showed the world a long time ago...