This is apparently the ‘new and improved’ CGI Yoda who has been rumored to be on The Phantom Menace blu-ray, replacing the traditional puppet. (I’m told this is different – or at least longer – than the clip on the Revenge of the Sith DVD.) Better? Worse? I was never a fan of the TPM puppet – he looked off – but I’m not sure this is any better. (via) 
CGI Yoda, as rumored to be on the Blu-rays
August 24th, 2011 by Dunc · 10 Comments
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1 MattDoc // Aug 24, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Waaaay better than the puppet. At least the CG version has some expression.
2 Doyle // Aug 24, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Yeah…I’m usually a huge fan of model work and puppetry over CGI, but the original TPM Yoda puppet was shockingly amateurish. I mean, they were sitting on twenty years of advancements in animatronics and materials and they couldn’t come up with something better looking than the ESB puppet? This looks loads better.
3 Alex Johnson // Aug 24, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Knowing Lucas’s tendency to change the movies through new releases, I always knew that he’d do this eventually.
And yes, that’s definitely an improvement!
4 Austin // Aug 24, 2011 at 4:51 pm
OT puppet is still my favorite Yoda, but this is so much better than TPM puppet Yoda.
5 Nanook // Aug 24, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Work seems a little cheap… he barely moves, Like a KOTOR character. In fact he’s actually less than that, and what is forgivable for a game is not for a film!
Nevertheless, he no longer bears the surprised look the old muppet had.
6 Pabawan // Aug 24, 2011 at 7:59 pm
The fact that this is as big a news story as it is, is further evidence that very few people really watch the bonus materials on DVDs.
7 Dunc // Aug 24, 2011 at 8:02 pm
I know, right? If I’d known that other thing was coming I wouldn’t have made this a standalone post.
8 jawajames // Aug 25, 2011 at 1:47 am
What Austin said.
9 Pabawan // Aug 25, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Replacing Yoda in Episode I was first mentioned by LFL back in 2003 or 2004. Crazy, huh? The Episode III animation team did it.
10 Bardan Jussik // Aug 26, 2011 at 3:38 am
This is much better, I look forward to erasing the original rubbish looking puppet yoda from my memory banks.
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