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) 
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Waaaay better than the puppet. At least the CG version has some expression.
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.
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!
OT puppet is still my favorite Yoda, but this is so much better than TPM puppet Yoda.
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.
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.
I know, right? If I’d known that other thing was coming I wouldn’t have made this a standalone post.
What Austin said.
Replacing Yoda in Episode I was first mentioned by LFL back in 2003 or 2004. Crazy, huh? The Episode III animation team did it.
This is much better, I look forward to erasing the original rubbish looking puppet yoda from my memory banks.