Star Wars 1995 VHS release Trailer 

"this will be your last chance to own the original version of Star Wars" little did anyone know...

0:54 "This will be your last chance to own the original version of Star Wars". Well, fuck me. They already warned us back in '95.

They actually put the trailer at the beginning of each tape, so even though I wasn't born to see the trailer at first, it's still super nostalgic since I grew up watching this box set.

The fact that the "...One Last Time" lingers on screen for a bit is just so ominous, especially given the events of the last 26 years...

"One last time" Can't say we weren't warned. :(

‘A New Hope’ had been retrospectively been named much earlier, but even in 1995 everyone, including this trailer was still calling it by its real name, Star Wars!

1:07 "The Force is forever! For all generations!" Truer words were never spoken. The Force will be with you...always!

This was how I was introduced to Star Wars as a 4 or 5 year old. I’ll never forget watching these with my dad tape after tape. I was hooked from the beginning and now 17 years later I’m still a super fan. I can’t wait to show these tapes to my kids one day. I just hope they love it as much as I did.

When I think of Star Wars, I think of those tapes and this trailer.

This trailer was my first introduction to Star Wars as a kid

He warned us, it was our last time to own the original trilogy. However, for a limited time, they sold DVDs with both the updated versions and the originals in two-disc editions. I'll admit that I kind of want to see the 1997 editions released as well. I had seen and loved the originals, but when I saw the 1997 releases, I was actually excited about the changes. It was new and different.

I still own this VHS, along with the Blu Rays

I like how this was narrarated by Dark Wing Duck.

This was the best VHS release of the franchise. I loved the production values for the tapes

I just learned that Hondo Ohnaka is voiced by the same individual who speaks in this video. Jim Cummings has an epic voice in any accent.

I got Carrie Fisher to sign my old trilogy before she lassoes ❤️🙏🏼 R.I.P

For everyone commenting that this was the last time seeing the original cuts released, look up Harmy's Despecialized Edition to get the original cuts in blu ray quality

I forgot how in the mid 90s, the first movie was simply thought of as “Star Wars” in the general public mind. It was really in 1999 with the arrival of The Phantom Menace that people started calling it “A New Hope”.

Still have them on VHS

Every time we put this on our VHS when I was a child, C-3PO and R2-D2’s escape pod would always scare the daylights out of us because we forgot to turn the volume down.

I remember seeing this every time I played them on VHS as a kid. This trailer always got me pumped to watch the movies!

Fun Fact: Jim Cummings who voices our favorite space pirate Hondo Ohnaka does the narration for this trailer.

Interestingly, that video tape collection my parents got back in 1995 (which was 2 years before I was born) basically introduced me to Star Wars.

That voice guy was everywhere back in those days

"The original star wars trilogy on video, one last time" Lucas warned us.

just found this box set at a thrift shop for a buck fifty. what a deal

I still get the chills watching this

If you know where to look you'll be amazed by the effort some fans have made to keep the original unaltered trilogy alive.

One last time... Till the fans make the Despecialized Editions.

2005 sometime in June. The first time I saw this I knew I was in for a ride!

"For a whole new generation that will discover it for the very first time" That was literally me, the year after this came out I was six and I discovered how amazing Star Wars was

For those who remember. For those who will never forget. And for a whole new generation, who will experience it for the very first time: The Star Wars Trilogy. Three timeless adventures that changed movie making forever. Now, the entire trilogy, digitally mastered in THX, for the ultimate in sound and picture quality. This will be your last chance to own the original version of Star Wars: the George Lucas masterpiece that launched the Star Wars Trilogy. The force is forever. For all generations. The original Star Wars Trilogy on video One. Last. Time.

Additional Trivia: The box this came in was designed by one Al Taylor, photographer and artist on multiple movie promotional materials.

I just remember this so well, because (even though I wasn't born before the 1970s and 1980s) I grew up watching the original trilogy on video, that is, until I got the 2004 special edition on DVD.

0:55 "This is your last chance to own the original version of Star Wars"... Dammm he was so right....... Now many people NEED to get the hands to unaltered version without CGI things.

We actually have the vhs of Star wars in my dad's basement he bought back in the 90s we still have it

These tapes were the first way I experienced the original trilogy, and will always be my preferred way of watching it.

"...One Last Time." I had no idea how true those words were then. Come on Disney, I like the Special Editions but the option to purchase the unaltered trilogy should be available. You'll make back MORE than what you put in to transfer the prints to Blu-Ray.

Heck, my first experience of Star Wars was on a huge movie screen back in the 1970s. There was only one movie, called...drum roll..."Star Wars". No prequels, no sequels, no tv shows... The projector was steam powered with coal-fired boilers and once in a while there'd be a boiler explosion and they'd have to shut the place down for a week or so. Those were the days. There were no smartphones, hack there were no cell phones except for those giant- ass things super- important businessmen owned. There was no internet, at least not for the general public at that point. The smell of stale butter substitute still brings back fond memories...

This is what got me into Star Wars. Got it for my Birthday in early 1996. Been a fan since!

Now I'm dumb for getting rid of my Star Wars tapes on VHS. They weren't special editions that I got rid of the unaltered versions are the real deal.

20 Years Ago, this ad sparked my life. Why? Because this ad alone introduced me to the magic and fandom that is...Star Wars. Thanks to this ad, the original trilogy alone sparked my imagination and fandom. Without this ad, I would not be the same person. So I owe a great deal of thanks to not only George Lucas and the 1995 Original Trilogy VHS Box Set, but to the great Jim Cummings, who narrated this ad. His voice alone sold me on seeing Star Wars for the first time. As he says in the ad. "And for a whole new generation, who will experience it for the very first time." Also, this ad got the tone and magic of the entire Star Wars Trilogy in under a minute and a half. That's incredible. I still go back to this ad and get chills. Best Star Wars Ad Of All Time!!!! "...One Last Time!"

Ah man good times watching these tapes and always watching this promo before or after the movie.

1:06 I still get goosebumps when I hear that! THE FORCE IS FOREVER!

Still have the originals set and this 90s set sealed. Im 20 atm, but when I have kids im cracking these bois open.

We all should've headed Jim Cummings warning.

For those wondering the background track is "Mars, bringer of war" by Gustav Holst.

If I can recall, I first saw this on the Airheads VHS (that movie with Adam Sandler) when I was trying out one of the movies I got along with my VCR

When this VHS edition came out, I was in 5th grade and had just seen Star Wars for the first time about a year earlier. I got these tapes and watched one of the 3 movies every day after school for a year, then throughout the summer and the school year after that. I've estimated that I must have seen the entire trilogy over a hundred times largely due to that stretch of time. They hyped it up with commercials showing the effects of the THX remaster vs earlier VHS editions, and it really did look amazing even on our crappy TVs back then. These tapes also had a 3-part interview with George Lucas by Leonard Maltin before each movie. I haven't seen it very often on RU-vid or anywhere else since. It was really good, I'm surprised it seems to have been forgotten. Seeing this trailer for the first time in probably 25+ years, I remember every bit of it like it was yesterday. It fills me with this feeling, of believing that I could really escape into an amazing, fantastic world, one with so much depth and life breathed into it. Those movies meant everything to me. I turn 40 in less than a week. Didn't expect to come across a video that could turn back the clock for me like that.

"The force is forever; for all generations" Preach

I still have this box set, it's one of my most beloved possessions

In 1995 I asked for A New Hope on vhs for Christmas and this played before the interview with George Lucas. The best Christmas of my childhood.

I remember this commercial. After the "One last time" quote, I said "In two years, there will be the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition." My Dad got me the original Star Wars (Episode IV) for my 14th Birthday, so it was pretty cool to see what was different between it & the 1997 Special Edition & I did find some things interesting & then I got to take it further in 2004, when I got the DVD set. In recent years, I was able to track down a 1995 VHS tape of Return of the Jedi at a toy show at the nearby American Legion & the guy only wanted $2.00 for it, so I said "What the hey?" & went for it back in late 2021 & then in Spring of last year (2023), my sister & I browsed around at this antique emporium in 1 of the malls & she spotted the 1995 VHS tape of The Empire Strikes Back, which was the only 1 I was missing & the $3.00 price was also enough for me to go for it as well. So, now I have the 1995 VHS editions of the original releases, the 1997 Special Edition VHS set & the 2004 Special Edition DVD set. Do I have a favorite version of the middle/original trilogy of those 3 versions? No. They all have their pros & they all have their cons + I enjoy them all equally the same.

"One Last TIme" Prophetic words...

😀I remember watching this one nonstop & LOVED it! Gosh it brings back some very special memories of my childhood. Nostalgia rules over me!

As a kid, we only had a new hope in the house on VHS. Watching this trailer every time before rewatching it teased me so much about what other great star wars movies were out there

Those who were not alive at this time - this commercial ran EVERY BREAK FOR MONTHS and the beginning of so may VHS tapes.

This is why I still keep a VCR around.

I had this VHS trilogy back in 1995... great nostalgic memories

My parents got this version of the trilogy for me for my birthday back in 1996, but I wish they waited one more year until the special edition version came out.

Nostalgia overload. Thank you for archiving this.

Man...I just got hit by the Nostalagia Train...I love this..

Hearing "One Last Time" in this trailer makes me sad. Just before the 1997 Special Editions which have unnecessary CGI crap.

I can remember the release of The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition VHS back in the day. It must have been so fondly nostalgic🪐🪐🚀🚀🛸🛸

@DarthMauldaLego You're welcome! :D I had to buy a new capture card, my old one got sat on :P But ty for watching!

21 years old, and this was the preview on my first copy of star wars...so much nostalgia T__T

Of course the first thing I think is "Hey! That's Jim Cummings!"

Oh my lord… this brings back so many memories…

My family used to own this vhs collection. I would always quote the trailer by bit.

"This will be your last chance ..." Ominous prediction, there. Little did we know ....

this trailer brings back so many memories. and now for a chat with leonard maltin

I had seen bits of the original trilogy from my dad's VHS tapes of Empire and Return, but that year my dad got the trilogy for Christmas and forever cemented my love of star wars. Far later on during the dvd transition era, I bought the wide-screen set on ebay and he loved it. Sad that the only for sale version of the original trilogy in recent memory was the laser disk version ported over to a DVD set bonus disc over a decade ago.

"The force is forever, for all generations..." 😖 oof, why does that hit me so hard?

It's 2016 and there's still not a proper release for the unaltered original trilogy for bluray/dvd

This was my first introduction to Star Wars no joke

This will be you last chance to own the original Star Wars trilogy. Can't say we were not warned

They weren't kidding and we were warned

I grew up watching this VHS version. I was 10 when they released the special editions in theaters and even then I thought they were dumb. Thankfully I’m not the only one who felt that way and the despecialized version and project 4K77/80/83 (and others) have become a thing. I would highly recommend looking into the latter if you want to see the films in their original theatrical glory. At least as close to the originals as you’re going to get today, anyway (they’re mostly scanned from original 35mm theatrical prints). George and the special editions can eat it.

We were warned. Why didn't anybody do anything? How could we have let this happen? Why didn't we stop it?

I had the collectors edition box set signed by George Lucas and this trailer was on all of the cassettes

that "one last time" thing is actually really depressing...

This is so nostalgic, I watched my my return of the Jedi and Empire strikes back VHS tapes so much that there’s like black lines over the movie.

They were NOT kidding, they still will not re-release this cut.

Thanks for uploading this

Two years later it got changed One last time makes sense!!!!

So glad I managed to get all three original versions on DVD.

I remember this trailer and I always thought it was weird that the song they play at the beginning is from the Planets suite by Holst and not something from the Star Wars soundtrack.

Not gonna lie, when Jim Cummings said "One. Last. Time " I got misty-eyed. Disney, please you can leave Star Wars alone just make theatrical Blu-ray discs that is all I ask! (Yes I downloaded project 4k77 and the despecialized trilogy, but I love physical media)

I got this 1995 box set this weekend for a total of 90 cents. 20 years ago my Stepbrother got the 1997 boxset for Christmas. I'm glad I waited!

After watching Clone Wars this trailer has a whole new meaning

I own these VHS and I will hope when I have kids to pass this to them. My favorites movies ever in the pure form

0:09-1:11 it’s Jim Cummings as the narrator of advertising the Star Wars trilogy from 1995 of 📼 commercials and laserdisc.

There was a rerelease of the original versions on DVD with the special editions later on

wow... when you think about it, 1995 WAS about 18 years ago! I'm glad my VHS tapes were in such good shape :D And no problem :D I looove the originals.

I remember back in 2004 I rented "A New Hope" from Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton, CT. At the time, I was like a Star Wars addict.

I really wish George would let us see both versions, like just release both of them separately.

And then the special edition was made, only to have THOSE out "one last time" so they could make ANOTHER special edition, and so on and so forth.

Wow, I remember the trailer narrator so vividly.

@BoKnowsBrains Yes, and soon they'll be worth a lot! Sadly, film isn't the preferred medium, or more people would have the TechniColor print.

I Still Have a Set To Make Sure I Never Forget Real Star Wars 1977 to 1995