Maybe this is the wrong section, since we have a title and production year, but that’s just about all we have. This was apparently a made-for-television feature film that aired in 1985. There’s an IMDb page (which uses random artwork of Coruscant as a “poster”) but that’s about it in terms of documentation. There are definitely pages for fake movies on IMDb, but there are also a couple threads over at the Jedi Council Forums on TheForce.net, and at least one person remembers seeing it, and confirms that it has very little to do with Star Wars. Apparently it’s about some kids watching Star Wars and getting sucked into the TV, and have adventures on other planets with generic aliens.
People had VCRs in 1985, so it’s possible this thing’s still out there...provided it does indeed exist.
Last Edit: Jul 3, 2020 7:30:19 GMT by teridaxxd001
Weird. You’d think if it was real there’d be more info available or a recording since it was Star Wars related. Could just be some generic space movie that people associate with Star Wars due to the Mandela effect.
Last Edit: Jul 4, 2020 2:07:54 GMT by nostalgiaguy
Post by thatgamingasshole on Jul 4, 2020 3:06:18 GMT
Ok are you sure this was from 1985, because I distinctly recall something all but identical to this, but it was from the EARLY 1990's or perhaps 1989?
The second I read "kids get sucked into a tv and go on adventures in space" then I just suddenly had this rush of fugue-like memories of sitting with my mother and grandmother and watching this, I think, on like NBC or ABC or something. For some reason now the "TGIF" programming block comes to mind.
IDK, this may be just some Mandela Effect situation but wow that just hit me...
It sounds fake to me. It seems very highly unlikely that a Star Wars Movie/special was made during the height of Star Wars popularity but everyone just forgot, no one can find it, and no one knows anything significant about it. Especially when you consider that the IMDB page was apparantly posted nearly 20 years ago but never got updated beyond that. I was under the impression fake stuff shows up on IMDB quite often.
Last Edit: Jul 4, 2020 14:16:12 GMT by thevoiddragon
It sounds fake to me. It seems very highly unlikely that a Star Wars Movie/special was made during the height of Star Wars popularity but everyone just forgot, no one can find it, and no one knows anything significant about it. Especially when you consider that the IMDB page was apparantly posted nearly 20 years ago but never got updated beyond that. I was under the impression fake stuff shows up on IMDB quite often.
I highly agree, it sounds absolutely fake. Could be a real movie that has nothing to do with Star Wars however.
That Junkman (A Star Wars Youtuber) did a video on this “movie”: youtu.be/xteWtHg8oME
Last Edit: Jul 4, 2020 14:35:22 GMT by nostalgiaguy
It sounds fake to me. It seems very highly unlikely that a Star Wars Movie/special was made during the height of Star Wars popularity but everyone just forgot, no one can find it, and no one knows anything significant about it. Especially when you consider that the IMDB page was apparantly posted nearly 20 years ago but never got updated beyond that. I was under the impression fake stuff shows up on IMDB quite often.
I highly agree, it sounds absolutely fake. Could be a real movie that has nothing to do with Star Wars however.
That Junkman (A Star Wars Youtuber) did a video on this “movie”: youtu.be/xteWtHg8oME
I'm interested in this, and the possibility that it is really something. It is not that completely far-fetched to me that it could have went under the radar if it was some zero-budget unauthorized thing, that might have only been aired in limited markets at most. Especially given the time. It reminds me Of A Day With Spongebob Squarepants. I know that (supposedly) was never actually produced. (Though information given was contradicting). But it's probably far from the only time someone has even attempted an unathorized thing like that.
I especially wonder after seening the comment under the video where someone found a listing for "Star Wars City" in a region of the UK in 1989. I also wonder about the three different descriptions in the video, assuming this is real. It is very possible that all three descriptions are something that exists, though none of them used the Star Wars name. Even if the "Star Wars City" title is complete bunk, this still seems like an intriguing case. The kind where until there is hard evidence one way or another, we might never be sure.
It sounds fake to me. It seems very highly unlikely that a Star Wars Movie/special was made during the height of Star Wars popularity but everyone just forgot, no one can find it, and no one knows anything significant about it. Especially when you consider that the IMDB page was apparantly posted nearly 20 years ago but never got updated beyond that. I was under the impression fake stuff shows up on IMDB quite often.
Well that's the thing, there have been cases like that. Stuff like "The Wire", which was as far as I know remembered by maybe three people total, save the guy who made it, and the actual special it aired on was likewise forgotten completely save for like one guy. And to be honest I just wrote an article *SHAMELESS PLUG!!!* about "Cartoon Lost and Found" which is recorded and remembered by fully two other people besides me, that I could find, and despite some physical evidence has ZERO documentation on IMDB or wikipedia or even on the internet as I have seen literally TWO other posts about in, on forums, kinda like this "movie".
So yeah, I know it's bizarre, but it's not implausible. To be honest as I said I have some memory of...what I can only describe as a vague image of watching "a tv show about kids pulled into a sci-fi movie". My best guess as to the answer, if one exists, of what this movie is would be that it isn't called Star Wars City. It's CERTAINLY not called that. It was likely a tv movie, sci-fi, low-budget, probably not that bad TBH, which the guy who made the IMDB page (...probably recalling it as vaguely as I am...) wrote down as "Star Wars City" because that's the closest approximation of a placeholder title he could come up. And since it was probably some vaguely remembered, one-shot, failed-pilot-turned-TV-movie no one really added anything other than "it's a TV movie about kids who get pulled into a sci-fi movie and travel to other planets" so no one added a lot.
A second possibility that I'd explore was that it was some kind of a LITERAL special, like a TV special developed by Lucasfilm to promote one of the movies. If I recall correctly about seeing this in the 90s (possibly) then this was around or at the time the OG Star Wars movies were re-released and thus, it may have been some kind of "we're showing stuff from the OG trilogy under the thin guise/wrap-around plot of two kids get pulled into the Star Wars universe" which would basically reconcile the possible leads--as paper thin as they may be already.
It sounds fake to me. It seems very highly unlikely that a Star Wars Movie/special was made during the height of Star Wars popularity but everyone just forgot, no one can find it, and no one knows anything significant about it. Especially when you consider that the IMDB page was apparantly posted nearly 20 years ago but never got updated beyond that. I was under the impression fake stuff shows up on IMDB quite often.
Well that's the thing, there have been cases like that. Stuff like "The Wire", which was as far as I know remembered by maybe three people total, save the guy who made it, and the actual special it aired on was likewise forgotten completely save for like one guy. And to be honest I just wrote an article *SHAMELESS PLUG!!!* about "Cartoon Lost and Found" which is recorded and remembered by fully two other people besides me, that I could find, and despite some physical evidence has ZERO documentation on IMDB or wikipedia or even on the internet as I have seen literally TWO other posts about in, on forums, kinda like this "movie".
So yeah, I know it's bizarre, but it's not implausible. To be honest as I said I have some memory of...what I can only describe as a vague image of watching "a tv show about kids pulled into a sci-fi movie". My best guess as to the answer, if one exists, of what this movie is would be that it isn't called Star Wars City. It's CERTAINLY not called that. It was likely a tv movie, sci-fi, low-budget, probably not that bad TBH, which the guy who made the IMDB page (...probably recalling it as vaguely as I am...) wrote down as "Star Wars City" because that's the closest approximation of a placeholder title he could come up. And since it was probably some vaguely remembered, one-shot, failed-pilot-turned-TV-movie no one really added anything other than "it's a TV movie about kids who get pulled into a sci-fi movie and travel to other planets" so no one added a lot.
A second possibility that I'd explore was that it was some kind of a LITERAL special, like a TV special developed by Lucasfilm to promote one of the movies. If I recall correctly about seeing this in the 90s (possibly) then this was around or at the time the OG Star Wars movies were re-released and thus, it may have been some kind of "we're showing stuff from the OG trilogy under the thin guise/wrap-around plot of two kids get pulled into the Star Wars universe" which would basically reconcile the possible leads--as paper thin as they may be already.
Idk, just a man with a dream.
Obviously there's stuff that hardly anyone can remember that then gets found again and well-known popular stuff can also go missing, but I think it's quite a big difference when both of those happen together - something relating to what is perhaps the most popular sci-fi franchise lost during the height of its popularity, where no one can even remember what it is or any specific details about it beyond very vague posts, that doesn't have any information elsewhere and was randomly put onto IMDB nearly 20 years ago and no one has bothered to look into it or found anything since then beyond conflicting claims about what it supposedly involved.
Even if it was something unofficial or "Star Wars City" isn't the actual name, we don't even know what it's referring to in a broad sense as whoever put that up there didn't bother to even put a brief mention as to what they remember it was - those comments claiming they know might be something completely different.
Update from That Junkman, he found a tv listing, the plot and most importantly a title card: youtu.be/B3uBWRgCDW4
That's an interesting update, didn't expect it to turn out to be real and fake at the same time! So what I said previously about the idea of "Star Wars City" that's been described to us on the IMDB page seeming fake is correct - the real thing has absolutely nothing to do with the sci-fi franchise of Star Wars, and is more a documentary-type thing investigating the "Star Wars" missile defense stuff in Colorado.
Last Edit: Jul 9, 2020 15:44:14 GMT by thevoiddragon
Update from That Junkman, he found a tv listing, the plot and most importantly a title card: youtu.be/B3uBWRgCDW4
That's an interesting update, didn't expect it to be real and fake at the same time! So what I said previously about the idea of "Star Wars City" that's been described to us on the IMDB page and seeming fake is correct - the real thing has absolutely nothing to do with the sci-fi franchise of Star Wars, and is more a documentary-type thing investigating the "Star Wars" missile defense stuff in Colorado.
Yup correct, I’ve submitted the new images and info to IMDB so that’s a start.
Post by Star Wars City on Jan 30, 2021 16:19:15 GMT
Here is a German VHS-Rip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sddHfdo0w It's basically about a Colorado space program and the involvement of the military and police. It seems like it aired on the German TV station "Das Erste" and was forgotten like many others of this kind.
Here is a German VHS-Rip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sddHfdo0w It's basically about a Colorado space program and the involvement of the military and police. It seems like it aired on the German TV station "Das Erste" and was forgotten like many others of this kind.