# Lucas, may you rot in the bleak purposeless world you made.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 20, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucas-may-you-rot-in-the-bleak-purposeless-world-you-made/265105 "2004-09-20T07:52:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucas-may-you-rot-in-the-bleak-purposeless-world-you-made/265105/21 "2004-09-21T11:49:59Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> whether that’s licensing issues or sheer bloody-minded lack of marketing research I don’t know.

It’s the expense against expected return. THX 1138 is not really likely to make a huge amount of money in sales, either version, let alone having two versions out there.

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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucas-may-you-rot-in-the-bleak-purposeless-world-you-made/265105/22 "2004-09-21T13:28:21Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Go watch it yourself. Just try to find the original.

I bought the original VHS release back in 1988. (I know this because I worked at Reader’s Digest at the time and they were selling the trilogy set in their employee store for $12. I couldn’t pass it up.) Until I read this thread, I had no idea I was sitting on a potential gold mine.

E-bay, here I come!

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