# What happened to the alternate ending to Big? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-alternate-ending-to-big/456801 "2008-07-17T05:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-alternate-ending-to-big/456801/101 "2018-01-25T00:40:00Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Are you sure you weren’t watching Logan’s Run by mistake? No, I think there are some sort of glowy bracelets in the Wilfred Bremley one. It has been (single-digit) years since I watched it last, though. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-alternate-ending-to-big/456801/102 "2018-01-25T03:19:19Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > For many years, I was concerned that I might be the only person with a working memory of the Star Wars Christmas Special, with the Wookiee planet and an appearance by Jefferson Starship. It just seemed too crazy to be true, like I must have dreamed it, but I had this nagging memory. Turns out it really did happen, and George Lucas had tried in vain to have every copy of it destroyed. Now you can find it on YouTube. And because it is the only story that occurs during the original trilogy not mangled by George Lucas with his “Special Editions” it is now the only genuine unmanipulated canon material in the _Star Wars_ universe. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > I was 5 and 6, and all I really remember was Ewoks, and that they had bracelets with lights on them that would go out when their family members died. _Logray’s Waddle_. Stranger ---
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> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them! As I read this I heard it in Nute Gunray’s voice. Thank you 😃 ---
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Did someone feed this thread after midnight? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-alternate-ending-to-big/456801/106 "2023-07-25T13:27:10Z")
Closed on July 25, 2023, 1:27pm UTC ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-alternate-ending-to-big/456801/107 "2023-07-25T13:29:24Z")
Primary thread is here: > [@Anyone else remember the alternate ending to "Big"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-the-alternate-ending-to-big/103864): > > I was telling a friend the other day that I remembered the Tom Hanks movie ending different when I was younger. I saw it on video when it first came out and swear there is a different ending. In the version we all have seen, it ends with Josh and his friend walking down the street. Fade to Black. In the version I remember, it cuts to school and Josh is in class. The teacher introduces a new student named… the girl Josh was in love with. Yep, she went to the fair and asked the machine to become… This one was bumped once again by a sock of a troll and so this is the alternate ending of the alternate ending to Big. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-alternate-ending-to-big/456801.md?page=5)